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Gold. Harold Frank, Untitled, Mixed Media on Paper. #art #artgram #instaart #artworld #painter #painting #artnews #golden #santafe #santafenm #howtosantafe #santafenewmexico #nmtrue #newmexico #newmexicotrue #newmexicolove #portrait (at Matthews Gallery)
Tonight's the night! Swing by Matthews Gallery on your Canyon Road art walk to see stunning contemporary realist works by Eric G. Thompson, 5-7 pm. #art #artist #artgram #instaart #portrait #santafe #santafenm #santafenewmexico #newmexico #nmtrue #newmexicogram #newmexicotrue #newmexicoigers #newmexicolove #simplysantafe #howtosantafe #artworld #artshow #realism #ericgthompson #painter #painting (at Matthews Gallery)
Too cool.
Closeups of the Terracotta Warriors
“Once a terracotta warrior is unearthed, it is exposed to a complete different environment with light, air and other natural elements, which results in the disappearing of the polychromy [paint]. Since the archaeological excavation of the terracotta warrior pits, one of the most urgent problems is the falling off of the polychromy due to the humidity changes. In order to solve this problem, in-situ conservation is carried out immediately after the excavation of each warrior. Some warriors are taken to the restoration area for further preservation work. The restored warriors are transported to the exhibitions, the relics storage or the laboratory. We offer online support to the preservation of the colors of the terracotta warriors and we hope to give them a new colorful life.”
“Terracotta soldiers vary in facial and expressions. Emperor Qin Shihuang’s Terracotta Army is an excellent example of Chinese realistic sculptures. Using clay, ink and color, the Qin artists vividly depicted a variety of characters in the society. The creating of the army focused not only on the depiction of individual racial features, but the connection among those features. Many faces captured the vivid expressions and tensions of facial muscles. The heads of the soldiers were made out of mold first and then carved with detailed facial features. This efficient way of making facilitated the creation of certain “type” and “personality”. Even among the same types, whiskers and facial details of the soldiers such as muscles were individually created for different facial appearances and expressions. The variety of molds, vividly depicted facial features and colors of different kinds all contributed to the forming of an army of individuals, the so-called “thousands of soldiers and thousands of faces”.”
-Army of Terracotta Warriors Museum, Xi’an, China
Super cool.
Marie Laurencin, Portrait of Mrs. Aitato, 1928, oil on canvas
Marilyn Monroe with Edgar Degas’ wax Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, 1879-81, The National Gallery.
Jan Sluyters, 1925.
A number of streets are named after Sluyters in the Netherlands, including one in the neighborhood of streets named after 19th and 20th century Dutch painters in Overtoomse Veld-Noord, Amsterdam.
womeninarthistory:
Edwin Holgate
So Gauguin-esque!
Edwin Holgate (August 19, 1892 – May 21, 1977), was a Canadian artist, painter and engraver. Holgate played a major role in Montreal's art community, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, where he both studied and taught. He was known primarily as a portraitist and for a number of female nudes in outdoor settings that he painted during the 1930s.
Source.
El ensueño (The Daydream) Manuel Alvarez Bravo, 1931
Doris Cross, Untitled (Portrait), Ink on Paper.
Now open: “Take One: Contemporary Photographs” shows how artists since 1975 have pushed the envelope of the medium. Come see how photographers have both explored new methods and subjects, and mined the traditions of photography in evocative ways. “Untitled #204” 1989 (negative), 2014 (print), by Cindy Sherman
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Portrait of Victor Chocquet (1875), Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, USA.
Frida Kahlo Patti Smith
Love it.
Click on the image to see the detail in a zoomable context.
Detail from The Man Made Mad with Fear, Gustave Courbet, 1843-1845
How to be an artistic genius: go bonkers! Stories of Courbet and more.
Face of a woman, Matisse
Pure simplicity!
