The Art History Blog

After two years of wanting this collection, I finally ordered...

Sat, 26 May 2012 12:36:55 -0700

After two years of wanting this collection, I finally ordered it! The History of European Art taught By Professor William Kloss, from College/Smithsonian Institution. It’s 48 30 minute lectures on DVD for $64 bucks w/ transcripts for another $23 (it all worth over $500) Also, check out other titles: www.thegreatcourses.com -good stuff!

Kazimir Malevich. Taking in the Harvest. 1911. Cubism but not...

Tue, 22 May 2012 23:18:51 -0700

Kazimir Malevich. Taking in the Harvest. 1911. Cubism but not really, rather a method of portraying object via geometric shapes.

The Rembrandt House Museum | New Rembrandt Discovered?

Fri, 04 May 2012 08:47:04 -0700

The Rembrandt House Museum | New Rembrandt Discovered? :

NEW DOCUMENTARY AND EXHIBITION OPENS AT REMBRANDT HOUSE, AMSTERDAM – UNRAVELS THE MYSTERY OF HIDDEN MASTERPIECES BY REMBRANDT AND VAN GOGH

Emmy-award winning filmmaker Kevin Sullivan, a longtime old master collector, has worked with an influential team of scientists and art connoisseurs, including Drs. Ernst van de Wetering and Joris Dik of Holland’s Rembrandt Research Project to capture recently-released groundbreaking work in the field of art history that includes finding hidden masterpieces under existing works by van Gogh, Rembrandt, Goya, Hals, Breughel the younger and other old masters.

Joshua Tree 2012 Photo by: Sharon Fitzgerald

Tue, 01 May 2012 17:29:00 -0700

Joshua Tree 2012
Photo by: Sharon Fitzgerald

Stagecoach (Taken with instagram)

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:08:26 -0700

Stagecoach (Taken with instagram)

I Survived the L.A. Riots - April 30, 1992 I was in L.A....

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:23:46 -0700

I Survived the L.A. Riots - April 30, 1992
I was in L.A. watching it on television and I couldn’t believe my eyes.
The local newscasters were running away from mobs - on live T.V.

art-yearly: Franz Marc Horse in a Landscape 1910 Franz Marc...

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:33:08 -0700

art-yearly:

Franz Marc

Horse in a Landscape

1910

Franz Marc was a German Expressionist and founding member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) art collective along with Kandinsky. Marc was sent into the First World War and died on the front lines just one day before they were able to pardon him. Although German Expressionism tends to be violent and expressive, there is a calming quality to his work that I love.

Yves Klein 1960 “Le Saut dans le Vide” or...

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:33:28 -0800

Yves Klein 1960 “Le Saut dans le Vide” or “Leap into the Void”

Yves Klein (1928 –1962 died age 34 after suffering 3 heart attacks) was a French artist considered an important figure in post-war European art. He is the leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by the art critic Pierre Restany. Klein was a pioneer in the development of Performance art, and is seen as an inspiration to and as a forerunner of Minimal art, as well as Pop art.

Le Saut dans le Vide (Leap into the Void); Photomontage by Harry Shunk of a performance by Yves Klein at Rue Gentil-Bernard, Fontenay-aux-Roses, October 1960.Klein is also well known for a photomontage, Saut dans le vide (Leap into the Void) [3], originally published in the artist’s book Dimanche, which apparently shows him jumping off a wall, arms outstretched, towards the pavement. Klein used the photograph as evidence of his ability to undertake unaided lunar travel. In fact, “Saut dans le vide”, published as part of a broadside on the part of Klein (the “artist of space”) denouncing NASA’s own lunar expeditions as hubris and folly, was a photomontage in which the large tarpaulin Klein leaped onto was removed from the final image.

I went to the Occupy L.A. rally yesterday and this guy nails it...

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:10:27 -0700

I went to the Occupy L.A. rally yesterday and this guy nails it dead on. The whole experience made me proud to be an American. This video is called: WTF is Going On?

Check out part 4 of the documentary on Alfred Stieglitz. Learn...

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:30:00 -0700

Check out part 4 of the documentary on Alfred Stieglitz. Learn about the first modern art gallery exhibitions of 1908 in NYC and the emergence of modern art in the US.

Part 3 of the Alfred Stieglitz, The Eloquent Eye has been...

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:42:00 -0700

Part 3 of the Alfred Stieglitz, The Eloquent Eye has been posted
See the birth of the 1st modern art exhibition in 1908 at Galley.

Thanks for watching,
Sharon

Part Two Uploaded Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye Often...

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:37:55 -0700

Part Two Uploaded
Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye

Often called “The Father of Modern Photography” and revered as one of the most innovative photographers of the 20th century, Alfred Stieglitz was a visionary who challenged and revolutionized attitudes towards modern art in America. He not only championed the elevation of photography as an art form, but also played a primary role fostering new talent at the famous Gallery 291 in New York in 1905.

Documentary includes a rare interview with Georgia O’Keeffe, Stiegltitz’s wife and muse.

Stayed tuned for Part Three:
The birth of Gallery 291 and modern art exhibitions in America.

I just posted my first video on the Art History Channel on...

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 02:04:51 -0700

I just posted my first video on the Art History Channel on YouTube. It’s on the father of modern photography, Alfred Stieglitz. This is from The American Master’s Collection documentary called The Eloquent Eye 2001.
This is part 1, more to follow….

This is a letter addressed to Andy Warhol in 1965…its from...

Sun, 21 Aug 2011 17:49:00 -0700

This is a letter addressed to Andy Warhol in 1965…its from his landlord, regarding his parties…if they only knew there were heroin-addicted transvestites living in the elevator…

Live in Los Angeles? Join me as I host the L.A. Art History...

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 14:30:52 -0700

Live in Los Angeles? Join me as I host the L.A. Art History Meetup Group at the Norton Simon Museum next Sunday. We are going to see the Johannes Vermeer painting that is on loan before it’s gone. This is the only Vermeer painting on display on the west coast! http://t.co/KNB6TW2

“Death of Marat” a 1793 painting in the Neoclassical...

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:27:00 -0700

“Death of Marat” a 1793 painting in the Neoclassical style by Jacques-Louis David

My Top 5 most favorite paintings in the whole world: Russian...

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:01:21 -0700

My Top 5 most favorite paintings in the whole world:
Russian Cubo- Futurism: Kasimir Malevich’s “Morning in the Village after Snowstorm” 1912

Caravaggio, St. Catherine at the Wheel 1595. It was rumored that...

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:54:40 -0700

Caravaggio, St. Catherine at the Wheel 1595. It was rumored that Caravaggio used a prostitute for his model of St. Catherine, I can see it in her eyes….

Arshile Gorky The Artist and His Mother (ca. 1926-1936) Arshile...

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:29:32 -0700

Arshile Gorky The Artist and His Mother (ca. 1926-1936)
Arshile Gorky was an Armenian-born American painter who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. In 1915 Gorky fled Lake Van duuring the Armenian Genocide and escaped with his mother and his three sisters into Russian-controlled territory. In the aftermath of the genocide, Gorky’s mother died of starvation in Yerevan in 1919.

When Gorky showed his new work to André Breton in the 1940s, after seeing the new paintings and in particular The Liver is the Cock’s Comb, Breton declared the painting to be “one of the most important paintings made in America” and he stated that Gorky was a Surrealist, which was Breton’s highest compliment

This peak period of Gorky’s work was cut short. His final years were filled with immense pain and heartbreak. His studio barn burned down, he underwent a colostomy for cancer, his neck was broken and his painting arm temporarily paralyzed in a car accident, and his wife of seven years left him, taking their children with her. Gorky hanged himself in Sherman, Connecticut, in 1948, at the age of 44.

Test you skills at 900 years of art history, play the Art...

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:48:22 -0700

Test you skills at 900 years of art history, play the Art History Game now! Click on The Man to play and good luck!