Daily Archives: April 28, 2012
The key to creating detail is patience
Busy today on my birthday, so check out a video of Escher at work.
My Twitter Account
- "Spring Spreads One Green Lap of Flowers" by John William Waterhouse wp.me/pR9Qk-2uB 1 day ago
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Recent Posts
Top Posts & Pages
- Salvador Dali in a nutshell
- International Affairs - The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves - And Why It Matters - Book TV
- Mars Disarmed by Venus and the Three Graces
- Art History's Funniest Moments: Michelangelo's Revenge
- "From Monet to Matisse" at the Columbia Museum of Art
- Art History Quote of the Day: Salvador Dali sees past a woman's appearance
- Paul Simon-Rene and Georgette Magritte with their Dog after the War
- "A Question of Attribution" starring Prunella Scales and James Fox
- On This Day in Art History: April 29
- Morton Feldman's For Philip Guston Part One
Art History Categories
A Cloud of Art
acoustiguide Andy Warhol architecture Art History in the News black and white photography Charlotte El Greco Francis Bacon Francisco Goya Georges Seurat Georgia Hickory Museum of Art Hildegard of Bingen Ireland Italy Jacques Louis David Jean-Michel Basquiat John William Waterhouse Leonardo da Vinci Marcel Duchamp Max Ridgway Morton Feldman music North Carolina On This Day in Art History Pablo Picasso photography podcast Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Pre-Raphaelites Rembrandt Van Rijn Richard Serra Rome ruins Salvador Dali Savannah sculpture song South Carolina Stephen Sondheim Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte Sunday in the Park with George The Economist Vincent Van Gogh Yoko OnoArt History Ramblings
Past Ramblings
Click on a day for some art
Archeologists and Historians
Archives
- ARTstor Huge archive for art reproduction
- Brainy History Another place where I get my info for my On This Day in Art History.
- Egyptomania
- Eternal Egypt
- http://www.safran-arts.com/42day/art/artchive.html An entertaining site. However the info and the links are somewhat not reliable, and the attempt at humor and puns are bad.
- JSTOR A great archive of journals and reviews
- Matt Harden's Artchive Artists and people who write about them.
- Orientalist Art
- Photobucket Where I get my reproductions
- Polish Posters
- Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
- Sacred Texts For all your sacred text needs.
- Today in Art History Where I get my information
- Vatican Secret Archives
- WebMuseum Large information site about artists and their works.
Art History Blogs
Art History Magazines
Blogroll
Museums and Galleries
- Bechtler Museum of Modern Art A modern art museum in Charlotte, North Carolina.
- Guggenheim The Venice Guggenheim is absolutely wonderful.
- Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Michael C. Carlos Museum A fabulous museum in Atlanta.
- Mint Museum Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina
- Museum of Bad Art
- Museum of Modern Art The famous New York Museum
- National Gallery of Art A museum in Washington, D.C.
- National Museum of Women in the Arts
- Rodin Museum
- Scottish National Galleries
- Telfair Museum A beautiful museum in Savannah, Georgia
- The High Museum Another museum in Atlanta for the modern eras.
- The Light Factory
- The Lillith Gallery of Toronto
- Uffizi I was there!
My Other Websites
- Learning As I Go Along In Life My regular blog
- My Facebook Account
- My Photography Place on Flickr My photography
- My YouTube Channel My photography slideshows
Other good links
- CIA World Factbook
- Foreign Policy Magazine While not an art history magazine, but still good.
- Guerilla Girls I own one of their books.
- Museum Music
- Racialicious A race and pop culture blog that I took a lot in inspiration when putting this website together.
- What Tami Said I enjoy her perspective on race and pop culture.
Public Domain Writings
Websites about Artists and Art itself
- (Gustav) IKlimt
- (Gustave) Expo Klimt
- Adelaide Labille Guiard
- Albrecht Durer
- Albrecht Durer
- Artemisia Gentileschi The Caravagiste Alumni
- Candace Breitz
- Caravaggio
- Caravaggio Foundation
- Claude Monet
- Diego Rivera
- Diego Rivera: About the Artist PBS’s profile on the muralist
- Diego Velazquez
- Diego Velazquez
- Essential Vermeer All About Jan Vermeer
- Fra Filippo Lippi
- Francis Bacon
- Frida Kahlo Described as a tribute to the lady.
- Frida Kahlo and Contemporary Thoughts
- Gustav Klimt Collection
- J.M.W. Turner
- Jackson Pollock
- Jean Tinguely
- Jenny Holzer Her latest work.
- Katsushiiko Hokusai
- Leonardo da Vinci
- M.C. Escher Official Website of Escher.
- M.C. Escher-The Official Website
- M.C. Escher-The Oldest Escher Collection on the Web
- Mary Ellen Mark Photographer
- Matthew Barney's Cremaster Home of the Cremaster 5 Series
- Maxfield Parrish
- McAdams Studio
- Michelangelo Buonarotti
- Odd Nerdrum
- Pablo Picasso-His Life and Art Not as graphics heavy as the other Picasso website.
- Pablo Picasso-Official Website
- Paolo Veronese
- Paul Cezanne
- PBS American Masters: Jose Clemente Orozco
- Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource Another big website all about the movement.
- Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood The women behind the paintings
- Pre-Raphaelite Society All about the movement
- Raphael Gallery
- Raphael Sanzio
- Rembrandt
- Rembrandt Online All his works
- Richard Avedon Foundation Writings and Photography by Richard Avedon
- Robert Delauney
- Robert Delauney
- Rodin Web A rather difficult, but interesting website.
- Romare Bearden Collage Artist and Charlottean (W00t!)
- Rosetti Archive
- The Andy Warhol Foundation
- The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo PBS’s take on Frida Kahlo
- The Official M.C. Escher Website
- The Salvador Dali Foundation About the Surrealist
- The Vincent Van Gogh Gallery
- The Voynich Manuscript
- Thomas Lawrence
- Tom Greenshields
- Toulouse Lautrec
- Tout Fait A website for Marcel DuChamp, the Dada Prankster. The address is French for Ready Made
- Van Gogh Gallery
- Victor Vaserely
- Warhol You can make your own silkscreen!
- Warhol Stars The Factory Alumni
- Womanhouse A funny look at women and their connection to the domestic
- Yinka Shonibare
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