ART An Illustrated sword fighting manual Art of Combat for Knights c.1500s Manual Title: Der Fechtkampf Date: 16th Century Media: Watercolor & Ink Location: State Library of Berlin This German manual was created to instruct knights in fighting techniques with their longswords. The Longsword of the Middle Ages: The Longsword is a type of European sword […]
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Jan
Jan
Football Players, 1942, Alfred Bendiner, American 1899 – 1964 © Philidelphia Museum of Art ART American FOOTBALL & ART With the Super Bowl (An Unofficial American Holiday) being played this weekend, here is a quick look at football art. Which has more attendance in the USA, football or art? The AAMD (Assoc. of Art Museum Directors) museums […]
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Jan
ART “Tomma Abts: Mainly Drawings” Aspen Art Museum Exhibition Tomma Abts creates her paintings and drawings using a rigorous process that combines the rational with the intuitive. Starting with no external source material and no preconceived idea of the final result, Abts makes complex abstract compositions that ultimately take as their subject the process of […]
ART “Late Rembrandt” Exhibition at the Rijksmuseum Crystal Bridges through the eyes of P. Allen Smith DAM The Denver Art Museum and Nick Cave’s Graphic Explosion of Movement 75 Years of The Walker Art Center Minneapolis, MN The Art Institute of Chicago Impressionism + An Encycolpedic Museum x x The Modern an art museum in […]
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Jan
ART A PHOTO ESSAY The National Western Stock Show & Rodeo has a “different” kind of parade through a modern day canyon of office buildings in Denver, Colorado. The recent National Western Stock Show and Rodeo Parade through Downtown Denver, Colorado was unlike most other city parades. For 45 minutes 17th Street in downtown […]
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Jan
Jan
ART of LIFE A Look Back & A Look Forward! Fortune Magazine Ponders 2015 Courtesy of Fortune Magazine (CLICK LINK BELOW TO GO TO FORTUNE’S WEBSITE) (http://fortune.com/2014/12/04/predictions-2015-future-business/) (Source: Fortune Magazine, Researched and written by Scott Cendrowski, Erika Fry, Leigh Gallagher, Stephen Gandel, Erin Griffith, Robert Hackett, Beth Kowitt, Adam Lashinsky, JP Mangalindan, Chris Matthews, Tory Newmyer, […]
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Dec
Dec
Detail of a “Public” Poster (for Hamlet) painted by Paul Davis. Director Joe Papp Artist Paul Davis ART PAUL DAVIS PAINTS THE “FACES” of the PUBLIC THEATER, NYC Last week, the Public Theatre turned the lobby of its Newman Theatre into a gallery showing an exhibition of their theatrical-posters by artist Paul Davis. For sixteen […]
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Dec
Dec
This statue at Coventry Cathedral in England is by sculptor Josefina de Vasconcellos, who made it at the age of 90. It was installed at the Cathedral in 1995 on the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. Replicas of this statue can be found in Berlin, Hiroshima, Dresden and Belfast. THE QUEEN’S SPEECH, 2014 England’s Offical […]
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Dec
Dec
ART: Giovanni Battista Braccelli – Surrealism Seems to Have Been Invented in 1624 SURREALISM (definition) a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, often using irrational images and odd juxtapositions. The Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Réserve des livres rares has released this compilation of amazing engravings […]
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Dec
Dec
The Thinker, by August Rodin (French, 1840-1917) this version from The Baltimore Museum of Art $89.85 11.75″ tall Bonded Bronze The Thinker is a statue by Auguste Roden, intended to represent Dante himself at the top of a monumental sculptured door based on his Divine Comedy. He is reflecting on the scene below. However, […]