True or False: This painting was rejected by the church because it showed a dead Virgin Mary modeled after a a corpse of a prostitute. Hint: it was also painted by a convicted murderer!
Find the answer and test your mad skills on the Art History Game:
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Melting Building Optical Illusion: Believe it or not, this isn’t a Photoshop job. This surreal building actually exists at 39 Avenue George V, Paris
Check out this optical illusion, the shapes and colors give a startling impression of movement, even though this is actually a still image! The movement always seems to be occurring where your eyes aren’t focusing.
Giorgio de Chirico. L’Angoisse du départ. 1914
pre-Surrealism, Metaphysical art
“Psychologically speaking, to discover something mysterious in objects is a symptom of cerebral abnormality related to certain kinds of insanity.” Giorgio de Chirico quote
What I like most about De Chirico is the essence of silence envoked in each of his early empty city street paintings. Silence and Emptiness….
Sharon
Giorgio de Chirico Delights of the Poet, 1913
“Mystery” is the most familiar word of De Chirico. He wrote the following: “there is much more mystery in the shadow of a man walking on a sunny day, than in all religions of the world”.
Giorgio de Chirico. The Enigma of the Hour. 1911
Metaphysical art sprang from the urge to explore the imagined inner life of familiar objects when represented out of their explanatory contexts: their solidity, their separateness in the space allotted to them, the secret dialogue that may take place between them.
John William Waterhouse (1849 -1917) was an English painter known for working in the Pre-Raphaelite style. He worked several decades after the breakup of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which had seen its heydey in the mid-nineteenth century, leading him to have gained the moniker of “the modern Pre-Raphaelite”. Borrowing stylistic influences not only from the earlier Pre-Raphaelites but also from his contemporaries, the Impressionists, his artworks were known for their depictions of women from both ancient Greek mythology and Arthurian legend.
One of Waterhouse’s most famous paintings is The Lady of Shalott, a study of Elaine of Astolat, who dies of grief when Lancelot will not love her.
“Art in the Streets” (MOCA) L.A.- I think Art in the Streets Is the most comprehensive show on graffiti art to date with giant installations of city blocks, cars, & murals it goes beyond the stereotypes and into regional cultures it represents. From Venice Dogtown to Brooklyn Heights it’s an education into itself on how graffiti art has redefining art in a way not done since Marcel Duchamp’s Dada masterpiece “The Urinal” of 1917 in begging the question, What is Art? Th exhibiiton runs through Aug in downtown Los Angeles.
“Art in the Streets” (MOCA) L.A.- Is the most comprehensive show on graffiti art to date with giant installations of city blocks, cars, & murals it goes beyond the stereotypes and into regional cultures it represents. From Venice Dogtown to Brooklyn Heights it’s an education into itself on how graffiti art has redefining art in a way not done since Marcel Duchamp’s Dada masterpiece “The Urinal” of 1917 in begging the question, What is Art?
Sharon Fitzgerald
Los Angeles
Pictured: Banky
Best part about my lecture at the Huntington Library today: a visit to the Medieval stained glass by William Morris, image designed by Edward Burne-Jones. Love Burne-Jones!Sharon Fitzgerald, MA
(monthly lecture series in Los Angeles)
Come spend the day at LACMA with the Los Angeles Art History Meetup Group. Next meetup and lecture is at LACMA April 2nd at 2:30pm. Free and open to the public, click pic for deets. Sharon Fitzgerald, MA
or visit:
http://www.meetup.com/Art-History-LA/events/16241883/#initialized
The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism periods (1000-1850), currently containing over 23,200 images. Picture commentaries, artist biographies are available. Guided tours, period music, catalogue, free postcard and other services are provided.
How to navagate the site:
Enter and click on A-Z to search an artist. Once on the page, note on the left is the “Bio” button and on the right is “I” for information on the selected image. Also note the “Glossary” button on top and next to it “Music” to pair it with the proper music for the time. When I taught at CSULA, I always had music playing before class to set the mood.
This is my favorite image site, I only wish it went throught to Modern Art as well.
Sharon Fitzgerald, MA
