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the girl sewing or washing, Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else
Meintest du essen?
the girl sewing or washing, Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else
Jan van Huysum was born in Amsterdam on April 15, 1682. His father, Justus van Huysum the Elder (1659–1716), was also an artist, as were Jan’s three brothers, Justus the Younger (1685–1707), Jacob (1688–1740), and Michiel (1703–1777).
Van Huysum’s reluctance to teach anyone else his techniques did not prevent the
In June 1871, Thomas Moran, a gifted young artist working in Philadelphia, boarded a train that would take him to the far reaches of the western frontier and change the course of his career. Just a few months earlier he had been asked to illustrate a magazine article describing a wondrous region in Wyoming called Yellowstone—rumored to contain steam-spewing geysers, boiling hot springs, and bubbling mud pots.
conjuring instead an imagined scene of a pre-industrial West that neither he nor anyone else
Students will be introduced to one of the basic elements of art—form—by analyzing the types of forms and materials used in various sculptures. Students will then experiment with line in both two and three dimensions to see how shapes become forms.
Metal, stone, wood, plastic, clay, marble, or something else?
Symbols are things that stand for something else.
Orphée depicts many tragedies, but songwriter Dom Flemons finds the joy in it: it resolves in the beautiful scene of two lovers embracing. Flemons pairs it with the tranquil Blue Butterfly. The instrumental song helps the emotional weight sink in.Â
we might have done two or three takes on it, and then we moved on to something else
with portraitist Joachim Ottensz Houckgeest (c. 1585–after 1644), but little else
Musician Rafiq Bhatia feels compelled to capture his improvisations—fleeting moments of sound—in recordings. Like sound, light is transient. But James Turrell’s works, which inspired Bhatia’s composition, contain and present light, allowing us to forge a deeper relationship with an ephemeral substance.
But above all else, it is this recontextualization of a medium or a substance being
Station Scene in the ‘Rush’ Hour of the Manhattan Elevated Railroad.� The els
A profound appreciation for the paintings of Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer unites these three people—and many others.
“The main reason to travel is to see the Vermeer,� he says. “Everything else