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Art Related Sites of Interest:. Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts. Fine art and fine crafts, gallery shop, and studio space in downtown Millville, NJ. Millville's new arts-related district. Excellent web and mail order source for art supplies. Museum of Depressionist Art. A wonderful take-off on art. Artists of the Paint-L and the Web:. The official Paint-L Website. Brenda Hoddinott's portraits and forensic art. Karen Jacob's abstract art. Nita Leland's watercolor and workshops site.
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Art Now and Then: Howard Chandler Christy
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Art Now and Then. Click on photos to enlarge. Tuesday, November 1, 2011. The Signing of the Constitution of the United States,. 1939-40, Howard Chandler Christy. If you've ever prowled the halls of the Capitol building in Washington, DC, you've no doubt climbed the grand staircase and seen the largest canvas painting of the 20th country. It depicts. Signing of the Constitution of the United States. WW I Navy Recruiting Poster,. Harper's Magazine, Scribner's Magazine. Posted by Jim Lane. FOR THE FIRST TIME.
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Art Now and Then: Inventing Cubism
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Art Now and Then. Click on photos to enlarge. Tuesday, March 11, 2014. Figure in a Chair, Seated Nude, Woman,. 1909-10, Pablo Picasso. Sometimes, what we. We know about a topic (art or otherwise) turns out not to really be true, or at least only. Of the truth. Take Cubism, for instance. Who "invented" Cubism? I didn't think so. Woman to Phlox,. 1910, Albert Gleizes-easily mistaken for Picasso or Braque. Albert Gleizes Self-portrait,. About what would later come to be called " Cubism. Their paintings, Pic...
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Art Now and Then: Odd Nerdrum
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Art Now and Then. Click on photos to enlarge. Tuesday, May 19, 2015. Self-portrait in a Tree Trunk, 1999-2000,. What Would Jesus Drink? Both were rock 'n roll legends, both died tragically before their time, yet virtually any and every attempt to depict Elvis in paint would risk the "kitsch" label. Buddy Holly.not so much. Why? Five Singing Women,. 2004, Odd Nerdrum. The older he gets, the more Nerdrum. Looks and acts like his idol, Rembrandt. Self-portrait as a Dog, Odd Nerdrum. The Sleeping Couple,.
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Art Now and Then: An Architect's Worst Nightmare
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Art Now and Then. Click on photos to enlarge. Friday, April 25, 2014. An Architect's Worst Nightmare. Pisa's Piazza del Duomo at sunrise. His name was Diotisalvi, and you have to feel at least a little sorry for the man. It was the twelfth century, the city was Pisa, Italy, and he was the closest thing they had to a bonafide architect. Moreover, the man had at least three projects going at once and. The whole thing. And even if he could, who's to say a new location would be any better? Though you'd never...
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Art Now and Then: Name that Self-portrait (the answers)
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Art Now and Then. Click on photos to enlarge. Friday, May 8, 2015. Name that Self-portrait (the answers). For more about each artist, click on the artists name.). 1623, His nickname might have been "Chipper.". 1629, His first, but certainly not his last. Dutch Golden Age portrait artist. 1925, Looking rather bleak. Ca 1500, A thinker and a doer. German painter and etcher. Ca 1600, Talent tempered by a temper. Baroque painter- terrible temper. 1877, A momma's boy. 1906, Forgers love him. Posted by Jim Lane.
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Art Now and Then: Adolph Menzel
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Art Now and Then. Click on photos to enlarge. Tuesday, May 5, 2015. The Ball Supper,. 1878, Adolph Menzel. German illustrator, the. Successful artist in Germany,. Prominent artist in Germany. We could also include the fact he was the shortest. Artist in Germany (four-foot, six inches) but with the largest head. Both literally and figuratively). Students' Torchlight Procession,. 1859, Adolph Menzel. Battle of Kolin, Bohemia, 1757, King. Frederick II "The Great" of Prussia after. Engraving by Adolph Menzel,.
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Art Now and Then: Famous House Painters
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Art Now and Then. Click on photos to enlarge. Saturday, May 9, 2015. The Yellow House,. 1888, Vincent van Gogh. Depict the artist's home, but no one has gone out on a limb to actually. Just for the record, I've painted our home at least a half-dozen times, including a rear view. The Artist's House at Argenteuil,. 1873, Claude Monet. Probably the most famous painting by an artist of his home is that of Vincent van Gogh's immortal. The Artist's House at Argenteuil. Of the works of these two artists. Pierre...
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Art Now and Then: May 2015
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Art Now and Then. Click on photos to enlarge. Sunday, May 31, 2015. Mont St. Michel at dawn. The causeway is at right. The steps.just when you think you're. Nearing the top, you round a corner and. Discover you're not even close. Mont Saint Michel- the village and the monastery- now a museum.. Mont St. Michel, located on the border. Mont St. Michel could best be. Part fortress, part church, Mont St. Michel is nothing if not inspiring. The Romanesque façade of the. Now a museum,. Pieta I've ever seen (bo...