Betty's Pub 20.1
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
Some time ago I was going through the store of family photos that I’ve carried around for more than 40 years and came across a clipping from a TV Guide which turned out to contain a letter to the editor from my eldest brother. I’ve mentioned previously that I have a collection of TV Guides and at the time I was disappointed that the whole TV Guide hadn’t been saved. I put it away after looking at it although as it turns out I didn’t remember where I put it. Tonight I’m having dinner with that same brother and I thought it would be fun to bring along the TV Guide to show him. But I had to find it in my collection which wasn’t easy. I didn’t remember what year it appeared but I thought I remembered that he had been around 15 or 16 years old. But to be safe I started looking through my collection starting from when he would have been 11 or 12. What made it even more difficult is that the letters to the editor column wasn’t listed in the index and quite often appeared on a different page within the magazine. So I had to thumb through each issue page by page. It took me three days to find it. My original collection started in September 1960 and as a child I had acquired a large number of issues from 1956 to 1960. When EBAY began I started filling in the gaps going back to the first issue in April 1953 and only just recently was able to win the final one to complete my collection. I mistakenly thought that his letter was in one of the ones I won on EBAY so I initially bypassed the rest. When I didn’t find it I started working my way back and including ones from the original collection and finally I found it in a 1956 issue. I hope he gets a kick out of it. On occasion, when a co-worker had a birthday, I would bring in the TV Guide from the week they were born but as my brother is 10 years older than me I can’t do that. There was no television the week he was born.
I went back to the Met again this week to see two more current exhibits. One was the latest rotation in the drawings corridor which was a particularly nice one. It opens with a number of colorful watercolors by Leon Bakst. He wasn’t someone I was familiar with; this is his brief background from Wikipedia, a Russian painter and scene and costume designer. He was a member of the Sergei Diaghilev circle and the Ballets Russes, for which he designed exotic, richly coloured sets and costumes. On display were costume designs for a number of ballets from the early 20th Century. Such as these which I enjoyed. Be sure to enlarge all of them so as to see the detail.
Costume Study for Vaslav Nijinsky in the Role of Iksender in the Ballet "La Péri" (The Flower of Immortality), first performed in Paris, 1912
https://tinyurl.com/y9jxjlo3
Costume Design for a Eunuch in Scheherazade
https://tinyurl.com/y9xzctk7
Costume Design for the 'Sultan Samarkand' for the Ballet 'Schéhérazade'
https://tinyurl.com/y7vmrqdy
All very colorful and exotic looking.
He also painted portraits.
Mme Ida Rubinstein - Russian dancer, actress, art patron and Belle Époque figure
https://tinyurl.com/yb7hmv7x
And following down the wall there were a number of Rembrandt etchings which I don’t believe I’ve seen before.
The Blindness of Tobit – As in so many of his etchings there’s a lot to see here, the blind Tobit has knocked over his spinning wheel and his son’s dog is wrapped in his cloak and you can see the fish hanging from the hearth. It’s hard to gauge the expression on Tobit’s face which should be anticipatory in joy but to me looks a little fearful. Or maybe just tearful as this was a very emotional day for him.
https://tinyurl.com/yao8z6q3
The Omval – This is the description from the website: This landscape represents a familiar spot outside Amsterdam that Rembrandt recorded in several drawings. It is a peninsula, known then and now as "De Omval," after a ruin that had once stood there (the Dutch word omvallen means to fall down). On the far bank of the Amstel River sit houses and a mill near the Watergraafsmeer neighborhood’s ring dike, whose waters flow into the river. The distant structures are clearly composed with confident etched lines. In contrast, the large willow tree that dominates the scene and conceals a pair of lovers in its blurred, almost textural shadows dramatically demonstrates the effect of combining etching and drypoint.
Lots of detail contrasted by the enormous tree, I’m not sure I can make out the lovers.
https://tinyurl.com/y7zzaceg
The Fourth Oriental Head – I love this for its absolute simplicity and beauty. I think he really must have captured the essence of his sitter.
https://tinyurl.com/y7rzrrf6
And several etchings from the Bible by Albrecht Durer.
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse – If ever a picture was said to represent 1,000 words this one certainly does. The horror of the setting and the motion implied is remarkable for something on a flat surface. Even to me who has no depth perception.
https://tinyurl.com/yae88byb
This is a link to all the images in the exhibit, all worth taking a gander at. https://tinyurl.com/ydzdqtbh
The second exhibit I visited was, Orientalist Paintings from the Collection of Kenneth Jay Lane. This consisted of 26 paintings that have been promised or given to The Met by Mr. Lane. This is a link to the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History which discusses Orientalism from its beginning in the early 19th Century. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/euor/hd_euor.htm
These paintings are also very colorful and exotic. They can’t be enlarged by clicking on them but you can magnify them by using the mouse wheel and the CTRL key.
Western Gentleman in Oriental Costume – An unidentified gentlemen painted by an unidentified artist. Dressing up in exotic clothes was very popular for devotees of this genre.
https://tinyurl.com/y929y433
The Sultan’s Tiger – A painting inspired by Victor Hugo’s 1827 poem “La Douleur du pacha” (The Pasha’s Grief.)
https://tinyurl.com/y9em6amc
Bashi-Bazouk – A mercenary in finery.
https://tinyurl.com/y9owjucy
Street Scene in Cairo – It’s the architecture in this one that appeals to me.
https://tinyurl.com/y8lftlp8
This is a link to all the items in the exhibit. https://tinyurl.com/y885f3z6
Now let’s mosey over to the Flickrs.
Andy G.
IMG_9752.JPG - Dress as You Like Day - Thomas Bell (Fairly apropos considering the schoolboy story)
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miaow!2
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sissy debbie
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Ande-10.31.16
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Today is going to be rather interesting!.....
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Jenn050617-09-26-21
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Cloud Nine cast filtered
https://www.flickr.com/photos/26186593%40N08/35021296840/
Just dressing for around the office
https://www.flickr.com/photos/143265732%40N06/34505567862/
Ready for master
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STA40490
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
I’ve been wanting to treat a friend of mine to a day out for some time but she suffers from chronic Crohn’s disease and every time I’ve picked a day she’s had to cancel due to her system acting up. But finally I was able to take her to the Met this week. It was a lovely day, the weather cooperated in that it didn’t rain and it wasn’t oppressively hot. Traveling unfortunately was very bad, the traffic into the City was heavy and slow moving through the tunnel. The subway uptown was crowded and there was trouble on numerous lines. I subsequently found out there had been a derailment of an A train at 125th Street which had thrown the subway system into to chaos. We were lucky to get home without too much trouble by avoiding the C train which wasn’t running and instead traveling on the Broadway IRT line down to the Port Authority. The day was like a split double header, we left her home around 10AM and didn’t get back from the museum until about 4:30PM when we each went to our own homes. Then I came back around 6PM and we walked to the diner where I treated her to dinner. I had baked my lemon cake which won high praise from her so we had that for dessert when we got back from the diner. We did an enormous amount of walking, I broke my daily walking record hoofing it for 11.3 miles. She must have done 5 miles herself and with a little huffing and puffing she managed to survive.
Our first stop was the Japanese wing for the current rotation, Japanese Bamboo Art: The Abbey Collection. The exhibit consisted mainly of bamboo flower baskets and sculptures, most of which are contemporary by which I mean the 20th Century. These are beautiful and must require an amazing amount of skill to create. And it must be a very time consuming exercise. While I appreciated them I felt there were far too many for an exhibit of this size. My friend enjoyed them very much but I was more interested in the scrolls, screens and woodblock prints.
This is a link to the Met press release with an image and an overview of the exhibit. http://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2016/japanese-bamboo
The Met didn’t post any images on the site which is unusual but this is a link to a separate site showing the collection in place. https://artssummary.com/2017/06/25/japanese-bamboo-art-the-abbey-collection-at-the-met-fifth-avenue-through-february-4-2018/ One of the nicest items in the exhibit was the large screen showing children playing with a flower cart and an actual flower cart similar to the one painted on the screen in front of it. https://artssummary.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/20170612-ew6a4193.jpg
And this link shows individual items enlarged. http://www.intabe.com/tag/metbamboo
When we exited the exhibit my friend told me she needed to take a pill with a little food. All she wanted was some water and a piece of bread so we went to the museum cafeteria. I bought her a bottle of water and a small, dry dinner roll the size of a golf ball which with the water cost $6. I don’t recommend eating at the cafeteria if you’re hungry.
From the cafeteria we wandered over to the American wing. On our last outing we went to the Montclair museum for a Matisse exhibit but what she enjoyed the most was a visit to the George Inness room. Consequently we spent most of our time with the Hudson river painters. For me it was like visiting old friends. Highlights were:
Three paintings by Frederic Edwin Church who was a pupil of Thomas Cole, the father of the Hudson River painters.
Heart of the Andes - This is an enormous picture, 10’ x 5.5’, be sure to enlarge it.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10481
The Parthenon
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10482
The Aegean Sea
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10480
A pair by George Inness
Peace and Plenty
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11232
Autumn Oaks
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11227
The Valley of Wyoming by Jasper Cropsey
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10586
And a pair from Thomas Cole
The Titans Goblet
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10499
View on the Catskill—Early Autumn
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10501
Of course there were many others, the Met’s American wing is incomparable for its great works.
My friend said she had a wonderful time and expressed a desire to return to the museum. She especially wants to revisit the weapons exhibits in Arms and Armor which she saw on our first visit some time ago. Go figure that would be what excited her.
I continue to watch a movie every day, usually from TCM, and I’ve been working my way through Fred Astaire’s films with Ginger Rogers, they’re all enjoyable. Recently I watched their first film together, Flying Down to Rio, as well as The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle and the other day I watched Royal Wedding in which Fred dances on the walls and ceilings. You can see that at this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsoYyDlYU8M IMDB explained how the illusion was created: The "You're All the World to Me" dance was accomplished by putting a whole room, attached camera and harnessed cameraman inside a 20 ft. diameter rotating "squirrel cage." The dancing on the ceiling number appears to be one long continuous take. However, if you watch closely, there are at least three and possibly four very subtle cuts in this scene.
Some time ago the government released the 1940 census to the general public and I found my maternal Grandma and my Aunts and Uncle, the ancient relatives I’ve referred to for so long. Unfortunately I was unable to find my Mother and Father. At the time it was promised that someday the site would be searchable by name. It now is and I’ve found them.
It’s very interesting to me, our family name is spelled differently and it gives a different birth year for both of them. I knew very little about my paternal grandma most of which is confirmed here. She remarried after her first husband, my grandfather, died and she owned a boarding house which according to the census had two couples living as lodgers. She was 53 years old at the time, 12 years younger than her husband. I couldn’t find the exact address of the boardinghouse but I probably could if I dive a little deeper into the site. I do know that the boardinghouse was torn down when the Cross Bronx Expressway was built although I have no idea when it left my family’s hands. My grandmother died in the early 40’s, either right before or after my brother was born which was in 1941. It’s unfortunate but there’s no one left alive that I can query about all this. As I’ve mentioned, my brothers and I are now the ancient relatives in the family. If anyone wants to search the site for their forebears you can do so at this link. https://familysearch.org/1940census
Now let’s dance over to the Flickrs.
Andy G.
Wymondham High Academy Year 11 Leavers Day 2017
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Pink sissy
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Linda at Adam and Eve's Wedding Party
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JIANG KAYEE, PARIS, 2013
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As usual Andy I love your posts about your adventures into the city and the Art you share here. Glad you and your friend had a wonderful day.
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Hi Angela,
Glad to hear from you again, I was wondering how your were doing. Sorry about the hay fever and dentistry. I had horrible allergies as a child, 20 minute sneezing jags and spontaneous nose bleeds but I grew out of them in my late teens and they haven't recurred. I hope they don't.
I'm pleased you enjoyed our visit to the Met.
Andy G.
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Hi Andy,
I have been lucky to not have any allergies up to now but with all the health issues going on with me in the last few years it was bound to happen like my Shingles attacks twice in two years and now sneezing and watery eyes etc. I have had sensitive teeth the last few years but recently the pain was off the charts and I was sure I had a cavity or cracked tooth but after several x-rays showing nothing wrong they didn't know what else to do but give me pain meds and special numbing Gel. The following day my mouth and face were swollen badly so it was back again for another check and antibiotics. After a little over a week it is getting better and I can eat normal food again. I guess I should be thankful that I have all my own teeth at 67 as several of my co-workers either have none or many missing teeth or they are deceased. None of us needs huge dental bills at our age. Glad you are enjoying your retirement and can explore the city to your hearts content, even if the transit slows you down some. I still need to drive most places as most of my doctors appointments are out of town and the word is my family doctor I have had for years is thinking retirement soon also. Unless he sells his practice to a new doctor, I will need walk in clinics like most others my age since there are fewer doctors around. We have many refugees coming here with some very qualified people but they need to meet our governments requirements and some cannot afford the schooling upgrades. I am not sure why because the government here gives refugees almost twice the money our pensioners are getting and rent allowances also. As a senior in Canada to live well you need to have saved a small fortune or be a refugee or end up in Jail where prisoners get $42,000.00 dollars worth of care and perks like health and dental coverages. God forbid the prisoner had any grounds to sue for mistreatment so make them as comfortable as possible. Anyway that's my rant for now, and I hope you have a great weekend and Fourth of July holiday.
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
This week I visited the Morgan Library to see their current exhibit, Henry James and American Painting. This was a splendid show filled with paintings and watercolors by John Singer Sargent among others. A number of the portraits had also been in the enormous Sargent portraits of friends exhibit at the Met which I’ve previously written about. This is a link to the Morgan website where there’s a 4 minute video narrated by the author Colm Toibin, who co-curated the exhibit, in which he explains the premise of the show which explores James’ friendship with artists and how one in particular, Frank Duveneck and his wife Lizzie Boot, influence three of his most famous novels. http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/henry-james In his early life James studied art and considered becoming an artist but decided he was better suited to writing.
The first thing you see upon entering the gallery is Sargent’s portrait of Henry James. It was commissioned by his friends to honor him. Flanking it are two letters, one that was sent out soliciting the funds to pay Sargent to paint the portrait which ultimately led to 269 subscribers, and a second letter, after it had been painted, sent to all the successful subscribers with a photo of the painting. There was also a card with explanatory text showing the painting as damaged. When it was initially hung for viewing a suffragist attacked it with a tomahawk badly slashing the canvas. It was a remarkable restoration as I could see no remnant trace of the cuts.
http://www.themorgan.org/sites/default/files/images/exhibitions/galleries/1-Sargent-Henry-James.jpg
James McNeill Whistler was a friend and is represented by his Arrangement in Black and Brown: The Fur Jacket, a portrait of Maud Franklin his mistress and model who bore him a daughter in 1879.
http://www.themorgan.org/sites/default/files/images/exhibitions/galleries/6-Whistler-Arrangement-in-Black-and-Brown.jpg
Here we have Frank Duveneck’s portrait of Lizzie’s father, Francis Boott. Boott opposed the marriage as he came from society and Duveneck led a bohemian lifestyle, consequently it took many years before he finally acquiesced and allowed the marriage. Sadly she died of pneumonia just a few years after the marriage and after giving birth to a son.
http://www.themorgan.org/sites/default/files/images/exhibitions/galleries/18-Duveneck-Francis-Boott.jpg
This is a portrait of Lizzie by Duveneck. In the NY Times review below you can see an image of the bronze tomb effigy of Lizzie which appears in the exhibit below the paintings of Lizzie and her Father.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Elizabeth_Boott_Duveneck00.jpg
Here are two lovely Sargent watercolors
In a Medici Villa
https://ia802605.us.archive.org/34/items/brooklynmuseum-o20378-in-a-medici-villa/brooklynmuseum-o20378i000-09.826_transp132.jpg
Santa Maria della Salute
https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-singer-sargent/santa-maria-della-salute-1904
A wonderful charcoal sketch of James by Cecilia Beaux.
http://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.87.248
These are reviews by the NY Times and the Wall Street Journal, both with illustrations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/06/arts/design/henry-james-a-poohbah-who-painted-with-words.html?_r=0
https://www.wsj.com/articles/henry-james-and-american-painting-review-finding-the-writers-gaze-1497559957
This is a link to site which shows the installation as you view it, wall by wall.
https://artssummary.com/2017/06/20/henry-james-and-american-painting-at-the-morgan-library-museum-june-9-september-10-2017/
I very much enjoyed this exhibit as I’m a great admirer of Henry James and John Singer Sargent is one of my favorite artists. It embarrasses me that I’ve read pretty much all of James most important works and have so little memory of them. At some point I’ll have to go back and reread some of them but it’s difficult as I always have books on my table that I want to read.
There were other interesting exhibits on view as well.
This Ever New Self: Thoreau and His Journal – An exhibit of his journals and letters.
http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/thoreau
In this exhibit I was surprised to find a lithograph by another favorite artist of mine, Fitz Henry Lane, an American artist of the 19th Century who specialized in painting maritime scenes. This though has no boats in it though and is very unlike any of his other works that I’ve come across. View of the Battleground at Concord, Mass.
http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/view-of-the-battleground-at-concord-mass-259172
And finally, a very nice drawing exhibit, Poussin, Claude, and French Drawing in the Classical Age. Of the drawings in this show I especially enjoyed the Claude’s (Claude Gellée, called Claude Lorrain), the 17th Century French landscape artist. You can see an overview of the show as well as a number of illustrations at the Morgan website. One in particular is a drawing that was a sketch for his Sermon on the Mount which is in the Frick collection. Simon Vouet’s Portrait of Louis XIII was another highlight.
http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/french-drawing
Here is the Frick press release with more information and illustrations.
http://www.themorgan.org/sites/default/files/pdf/press/PoussinClaudePressRelease.pdf
Now let’s see what’s doing at the Flickrs.
Andy G.
Delta Zeta Womenless Beauty Pageant Raising Money for the Local Women's Shelter
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Another contender...
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Red Halloween Bridal gown at Magic Theatre
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tanyadawnhughes/31791431095/
almost a happy face
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day241-06 White Wedding Dress (1)
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Jackie and Melissa's wedding in Vegas
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The legendary Bigwood twins
https://www.flickr.com/photos/trannilicious2011/26699196192/
Cursty
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The legendary Cooky & Caline
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Before and After (male to Xdressing [22 y/o])
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
It’s been a fairly steamy week here in Northern New Jersey, weather wise that is. I don’t mind the hot weather but I will say that I’ve been coming back from my walks soaked in sweat. It was so humid that the money in pocket turned soppy. I wouldn’t want to hang it on a line outside but I guess I can iron it. Of course when compared to the weather in Arizona where my friend tells me it’s been over 100 degrees every day for the last two or three weeks it doesn’t seem quite so bad. I remember visiting Epcot in Florida many years ago. It was August and remarkably warm. We had spent a lot of time in the airport waiting for the flight and then more time on the plane, all in an air condition controlled environment which was chilly to say the least. And we were dressed in tee shirts and shorts so there wasn’t much you could do against the relentless cold. We disembarked from the airplane and walked through the terminal until we reached the sliding glass doors that opened to the street. As they opened and we crossed the threshold the heat hit us like a wave. I imagined it felt like when you’re cooking the turkey and you open the oven door; you can understand what the turkey is feeling.
This week I returned the Metropolitan Museum of Art and finally caught the Chinese exhibit before it closes tomorrow. Age of Empires: Chinese Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 B.C.–A.D. 220) is a large exhibit filled with items recovered from excavations in China. I’ll use the word I always use when discussing an exhibit which falls out of my usual realm of enjoyment, which is hanging art, and say I found it interesting. The big attraction was the Terracotta warriors which like all the other items were created to fill the tomb of the emperor when he moved off the material plane. I confess to wondering about the ethics involved in digging up the remains of ancient peoples who must have felt secure that they would be left in peace for eternity. Weighing against that is the educational value of the excavation, that is, learning about how those peoples lived. And there is also the aesthetic pleasure in viewing these finely crafted items. Also there has always been a question of authenticity, in China the government has cracked down on the many sites and individuals who created ersatz items and exhibited them as being genuine, although there has also been speculation that the Chinese Government has played a little fast and loose with the facts when it came to displaying age old items.
This is a link to the Met website with a video discussing the exhibit. Go to full screen for the video.
https://tinyurl.com/y7gq2tsj
And this is a link to the website showing most of the items in the exhibit.
http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/objects?exhibitionId=5ff35777-f859-45c9-83f6-b029566c47a3
These are some of the more interesting items I saw.
Jade Burial Suit – This is a link to a discussion of the exhibit that begins with a discussion of the burial suit, created for Han Dynasty princess Dou Wan. There are lots of illustrations in this article.
https://hyperallergic.com/374312/from-a-jade-burial-suit-to-terracotta-warriors-a-blockbuster-display-of-chinas-ancient-treasures/
This is an enlarged view of the suit.
https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/882809858097115136/ZufPZ6dl?format=jpg&name=600x314
Dog – There were many animals, small and large, included in the burials and I especially enjoyed this dog depicted in an animated position as if created from life.
https://tinyurl.com/y8vp72mw
Cowry Container with Scene of Sacrifice – I thought this a fascinating piece, here’s the description from the website.
“Thirty-five sculpted figures create a dense composition on this container’s cover. Escorted by two mounted horsemen and flanked by servants, a gilded female sits on a palanquin. The gilding may indicate a higher status. One kneeling female, possibly a servant, holds a parasol, while another female and two males wield a shovel and sowing tools; the group may signal an agricultural ritual. The remaining figures, scattered around the rim, comprise what appears to be a market scene. The figures were likely cast separately and then soldered to the cover.”
https://tinyurl.com/y9gvux36 - And here’s a link showing an enlargement in which you can see more of the detail as discussed above.
https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/882642774549553154/1xZt3VSc?format=jpg&name=600x314
Lamp with Sixteen Branches – There were a number of elaborate lamps with ornate figures and this is a good representative.
https://tinyurl.com/ybtlwjgv
Hanging Lamp in the Shape of a Foreigner – A different style lamp with a rather ingenious method for use, the hollow body served as the fuel chamber, and a small aperture in his chest allowed fuel to flow into the circular tray.
https://tinyurl.com/y94n2yz6
This is a link to the Met website with their press release which offers an overview of the exhibit.
http://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2016/age-of-empires
This is a link to the NY Times review of the exhibit.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/arts/design/review-age-of-empires-chinese-art-the-met-museum.html?_r=0
This is a link to a site that shows you the entire exhibit room by room and will give you some idea of the vastness of the collection.
https://tinyurl.com/ydc554bd
Excellent exhibit and very popular if you can judge by the number of people at the site when I visited. I almost missed it and I’m glad I didn’t.
In deference to the heat let’s slowly walk over to the Flickrs now.
Andy G.
A girl with roses
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nongu/33786323506/
Too Much?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/60741642@N06/35611996761/
34810662554_c041f77984_k
https://www.flickr.com/photos/siobhanhapgood/35456243540/
Cool Kantai Collection Crossplay
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bluezhift/34771532996/
Hearty Curtsey
https://www.flickr.com/photos/fairyboyprincess/33508499233/
DSC06446
https://www.flickr.com/photos/117560929@N03/30853256401/
Autumn/Fall 2015
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lucyhamilton/22204297753/
pink gingham dress with pinafore and sewn in petticoat.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sissy_mhari/14839256401/
New Outfit
https://www.flickr.com/photos/129285689@N02/33250922796/
P1060751
https://www.flickr.com/photos/9520605@N07/34190560691/
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Of course when compared to the weather in Arizona where my friend tells me it’s been over 100 degrees every day for the last two or three weeks it doesn’t seem quite so bad.
Been on & off there. Triple digits for almost a week, 80s or 90s for almost a week, then back up to the triple digits again. And those triple digits are for the peak of the day. In that open dry desert air, once the sun gets a little low it starts to cool down, getting pretty cool a night to after dawn.
But right now as I type this, they're having one of their hottest days... it's 107F in Phoenix. But it will be around 86F overnight & at dawn. Tomorrow will be better at 101F there. No triple digits there Mon.-Thur., then triple digits for a whole week again (except at nights), but not as hot as today.
We sweat to cool off, as the water evaporates it carries heat away from the body. In the dry Arizona heat that works rather well because moisture easily & quickly evaporates in the dry, low humidity air... as long as you remember to consume enough fluids to replace what you lose.
But we live in a damp climate, where it typically rains several times a week, are near bodies of water (lakes, rivers, ocean, swamps), & damp ground. That pumps a lot of humidity in the air making it feel like a damp, sticky tropical swamp or forest when it gets warm. The moisture (sweat) doesn't evaporate off our bodies well in high humidity. So we can get wet, sticky, gooey, & overheat in humid weather.
That's why we hear about people suffering heat stroke up here more often than in Arizona. I feel much more comfortable & cooler on a 90F day where the humidity is 55% or lower, than on a 78F day with the humidity at 75% or more. And all the rain may cool down the area during the storm, with wind, but shortly after the storm is over it's more sticky, steamy & humid than before.
All that dampness & humidity also air produces more pollen & mold growth outside which produces more mold spores in the air. Even if you're immune to that stuff & have no allergies, it's like breathing in dusty dirty air. Warm humid air contains less oxygen per cubic foot than cool dry air too. All that stuff contributes to you feeling even more uncomfortable, stressed, & hot.
Off course, we're more used to cooler weather where it only frequently gets above 80F 2-3 months out of the year, but might snow anywhere from late October to mid-April, so our bodies can't cope with hot weather as well. Place a person from Arizona outside in a heavy winter coat on 45F day & they will shiver like crazy while we'll be fine in a light jacket or sweatshirt. But we may be in danger of risking a heat stroke above 85F, where 95F is easy for them.
At one of the entertainment complexes I worked at a few years ago, one of the restaurants there had a huge, but shadeless outdoor patio. During lunchtime on a 90F day, everybody was packed into the air conditioned restaurant because the patio was unbearably hot. On a windless sunny day surrounded by walls of other buildings on each side that blocked any breeze, it can bake to over 100F out there on a 90F day.
Normally no customers would go out there on a hot day... it's like an oven. But on that day, a half dozen people who were together were sitting out there having lunch, bouncing around, having a good time, & NOT sweating. Standing inside at the window totally surprised, I marveled that they must be from Arizona because they're not even sweating. The poor waitress who had to serve them was soaked, dripping in sweat. Later I found out from her, they were indeed from Arizona.
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As usual Andy I love your posts about your adventures into the city and the Art you share here. Glad you and your friend had a wonderful day.
It's great to hear from you again. At our age, we worry about people we don't hear about in a while.
Sorry I've been "away" (more or less) & not posting much... getting sidetracked with other stuff, projects, & work.
I started out with sort of a planned vacation mode, that I was hoping would start on my June 30th birthday & last until July 4th. Even though I can't afford to travel anywhere, & my COPD is rarely good enough to walk a half a block, I tried to have a little vacation as best I could. Somebody even sent over vodka & beer for my birthday... and this time I even drank some of it... instead of making it last months.
Well, vacation mode didn't last as long as I hoped.
For one thing, as soon as there's a big international or USA holiday, or it's vacation season, even hacker, cracker, & spammer in the world amps up to high gear to attack anything they can. Their logic is if it's a holiday, weekend, or vacation time, or even late at night, it's the most likely time server & site owners or managers are away & not paying attention. Even security updates are not likely to be released on weekends, holidays, or nights. So it's the best time that their attacks have a chance of being successful.
Since late June we, along with most servers & sites have been under escalated attacks from all over the world (but mostly Russia & China hidden behind other proxies). I haven't announced anything about, or limited access, or restricted sites members only yet though. So far, we've been able to deal with it without any problems or overloads. None of our sites & servers have been cracked, broken, compromised, or overloaded by them. But to achieve that, I'm had to spend a lot more time on the servers, & security, including regularly writing my own security updates to keep those nasty buggers out.
But when it rains, it pours. Although we've has some nice days, every time there's any lightning around me, or north of me... sometimes as far away as Toronto, my DSL goes out. A single lightning bolt anywhere in between there & me causes my internet to be down for 5-10 minutes. If it's a storm or several, I may not be getting online for a few hours or most of the day. As near as I can figure, my connection is routed to Lockport up north. From there it may go to a satellite link, or cables toward NYC, or a shoreline microwave relay tower that sends my connection across Lake Ontario to a Verizon hub in Toronto. Lightning anywhere in between causes connection problems.
When downloading or uploading backups, security, codes, & updates, even brief reception problems can cause data corruption. Install corrupted updates, security, codes, or backups, & I can wreck the entire server or site. So even if a storm subsides, or my intermittent connection is good enough to surf the net, I can't use it for data & mission critical projects until I'm certain I have a solid & steady connection for a few hours.
Then to my surprise, a few people decided while going on vacation, it would be a good time to drop off their computers for me to work on, fix, or upgrade because they won't be using them during their vacation. That kept me busy a while too. Vacation mode only lasted me about 30 hours instead of 5 days.
So I've been having a few headaches, setbacks, projects, & work to deal with recently. But I've never been really away. Just busy on the servers & sites dealing with them with very little time in between left to post much. You may have noticed I made a few upgrades here, & added a few new handy services here.
I made a news feed/site. Then yesterday I made it a little more moblie friendly. It was mobile friendly before, but people with really small phones were complaining, so I fixed it a little for small phones. I still don't recommend visiting any of our sites vertically with screens under 7" though. Visit them horizontally like normal people do on laptops & desktops.
Last week I was in a group that was complaining about the horrible changes in the new Google News feed page. One fool who actually liked it (probably worked for google) said if I don't like it, I should try to make something better. So I said, Yeah, OK. How hard can it be? It turns out pretty hard for 1 old guy, with no funding working alone on it. But I did it. Google has hundreds of thousands working for them, & billions in funds.
We've also started getting a remarkably extra large number of people visiting us on portables, like small phones. This includes a lot on small 320x400 pixel screens. Maybe with vacation time, their phone is their only way to visit because they're away from home. I've been doing a lot more recently to make our sites as easy to use as possible for them. Betty's has always been somewhat mobile-friendly on a decent portable device, where most people on phones & small tablets are automatically sent a separate version of Betty's that I made just for those portable devices. But depending on what browser they use & their settings, they may not always automatically get the mobile version, so I've been trying to make all versions more mobile friendly.
Google & Alexa scans & tests of all versions of Betty's, claim Betty's is very mobile friendly... even our included multimedia. No other sissy or ABDL site, or even Yahoo can claim to be as mobile friendly. That's probably why we get a larger percentage visiting on phones than they do.
However, for reasons to long to get into anymore, Betty's, many other sites, & most file sharing sites do not support Windows 10, Explorer, or Edge browsers, & do not intend to in the future. But if you have them set up properly, they should work good enough here anyway. But some features may not work, work well, or may not be visible with that stuff though.
Things have changed a little bit online for me outside the realm of Betty's recently too.
In the recent past, all the ads I run on other sites, & our Youtube channels make about $18 to a little over $30 a year. The past few months though, suddenly our PSK/UngleGadget Youtube channel has been earning a little over $30 a month. On my very tight budget, an extra $30 a month is a lot of money to me & comes in damn handy.
So I've been working hard recently to at least keep that $30/mo. coming in every month, & hopefully increase that figure.
It's odd though to see what is actually earning the most there. While I spent hours or days making major productions of pretty, cool videos, the ones making the money are stupid things, & not what I would expect.
The biggest money maker was an old public domain movie that I cleaned up & enhanced a little. It was probably the worse Japanese monster movie ever made. The next big money came from a very short road rage clip of a car running down some bikers. The next big money came from a clip of our president being rude at NATO. And finally as the fourth biggest money maker was a pretty space slideshow I made put to music. So good taste comes in at number four.
Meanwhile, our Betty's Youtube channel hasn't made a single penny yet, even though it's been around longer. So you can see why I haven't been adding much to that channel lately.
I've been trying to throw a lot at our PSK channel to see if I can improve that $30/mo. figure. It's very time consuming. Like the fireworks movies there was a huge project, & there's still more I have in production. The short but profitable clips were rather easy to put together. The hard part was getting copyright permission for them, or somehow legally get around them with the right loopholes.
Indeed, even right now I'm going through a couple copyright battles about the music in 2 fireworks videos. And I just won a copyright battle with another one last week. In May, I lost a battle & got a copyright strike against me. I went on a month-long battle to fight the strike. I finally got the strike against me removed just a couple weeks ago.
Let me tell you something about the jungle of youtube. If you record yourself burping, & put it on Youtube, somebody will try to nail you for copyright infringement claiming they own something in the audio, or something in the picture. They may claim your burp sounds too close to their video's burp, so is an infringement (Seriously!). Most of those video stay up, because along with their copyright claim, they say they give you permission to keep it up as long as they get all the google ad revenue it generates.
So it's a scam. People who don't know better leave their video up, while some crooked scammer or Russian mob is earning all the ad money off of it because they (illegally) claimed ownership of part of it.
Last year I got a copyright claim against a public domain 1950s horror movie there by a rap artist. How could a 1950s movie possibly have stolen material from his 2014 CD? It turns out his absolutely shitty rap song stole a few seconds of the sound effects off the movie, & are now claiming copyrights to anyone running the movie. So although the song sucks, they're making lots of copyright revenue with their illegal claims to the movie.
Unbelievably, it took me a couple months to fight & win that one. You'd think that one would just make simple sense & be easy... a 1950s movie couldn't steal a portion of a 2014 song without a time machine.
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
Well, here we are in the dead of Summer and art is becoming increasingly difficult to find. New art shows that is, art is always around us, at least for those of us in the New York Metropolitan area. But new shows opening are, and will be, few and far between until we get into the Fall. Not that I’m for rushing the season, or my life for that matter. The Met’s financial troubles don’t help as it has caused them to cut back on their exhibits. I’ve seen all the current exhibits including one that just opened which I’ll discuss momentarily. My brother just commented that the art world currently is a desert but he also reminded me that there will be a few new shows opening at the Met in what’s left of July and August. I also haven’t done an intensive search of the galleries in New York City so there may be some promising things there. And I find I’m reluctant to travel a few hours for something that doesn’t look to be a blockbuster although I’m trying to convince a friend that we should go to New Haven just to visit the two art museums there. I’ve been there once or twice and they both have excellent permanent collections which I certainly wouldn’t mind revisiting. But that’s for another time.
This week I again went back to the Met for another of their small exhibits consisting mostly of items from their collection, Frederic Remington at The Met. Remington was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in depictions of the Old American West, painting at the end of the 19th Century into the very early 20th Century.
This is a link to a brief article on the exhibit with illustrations of two of his striking bronze sculptures. They were purchased by the Met directly from the artist. Also shown are the front cover of a Colliers Magazine and one of his vivid oil paintings, On the Southern Plains.
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/art-diary/frederic-remington-at-the-met/?map=active
These are two more of his bronzes, The Savage and The Sergeant. They are exhibited together as they are pendants meant to complement each other. The Savage, which depicts an American Indian, by its title unfortunately brings to the fore the unenlightened attitudes of the time concerning native Americans.
https://tinyurl.com/y99q33a3
https://tinyurl.com/y9pgm38c
This is something I don’t see very often, a black and white oil painting, Standing Off Indians. It depicts what must have been a tense encounter which could have ended in bloodshed but didn’t. https://tinyurl.com/y7d5l22d
This is an article about one of the loans in the exhibit, the watercolor Lin McLean. Click on the image to enlarge it. It’s a painting of a cowboy commissioned as an illustration to a story by Owen Wister in Harpers Monthly. It comes from the Rockwell Museum, a venue I hope to visit someday although it’s more or less in the middle of nowhere and to get to it I would more than likely have to drive, something I’m not keen to do. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/06/14/famous-rockwell-museum-painting-goes-big-apple/395873001/#
This is a link to the Met press release for the exhibit. http://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2017/frederic-remington
This is a link to all the objects in the exhibit. http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/objects?exhibitionId=17ee9efe-3c56-420f-9295-00d4f46a5f8a#!?perPage=50&offset=0
Very enjoyable little exhibit.
TCM spotlighted Alfred Hitchcock this month and I watched a bunch of his films including a number of his earliest efforts. One of them was silent, The Manxman, and another was his first talkie, Blackmail. They were interesting curios although not especially good films. Blackmail was initially started as a silent film and then changed to talkie when the technology suddenly became available. The opening sequence is silent. The female lead is played by the actress Anny Ondra but her voice is completely dubbed by the actress Joan Barry as Ondra’s natural speaking voice was a thick Czech accent which wasn’t suitable for the character she played. A remarkably young Cyril Ritchard plays the villain. The movies I enjoyed the most were two I had seen previously, The Lady Vanishes and The Thirty Nine Steps, both thrillers involving enemy agents and innocent individuals caught up in their nefarious schemes, classic Hitchcock scenarios. They were both thoroughly entertaining. North By Northwest was also on but I chose not to watch it again as years ago I was lucky enough to catch it in a movie theater at a revival and it’s definitely a film that loses something when translated to a small screen.
Let’s leave the projection room now and walk on over to the Flickrs.
Andy G.
Emma crossplay
https://www.flickr.com/photos/156778244@N04/35940131955/
Just spiking the lawn !!! lol. 13th September 2015
https://www.flickr.com/photos/102846236@N06/34057398142/
37,000 views.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/saralegs/476542689/
Verena Nova :)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/148469844@N03/34000674186/
Kerry (Keri) Allen
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22225496@N07/31703999080/
27th August (5)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/-ella-/3036088429/
Hello, world!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gisabelle89/34447771895/
122H1L
https://www.flickr.com/photos/klarissakrass/35074285255/
Swiss Miss
https://www.flickr.com/photos/136587301@N08/35077859135/
Mistress says I have to pose in front of the window.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sissyplaything/34358207085/
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
Well, the heat wave has ended; it’s been cool and rainy this week, with unseasonable temperatures as the weatherman says. But it will warm up again soon I’m pleased to say. It will be cold enough in the winter so we may as well enjoy the heat in the summer.
I visited the Ronin Gallery this week to view the Japanese wood block prints I’ve come to enjoy so much. This batch falls under the heading “After The Bath” and offers a selection of prints from 17th through 21st century. Unlike previous exhibits which keyed in on a few artists this one represents many different artists. The prints are mildly erotic, many showing nude or semi-clad women fixing their hair or makeup after their baths.
These are a few that I especially liked.
Shiro (1898-1991) Sakunami Hot Spring – Two women bathing in clear water somewhat protected from the elements by some structure overhear.
http://www.roningallery.com/exhibitions/the-japanese-bath/sakunami-hot-spring
Goyo Hashiguchi (1880-1921) Woman After Bath – A modest nude from the back.
http://www.roningallery.com/exhibitions/the-japanese-bath/woman-after-bath
Goyo Hashiguchi (1880-1921) Woman at the Hot Spring – A woman leaning over the spring to get a wash towel seeing her reflection in the water.
http://www.roningallery.com/exhibitions/the-japanese-bath/woman-at-the-hot-spring
Shunsen, Natori (1886-1960) After a Bath – A woman finishing putting her clothes on with only a breast still showing.
http://www.roningallery.com/exhibitions/the-japanese-bath/after-a-bath
Hakuho Hirano (1879-1957) Arranging Her Hair – Side view, fully nude.
http://www.roningallery.com/exhibitions/the-japanese-bath/arranging-her-hair
There were others that didn’t adhere fully to the theme.
Hiroshige (1797-1858) Hot Spring at Shuzenji Temple in Izu Province – Hiroshige and Hokusai are two of my favorite artists.
http://www.roningallery.com/exhibitions/the-japanese-bath/hot-spring-at-shuzenji-temple-in-izu-province
Hokusai (1760-1849) Washing at the Well of Ebiya
http://www.roningallery.com/exhibitions/the-japanese-bath/the-well-of-ebiya
Sekino, Junichiro (1914-1988) Stone Steps to Public Bath, Iizuka – Vertiginous view of the steps up to a public bath by a 20th Century artist.
http://www.roningallery.com/exhibitions/the-japanese-bath/stone-steps-to-public-bath-iizuka
Hiroshige (1797-1858) Fujikawa – Snow covered scenery.
http://www.roningallery.com/ronin-gallery/fujikawa-6131
This is a link to all the objects in the exhibit.
http://www.roningallery.com/exhibitions/the-japanese-bath
The Ronin Gallery is a great place, they’re very friendly and accommodating and don’t seem to mind that I’m there to view and not buy. In the back of my mind I do consider buying something but I haven’t succumbed to temptation as yet.
On to the Flickrs.
Andy G.
Red frills
https://www.flickr.com/photos/blackietv/34212517884/
Come in
https://www.flickr.com/photos/msemilytv/3027706685/
Lolita Lace Princess Dress
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lindasunx/13843219474/
Is a point in your life when you know you won't change
https://www.flickr.com/photos/135809499%40N02/34100808836/
Go ask Alice. Halloween 2013
https://www.flickr.com/photos/fantasysammy/10438971375/
Lace Wedding Dress
https://www.flickr.com/photos/25488909%40N03/35122933725/
Trying on a prom dress at Deja Vu
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99227123%40N04/35201875416/
David Bowie 1947-2016
https://www.flickr.com/photos/39797176%40N06/24294652856/
Ballerina Motorbike" by Marion
https://www.flickr.com/photos/39797176%40N06/34781230750/
Iphone NOV16 037
https://www.flickr.com/photos/wendisissibride/30349764423/
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
I went back to the Met this week to see the newly opened exhibit, Cristóbal de Villalpando: Mexican Painter of the Baroque. I’m not mad for religious painting but this was a unique opportunity to see art that doesn’t usually travel and features enormous canvases. The star of the show is a 28-foot-tall canvas, painted in 1683 for a chapel in Puebla Cathedral in Mexico. It has never been exhibited outside its place of origin and I’m amazed it was allowed to leave the chapel in our current political environment. The logistics of packaging the altarpiece and shipping it must have been daunting. It depicts the biblical accounts of Moses and the brazen serpent and the Transfiguration of Jesus. It’s really striking although it was hard for me to take it all in whether I was in the atrium in front of it or upstairs looking at it from across the balcony. Some of the paintings strike me as being almost cartoonlike, something that I also find true of Botticelli. My brother commented that he thought Villalpando had talent but suffered from never having had the proper training. He needed an apprenticeship with a great Italian master and he never got it. A number of the paintings are boldly signed, “Villalpando inventor.” Clearly he felt he wasn’t following in any ones footsteps.
This is a link to the Met press release. http://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2016/villalpando
This is a link to the Met website with all 11 images from the exhibit. http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/objects?exhibitionId=11c7aa9b-f83e-40a9-8ebc-ec34bde1f19d
This is a link to the Times review of the exhibit. The first image is the altarpiece and there are four additional images. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/26/arts/design/mexico-cristobal-de-villalpando-metropolitan-museum.html
Once again it was a treat to wander through the Lehman wing of the museum, it’s been a little while since I’ve been there. Robert Lehman, the investment banker who died in 1969, bequeathed his enormous collection of art to the Met with the proviso that it be kept intact and housed in a wing to be built for it. This was an unusual request but the Met could hardly have demurred, the collection consisted of 3,000 items of which 300 are paintings and 1500 are drawings. The collection is displayed in a series of rooms designed to resemble the Lehman’s Park Avenue apartment and mansion on East 54th Street. This is a link to a story from the NY Times archives about the collection when the bequest was announced. It’s in the Times machine and you’ll need to log into the Times to view it. The Times machine is a wonderful device, you can view the articles as they actually appeared in the newspaper the day they were printed and you can subsequently page through the entire newspaper from cover to cover. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/09/26/78394851.html?pageNumber=1
At the time of the bequest the collection was valued at $100 million but it was virtually priceless as it would be impossible to replace any of the items in it. It was noted as being comparable to the Frick collection in terms of a private collection of art. As you walk through the rooms you see treasure after treasure. Here are a few of them.
My favorite is Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825–1860), Princesse de Broglie painted by Ingres. http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/459106
It’s a nice complement to the one in the Frick of the Comtesse d'Haussonville
https://www.mauritshuis.nl/-/media/d8bb5f0ed1b54b16b62c983a5add26d5.ashx?la=en
As I entered the room where the Ingres hangs I turned to the right and was pleased to see that another Ingres had been hung, Aretino in the Studio of Tintoretto. The last time I was in the gallery a different painting was hung.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/459105
In the next room, on either side of the doorway, are pendant paintings of a husband and wife by Gerard Ter Borch, a Dutch favorite of mine.
Margaretha van Haexbergen (1614–1676)
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/459084
Burgomaster Jan van Duren (1613–1687)
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/459083
And of course Mr. Lehman needed a Rembrandt. The odd visage of the sitter is explained by the fact that he was suffering from an advanced case of syphilis. It was unusual to be so frank and realistic in depicting a subject although this is noted as being a sympathetic portrait.
Portrait of Gerard de Lairesse
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/459082
And another fine portrait, this one by Hans Memling. Many of Memling’s portraits have a nice landscape in the distance behind the sitter.
Portrait of a Young Man
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/459054
This is just a taste, there are literally hundreds more in the collection with a nice assortment on view. You can get some idea of the breadth of the bequest by this link to the Met website search function where I searched on Lehman paintings.
http://www.metmuseum.org/search-results#!/search?q=lehman%20paintings
And now it’s time for Flickrs.
Andy G.
The legendary Robin Roberts
https://www.flickr.com/photos/trannilicious2011/34301002523/
David As Boy-Chic, 1975
https://www.flickr.com/photos/60203450@N05/5535322762/
cute gurly femme sissy every sissy sluts dream i think :) xx
https://www.flickr.com/photos/143894910@N03/34766624210/
sissy debbie
https://www.flickr.com/photos/135809499@N02/34319300524/
Maid of Dishonour.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stefanied/34765297500/
Sissy
https://www.flickr.com/photos/meodel-jessica/8302304929/
LEG07 09
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sissyprincessamber/3011417655/
Maid boi ready to service his master ♡ | Check below for more!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/149558222@N04/34601045243/
New satin creation dress bow and bloomers
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ready2role/35156808011/
Tendu
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jamiegpa/35185396745/
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Thanks Andy, I loved the first painting the best (Princess De Broglie) as the colour and the light are so good it looks like a photo. The 28 foot mural would have been a nightmare to ship I would bet and insure also. It is good though and nicer to see in real life.
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Hi Angela,
All of Ingres portraits are beautiful, both the paintings and the drawings. And as I'm sure I've said before, he considered this what he did for a living. He expected his religious paintings to be his legacy and having seen some of his religious paintings he definitely bet on the wrong horse. I consider myself lucky to be living so close to the Met and the Frick so as to see his work on such a regular basis.
Andy G.
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
Once again I found myself at the Met this week which makes sense as there’s always something to see and there’s nothing doing at any of my other normal venues. This week I visited the contemporary wing which I haven’t been to in some time. What drew me there was an unpublicized exhibit of the 20th Century American artist Fairfield Porter. It consists of about a dozen of his paintings from the Met collection. I’m not a major fan but I’m drawn to him as he did representational art bucking the abstract expressionism of his peers. I see a little Edward Hopper in him although I find Hopper’s lines crisp and Porter’s a little fuzzy. He painted landscapes, portraits, family settings and structures among other themes. He must have been extraordinarily prolific as in the article below it comments on his burning many of his paintings while anecdotally I can attest to seeing dozens of them when I visited the American auctions.
This is a long essay on his life and his art. http://thisrecording.com/today/2011/1/13/in-which-fairfield-porter-looked-so-young-for-his-age.html There’s also a photo of him as a small child in a dress as was the custom of the day.
Here are a few of the paintings that I especially appreciated.
Union Square Looking Up Park Avenue – A large cityscape from 1975 of an area in Manhattan I’m familiar with.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/481753
Sunrise on South Main Street – This is something I can see Hopper also appreciating, a rural setting with no people and only the one car to indicate that there might be any activity.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/481499
Lizzie at the Table – A kitchen still life with a small child sitting at the table.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/486277
The Cove – A man with his back turned to us observing an isolated rural waterway.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/486282
Elaine de Kooning (1918-1989) – Portrait of the artist and artist’s wife in a vivid red dress reclining on a couch.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/481774
In a separate gallery hangs this Elaine de Kooning self-portrait, a nice complement to Porter’s image.
https://biblioklept.org/2017/01/21/self-portrait-elaine-de-kooning/
Wandering through the rest of the modern galleries I revisited some of my favorite paintings.
Usually there are two Hopper’s on view but this visit there were three.
The Lighthouse at Two Lights
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/489258
Tables for Ladies
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/487695
From Williamsburg Bridge
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/487834
And a wonderful Norman Rockwell original oil that was used for a Saturday Evening Post cover
Expressman – The Met only allows a thumbnail depiction due to rights issues but below is a larger image as well.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/482239
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/2a/3d/ef/2a3def2f8a6cb57980274a47782bb8b4--norman-rockwell-paintings-norman-rockwell-art.jpg
And this glorious if somewhat eerie Georgia O’Keeffe, Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/52.203/
This is a painting that’s new to me as it’s by Florine Stettheimer who I only encountered recently at an exhibit at the Jewish Museum which I described in an earlier post. It’s one of four paintings in her Cathedral series. I chose this one as it depicts New York City art as described in the inscription on the website:
In this series of four monumental paintings executed between 1929 and 1942, Stettheimer created extraordinary composite visions of New York’s economic, social, and cultural institutions. The Cathedrals of Art is a fantastical portrait of the New York art world. Microcosms of three of the city’s major museums and their collections are watched over by their directors: the Museum of Modern Art (upper left), The Metropolitan Museum of Art (center), and the Whitney Museum of American Art (upper right). A gathering of art critics, dealers, and photographers of the day, including Stettheimer herself (lower right), appears around the Metropolitan’s grand staircase.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/488732
And finally a painting by Grant Wood who is most famously known for his iconic painting American Gothic. The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere – Another instance of the Met’s image being small so I found a different website with a much larger image.
This is copy from the website:
In his painting from 1931, Grant Wood (1892 – 1942) depicts the legendary story of the American patriot Paul Revere, as learned from an 1863 poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. From a bird’s eye view, the painting shows Revere on horseback racing through a colonial town square in Massachusetts. Despite the work’s historical subject matter, Wood did not attempt to depict this scene with factual accuracy. The houses are overly bright, as if lit by electric light, and the dramatic moonlight casts unrealistic shadows. The stylized houses, geometric greenery, and high perspective gives the painting and otherworldly or dreamlike dimensions.
https://worleygig.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/img_1271-e1443478299142.jpg
On my way to the Modern wing I stopped off in the Impressionist galleries to view three paintings that my brother had pointed out, loans from private individuals that are currently on view.
The Brioche, a still life by Manet that has been up for a while is noted as being from an anonymous donor who it turns out is David Rockefeller. Doesn’t look like the Met will be receiving any more of his art.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436946
The Portrait of M. Choquet by Cezanne – At the link below is an essay on the painting.
http://serdar-hizli-art.com/cezanne/portraits.htm
Self Portrait with palette by Paul Gauguin – There is also commentary on the painting at the link below.
http://www.gauguin.org/self-portrait-with-palette.jsp
Well if anyone is still here I can guess we can visit the Flickrs now.
Andy G.
Sapphire Young
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tgballerinaphotos/30095273174/
The legendary John Hunter as a ballerina. Kiwis Revue Company female impersonator . Photographed by Boothorn Studios, Melbourne, sometime between 1946 and 1949.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/trannilicious2011/15392817935/
old mandy 13a
https://www.flickr.com/photos/andy69mandy/534431661/
IMG_9078
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rafiats/5352001069/
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/nancyball1/6802569746/
_DSC6529
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stephaniemonroe/5432488435/
Susie730
https://www.flickr.com/photos/24899087@N05/35548784685/
cheerleader 2017
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gillianisok/35479600615/
Angela
https://www.flickr.com/photos/adamandeve121/34563721814/
IMG_5152
https://www.flickr.com/photos/36751344@N02/24573052163/
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Wow. Lots of interesting stuff in your art section that I hadn't seen before. Thanks.
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
Once again the Met comes to the rescue as I search for great art to view. This week I saw their Eighteenth-Century Pastel Portraits exhibit. Another one of their small shows displaying gems from their permanent collection. They hung a similar exhibit in 2013 with many of the same pictures. The wall card said that the Met received its first pastel portraits in the early twentieth century and substantially increased their holdings in the early 2000’s. This is from the website:
With the 1929 bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, the Metropolitan Museum acquired its first pastels—about twenty nineteenth-century works by Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, and Édouard Manet. For forty years, they were shown with our European and American paintings. It was not until 1956 that we were bequeathed a pastel by Jean Pillement (1728–1808). Between 1961 and 1975 we acquired a small group of works by John Russell (1745–1806), and there the matter stood until 2002, when the Metropolitan bought a pastel by the Venetian artist Rosalba Carriera (1673–1757). Since then we have purchased nearly a dozen others by Italian, French, British, German, and Danish artists.
Pastel is a difficult medium, you can’t blend colors on the canvas and each hue you wish to use needs to have a crayon created for it. And if you put something down on the canvas it can’t be corrected or changed like you can with oil.
I enjoyed everything in the exhibit but there were a few that I thought stood out. Be sure to enlarge all the images.
Maurice Quentin de La Tour - Jean Charles Garnier d'Isle – I found this very realistic and lifelike, de la Tour really captured his sitters essence.
https://tinyurl.com/y9kpzn4c
These two are pendant portraits and although it doesn’t say so I would guess the children to be siblings, a cherubic little boy and the sultry little girl.
Benedetto Luti – Study of a Boy in a Blue Jacket
https://tinyurl.com/y8qrhyjd
Benedetto Luti - Study of a Girl in Red
https://tinyurl.com/yc3hltzb
Here are another pair of pendant portraits, a husband and wife. To say the wife dominates the relationship would be an understatement. When they married her husband took her name and as the wall card states, in the painting she fills the frame with her imposing demeanor. In the pendant, her husband looks rather small and mild.
John Russell – Mrs. William Man Godschall
https://tinyurl.com/y89t28xn
John Russell - William Man Godschall
https://tinyurl.com/yb69lnlk
And finally this portrait of a husband and wife. The detail displayed in their extravagant clothing and accessories is remarkable as is the delicate way the fabric of their outfits and the table cloth are depicted.
Charles Antoine Coypel - François de Jullienne and His Wife Marie Élisabeth de Séré de Rieux
https://tinyurl.com/ya6r825l
Afterwards I wandered through the European galleries just moving through the rooms looking up old friends. In doing this you can appreciate the vastness of the Met’s collection. Here are some of the things I stopped to admire.
Georges de La Tour - The Fortune-Teller – I have always loved this painting, the aristocratic young gentleman with the look of disdain on his face having his fortune read while also having his pockets picked.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436838
Claude Lorrain - View of La Crescenza – A lovely landscape showing a building which still stands in the outskirts of Rome, originally a medieval fortress it was transformed into a country house for the Crescenzi family.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435909
Canaletto - Piazza San Marco – One of the painter’s wonderful views of 18th Century Venice.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435839
Jacques Louis David - General Étienne-Maurice Gérard - A brilliant full length portrait of the General by David who was Ingres teacher. Both artists were outstanding portraitists.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436107
Gerard ter Borch – Curiosity – I wrote about the two Ter Borch’s in the Lehman collection two weeks ago and this painting hangs in the Dutch galleries. There’s another one that I’ve also mentioned that lives in the Linsky pavilion. This picture tells a little story, the woman on the left has received a letter from an admirer which the seated woman is answering while a third woman follows her writing from behind while the little dog is paying close attention as well.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435714
And finally, two loans from the Hispanic Society. Goya is a favorite while El Greco isn’t among my favorites. At each link is accompanying text concerning the paintings. I’ve been to the museum which is located in upper Manhattan and it was frustrating as it has an enormous collection of art with so little of it on view. I’m hoping that will change in the next few years. The museum is closed for renovations until the Fall of 2019 which will double the museum’s size. Philippe de Montebello, the former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is overseeing the renovations and hopefully he will stay on to oversee exhibitions. While the museum is closed part of the collection is traveling as evidenced by the paintings below. Right now the Prado in Spain is holding an exhibition displaying 200 items form the Society’s collection, an exhibit I would dearly love to see. Unfortunately there is no indication that it will be appearing at any museum in the States. Perhaps it will be their first exhibit after the renovations.
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes - Pedro Mocarte
http://www.learn.columbia.edu/hispanic/monographs/goya-mocarte.php
El Greco - Holy Family
http://www.learn.columbia.edu/hispanic/monographs/greco-family.php
And all that’s left now is the Flickrs.
Andy G.
DSC_0077
https://www.flickr.com/photos/37372058@N07/35361614085/
sweet sissy gina with pink collar and leash
https://www.flickr.com/photos/10974572@N05/35103477080/
DSCF2557
https://www.flickr.com/photos/26164114@N08/23544476196/
B1
https://www.flickr.com/photos/47384164@N08/4336676573/
Pansy 5
https://www.flickr.com/photos/queerina_slutskaya/34748034243/
IMG_0007
https://www.flickr.com/photos/daisymaylittle/33974200212/
Little bitty sissy one
https://www.flickr.com/photos/taniasissygirl/27003335240/
DSCF5783
https://www.flickr.com/photos/donnalouise/17989176154/
COEUR A PRENDRE !
https://www.flickr.com/photos/75445494@N03/8274900541/
pink satin
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22704178@N07/9343938666/
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
Sunday is my friend’s birthday so yesterday I gave her a day out as a treat. The weather cooperated, it was a gloriously beautiful day, and we visited the New York Historical Society. I had been there recently and the World War I exhibit I wrote about was still running, the one with the enormous Sargent mural and his war watercolors but several new exhibits had opened since and I’ll discuss them.
Two of the exhibits were of illustrative art for children, cartoons or comic illustrations, Eloise at the Museum and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car, Illustrated by Barney Tobey. Both of them were lots of fun.
This is basic information from Wikipedia. Eloise is a series of children's books written in the 1950s by Kay Thompson and illustrated by Hilary Knight. Thompson was an author, composer, musician, actress and singer. Her only major film appearance was in Funny Face which I haven’t had a chance to watch on TCM yet. She was Liza Minelli’s godmother and some speculate that Eloise is based on Liza but when queried once she replied Eloise is me. Hilary Knight illustrated more than 50 books including the five in the Eloise series and was the author of nine others as well. He also illustrated for a wide variety of clients, creating artwork for magazines, children's fashion advertisements, greeting cards, record albums and posters for Broadway musicals, including Gypsy, Irene, Half A Sixpence, Hallelujah Baby! and No, No Nanette. His art is at the core of the exhibit.
He had an awkward relationship with Thompson who, after the first four books were created, grew tired of the character and had three of them withdrawn from print leaving only the first one available. This effectively cut off income for Knight for many years. She was also probably jealous of Knight’s reputation as the last book printed drew raves for his illustrations but poor reviews for her text. A fifth book was created but not finished or printed until after Thompson’s death when the other books were finally put back in print and Knight was able to receive compensation. This book was completed by the author and playwright Mart Crowley who is most famous for his play The Boys in the Band. In the museum they told a story that Knight finally quit the collaboration when he was drawing an illustration for the final book and Thompson put her hand over his as if to guide what he should draw.
This is a link to the website with a slide show of illustrations of Eloise.
http://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/eloise-museum
This is a link to a room by room tour of the exhibit.
https://artssummary.com/2017/07/02/eloise-at-the-museum-at-new-york-historical-society-museum-library-june-30-october-9-2017/
And this is a link to an article on the exhibit in the NY Review of Books.
https://tinyurl.com/y9f6yr9c
Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car was a children’s book written by Ian Fleming for his son Caspar, with illustrations by John Burningham. It was subsequently made into a movie in 1968 starring Dick Van Dyke and Sally Ann Howes and then adapted by Al Perkins for a beginning readers book illustrated by Barney Tobey. The exhibit at the society is of Barney Tobey’s watercolor drawings for the book. The entire book is shown page by page, on one level the actual watercolor drawings and below the Random House proofs.
Barney Tobey was an illustrator who created 1,200 cartoons for the New Yorker as well as covers and illustrations for Collier’s Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, and Variety.
This is a link to the press release announcing the exhibit.
http://www.nyhistory.org/press/releases/chitty-chitty-bang-bang-illustrations-barney-tobey-soar-new-york-historical-society%E2%80%99s
Aside from the one illustration on the press release the site doesn’t have any others and I couldn’t locate any on the web either. This is a link to a site which has one of Tobey’s art related cartoons from the New Yorker that appeared in the show.
http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2010/07/upcoming_culturechat_single-co.html
Another exhibit was The Duchess of Carnegie Hall: Photographs by Editta Sherman. Similar to the Irving Penn exhibit I recently wrote about this was filled with portrait photographs of celebrities and was also enjoyable.
This is a link to the website with some background information on Sherman.
http://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/duchess-carnegie-hall-photographs-editta-sherman
This is a room by room view of the exhibit.
https://artssummary.com/2017/08/22/the-duchess-of-carnegie-hall-photographs-by-editta-sherman-at-new-york-historical-society-museum-library-august-18-october-15-2017/
And finally, on the newly renovated fourth floor is an exhibition of Tiffany Lamps. The fourth floor or Luce Center, before the renovations, served more or less as the Society’s attic. Paintings were hung behind glass in no special order or system and you needed to type in a code number into computers around the area to get information on what you were viewing. Now the space looks to be a special exhibition area and they’ve maintained the mezzanine with a circular staircase. Tiffany lamps originated at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th Century and had a quick heyday, fading in popularity in the 20’s, being considered passé. They had a revival in the 80’s and are now coveted collector’s items. They’re very beautiful. My mother had one when I was a child and I believe my former sister-in-law took it when she and my brother divorced. The exhibit was splendid.
http://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/gallery-tiffany-lamps
You can see many of the lamps in place at this link.
https://artssummary.com/2017/04/27/new-york-historical-societys-new-fourth-floor-center-for-womens-history-gallery-of-tiffany-lamps-and-permanent-collection-opens-april-29-2017/
We were in the museum for about three hours and very much enjoyed ourselves. We took the bus to our respective homes and a few hours later I took her out for dinner after which we came back to her house where I sang Happy Birthday and served the birthday cake I had made, Flo Braker’s devil’s food cake with a whipped cream frosting. If my handwriting gets any worse the decoration will soon be unreadable. The devil’s food cake was one of my earliest attempts at baking and there are notes in the cookbook that it was a disaster the first two times I made it. As a novice I was using Presto flour which I didn’t know had baking powder added to it, something this cake didn’t call for so the cake fell. By the third attempt I had queried my brother about my problem and he enlightened me so that the third cake was a great success. It’s a delicious cake if I do say so myself.
And on that confectionary note let’s waddle off to the Flickrs.
Andy G.
DSC06868
https://www.flickr.com/photos/134329784%40N03/32007132334/
DSCF2992
https://www.flickr.com/photos/155833655%40N07/35289643215/
DSCF1875
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ssegurl/10764517273/
Come in
https://www.flickr.com/photos/msemilytv/3027706685/
Gay Pride Bicyclist
https://www.flickr.com/photos/92404199%40N00/5935111969/
High School Musical 3 - Graduation Day Ryan
https://www.flickr.com/photos/155103476%40N05/36265524000/
National Tartan Day - Celebrating Scottish Americans
http://phillycollector.blogspot.com/2015/04/national-tartan-day-celebrating.html
sissy debbie
https://www.flickr.com/photos/135809499%40N02/34319299314/
Princes dress
https://www.flickr.com/photos/152202283%40N04/35504842812/
照片 082
https://www.flickr.com/photos/yammy_chow/28639650083/
Better Shot of the Line
https://www.flickr.com/photos/vivianchen05/35675557991/
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Well thanks again for a review of two of my favourites, Eloise and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Wish I could see the Eloise exhibit as it looks quite fun to visit. I really do need to get my Passport as there are other things in the U.S. I want to see like the new waterfront in Buffalo and the Frank Lloyd Wright houses in the area also. I have not been to New York since just before 9/11 and then it was only a quick weekend away for business/pleasure.
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
Once again I found myself back at the Metropolitan Museum of art this week. This visit I experienced the somewhat downbeat World War I and the Visual Arts exhibit. While there were a number of very colorful propaganda posters which were interesting as well as in some cases fairly brutal, most of the images were pretty grim. .
This is a link to the Met press release discussing the exhibit.
http://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2017/wwi-and-the-visual-arts
This is a good example of a very forceful poster.
https://tinyurl.com/ycqanzf7
This link to an article has illustrations, one of which is John Singer Sargent’s wartime watercolor, Wheels in Vault, one of the nicer images in the show. I mentioned several similar watercolors that were in the Historical Society World War exhibit I visited for a second time last week.
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/art-diary/world-war-i-and-the-visual-arts-met-new-york/
And another watercolor by Sargent, Study for "The Coming of the Americans"
https://tinyurl.com/y9e5ws2l
There were a number of propaganda postcards from both sides, this one from Germany showing a blimp over London.
https://tinyurl.com/yashq8vn
George Bellows was an American painter who created many virulently anti-German drawings and pictures based on widely disseminated tales of atrocities, some being just that, stories.
https://tinyurl.com/ycdrq5sw
This was a real curio, Contribution Receipt of the Special American Hospital in Paris for Wounds of the Face and Jaw, created by August Rodin, the sculptor, with two drawings on it.
https://tinyurl.com/ybfmycb7
This is a link to all the objects in the exhibit.
http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/objects?exhibitionId=2ce739b8-6f4e-434d-9528-9117d9ac2883#!?perPage=100&offset=0
Exiting this exhibition I continued down the corridor to the drawings sections with its current rotation. This was a rather pedestrian grouping with no real stars but there’s always something to catch my eye.
Head of a Girl Looking Up - Jean-Baptiste Greuze –This is a soulful image of childhood newly defined by innocence and virtue as so stated in the text for the drawing. A head and shoulders red chalk drawing of a little girl casting her eyes upward in what the text says is hope although I think it might be some other emotion like trepidation or fear.
https://tinyurl.com/yb696d3v
Artist Sketching a Young Girl - Hubert Robert – Another red chalk drawing of a seated artist quickly sketching the little girl posed in front of him while a woman, presumably her mother, stands behind watching with anticipation.
https://tinyurl.com/yb5v4m42
Subway Stairs - John Sloan – This cheeky little drawing depicts the phenomena of skirt watching, men who haunted the subway entrances and watched as women descended to the platform waiting for the breeze from an arriving train to blow up the woman’s skirts.
https://tinyurl.com/ydatyznh
Now let’s turn for a little color to the Flickrs.
Andy G.
Stripey
https://www.flickr.com/photos/28906392%40N08/34724240631/
June 2017 - at a wedding
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139558039%40N02/35236646862/
Feeling like a princess
https://www.flickr.com/photos/152202283%40N04/34827076604/
Polka dot girl
https://www.flickr.com/photos/28906392@N08/35161708853/
W Legs
https://www.flickr.com/photos/91219737%40N08/35645956411/
Illusion of a slim silhouette and long slim legs..
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
It’s a beautiful cool day and I’ve just spent a pleasant afternoon with my friends from Puerto Rico. In the last few years they have reversed their living situation so now they spend most of the year in New Jersey and just a few of the colder winter months in Puerto Rico. They still have family and friends living there and they’ve been told that the hurricane situation wasn’t too bad, at least for them. The power went out but it wasn’t nearly the disaster Harvey was. They’re still nervous because of the upcoming storms but on the whole they’re OK. I only see my friends annually and we had a great time just sitting and chatting and catching up with each other.
Once again I went back to the Met this week but for a much more pleasant exhibit. Another exhibit drawn from the treasures of the Met’s permanent collection. This time their American art, Gilded Age Drawings at The Met. The title is a bit of a misnomer as many of the objects are watercolors. The time period, the Gilded Age, started in 1870 and lasted through the 1890s and highlights many of my favorite American artists. I don’t know why but the Met hasn’t listed any of the artworks on the web page for the show although all of them are in the Met database. This is one instance I really wish they had as I liked everything in the show so picking favorites isn’t easy. I’ll link up a bunch of them. Click on enlarge for better viewing.
There were four John Singer Sargent watercolors which actually are out of the gilded age era having been created in the 20th Century.
Sirmione – A muted landscape
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/12185
Two Soldiers at Arras – Another of his war paintings.
http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/full.php?ID=258493
Boats – Sargent painted many scenes of boats, this one in muddy browns and faded blues and whites.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/12045
In the Generalife – Sargent’s sister Emily painting in a garden with two of her friends.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/12116
A bunch by Thomas Eakins
John Biglin in a Single Scull – This is a wonderful painting of a man out in a scull rowing, you can see the muscles in his arms as he strains to propel the boat. There’s a lot to see, the 8 man scull off in the distance as well as several sailboats. And the coastline in the background with some kind of structure right in the middle.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10818
Gross Clinic – An ink and watercolor study for his large scale masterpiece. Another painting with a lot going on, Dr. Gross standing while lecturing students as surgeons utilize his techniques to repair the thigh of the patient. His distraught mother sits to the left and Eakins has inserted himself as well taking notes and sketching.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10815
The Dancing Lesson – A sentimental depiction of three generations after Emancipation. I wouldn’t have noticed it if the wall card hadn’t pointed out that the very tiny picture up in the left hand corner is Abraham Lincoln and his son Tad.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10821
The Pathetic Song – This is a smaller watercolor reproduction of a larger oil painting which he created as a gift for a friend who posed as the singer. Both women were students of his.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10822
Young Girl Meditating – A girl in what even then was an old time dress standing next to an old time tilt-top table.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10829
Winslow Homer
Inside The Bar – Depicting the women who stand by water’s edge waiting for their men to return from the sea on what appears to be a stormy day.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11125
Boys in a Dory – One of his many depictions of childhood pastimes.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/17053
Sloop, Nassau – The second link is to an essay discussing the painting.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11139
http://artlivesatlci.blogspot.com/2007/09/immitationalism-and-literal-qualities.html
James McNeill Whistler – Lady in Gray – A miniature portrait, a scaled down version of his full size oil portraits, this one is thought to be one of his usual models and one critic who wrote about the painting commented on the model’s “intrepid arrogance.”
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/13245
Thomas Wilmer Dewing - Portrait of a Woman – This is a silverpoint drawing of a woman’s head. A very ethereal, delicate image whose luminescence doesn’t really come across on the web. It hypnotized me while I stood in front of it.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10748
Laura Coombs Hills -- Hollyhocks in the Sunshine – A new acquisition for the Met. Pastel painted en plein air (outdoors), very beautiful and realistic.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/755524
Louis Comfort Tiffany – Louise Tiffany, reading – Another pastel showing his wife reclining on a couch. He painted her wearing a vivid blue frock on a lush green sofa with her face turned away from us. She’s sitting next to a table with a still life of books, vase and plants.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/17724
Mary Cassatt – Mother Feeding Child – And another pastel showing the special bond between mother and child, a theme that she explored to great effect in her later years.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10403
William Trost Richards – Two lovely mini landscape paintings.
Franconia Notch, New Hampshire – From the website:
Early Museum records identify this picture as “The Franconia Mountains from Campton, New Hampshire,” but Campton is miles from the site portrayed, the entrance to Franconia Notch. In the center is Mount Lafayette, flanked by Cannon Mountain and Eagle Cliff on the left and Mount Lincoln and Little Haystack on the right. The image reflects a tour of the White Mountains shared by Richards, the Reverend Elias L. Magoon (who donated this and 84 other watercolors to the Museum in 1880) and their wives in June 1872, and probably portrays the white-maned clergyman himself, absorbed in a book as he strolls the path in the foreground
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11891
Lake Squam from Red Hill – A very picturesque view captured in watercolor.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11897
There were others but I think this will give you an idea of the quality and breadth of this exhibit not to mention the Met’s permanent collection. This is one of my favorite exhibits of this summer, it’s open until December so hopefully I’ll get back to it again.
And this looks like a good place to visit the Flickrs.
Andy G.
School Gender Switch 03 - Tutus for Boys - Jeans for Girls. (see other photos)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/133827690%40N07/33425652024/
Skater Perfection
https://www.flickr.com/photos/amberjolake/35912416216/
Candy 2016
https://www.flickr.com/photos/101366775%40N04/31432822680/
Susie695
https://www.flickr.com/photos/24899087%40N05/33843985753/
February 14, 2009 -- Transpitt Meeting -- Wedding Theme
https://www.flickr.com/photos/robynmichaels/3282893170/
P1030623
https://www.flickr.com/photos/96984932%40N06/34231962946/
Pansy 10
https://www.flickr.com/photos/queerina_slutskaya/35423609702/
Me as sissy girl
https://www.flickr.com/photos/29794930%40N06/35681184030/
SSD 491
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tkr022/35926178116/
DSC06868
https://www.flickr.com/photos/134329784%40N03/32007132334/
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
I spoke with friends who live in the Miami area of Florida the other day and they reported back that they had been without power for four days. They have a generator which powered some lights and some fans which helped but both of them are in their 90’s and not having air conditioning was certainly unpleasant. But they felt lucky in that the brunt of the storm didn’t hit them, not a deluge of rain and no terrifying high winds. Could have been much worse.
I took a break from the Met this week and visited the two auction houses for their Chinese painting previews. I think Sotheby’s had the larger catalog but Christie’s had some nice things as well. There were objects, Buddhas, statues and vases which were pretty, but my interest was in the scrolls. The majority of them were from the 20th Century although I did see some ancient ones as well. Below are some of the ones I especially enjoyed.
Pu Ru is an artist I first came across in last year’s auctions and he’s well represented this year as well. Here’s a little background on him from Wikipedia:
He was a traditional Chinese painter and calligrapher and a member of the Manchu Aisin Gioro clan, the ruling house of the Qing dynasty. He was a cousin to Puyi, the final ruler of the Qing dynasty and the last Emperor of China. It was speculated that Puru would have succeeded to the Chinese throne if Puyi and the Qing government were not overthrown after the 1911 Xinhai Revolution. Puru was reputed to be as talented as the famous southern artist Zhang Daqian (Chang Ta-ch'ien). Together, they became known as "P'u of the North and Chang of the South."
I’ve complained about Christie’s before, the illustrations on the site are not the best and can only be enlarged so much. I’ll show a few and then move over to Sotheby’s which has much better quality for their images.
PU RU - Boating Among Verdant Cliffs – Very elegant depiction of a river downstream between two mountainous ranges with two boats floating down. You can see a few small houses on the near cliff.
http://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/NYR/2017_NYR_14807_0103_000.jpg?height=400
ZHANG SHUQI - Bees and Blossoms – One of two colorful paintings from nature the other being Two Birds and Flowers.
http://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/NYR/2017_NYR_14807_0060_000.jpg?height=400
HUANG JUNBI - Burbling Spring – A small open walled hut in the forest by the water.
http://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/NYR/2017_NYR_14807_0064_000.jpg?height=400
This is a link to all the images. At the top of the page is a button to click on to view the catalogue and the images are much clearer that way.
https://tinyurl.com/y989e7jd
The following images are from Sotheby’s and are clearly better reproductions.
Pu Ru – ZHONGKUI – This is a colorful depiction of a figure of Chinese mythology. Traditionally regarded as a vanquisher of ghosts and evil beings, and reputedly able to command 80,000 demons.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/classical-chinese-paintings-calligraphy-n09675/lot.626.html
Ren Xun - PORTRAIT WITH LOTUS FLOWERS – A man at ease sitting next to a potted plant, nice color.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/classical-chinese-paintings-calligraphy-n09675/lot.578.html
Tao Lengyue - MOONLIT LANDSCAPE – The full moon peeking out from the clouds, I always enjoy depictions of the moon.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/classical-chinese-paintings-calligraphy-n09675/lot.731.html
Shen Shijia - CLOUDS IN LOFTY MOUNTAIN – Colorful mountain setting showing its enormity by the tiny image of the man seated on a hill taking in its majesty.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/classical-chinese-paintings-calligraphy-n09675/lot.661.html
Wu Hufan - RETURNING HOME LATE FROM FISHING – Tiny boat with a single passenger floating down the river to the little hut on the banks.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/classical-chinese-paintings-calligraphy-n09675/lot.640.html
Yang Shanshen - TIGER AND CUBS – Colorful image of a mother and her cubs literally just hanging out.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/classical-chinese-paintings-calligraphy-n09675/lot.593.html
Xie Zhiliu - OLD TREES AND LAYERS OF MOUNTAINS – One more colorful landscape
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/classical-chinese-paintings-calligraphy-n09675/lot.638.html
This is a link to all the images in the auction.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2017/classical-chinese-paintings-calligraphy-n09675.html
Now let’s visit the Flickrs.
Andy G.
Boys in skirts
https://www.flickr.com/photos/30830242@N07/37144110175/
Hot mess
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tatianabrooks/31882484170/
A kitchen trio
https://www.flickr.com/photos/susansmith/35967992131/
Sunshine all the way
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stephsdressingservice/35839414570/
Sissy Doll
https://www.flickr.com/photos/95163690@N07/35844187470/
Slide2
https://www.flickr.com/photos/152802635@N05/35563834876/
Tsukiko--6.jpg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tsukiko/35423224614/
Like to Jive
https://www.flickr.com/photos/amberjolake/36033678872/
lazy Dirndl 02
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cdhousewife/36201505296/
July 2017 - Pforzheim, Night of 1000 brides event
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cilii/36242817765/