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Under the Horse Chestnut Tree by Mary Cassatt, 1895, Moma
American Impressionist artist Mary Cassatt is well known for her paintings of women and children. Although she never had children herself, she captures the intimate moments between the mothers and children that were her family and friends, with care and feeling.
Black Totem, 2005 -2009 by Herb Alpert
Musician Herb Alpert's bronze totem sculptures are inspired by the wooden totems of the NW
tribe. He is also a painter - that is a lot of talent for one person.
AK 47 Kalashnikov, multicolor original gun with applied Smarties by Kata Legrady from her Guns and Candies series.
Kata Legrady began a series of artworks in 2008 where she applied candies like Smarties to different weapons. She thought the candies evoked the Ben-Day technique used by Roy Lichtenstein in his comic book referencing art and by "covering" and in a sense hiding the firearm or other weapon, it loses its ferocity and power.
were art collectors. They amassed a collection of over 5,000 pieces of contemporary art from a collection begun in the mid-twentieth century. They did on modest salaries from his job as a postal worker and her as a librarian. Their choices were well-considered and educated, but mostly what they liked, and were drawn to.
Stuart Davis, The Mellow Pad, 1945-51
Stuart Davis believed that abstract painting could impart more of the meaning of the work than a straight figurative interpretation. This work is about American jazz and giving a viewer a sense of the relaxed "coolness" inherent in its form. The name "Mellow Pad" refers to slag used by the musicians for a low-key place to hang out.
Mabel A. Hewit, Dunes from Race Point, Cape Cod, c. 1930
Cleveland area artist Mabel Hewitt was a very accomplished print maker. Her work was colorful and drew on subjects of everyday life.
James Roy Hopkins, Mandarin Blue, 1917
James Roy Hopkins was the head of the Fine Art Department at Ohio State from 1923 - 1948. His wife Edna Boies Hopkins was a print maker. .
Edna Boies Hopkins, Datura, 1910
Alex Colville, Winter Sun, 2005
Canadian artist Alex Colville painted in highly detailed images in the pointillist style - unusual because of the slow exacting methods it requires - yet his subjects are so "usual" that his methods of achieving his look make you forget that they must have been created by a very meticulous and precise hand.
, 3rd - 2nd century BCE, The Metropolitan Museum, New York.
This small statuette is a remarkable representation of a dancer caught in the midst of a complicated move. It is expressive and mysterious at the same time.
Kristen Cliffel, The Navigator, 2019
One of my favorite Cleveland area artists ( and there are many) is Kristen Cliffel. Her ceramic work is so clever and visually stunning that I recognize it on sight. She comes by her talent naturally, her mother Martha Cliffel is also amazing.
As a result of the COVID-19 virus museums and galleries have shut their doors to the public in order to encourage social distancing, however, they also have very active and interesting websites full of images and information to explore and fill your time.
This is just a partial list of all of the museums and galleries all over the world available for a virtual visit:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
The Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska
The American Museum of Natural History in New York City
Exekias, Ajax and Achilles Playing a Board Game, 540-530 BCE, Greece
This Greek Black Figure pottery vase portrays Trojan War heroes Ajax and Achilles taking time to play a broad game while on a break from the battle.
John William Waterhouse, The Decameron , 1916, The Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight
The subjects for John William Waterhouse’s paintings The Decameron and The Enchanted Garden are drawn from a book by 14th century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio who tells the tales of seven young women and three young men secluded outside the city of Florence during the time of the Black Plague.
Both of these artworks are owned by the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight (an early “planned” community outside of Liverpool) a small and delightful museum to visit.
Thomas Moran, Grand Canyon, 1909, Seattle Art Museum
I went last year to see the Grand Canyon in person and it does live up to the hype. There were a lot of people in the park and lines of cars to enter but once you got down to the edge of it and looked out without being able to see where it ends, nature suddenly got very large and civilization sudden got very small. Manifest Destiny
Dali never knew his bother who died of a stomach aliment at three years old, nine months before Salvador was born. Dali’s parents told him he was the reincarnation of his brother and he always felt they were like Castor and Pollux. From the Dali Museum: Dalí wrote a brief, elusive description of this work when it was first exhibited. “The Vulture, according to the Egyptians and Freud, represents my mother’s portrait. The cherries represent the molecules, the dark cherries create the visage of my dead brother, the sun-lighted cherries create the image of Salvador living thus repeating the great myth of the Dioscures Castor and Pollux.”
Primavera by Sandro Botticelli, circa 1470-1480, Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.
This is a painting depicting a personification of the beginning of the spring season by an Italian artist named Sandro Botticelli. He lived during the 15th century in the city of Florence. Primavera is Italian for Spring. The painting the re-newel and the reappearance of the leaves on the trees and the flowers by depicting them in human form. As Italy endures the outbreak of the Corona virus we need to appreciate all they have given the world, some of the most beautiful art and music humans have ever created. Seek out people on Social Media and send them good wishes.
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Yesterday I saw a Twitter post by @m_tisserand that said “we are all edward hopper paintings now” and it struck me as so true. We are isolated and unsure of what lies ahead but somehow not without hope. This painting is owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and is called Office in a Small City from 1953. There is also an extremely disheartening piece in the New York Times today about museums not being able to weather this situation and that many will close their doors for good as a result. If you can, a donation might help. They have to contend with ongoing costs like utilities and insurance, not to mention payroll, even if their doors are closed to the public.
Your Daily Art Jewelry is my handmade line of jewelry. I have been metal smithing for about four years and before that I created beaded jewelry.
After seeing the Soleri show at MOCA Scottsdale, we went over to Cosanti in Paradise Valley, AZ to buy a couple of bells for ourselves.
