Betty's Pub 20.1
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
Well here we are at another end to my favorite season, all too quickly as far as I’m concerned. Contrary to all the suffering that’s going on due to these horrific hurricanes the weather here in New Jersey has been remarkably beautiful. And it looks like we’re heading into a heat wave of a few days before it starts to cool down for the Fall. The prognosticators are calling for a wet Winter here and I’m hoping they’re misinformed. I can live with the rain although I always hope it comes when I’m asleep and not when I’m on my walks but I really dislike snow. It comes and causes chaos and then lingers causing additional annoyance. I guess I’ll take solace for the moment that the snow, if it comes, is still a few months away.
TCM frustrated me this week with disruptions of service. I’m accustomed to watching at least one movie a day from their on-demand service and it wasn’t working properly for most of the week. I Googled the problem and it’s an issue other people have and one that has been a problem in the past. What made it especially odd is that newer movies would play while older movies wouldn’t. And the real time feed for movies worked fine, they played on the computer just like on your television. As I said, it was very frustrating. I wound up watching movies on Youtube for a few days. This is not the best solution as many of the movies on Youtube are badly edited, most likely taken from television viewings where commercials have been removed and which already had been badly cut. And the overall quality of the films is inferior; I watched Something to Sing About with Jimmy Cagney from 1937 and it was hard to see due to the darkness of the print. But it’s back and I’m happy. Last night I watched Ninotchka with Greta Garbo and Melvin Douglas which was wonderful. It’s a comedy that was publicized with the tagline Garbo laughs. This hearkens back to her first talking picture, Anna Christie, which was publicized as Garbo talks. It was her next to last film, made in 1939, and she lost out on the Academy Award as Gone With The Wind swept the Oscars. Her final film was not a success and she retired from acting becoming more a less a recluse and New York legend.
Like Asian art, sculpture is something that I’ve only come to appreciate in the last few years. The breakthrough for me was the 2014 exhibit, The Passions of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux at the Met. The show was filled with many beautiful objects by the 19th Century French Sculptor but his masterpiece was Ugolino and his Sons which you can revisit here
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/204812. This sad marble depicts Canto XXXIII of Dante's Inferno. In the story, the Pisan count Ugolino is sentenced to die in a tower prison with his children and grandchildren. Carpeaux shows Ugolino at the moment where he considers cannibalism. The statue is on view in the Met’s sculpture Garden.
I had occasion to view it again this week as I went back to the Met for their recently opened exhibit, Rodin at the Met. The exhibit celebrates the Centenary of Rodin’s passing as well as the Met’s collection of his work. A number of items have been brought out of storage for this show which takes place in the corridor outside the European painting rooms with the Impressionists. On the walls are paintings by several of his friends and contemporaries, Renoir, Monet and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. Many of the works were purchased directly from the sculptor by Met benefactors.
This is a bronze bust of Chavannes which the wall card said reveals the "enthusiasm and veneration" with which Rodin said he modeled the original clay likeness. Chavannes was less than pleased saying Rodin had sculpted a caricature.
https://tinyurl.com/y8g29qe4
In an adjoining room on display were drawings by Rodin as well as photographs of his sculptures by Edward Steichen.
This is The Golden Age which is in a much more finished state than most of his drawings.
https://tinyurl.com/y9klrf7c
Final Study for the Monument to Balzac – This great work was misunderstood by critics as you can see below in this quote from the website.
In 1891 Rodin was commissioned to construct a posthumous monument to the illustrious literary figure Honoré de Balzac. It took the sculptor seven years to arrive at the final study from which this bronze was cast. Gaze fixed toward the horizon, a disheveled Balzac leans back, his body transformed by a shapeless oversize cloak into a dense and formidable monolith. Today Balzac’s shrouded figure is understood to be symbolic of the author’s imposing genius. Contemporary viewers, however, were baffled by its inarticulate form. The work provoked harsh criticism upon its debut in 1898, but Rodin defended it, explaining that "a man celebrated for his heart and mind should not be [represented by] his body."
https://tinyurl.com/ycfbcv3r
In 1908 Rodin moved a plaster version of his sculpture to his garden where Edward Steichen made a number of photographs at night. When Rodin was presented with the pictures he was very pleased and said to Steichen, "You will make the world understand my Balzac through your pictures. They are like Christ walking on the desert."
https://tinyurl.com/yb42ga4x
No pun intended but I think this must be his most well-known work, The Thinker. It was created to sit atop another of his monumental works, The Gates of Hell at the Musée Rodin. This link to Wikipedia discusses its origins.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thinker
The one in the Met show is one of about 28 versions as mentioned in the Wikipedia article.
https://tinyurl.com/ycae6zsn
I think I enjoy his marble works the most.
Orpheus and Eurydice – This depicts the moment just before Orpheus turns to look at Eurydice dooming her back to Hades.
https://tinyurl.com/y82mt99w
The Tempest - Rodin unleashes sound from stone, giving voice to the shrieking figure emerging from the marble. Will this banshee apparition remain enchained by the braids that bind her? Or will her streaming tresses dissolve the block of marble to free her?
https://tinyurl.com/ybd6x7se
Pygmalion and Galatea – In this sculpture Rodin sculpted Pygmalion in his likeness rather than as a handsome youth while also inscribing his name on the base of next to Pygmalion.
https://tinyurl.com/yauewlfl
Madame X (Countess Anna-Elizabeth de Noailles) – This bust, done on commission, was rejected by the Countess due to Rodin’s obscuring the details of her hair and face. And she especially disliked the way he did her nose. It was given the title Madame X when purchased for the Met directly from the sculptor.
https://tinyurl.com/ybptz99a
I’ll close with two more bronzes.
The Weeping Burgher (Andrieu d'Andres) – This is a study for Rodin’s monumental The Burghers of Calais which is based on an incident that took place at the end of the Hundred Years War between the English and the French.
https://tinyurl.com/yauwxatw
This is a link to the Wikipedia page that discusses the Burghers of Calais.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Burghers_of_Calais
And this is the actual monument which I visited in the sculpture court where Ugolino also resides.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/207812
This is a link to all the objects in the exhibit.
https://tinyurl.com/ycp7wkql
This is a link to a photographic essay from the website about the installation.
http://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/now-at-the-met/2017/auguste-rodin-behind-the-scenes
This is a link to a website with some nice screen captures of selected objects, some linked above and others I didn’t link to.
https://artssummary.com/2017/09/20/rodin-at-the-met-at-the-met-5th-avenue-september-16-2017-january-15-2018/
The show just opened so it hasn’t been reviewed yet but I’m sure the reviews will be laudatory, it was a grand exhibit.
And now let’s fall into Flickr.
Andy G.
Lace Wedding Dress
https://www.flickr.com/photos/25488909%40N03/35122933725/
DSC06193
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tonya_in_heels/5426056400/
Wedding Princess_03
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mika_ayukawa/32583066312/
Legs, Frills and PVC
https://www.flickr.com/photos/emmalouisetgirl/36161269421/
2017-06-27_10-05-59
https://www.flickr.com/photos/87588681%40N02/35411859882/
Tony is a great photographer! Can't wait to start shooting our new outdoor erotica series!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/alina_694/27623766511/
Sleeveless Dress
https://www.flickr.com/photos/trans_kyoko/35691718552/
Wedding Princess_07
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mika_ayukawa/32150712994/
照片 123
https://www.flickr.com/photos/yammy_chow/28637604694/
Brenda
https://www.flickr.com/photos/boyswillbegirls/35403227752/
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
This has not been a pleasant week for me as I’ve been ill. I woke up on Tuesday morning and realized that I had somehow caught a cold. It’s been several years since my last cold and this one really came out of nowhere. I took some pills to stop my nose running and just generally felt lousy. Then the next day I woke up and I was really sick, not only was I unable to do any of my exercise routine I was literally off balance, stumbling around the house. I came downstairs in the morning and just sat in my chair for an hour before I got up and sat in front of the computer for a while. That night I got hardly any sleep at all. I’m starting to feel somewhat better today but I’m still weak and unsteady. I wonder if it was a milder form of the flu, the last time I remember feeling this bad was when I actually had the flu but this couldn’t compare to that in intensity. When I was working I usually got the flu shot in early September since there was a Duane Reade around the corner from my office but this year, being retired, I felt I would just wait until I go for my annual checkup in late October. I wonder if I should revisit that idea.
Monday, before I caught the cold, I found myself back at the Met again, I certainly get my money’s worth from my membership, this time for their latest Chinese exhibit, Streams and Mountains without End: Landscape Traditions of China. This is another instance of the Met rolling out portions of its vast collection supplemented in part by a few loans. It’s really just a reinstallation of the gallery. The website states that it will be shown in three rotations which I’ve entered on my calendar so as to remember when to go again. One of the paintings is by Chi-Chien Wang better known as C. C. Wang, a 20th Century Chinese landscape painter. He was also a collector and in 1998 donated 25 of the paintings in his collection to the museum. At the time of his death in 2003 there were 275 paintings left in his collection and a lawsuit was filed the day of his funeral in probate court. Wikipedia says that as of 2008 they remained missing while also citing a Chinese newspaper report from 2003 which purported to show a handwritten note by Wang accusing a family member of stealing the paintings. At any rate the Met is very lucky to have received those that they did.
C. C. Wang - Landscape No. 882
https://tinyurl.com/ycgr7prt
Other interesting items are below. Be sure to enlarge them to appreciate the details.
Square-form vase with decoration of Su Shi’s Former and Latter Rhapsodies on the Red Cliff – In addition to the scrolls and tapestries, there were objects like this beautiful vase with a painting of a boat drifting down the river. Being square accommodated two sides of art with two sides of poetry. Right next to it was another vase which I can’t link to as it’s from a private collection and there is no image available.
https://tinyurl.com/y7sm3n2q
Su Xuejin - The immortal Magu with a deer - A strikingly beautiful piece of porcelain. As you can see, it wasn’t just paintings that drew my interest in this exhibit.
https://tinyurl.com/y89awoza
Mythical Realm – A colorful hand painted tapestry suitable for a birthday celebration.
https://tinyurl.com/ycstkcaw
Hou Maogong - Lofty Mountains – Colorful long hanging scroll of landscape art showing two scholars with their assistants having a conversation at the very bottom.
https://tinyurl.com/y6uvwwft
Playing the zither for a crane – This painting is by an unidentified artist from the 16th Century Ming Dynasty. Something about the enormous landscape with the tiny man sitting in his tiny hut playing his instrument for his pet crane which is standing outside the hut tickles me.
https://tinyurl.com/yafngunq
Xu Yang - The Qianlong Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Four: The Confluence of the Huai and Yellow Rivers – There were several enormously long scrolls of which this is one. It’s approximately 36 feet long by 2 feet high and the illustration is of a segment. There’s a lot to see as you walk along in front of it following the progress of the Emperor and seeing further on the preparations being made for his eventual arrival. Another scroll, similarly enormous, isn’t illustrated on the website but a note on the card said that it took the artist 18 months to complete.
https://tinyurl.com/y9zhb59a
This is a link to all the images in the exhibit.
http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/objects?exhibitionId=7f4f834c-9365-44c5-9369-df76a2cf6879
This is an illustrated review from the NY Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/arts/design/chinese-landscapes-at-the-met-if-those-mountains-could-talk.html?mcubz=0&_r=0
I look forward to the second rotation in January of next year.
Let’s visit the Flickrs now and see if there’s anyone from the East.
Andy G.
Red peplum dress
https://www.flickr.com/photos/yuuki/31718276233/
lily chen
https://www.flickr.com/photos/101263788@N04/35072437750/
81trse3go1_1280
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lololatex71/36400346342/
1998 Paradise in the Poconos
https://www.flickr.com/photos/robynmichaels/2096212767/
bee628
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bee-ceedee/16275610306/
the new girly husband
https://www.flickr.com/photos/65611689@N02/36447519492/
Red frills
https://www.flickr.com/photos/blackietv/34212517884/
Cindialicfril-002
https://www.flickr.com/photos/21554890@N00/14448364053/
Who looks better in this dress? Me or my wife.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joannajonescd/36447345546/
Video - That purple dress. "gimme your love"
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gemmasmith_tvuk/36696569445/
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
This is an early Flickr as I will be out all day tomorrow.
I had occasion to visit Sotheby’s this week for their American art auction preview. It was a small show, all on one floor, with no blockbusters but many beautiful things. Here are some of the items I particularly enjoyed.
Irving Ramsay Wiles - REYNOLDS MILLER – I thought it was appropriate to start with a boy in a dress.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/american-art-n09635/lot.150.html
Albert Bierstadt - MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPE – There were four small Bierstadt’s and I could have picked any of them but I thought this depiction of the snow covered mountains and the lush greenery nicely showed off the pristine beauty of the landscape.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/american-art-n09635/lot.112.html
Jasper Francis Cropsey - LAKE GEORGE – Cropsey is another of my favorites and this Autumn scene with the brown foliage is quietly restful. You can just barely make out the two men and the sailboat at the edge of the water.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/american-art-n09635/lot.55.html
Francis Augustus Silva - EARLY MOONRISE, CONEY ISLAND – I’ve said it before, I’m a sucker for a moon in paintings and this being in the center of the frame immediately catches your eye as it illuminates the waves rolling in to the shore, rather rough waves it looks like, could be trouble for the ship off in the distance.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/american-art-n09635/lot.148.html
Reginald Marsh - CONSTRUCTION, STEEL WORKERS – This is, to my eyes, a rather uncharacteristic style for Marsh who usually paints men and women in crowd scenes in front of a movie or on the beach. I like the geometric layout and the way you see through the structure of the girders.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/american-art-n09635/lot.44.html
Norman Rockwell - STUDY FOR 'THE THING TO DO WITH LIFE IS LIVE IT!' (OUTRIGGER CANOE) – Here’s another unusual style, almost Gauguin like, from Norman Rockwell.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/american-art-n09635/lot.49.html
John Singer Sargent - PORTRAIT OF EDWIN GREENE – Always nice to come across a Sargent, this one a charcoal portrait.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/american-art-n09635/lot.95.html
Frederic Remington - ON THE WAY TO THE PLATTE – Nice ink drawing of a man leading a wagon train.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/american-art-n09635/lot.131.html
George Henry Smillie - VILLA ARCOMATIC, LAKE COMO – This beautiful watercolor is my favorite of the lot. It’s by a minor artist who I’m unfamiliar with but it’s the kind of art that I can imagine waking up to everyday and smiling when I look at it. It’s really reasonably priced with an estimate of $5-$7K and if I bid on things like this I would bid on this.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/american-art-n09635/lot.147.html
A nice collection I think. I was surprised Christie’s didn’t have a concurrent auction but nothing shows on their calendar.
This is a link to the website with all the items in the auction.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2017/american-art-n09635.html#&page=all&sort=lotSortNum-asc&viewMode=list&lot=44&scroll=11200
And now it’s time for the Flickrs.
Andy G.
Some new pix at this link
https://www.flickr.com/photos/133827690%40N07/
French Maid-SimonaCross
https://www.flickr.com/photos/154290925%40N04/35853355294/
Prom Queen ?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/146138013%40N06/35856599404/
tn_just emma (15)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/fetishgirl/35841968154/
DSC_0049
https://www.flickr.com/photos/36227588%40N02/35353977564/
July 2017 - Pforzheim, Night of 1000 brides event
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cilii/35437187413/
2017-08-20_04-26-30
https://www.flickr.com/photos/carol38/36522480782/
Pink again 2
https://www.flickr.com/photos/29794930%40N06/30592198570/
Wonderful Lace
https://www.flickr.com/photos/amberjolake/36643280925/
Blusa y spolverino con pollera floreada y sandalias tiras gamuza
https://www.flickr.com/photos/130065391%40N02/21831041360/
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That flu sounds scary. I have stage 3 copd and am really afraid of flus and colds. I carry a small squirt of hand sanitizer for my public outings. Hope this post finds you well... Love the "Boy In A Dress". Thanks
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At this stage, a flu would probably kill me. He's still pretty healthy & gets plenty of exercise, so I'm hoping he'll be OK. It sounds like just a bad cold though. I get those at least a couple times a year but so far none of them was bad enough to be hospitalized. Just made me miserable, & couldn't move around much without gasping for air.
I actually had to wear a diaper during my last cold. I was gasping for air so bad just trying to walk to the bathroom, that I was afraid I was gonna mess my underwear because I couldn't make it there soon enough. I'll tell you, once you start desperately breathing hard, it makes you need to go pee & poo even more & makes it harder to hold in!
I was lucky though, never messed the diaper except once with just a couple drops of pee. So I was able to save rest of the disposables for the next time.
I can't go anywhere without my breathing getting bad. I have to keep my air filtered, & somewhat climate controlled just to do anything inside. Even going out to sit on the porch on the best days, my breathing starts to get worse after about 30-60 minutes. I can't walk more than a couple doors down without totally getting out of breath. Just going down the stairs I have to catch my breath for 10 minutes. Going back up, I have to rest for 10 minutes halfway, & then another 10 minutes when I go the rest of the way.
So I'm home-bound. The only time I step out of my place is to answer the door or check my mail twice a week. Most of my stuff is paperless, so I only get junk mail most of the time. When people drop off stuff to fix, they have to carry it up, & carry it back down themselves.
Most of the time my only view of outside is through my small window. It's like being in prison except I have cats, radio, TV, music, & computers. It's a small place too.
One good thing though. It's been almost 2 years since my condition has gotten any worse. It's stabilized. So at least I can get used to it & adapt better, instead of it spiraling worse out of control every month. 2 years ago, the doctors & I didn't expect me to be here by 2017. I'll probably be here for 2018 too, unless I get a bad flu.
A bad flu is what destroyed my lungs, & gave me a heart attack in the first place. I died twice that night! Nasty stuff! Before that flu I was running, jumping, climbing, bicycling, & swimming better than most people half my age. I didn't even know a flu could cause permanent lung damage, until it happened to me.
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hi betty,this cold weather must be trying you allot.When i get flu ,i also get bronchitis and because i smoke this in turns make me end up in bed or worse in hospital.As you get older the body cannot cope or takes twice as long to deal with.this in turn slows your body down .I am not house bound ,but walking up and down 2 flights of stairs is now taking its toll.
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Hi,
I'm feeling better but I think the virus hasn't quite exited my system yet. I spent the day in New Haven with a friend who said immediately she could tell that I wasn't in my normal state. I still haven't started doing any of my exercises again and when I do I'll probably start off slowly and not try to do the full routine which consists of two six mile rides on the stationery bicycle and one three mile walk. Had a great day of art which I'll probably discuss in next week's Flickr.
Andy G.
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Hey andyg0404,
I am glad you are feeling better as it does take us longer to recover as we get older. I got the Flu just after Christmas this year and had it for almost three months off and on. I could not shake it for very long. Hope you continue to get better. I will need to get my Flu shot again this year as my doctor insists with my imune system being very low due to all the meds I take. I am glad you got to go visit New Haven and your friend. As usual your gallery visit was a joy to read and I look forward to reading every week even if I don't make it on Saturday nights as much as before. Thanks again for you weekly commentary.
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...this cold weather must be trying you allot.When i get flu ,i also get bronchitis and because i smoke this in turns make me end up in bed or worse in hospital... I am not house bound ,but walking up and down 2 flights of stairs is now taking its toll.
Actually, on average, I do much better in the cold weather... except on damp or humid days, or when the air pressure is low. The air pressure has to be above 30 inches (above average) for me to have a fair day. But there is more a fear of those colds & flus with the cold weather. Even outside, I do better in the cold. It has to get down below 15F (-9C) before it gets so cold to make my breathing worse.
Hot days aren't too bad if the humidity is low & the air pressure is up. But that's rare around here being downwind from the Great Lakes in hot weather. Usually if it's hot, it's muggy & steamy, & the air pressure is usually low on summer days.
Smoking is for the young. No matter what it takes, you have to give it up when you're older -- it's a matter of life or death. You might try the electric cigarettes to get used to not smoking & kick the habit. They're a lot less harmful than real cigarettes. They come in kinds with nicotine so you can get used to not smoking. Nicotine is a relatively harmless (but an addictive drug) compared to all the other nasty stuff in smoke. You can choose the amount of nicotine in electric cigarettes, to cut back gradually. They come in all sorts of cool flavors including the taste of your regular cigarettes.
After you get used to using the electric ones with no nicotine at all in them for a couple months you can quit them too. Maybe get some gum or a chewing toy to support the nervous habit of getting used to handling & puffing on cigarettes.
I used just a tiny pinch of wintergreen chewing tobacco to chew on when I got the urge to smoke. You don't need gobs of it like baseball players used decades ago. You just take a tiny pinch of modern chew between your gums & cheek to suck on for flavor & gradually absorb the nicotine. When the flavor is gone, them you chew it for more flavor. Tiny pinches at a time of modern chew are even safe to swallow after chewed, rather than spit up, unless you have a sensitive stomach.
I quit cigarettes years before I got any COPD. With the taxes on them, they got to be almost $10 a pack in my state, & it was getting too difficult to get them illegally tax free anywhere anymore. So it just got too impractical to support the habit. It's good thing though. I imagine I'd be much worse or dead by now if I still smoked by the time I got COPD. Years before quitting I was already down to only a pack or 2 a week. Then 10-14 cigarettes a week. So by the time I switched to electric ones it was easier for me, & easier to totally quit.
But quitting was a evolutionary process. I tried to quit before & started again. One time about 20 years ago, I quit for 2 years, but was stupid enough to start again. But each time I re-started I tried to smoke less than before. If you can't quit, it's always healthier to smoke less. And the less you smoke the easier it becomes to finally quit once & for all.
It another words, it's always best to try to quit or cut back as often as you can than, even if you fail, than not to try at all. You'll find each time you try, it gets a little bit easier the next time, so you can eventually quit.
I have the strength for stairs, & still keep as fit as possible. My muscles, & bones don't get sore. I just get out of breath rather easily & quickly. More some days than others. Even my severe back pain is gone most days because I don't do any heavy lifting, shoveling, & climbing anymore.
On a bad day when I'm gasping for air just walking to the bathroom, nothing is getting done that day. On a good day it may take an hour or 2 to sweep the kitchen, because I have to frequently stop to catch my breath. For a normal person it would have took 10-20 minutes. That's the frustrating thing... when I am breathing fair enough, it still takes a really long time to get my chores done.
And because I have so many bad days when nothing to get done. When I have a good day things have fell behind so much, I have to rush around as best I could to do as much as possible, because I don't know if my breathing will get worse again in an hour or the next day.
I even prepare my meals way in advance on a good day, then I can or freeze them so I can easily have a good meal on a bad day. Still living on Ramen soup, rice, beans, oatmeal, powdered milk, homemade bread, & coffee a lot anyway, because I really can't afford other food most of the time. I make lots of bread all at once, freeze it, & cook down a lot of rice & beans, then can it for later.
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
I think the virus has finally left my body so the other day I decided to start exercising again. I planned on going slowly and working back up to my regular routine. On Thursday I awoke and did my stretching exercises and pushups, then ran around the inside perimeter of my house. Finally I started to run up and down the steps ten times. On my first trip back down the steps I stumbled about three or four steps from the bottom and fell. I have a banister and I’m not sure if I grabbed for it and missed or just didn’t react quickly enough but consequently I fell to the ground with a thump. And immediately realized I was very lucky that I hadn’t broken my hip as it was remarkably sore. It’s still sore but I don’t think I’ve done any permanent damage. I got up and went and sat in my chair for a few minutes to recover then went upstairs and rode the stationary bicycle. Yesterday and today I rode the bicycle again, once, and didn’t do any of the other exercises. I think I’ll wait another few days before I add the warm up and running back to my routine and then build up to the two bike rides and long walk slowly. It becomes harder to bounce back as we age and this was an excellent reminder of that for me.
The reason I published last week’s Flickr a day early is that I took my friend up to New Haven to visit the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art which is directly across the street. New Haven is a two hour ride on the Metro North railroad so it was a very long day. We left my house at 9:15AM and didn’t get back home until 9:30 PM. It was a splendid day from top to bottom, the weather cooperated and the only minor dissatisfaction I had was I should have brought my flannel shirt as there were times in the museum where it was chilly. I’ve wanted to revisit the two museums for some time now as they both have wonderful permanent collections. I was a little disappointed that the Asian galleries were closed for renovations but with all the time we spent in the European and American galleries I don’t think we would have found much time to spend there. Below are some of the treasures we viewed on our tour. Be sure to enlarge all the images.
Yale is fortunate to own four Edward Hoppers, all first rate, and this was a highlight of the visit as he is one of my favorites.
Rooms by the Sea – Hopper’s paintings spoke of alienation and loneliness and I’ve always felt Rooms by the Sea expresses a notable absence of life, perhaps someone who walked through the door shown and continued walking into the ocean never to return.
http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/52939
Sunlight in a Cafeteria – And here we have two people who define the phrase alone together.
http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/52642
Western Motel – What can be more lonely than being in a rural motel all by yourself, the background landscape tells you this woman is in the middle of nowhere.
http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/52875
Rooms for Tourists – And a private home with rooms to let but the absence of any actual renters or cars to show the rooms are inhabited.
http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/52638
We saw side by side two of the great Italian urban landscape painters, Guardi and Bellotto and while they didn’t have one from the master, Canaletto, there were a bunch at the British Art museum.
Francesco Guardi - View of the Grand Canal from the Ponte di Rialto
http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/64221
Bernardo Bellotto - The Lock at Dolo
http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/3652
Canaletto - Old Walton Bridge
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1669557
The Dutch were well represented, no Rembrandt which I found surprising, but they had three magnificent Hals displayed together on one wall. The elderly man and woman are pendant portraits, that is, a pair of paintings with something in common, quite often marriage partners. These are large, somber depictions of a well to do couple. You can see the wonders Hals created with black paint to depict the man’s hat, clothing and cloak. The Preacher is a much smaller painting and he certainly does not appear to be a dominant, imposing figure. One of the reasons I’ve wanted to visit the museum was that they have on display a long term loan from the preeminent collectors of Dutch Masters, Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo. I thought the exhibition had been taken down at the end of last year but I was very pleased to see that it is still up. The Preacher is a loan from the Otterloos.
Portrait of an Elderly Man, traditionally called Heer Bodolphe
http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/52512
Portrait of an Elderly Woman, traditionally called Mevrouw Bodolphe
http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/52513
Portrait of a Preacher
http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/190576
Jan van der Heyden - View of the Westerkerk, Amsterdam – This is another loan from the Otterloos. I was privileged to visit the Bruce Museum a number of years ago for an exhibit of Van der Heyden which was a highlight of my museum visits. In the exhibit was a painting he had done on copper which absolutely glowed.
http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/190579
Speaking of the Otterloos, this article is from today’s New York Times and it discusses their gift of 113 artworks to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. It’s a remarkable gift. I was surprised that Yale didn’t get anything but in the second paragraph it states that the Otterloos are Boston based so I guess that explains it. I’d love to see this but I don’t know when I’ll get the chance as Boston is about a four hour ride from New York which means if I went I would have to stay overnight. But perhaps I can convince my friend to go with me sometime in the future.
Boston Museum Gets Major Gift of Dutch, Flemish Masterpieces
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OCT. 11, 2017
BOSTON — The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston on Wednesday announced a pledged gift of more than 100 17th century Dutch and Flemish masterpieces that will give it one of the nation's foremost collections of Dutch Golden Age art.
The donation of 113 works by 76 artists from Boston-area collectors Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo and Susan and Matthew Weatherbie includes a research library and funding to establish a Center for Netherlandish Art at the museum, the first of its kind in the U.S.
It is the largest gift of European paintings in the museum's history and will nearly double in size its collection of Dutch and Flemish paintings.
"We are extremely grateful to the van Otterloos and Weatherbies for their deep commitment and for their support of the mission of the museum in such a generous way," Director Matthew Teitelbaum said.
The collection includes one of the finest privately owned Rembrandt portraits. The 1632 portrait of Aeltje Uylenburgh, a cousin of Rembrandt's wife-to-be, is in nearly perfect condition.
Works by Gerrit Dou, Peter Paul Rubens, Jan Steen and Jan Brueghel the Elder also are part of the collection. It is comprised of portraits, landscapes, seascapes, still lifes, flower pictures, cityscapes and more.
"This gift of beautifully preserved paintings will fill major gaps in the collection and allow us to present the full range of artistic production in the Netherlands in the 17th century in varied and meaningful ways," said Ronni Baer, the museum's senior curator of paintings.
Some of the works already are part of a new installation dedicated to Dutch and Flemish art that runs through Jan. 15.
"Eijk and I couldn't be happier that our collection will find a home at the MFA, where it can be displayed, loaned and shared with the widest possible audiences," Rose-Marie van Otterloo said.
Continuing on with the Dutch the Museum owns several wonderful Van Gogh’s.
Vincent van Gogh - Le café de nuit (The Night Café) – Everywhere there is a clash and contrast of the most disparate reds and greens.” The clashing colors were also meant to express the “terrible passions of humanity” found in this all-night haunt, populated by vagrants and prostitutes.
http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/12507
Vincent van Gogh - Square Saint-Pierre, Paris – A rare example of his pointillist painting.
http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/52916
We came across Turner’s Ovid which I assume was on loan from a private collection. I didn’t check the wall card but I see that this painting isn’t in the Yale database. I originally was lucky enough to see this painting at the Frick’s recent Turner exhibit. The art gallery has no Turner oils of their own but the British Art Gallery has a number of them, one of which is displayed below.
J. M. W. Turner - Ovid Banished from Rome
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Turner_Ovid_Banished_from_Rome.jpg
Joseph Mallord William Turner - Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort Packet-Boat from Rotterdam Becalmed
https://britishart.yale.edu/collections/highlights/paintings-sculpture
We saw several Monet’s and one glorious Manet.
Claude Monet - Port-Domois, Belle-Isle
http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/25955
Édouard Manet - Reclining Young Woman in Spanish Costume – Love the cat.
http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/34123
I’ll end with some American painters.
Frederic Edwin Church - View of Cotopaxi – The lush greenery contrasted with the snow covered volcano.
http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/9285
George Inness – Moonrise – I always say I’m a sucker for a moon in paintings and this is a gorgeous orange moon dead center hiding between two trees. You have to look closely to see the man standing in the field admiring it and the homestead all the way in the back at the right.
http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/59314
Albert Bierstadt - Yosemite Valley, Glacier Point Trail - Under a broad golden sky, a mountain guide at lower left points to the distance, instructing his companions where to look. The sun’s golden orb, thickly painted, sits like an ingot in the sky, a shining emblem of the land’s riches.
http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/4964
Winslow Homer - Old Mill (The Morning Bell) – The start of the workday for these young women.
http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/52522
And finally a portrait from Sargent. This portrait is of the mother-in-law of Sargent’s friend Edward Austin Abbey, American muralist, illustrator, and painter. The wall card compares this portrait favorably to Sargent’s society portraits, expressing intimacy, simplicity and warmth.
John Singer Sargent - Mrs. Frederick Mead (Mary Eliza Scribner)
http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/61310
I could keep going on as it’s a vast collection but I think this will give you some sense of why I so especially wanted to visit the museums again. I will reiterate that we both had a really splendid time.
Let’s see what’s on the Flickrs now.
Andy G.
aprons and slips
https://www.flickr.com/photos/149360153@N07/37470921986/
Babydoll
https://www.flickr.com/photos/149931110@N02/36852139383/
The legendary Fifi Pervenche pictured circa 1960
https://www.flickr.com/photos/trannilicious2011/36466983421/
Sure Glad Halloween is here! Maybe I"ll get some good "Treats" for some "Tricks"
https://www.flickr.com/photos/leihia1/15484235259/
Little sissy maid.x
https://www.flickr.com/photos/132265551@N05/27498417513/
PedestalBaby
https://www.flickr.com/photos/92404199@N00/485657135/
susie-ann
https://www.flickr.com/photos/susie-ann2/15833347440/
Awaiting Instructions
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stacycuk/35486474440/
CIMG0053
https://www.flickr.com/photos/122472945@N05/13944683919/
The Sweet Kiss out of the Blue!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joannajonescd/36039584424/
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
Of late, we’ve been experiencing Fall weather here in New Jersey. I finally broke down and turned on my heating system when the temperature dipped to the 40’s at night. It was 40 degrees this morning when I went to the Shop-Rite but it warmed up into the 70’s, it’s 77 degrees now. When I say 40 degrees it makes me think that 40 degrees in Mid-October is different from 40 degrees in say, December or January. Different in my perception of them I guess. This morning when I saw 40 degrees on the thermometer I wore my flannel shirt over my tee shirt as well as my hat and I was fine. But in January when I go out in the morning and it’s 40 degrees I’ll be wearing my winter coat and probably a scarf. I keep hearing that the Northeast is going to get a lot of snow this year and I’m really hoping that doesn’t turn out to be the case. My sole consolation is that if it does snow a lot I have no reason to be out in it like I did when I was working.
This week I returned to my fallback venue the Metropolitan Museum of Art to view their newly opened drawing exhibit, Leonardo to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection. This is another Met exhibition which is composed entirely of art from their permanent collection. I’ve written previously about Robert Lehman and his amazing bequest to the Met. These drawings are from the more than 700 that he bequeathed the Met along with all the other paintings and objects. In describing him as a collector the Met explained that he took advice from connoisseurs but, like Duncan Phillips who established the Phillips Museum, he often simply purchased what appealed to him. And what appealed to him were things that are pleasing to look at which you’ll see below.
This is a link to the Met website which has three sections. When you click on the link it opens to the exhibition overview, then off to the side are links for Exhibition Themes which replicate the main wall cards for each section of the exhibit and also a link to all the items in the exhibit. Be sure to click on the images to enlarge them.
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2017/leonardo-to-matisse
For the most part I liked everything in the exhibit but I’ll link to a bunch that especially appealed to me.
The exhibit opens with a very small Goya self-portrait, pretty much the size of a post-it, showing him in middle age and vigorous prior to being struck with a grave illness.
https://tinyurl.com/ybn2tahj
There were three drawings by Ingres, a favorite of mine. This one is of a personal nature to the artist. It’s a portrait of Madame Félix Gallois who was the cousin of his second wife. He created this as a gift to her husband, there’s an inscription on it and you can see how lovingly he drew it, he touched up her jewelry with gold paint.
https://tinyurl.com/ybazdsuy
Paul Signac – The Dining Room – Signac painted his Mother, Grandfather and housekeeper in his pointillist style and having just seen the Hoppers in New Haven, this was evocative of Hopper’s alienation theme, three more individuals alone together.
https://tinyurl.com/yd64ntu6
Georges Seurat - Foal (Le Poulain) [also called "The Colt"] – I was taken by the way, using what the website refers to as his scratchy lines, the artist formed an animal out of what is basically a blob of black ink.
https://tinyurl.com/ybwo2qsk
Albrecht Dürer - Self-portrait, Study of a Hand and a Pillow (recto); Six Studies of Pillows (verso) – I found this two sided drawing very appealing as on the front (recto) is the self-portrait while on the back (verso) is the studies for the pillow. When you click on the link you can click on additional images and see the verso drawing.
https://tinyurl.com/y95je69h
Vincent van Gogh - Road in Etten - Another favorite artist, this charming view of a tree lined lane showing workers and peasants is done in several mediums, chalk, pencil, pastel and watercolor. The underdrawing in pen and brown ink.
https://tinyurl.com/ydy5g2xa
And could Mr. Lehman’s collection be complete without a few Rembrandts.
Rembrandt - Cottage near the Entrance to a Wood – This rather rough landscape sketch is one of his largest and the cottage is described as overwhelming nature.
https://tinyurl.com/ybcopujm
Rembrandt - The Last Supper, after Leonardo da Vinci
https://tinyurl.com/y9jrtnzz
And, of course, he would need an actual Da Vinci.
A Bear Walking – An anatomy lesson from the master, you can see he enlarged one of the paws in a separate sketch.
https://tinyurl.com/y7urt783
Canaletto - Warwick Castle: The East Front – Having seen a number of Canaletto’s grand paintings in New Haven it was nice to see this lovely drawing.
https://tinyurl.com/yapjllb4
Camille Corot - The Palatine Hill, Rome – You need to really enlarge this to see what the website describes as meticulous graphite drawing of the ruined villas of the Palatine Hill… The artist deftly organizes vestiges of ancient monuments in obsessively exacting draftsmanship. He’s really captured so much.
https://tinyurl.com/y7d3t6vm
Many beautiful things here, a very enjoyable exhibit. Next week I’ll write about the Christie’s drawing auction which is upcoming.
Knowing I had recently visited the Rodin exhibit at the Met my brother sent me an article about a Rodin bust of Napoleon that resides in the Borough Hall of Madison, New Jersey, It’s been there for 80 years and it was only recently that they realized what they have. It’s currently valued at between $4 and $12 million dollars and the township is loaning it to the Philadelphia Museum for an upcoming exhibit. The Times picked up the story in today’s edition which you can see here, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/20/nyregion/a-rodin-hiding-in-plain-sight-in-a-new-jersey-suburb.html?_r=0
Now let’s go to the Flickrs.
Andy G.
IMG_3127-2
https://www.flickr.com/photos/134316048%40N06/36166308193/
With friend Lucinda. She was wearing one of my wigs and we both had the same dress.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99656544%40N07/37010137235/
Gorgeous bride
https://www.flickr.com/photos/paulasatijn/36838516811/
Yellow PVC fun
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sarahbright45/36829267322/
Practising my curtsy
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22704178%40N07/34392067432/
Serving for Mistress 1
https://www.flickr.com/photos/129285689%40N02/15605359380/
118H1L
https://www.flickr.com/photos/klarissakrass/34085463151/
Bridal gowns
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lucyhamilton/23189881309/
z26
https://www.flickr.com/photos/alice_uk_cd/26699223744/
Katie's play date dissapointment
https://www.flickr.com/photos/145401144%40N06/35771051543/
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
More drawings this week as I visited Christie’s for their Prints and Multiples auction preview. It had a large amount of Andy Warhols, someone I’m surprised is still held in high esteem and a similar large amount of Picassos which isn’t surprising as he was extremely prolific. Late in his life I think he created things more for their monetary value than to bolster his greatness as an artist but these are mostly interesting drawings. But none of them prompt me to include in the list below of things that I was taken with as I strolled around the viewing room. I’ve had some trouble with Christie’s website finding things, you’ll note below that there are a number of items that are from previous auctions or other sources.
Toulouse Lautrec was well represented, they had a complete ten leaf portfolio, something that isn’t seen on a regular basis. Lautrec’s posters and drawings are colorful and very appealing.
Lautrec - Partie de Campagne, from L'Album des estampes originales de la Galerie Vollard – This is a sheet from the portfolio
https://tinyurl.com/yckupvn2
Marcel Duchamp - Couple Amoureux (Morceaux choisis d’après Ingres II) – Duchamp’s art always seems to me to be laughing at us for taking it seriously. But this simple little line drawing is very interesting as the closeness of the couple shows intimacy but the look on the woman’s face isn’t necessarily pleasure and she’s looking away from the man. https://www.artsy.net/artwork/marcel-duchamp-couple-amoureux-morceaux-choisis-dapres-ingres-ii
I’m not mad for contemporary art but I was very much taken with an Ed Ruscha embossed work, Ghost Station. It doesn’t reproduce well but it’s pure white on the wall. It’s the outline of a gas station. I think the second link might be a little clearer.
https://tinyurl.com/ycfo82f3
http://mixografia-collaborations.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/ruscha-ghost_station-2011.jpg
Rene Magritte - Les Bijoux indiscrets – Magritte’s art is always fun as he plays with perceptions and dimensions. Here he superimposes a face on the wrist of a hand.
https://tinyurl.com/yccm7qxw
Grant Wood – Fertility – Wood is known for American Gothic and occasionally I’ve seen other drawings and paintings by him at the auctions. This is a splendid farm scene with house, barn, silo and what I think is a corn crop.
https://tinyurl.com/yadctsyz
I’ll group the next two drawings together as they both show trains. First a favorite, Edward Hopper, then Thomas Hart Benton.
Hopper – The Locomotive
https://tinyurl.com/y8azty3a
Benton – The Race – A horse racing a train. And winning.
https://tinyurl.com/yclcjcbo
I think the items I enjoyed most were drawings by Martin Lewis, an artist according to my records I’ve only encountered once before at an auction preview last year. He was born in Australia and had an interesting life. Here are some lines from Wikipedia describing him.
In 1900, Lewis left Australia for the United States. His first job was in San Francisco, painting stage decorations for William McKinley's presidential campaign of 1900. By 1909, Lewis was living in New York, where he found work in commercial illustration. His earliest known etching is dated 1915. However, the level of skill in this piece suggests he had been working in the medium for some time previously. It was during this period that he helped Edward Hopper learn the basics of etching. In 1920, after the breakup of a romance, Lewis traveled to Japan, where for two years he drew and painted and studied Japanese art. The influence of Japanese prints is very evident in Lewis's prints after that period. In 1925, he returned to etching and produced most of his well-known works between 1925 and 1935. Lewis is most famous for his black and white prints, mostly of night scenes of non-tourist, real life street scenes of New York City. During the Depression, however, he was forced to leave the city for four years between 1932 and 1936 and move to Newtown, Connecticut. His work from this period includes a number of rural, night-time and winter scenes in this area and nearby Sandy Hook. When Lewis was able to return to the New York City in 1936, there was no longer a market interested in his work. He taught printmaking at the Art Students League of New York from 1944 until his retirement in 1952. Lewis died largely forgotten in 1962.
In reading this I can see why I was drawn to him, teacher of Hopper, influenced by Japanese prints, black and white street scenes, all things that resonate with me.
Sun Bath
https://tinyurl.com/ycbl9ov3
Reginald Marsh - Tattoo-Shave-Haircut – I included a Reginald Marsh in last week’s post commenting that it was atypical of his work. This is much more typical of the type of scenes he drew and painted.
http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/reginald-marsh-tattoo-shave-haircut-s-140-5615281-details.aspx
James McNeill Whistler - The Two Doorways, from First Venice Set – I’ve always been fond of Whistler’s Venice etchings.
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/james-mcneill-whistler-the-two-doorways-from-first-venice-set
Mary Cassatt – Afternoon Tea Party – Lovely colored etching of two woman at tea.
http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/mary-cassatt-afternoon-tea-party-b-151-5363671-details.aspx
Henri Matisse - Jeune Hindoue – Exotic, bejeweled, nude woman looking totally comfortable lounging on a sofa chair.
https://tinyurl.com/y84gsw5z
I’ll close with a colorful screen print by Red Grooms, Saskia Down the Metro. Red’s work is always a lot of fun, he usually creates what he calls installations, dioramas, sometimes on a very large scale. One of his installations was a New York City bus, full size, filled with people. This is a two dimensional colorful print filled with people and images from New York City. The second link is larger and a better reproduction than the one on the Christie’s website.
https://tinyurl.com/y99druwn
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/red-grooms-saskia-down-in-the-metro-slash-subway-riders-new-york-new-york
This is a link to all the items in the auction.
https://tinyurl.com/y94o3pyd
Many beautiful things, I’m glad I went.
Let’s see what beautiful things are at the Flickrs now.
Andy G.
Halloween
https://www.flickr.com/photos/34080186@N06/15061618773/
Another From Halloween, 1989
https://www.flickr.com/photos/30517065@N00/10491745536/
excuses
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kandien1/24000944908/
flirt
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cheryl416/36816684906/
SissyPinkSissyBunnies
https://www.flickr.com/photos/msemilytv/3408151938/
1998 Paradise in the Poconos ~ A Fabulous Frilly Crinoline Petticoat
https://www.flickr.com/photos/robynmichaels/2096212615/
Sissy Doing Her Maid Chores!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/124502993@N03/36910532522/
ikea4s
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jandebs/24934612223/
1318608425813
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sophie_louise69/7189362451/
Maid 114
https://www.flickr.com/photos/veronicapaige/12651484255/
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
This is an early Flickr as in a little while I will be heading to Washington D.C. for exhibitions at the National Gallery and the Phillips Museum. I’ve been looking forward to this trip with great anticipation and I’ll write about it next week.
This week though finds me back at Christie’s for their Old Masters and European Art auction previews. My brother didn’t go as he said it didn’t look particularly interesting and I can’t really argue with him. It wasn’t terribly exciting. The two biggest paintings up for auction that I saw are both from different auctions.
There was a Rembrandt portrait, Petronella Buys, which is from the London Old Masters auction. It’s not one of his masterpieces, I found it much less dynamic and vivid than those I see in the museums. Looked a little washed out not very bright. You can see a small reproduction of it on the website.
http://www.christies.com/auctions/shanghai/?sc_lang=en#internationalhighlights_Nav
And here’s a larger, if not better, reproduction.
http://allpainters.org/paintings/petronella-buys-wife-of-philips-lucasz-1635-rembrandt.html
The second big lot, which had an expected price range of $6.9M-$9.5M, is by El Greco, an artist I’ve never really been able to warm up to. Saint Francis and Brother Leo in Meditation – This is from the upcoming Impressionist and Modern Art auctions and it’s from the Collection of Stanford Z. Rothschild, Jr. http://www.christies.com/about-us/press-archive/details/?pressreleaseid=8854 I didn’t notice on the wall card but it appears this painting is owned by the National Gallery of Canada or perhaps there is more than one copy although if so, they look identical. This is a link to the Gallery, click on the image to enlarge it.
https://www.wga.hu/html_m/g/greco_el/15/1504grec.html
There was a lovely watercolor, Lake Lucerne, with the Rigi, by JMW Turner which I almost missed; it was on the wall to the left of the Rembrandt and I only saw it because I heard two people talking about it. As it turns out, this wasn’t in the auction either. As a matter of fact I can’t find it on the Christie’s website at all. This is a link to the last time it was up for auction at Christie’s in 2013.
http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/joseph-mallord-william-turner-ra-1775-1851-5737580-details.aspx
But as always, there were some beautiful things actually in the auction which I’ll discuss below.
Francesco Guardi - The Island of Lazzaretto Vecchio, Venice – Unlike his usual large paintings this one is rather tiny, roughly 6x10 inches, but lovely nevertheless
https://tinyurl.com/y8cubu4g
Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun - Portrait of the artist, bust-length – I’ve written a number of times about the magnificent Le Brun exhibit at the Met so it’s always a treat to come across one of her paintings at the auctions.
https://tinyurl.com/y9e9aubs
I love the Dutch and there were two small examples of note.
Gerrit Dou - A barber-surgeon examining a girl.
https://tinyurl.com/y9zy6jqx
And Jan Steen - A woman and a man smoking, viewed through an open archway
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/bf/16/2f/bf162f8e7ce894c8cc041dcceff35370.jpg
Edwaert Collier - A trompe l'œil letter rack with newspapers, scissors, a quill, a knife, a seal, a comb, and letters – I always enjoy examples of trompe l’oeil. Another exhibit I’ve written about was at the National Gallery and was devoted to trompe l’oeil, which I think was one of the best exhibits I’ve seen. In looking at my records I see it was 15 years ago so you can tell it made an impression on me.
https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/A-trompe-l-oil-letter-rack-with-newspape/8ED5022319F5C251
John Atkinson Grimshaw - A Moonlit Lane – This is my painting with a big old moon for this post.
https://tinyurl.com/yckk8n3p
Jakob Philipp Hackert - The waterfall at Anitrella, with goats grazing near – This is a wonderful landscape and you can almost hear the roar of the water coming down the hill. It was up for auction at Sotheby’s in 2015 but didn’t sell, that’s where this image stems from.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2015/master-paintings-part-i-n09302/lot.103.html
Giusto Suttermans - Giovan Carlo di Cosimo II de Medici in armor and a red sash, bust-length – I’ll close with this image which I include only because it looks like someone painted a fake Groucho mustache on the image.
https://tinyurl.com/yabmveym
These are links to all the objects in the two auctions. At least the ones that haven’t disappeared from the site.
http://www.christies.com/old-masters-26844.aspx?saletitle=
http://www.christies.com/19th-century-european-art-27243.aspx?saletitle=
And now the Flickrs.
Andy G.
A legendary Womanless Wedding
https://www.flickr.com/photos/trannilicious2011/5981887335/
Fun. Halloween is the time to have fun! It is one time a year where we can dress outlandish and laugh at our selves and everyone else is doing the same thing!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kandien1/37991143036/
Party girl
https://www.flickr.com/photos/saralegs/1892422516/
SHINY SISSY DRESS WITH MINCING RIBBONS
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22979184%40N05/19845000738/
Gemma goes Red - Sept 2017
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gemmasmith_tvuk/37097448626/
Bite n bite green apples says mommy and you'll grow up
https://www.flickr.com/photos/149558222%40N04/36857272270/
retro off-the-shoulder floral summer dress
https://www.flickr.com/photos/adrii06/34551259681
Hot mess
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tatianabrooks/31882484170/
Cocktail dress
https://www.flickr.com/photos/152202283%40N04/37135666901/
Meijimura (2)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mayuko_vienna/12848818103/
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
We’re getting our first taste of winter now, below freezing temperatures, a wind to boot and a blindingly bright sun that offers no warmth. I’m glad the only time I had to spend outside was on my morning walk. I almost fell on ice when the I walked by one house whose sprinklers had gone on. All summer I have to duck as I walk by these sprinklers which also water the sidewalk. Why someone needs to water their lawn in 18 degree weather is beyond me. The weatherman says this is unseasonably cold and in a few days we should return to more temperate weather.
Last weekend I took a friend of mine to Washington D.C. to the National Gallery of Art to see an exhibit I have been waiting to see for a long time, Vermeer and The Masters of Genre Painting. It was sensational.
We took Amtrak down on Saturday afternoon and due to track work our train ran 40 minutes late so we arrived around 6PM. We had trouble figuring out the Metro card vending machine as did everyone else in the station. I asked the Guard and he explained and we were able to buy our cards. My friend’s GPS has walking instructions and we used that to navigate to the hotel from the subway station.
We checked into the hotel by which time the museums had all closed so we walked to the Lincoln Memorial as well as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and then walked back to the hotel and had dinner. It rained but otherwise it was fairly mild, especially for this time of year.
The next day started at 8AM when I knocked on my friend’s door and we went down to breakfast. As we had so much time, after checking out, we decided to take the long walk to the Freer Museum which opens at 10AM, an hour before the National Gallery opens. The Freer has an outstanding permanent collection and we spent an hour going through their galleries. The Freer is home to the Peacock Room which was designed by James McNeill Whistler for a wealthy British shipping magnate, Frederick Richards Leyland. Mr. Freer anonymously purchased the entire room in 1904 from Leyland's heirs and had the contents of the Peacock Room installed in his Detroit mansion. After his death in 1919, the Peacock Room was permanently installed in the Freer Gallery of Art. This Wikipedia link will explain the details from design to finish to its ultimate arrival at the Museum. There are two views of the room on the website, as well as a separate image of Whistler’s painting. Click on the image at the top and open a three image slide show. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peacock_Room We subsequently walked through the American, Chinese and Japanese galleries where we saw lovely paintings by Sargent, Whistler and Homer as well as Japanese screens and Chinese scrolls. At 11AM we walked across the mall to the National Gallery.
There was a line for the Vermeer but it moved fairly quickly and after about 30 minutes we were inside. It was spectacular! There were about 70 paintings in the exhibit and all were first class. There were 10 Vermeers. There are only 34 paintings in the world that are attributed to Vermeer and one of these was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and to date has not been recovered. So this selection is roughly a third of his output. I’ve used links from Wikipedia since they have good illustrations as well as information on each of the individual paintings.
I’ve grouped four paintings below as they all have the same model, wearing her fabulous yellow, ermine trimmed jacket and pearls as in one of the Frick’s Vermeers, Mistress with Maid.
https://collections.frick.org/objects/274/mistress-and-maid In The Love Letter, the maid is also present.
Woman with a Pearl Necklace - Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_with_a_Pearl_Necklace
A Lady Writing a Letter – National Gallery of Art, D.C.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Lady_Writing_a_Letter
Woman with a Lute - Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_with_a_Lute
The Love Letter - Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/SK-A-1595
The Lacemaker and the Astronomer both come from the Louvre.
The Lacemaker
http://www.essentialvermeer.com/catalogue/lacemaker.html
Astronomer
http://www.essentialvermeer.com/catalogue/astronomer.html
In addition to A Lady Writing (above), A woman Holding a Balance is from the National Gallery of Art in D.C
A Woman Holding a Balance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_Holding_a_Balance
The Geographer, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geographer
Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Writing_a_Letter_with_her_Maid
Lady seated at a Virginal, National Gallery of London
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Seated_at_a_Virginal
The rest of the exhibit was superb as well; here are a few that particularly struck me. There were a number of paintings from private collections.
The Lacemaker – Nicolaes Maes – This was hung to the right of Vermeer’s version. It comes from the Met.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436932
There were a number of paintings by Gerard ter Borch another favorite of mine. He had his own magnificent exhibit at the National Gallery some years ago which I very much enjoyed. Here are four from this show.
The Sleeping Soldier is from the Taft Museum in Ohio
http://www.taftmuseum.org/collections/collection_highlights/12-1931-398_tma-06-09
Woman Sealing Her Letter with Her Maid is from a private collection, imagine having this painting on your living room wall.
http://www.essentialvermeer.com/dutch-painters/masters/terborch_f.html
Two Women Making Music with a Page or The Concert – This is from the Louvre
http://the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=134955
Woman Writing a Letter from the Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery in the Netherlands
http://the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=117749
Two paintings by Gerrit Dou
Astronomer by Candlelight is from the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, this striking painting was a favorite for both of us.
http://www.essentialvermeer.com/dutch-painters/dou_c.html
Dropsical Woman is from the Louvre
https://www.wga.hu/art/d/dou/2/drops_wo.jpg
And finally a painting by Samuel Van Hoogstraten, an artist I’m unfamiliar with.
View of an Interior or The Slippers – There’s a lot going on in this painting, not the least of which is a reproduction of a Ter Borch painting on the wall in the back. That painting by Ter Borch was also in the exhibit.
https://useum.org/artwork/View-of-an-Interior-or-The-Slippers-Samuel-van-Hoogstraten
This should give you some idea of the broadness of the exhibit; there were many more artists represented as well and as I said everything in the exhibit was worthwhile.
The second exhibit we visited at the Gallery was Fragonard: The Fantasy Figures. This was a small exhibit of lovely, colorful paintings and you can see a sample of them at the website link below.
https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2017/fragonard-the-fantasy-figures.html
We stopped for lunch and then proceeded to the East Building where Contemporary art lives. This was a quick visit as I only wanted to visit with the two Edward Hopper paintings in the Museum’s collection.
Cape Cod Evening
https://www.nga.gov/Collection/art-object-page.61252.html
Groundswell
https://www.nga.gov/Collection/art-object-page.131206.html
Seeing them again was a treat.
We went back to the West Wing and wandered through the permanent collection which rivals the Metropolitan Museum in its enormity and brilliance while looking for the final exhibit that I had come to see, Bosch to Bloemaert: Early Netherlandish Drawings from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. By the time we found it I was concerned that we wouldn’t have enough time to visit the Phillips Museum so we rather rushed through the galleries. There were lovely things to see and you can see some of them at the website link.
https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2017/bosch-to-bloemaert-early-netherlandish-drawings.html
From the Gallery we went to the Phillips Museum to see an exhibit built around Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party, arguably his greatest painting. It has a room of its own and you enter through a doorway and turn left and there it is in all its magnificence. The rest of the exhibit was paintings by Renoir that he created as preliminary to the major opus as well as paintings by and of his peers. Afterwards we explored the rest of the permanent collection. I was disappointed that half the collection wasn’t on display as the original building housing the collection was under renovation but I would have come regardless as I wanted to see the Luncheon painting again.
This is a link to the Wikipedia page for Luncheon of the Boating Party with a nice image which can be enlarged and other details about the painting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luncheon_of_the_Boating_Party
The Phillips has a room dedicated to the abstract artist Mark Rothko. I’ve mentioned on more than one occasion that I totally don’t get the appeal of his art while my brother, and most art critics, consider him a genius. The room is about 12 feet square with a painting on each of the four walls. I told my friend about the disagreement I have with my brother about Rothko and we entered the room to sit in the middle and look at the paintings for a minute. She wasn’t able to garner anything from them either. When we exited the room a young woman was entering and she turned to her friend and said, I don’t get this at all but my brother loves him, a comment which made both of us laugh.
I would have enjoyed this trip under any circumstances but having someone along with me to discuss it with really made it special. And my friend made clear that she is amenable to future trips.
Well, if anyone is still reading at this point you will be rewarded now with the Flickrs.
Andy G.
Happy Halloween 2017
https://www.flickr.com/photos/briannagrant/37353308184/
IMG_0715
https://www.flickr.com/photos/brenda_daviscd87/35300214184/
At Sissy Manor
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Hi,
Can't say why but the preview didn't work again this week. This was unfortunate as when I went back to check my links a number of the Wikipedia links didn't work. Like this one, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Love_Letter_(Vermeer) If you follow the explanation and click on the link on the page it successfully opens but gives you the same link as the one above. I find this totally baffling. Anyway, I replaced the bad links so everything in the post should work now.
Andy G.
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I see now that for some reason when the link is uploaded it's not recognizing the closing paren. I had four links that ended with a closing paren and all of them needed to be replaced.
Andy G.
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Yes andyg, we actually had our first snowfall on Friday and although it was a light dusting, with the cold and the traffic it was slick in some places for driving. One of my other jobs was sales, design and Install of Inground Sprinkler Systems and most would be on a timer system for watering in the early morning hours. These systems should be shut down in October and drained so the cold and Ice does not damage the piping and sprinkler heads. If you don't do this and shut down the timers you risk damaging expensive systems. If the programs are set correctly they should finish watering very early to avoid contact with people walking by on their way to work etc.
Again I would thank you for your gallery visit and commentary. As always I enjoy and yes I read to the end and click the links. I would love to accompany you on a visit also but I have not been to the U.S. for sometime now and my Passport has expired. Any traveling I do now is local or not a very great distance from my city.
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I see now that for some reason when the link is uploaded it's not recognizing the closing paren. I had four links that ended with a closing paren and all of them needed to be replaced.
Having parenthesis in a URL (web address) is always a bad idea. Most browsers won't recognize it as a valid address. Also because parenthesis are used in programming, PHP, java, & javascript code, it may be interpreted as an invalid script or website code rather that an address.
Around the time you posted, this site was down for a little over 15 minutes. I believe you were interacting with a cached version of the page in your browser rather than the real page live. As you interact with the cached version the browser will try to send the information to the page until it accepts it. The cached version in the browser is good to view a page, but not so good to try to interact with if the site is down & won't connect with it.
Usually if the site senses there's a problem, it will send you to a mirror of the site on our backup servers, & update between the servers when the problem is gone. But if the server is completely down or inactive, it can't even send you to the mirror/backup site or update the mirror site.
I still can't figure out the cause yet. We've been having a few slowdowns, & minutes of downtime here over the past week. There was no heavy traffic at the time & we were not under any attack. There is some server slowdowns or few minutes of downtime around or after 3am E. USA time during regular server maintenance & backups, but not during prime American & UK time when we need it the most.
Stories, on another server with the same company, with 3 times the traffic, & tons more material to serve has been functioning fine. Actually it was extremely busy there today without a problem. But the two servers are independent from each other & not connected. I suspect the machine we're using for the server here is wearing out, or it's hard drive may be near the end of it's life. Our backup servers are our old servers & not even from the same company.
Even right now, the server here is still much slower than it should be & unresponsive. To lighten the load & keep it functional, I've restricted the sites to members only so they get less traffic & the server don't have to work as hard.
If they can't resolve this issue soon, or it continues to get worse, I'll just move it all to another server or use the mirror site. If this server continues to perform as bad or worse than our old servers currently used for backups & other stuff, there's no reason to spend a cent on this server anymore.
It's not as easy to move a site like this with the programming & security, with different compatibility issues between servers as I make it sound. It can take 24-48 hours with no sleep to move everything to another server intact, & get it all to work right. So I dread the thought. But it is easier for me than most.
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Got down to 17F (-8C) last night with wind chills of 6F (-14C), after a high of 46F (8C) just the day before. We had a faint powder of snow. You had to look carefully to see any snow on the ground anywhere at all. The wind was pretty bad though. It rattled the windows. Boy-cat got scared & hid under the bed. Nothing scares his brave sister though. She'll calmly sit beside me during the worst thunderstorms. When I had a prowler outside my door she ran to the door & growled loudly like a dog.
They just replaced the roof & some siding on my building this summer because of all the wind damage we got last spring & last fall. Last fall, wind knocked down a huge tree next door. It just missed hitting my place by about 8-10 feet. I haven't seen any bits of our building laying around recently after wind storms, so they must have fixed it good.
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
It’s auction time again and there’s a lot to see. This covers the Impressionist and Contemporary Art auctions. Two big paintings at Christie’s are by Fernand Leger and Vincent Van Gogh. Both are listed as saying estimate on request which seems to say to me that if you have to ask the price you can’t afford it. Of the two, for me, the Van Gogh wins hands down as the Leger is abstract and doesn’t overly excite me. This is a link to a video and discussion of Van Gogh’s Laboureur dans un champ. http://www.christies.com/features/Labourer-dans-un-champ-by-Vincent-van-Gogh-8643-3.aspx?sc_lang=en This is a link to a video and discussion of Leger’s Contraste de forms. http://www.christies.com/features/Fernand-Leger-Contraste-de-formes-1913-8624-1.aspx
Fernand Léger - Contraste de forms – This went for $ 70M
https://tinyurl.com/ybfpymef
Vincent van Gogh - Laboureur dans un champ – This went for $81.3M
https://tinyurl.com/y98jb2vn
Oddly enough the biggest painting for Christie’s Contemporary auction is Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi, another lot that was posted estimate on request. It didn’t make any sense to me that it would be in the Contemporary auction and I actually missed seeing it when I was there. I went back a day later on my way to Sotheby’s and understood how I had missed it. I wasn’t expecting to see it and I approached the Christie’s entrance from the West Side so I didn’t see they had set up a separate entrance to the gallery where it was displayed. If you didn’t use the separate entrance there was no way to see it. When I went back a couple of days later for the American previews I saw that the timing for my visit with Leonardo had been good as I was able to just walk right in. That day there was a line down the block with people waiting in the rain for up to an hour for the privilege of seeing it. It was hung all by itself in a rather dimly lighted alcove. I can’t say it was magnificent or awe inspiring but I’m glad I got to see it as it isn’t often one gets to view a Leonardo, or if you listen to the skeptics, almost a Leonardo. My brother explained its appearance in the Contemporary auctions by noting that Christie’s is pairing it with an Andy Warhol work titled “Sixty Last Suppers”, but I also read that it was lumped in with the Contemporary art because that’s where the big bucks are now rather than Old Masters.
Leonardo da Vinci – Salvator Mundi
https://tinyurl.com/yd2h2osh
This is an essay and video about the Leonardo and below that is a similar link for the Warhol.
http://www.christies.com/features/The-world-is-watching-8723-3.aspx?sc_lang=en&pid=en_homepage_row1_slot1_1
http://www.christies.com/features/Andy-Warhols-Sixty-Last-Suppers-8582-3.aspx - The Warhol went for $60.8M
There has been a fair amount of skepticism as to whether this is actually a Leonardo and this article comes down strongly on the side of not. I say above that it wasn’t awe inspiring and in this article he says it’s just dead.
http://www.vulture.com/2017/11/christies-says-this-painting-is-by-leonardo-i-doubt-it.html
But it looks like Christie’s has the last laugh, it went for $450.3M. You can read about it in this Times article.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/15/arts/design/leonardo-da-vinci-salvator-mundi-christies-auction.html?_r=0
There’s a remarkable auction in Hong Kong which I would very much like to have seen but since I can’t make it I was lucky that Christie’s showcased a few of these items in New York It’s art from Monet’s personal collection. This is a video and essay on Monet and his collection.
http://www.christies.com/features/The-personal-collection-of-Claude-Monet-8596-3.aspx
Here are three of the items up for bid, a black chalk drawing of boats washed up on a beach and an oil painting of three poplar trees by Monet and an illustrated letter from the artist Paul Signac.
Claude Monet - Barques échouées sur la plage
https://tinyurl.com/yco2zqrq
Claude Monet - Trois arbres à Giverny (Peupliers)
https://tinyurl.com/ycfr7utf
Paul Signac - Autograph letter to Claude Monet
https://tinyurl.com/ycgejy45
This is a link to all the items in the Hong Kong auction, you’ll see a bunch of those Japanese woodblock prints I’ve come to admire in addition to drawings and paintings by his peers.
https://tinyurl.com/y9hjvutx In addition to being a wonderful artist the man had exquisite taste.
These are some more of the things I enjoyed.
An beautiful oil painting of the Tuileries Garden in Spring, lush greenery under a blue sky with puffy clouds by Pissarro as well as a little treasure of a drawing, a self-portrait from when he was in his early twenties.
Camille Pissarro - Le Jardin des Tuileries, matinée de printemps
https://tinyurl.com/y9xyt9xn
Camille Pissarro - Autoportrait (recto); Deux esquisses d'un âne (verso) -
https://tinyurl.com/y9ul9jd2
And this small, elegant still life by Pissarro’s good friend, Cezanne.
Paul Cezanne - Poires dans une assiette blanche
https://tinyurl.com/yarnjnje
Henri Matisse - Les régates de Nice – Very colorful interior scene of a woman looking out a window at a boat race.
https://tinyurl.com/y8wc89gz
And while this isn’t Luncheon of the Boating Party it is a very nice portrait by Renoir.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Buste de femme, de profil
https://tinyurl.com/ybebspvf
This is a link to everything in the Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
http://www.christies.com/impressionist-and-modern-art-27253.aspx?saletitle=
This is a link to everything in the Impressionist and Modern Art Works on Paper Sale
http://www.christies.com/impressionist-and-modern-art-27254.aspx?saletitle=
This is a link to everything in the Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale
http://www.christies.com/impressionist-and-modern-art-27255.aspx?saletitle=
I spoke of Contemporary art, the Warhols and Rothkos and there were lots of other artists represented but as I’ve mentioned many times, this isn’t really the art I come to look at. But sometimes I find something I like, in a previous post I mentioned the Ed Ruscha Service station and in this lot I was rather taken by Wayne Thiebaud’s paintings which I find amusing. Here are two of them.
Wayne Thiebaud - Bow Ties
https://tinyurl.com/y7cyltna
Wayne Thiebaud - Desk Set
https://tinyurl.com/y9m89kjg
And if you care for this sort of thing, here are links to all the items in the two Contemporary art sessions.
Post-War & Contemporary Art Morning Session
https://tinyurl.com/ybeyuhzc
Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale
https://tinyurl.com/y7p2r2mz
Sotheby’s Impressionist sale offered paintings from the collectors Martin and Barbara Zweig. It’s a lovely collection. You can see the following five paintings in this slide show.
Paul Cézanne - Nature morte
Edgar Degas - Après le bain
Edgar Degas - Avant la course
Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Baigneuse
Pierre Bonnard - Femme accoudée avec chien et nature morte
http://www.sothebys.com/en/news-video/slideshows/2017/zweig-collection.html#
Also from their collection
Paul Gauguin - EVE BRETONNE (II)
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/impressionist-modern-art-evening-sale-n09740/lot.32.html
There were other collections with nice things in the auction as well such as this one.
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF SAMUEL J. & ETHEL LEFRAK
Vincent van Gogh - LE MOULIN À L'EAU
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/impressionist-modern-art-evening-sale-n09740/lot.46.html
And this
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF J.E. SAFRA
Vilhelm Hammershøi - INTERIOR WITH WOMAN AT PIANO, STRANDGADE 30 – I saw an exhibit of Hammershøi’s art and this one isn’t as stark as his others. He favored muted colors so this little dash of color is unusual.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/impressionist-modern-art-evening-sale-n09740/lot.7.html
As you can see there really was a lot to see.
And now let’s see the Flickrs.
Andy G.
Maid Set 42
https://www.flickr.com/photos/70247224@N00/36770196973/
Girl from the autumn park
https://www.flickr.com/photos/146436560@N03/37307751581/
Enjoying my red dress
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gisabelle89/37098665660/
2017-03-15_12-10-31
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nericutie/33330650841/
With friends, Kaz, Crystal, me and Mandy about to start the Benidorm Pride Parade
https://www.flickr.com/photos/suziecdtv/36671774004/
Mistress enjoys her good little sissy
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sissy_maid_claire/1154857865/
Maid 7
https://www.flickr.com/photos/37097125@N08/3511266360/
IMG_3027-2
https://www.flickr.com/photos/134316048@N06/36153107074/
62,000 views
https://www.flickr.com/photos/saralegs/9313666345/
Style Me Quirky Dressing Service SMQ 22.06.12-web-4
https://www.flickr.com/photos/8966444@N04/9982374233/
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
More auction previews, this week the American artists from both Sotheby’s and Christie’s.
Sotheby’s had a controversy on its hands in this auction. The Berkshire Museum wants to auction off 40 of their paintings to fund renovations and their endowment and heirs to Norman Rockwell, among others, are fighting this in court. Below are two articles concerning the case, the first is about an injunction issued against the sale and the second is an earlier article with details about the sale. Despite the injunction the paintings were still on display so I was pleased twice. I got to see them and I’m hopeful the auction won’t go through as I’d hate to see them in private hands.
http://www.artnews.com/2017/11/10/massachusetts-attorney-general-appeals-berkshire-museum-ruling-auction-set-monday/
http://nepr.net/post/art-auction-fight-moves-court-berkshire-museum-digs-fund-its-new-vision
In looking for the paintings for this post I see they’ve been removed from Sotheby’s site so I’ve searched for them on Google.
Shuffleton’s Barber Shop - Click on it to enlarge
https://www.wikiart.org/en/norman-rockwell/shuffleton-s-barbershop-1950
Blacksmith’s boy
http://www.artnet.com/artists/norman-rockwell/blacksmiths-boy-heel-and-toe-horseshoe-forging-a-e9D67yCL2dJvG84jjIVI9Q2
Here’s one that’s from another seller
Norman Rockwell - CHRISTMAS: KNIGHT LOOKING IN STAINED GLASS WINDOW
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/american-art-n09689/lot.62.html
And here are two things I liked from Bunny Mellon’s collection. The bulk of Mrs. Mellon’s collection went on the block last December and I wrote about the many beautiful things from her vast collection.
Winslow Homer - NOON-DAY REST AND TWO MEN SCYTHING: A DOUBLE-SIDED DRAWING – Pencil sketch
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/american-art-n09689/lot.39.html
Thomas Hovenden - GIRL WITH CABBAGE – Very simple and sentimental picture of a young servant holding a cabbage
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/american-art-n09689/lot.43.html
And more from the rest of the auction
Four Hudson river painters I so enjoy.
Thomas Moran - A SAND STORM, ACOMA, NEW MEXICO – A watercolor landscape inscribed to Mrs. W.A. Bell whose family Moran became friends with. This painting stayed in the family until going up for bid now.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/american-art-n09689/lot.33.html
Albert Bierstadt - INDIANS CROSSING THE COLUMBIA RIVER (INDIANS ON THE COLUMBIA RIVER, WITH MOUNT HOOD IN THE DISTANCE) – As the website describes it, another dramatic view of the majestic American West.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/american-art-n09689/lot.34.html
Sanford Robinson Gifford - VENETIAN FISHING BOATS – This time Gifford paints a scene in Venice.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/american-art-n09689/lot.21.html
Frederic Edwin Church - SOUTH AMERICAN LANDSCAPE (STUDY FOR CHIMBORAZO – This 12”x18” painting is a study for one of Church’s wall size paintings. The second link is to the actual painting Chimborazo which is 4’x7’ and lives at the Huntington Library in California.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/american-art-n09689/lot.35.html
https://seanmunger.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/chimborazo.jpg
This is a link to all the items in the Sotheby’s auction
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2017/american-art-n09689.html
Christie’s had many wonderful things as well.
Thomas Moran was well represented with 8 paintings, below are two watercolors and an oil.
Venice – You can see JMW Turner’s influence on Moran in this painting.
https://tinyurl.com/ycyrdrk3
Upper Falls of the Yellowstone -
https://tinyurl.com/ydgzg3en
Canyon of the Virgin River
https://tinyurl.com/y8hhgat6
Two more Hudson River painters
Frederic Edwin Church - A New England Lake
https://tinyurl.com/y8vus82s
Albert Bierstadt - Clear Lake, California
https://tinyurl.com/y7umshr4
Charles Demuth - Flowers: Irises – Many times I’ve raved about an exhibition of Demuth’s watercolors of flowers, fruits and vegetables. This, his Irises.
http://www.artnet.com/artists/charles-demuth/flowers-irises-eMpY9Smlqn8MLkrwSvWZyw2
Joseph Stella --Painter's Row As It Stood in the Spring of 1908 (Pittsburgh) – Very atmospheric charcoal sketch described on the website as: Stella evokes this smoky maelstrom of activity through a gestural charcoal that captures the feeling, rather than the details, of the gritty urban scene.
https://tinyurl.com/ycurz6td
Winslow Homer - Tynemouth Beach – This watercolor depicts boats on the coastline in England from one of Homer’s visits abroad.
https://tinyurl.com/ycrt2ada
There were four Norman Rockwell paintings. I liked them all but this was my favorite.
Study for 'Tom Sawyer (Huck Teaching Tom and Joe to Smoke)'
https://tinyurl.com/yanx9d79
But this is the one that brought in the biggest return, $7.3 million, well above the estimate of $4-$6 million.
What Makes It Tick? (The Watchmaker)
https://tinyurl.com/ybtlegok
And I’ll wind up with Andrew Wyeth
Heavy Snow - This watercolor utilizes vast sections of white to depict the vastness of the property around the farmhouse.
https://tinyurl.com/yadds8la
This is a link to all the items in the Christie’s American auction.
http://www.christies.com/american-art-26902.aspx?saletitle=
Wonderful things all around and now since you’ve been patient, let’s go to the Flickrs.
Andy G.
sissy debbie
https://www.flickr.com/photos/135809499%40N02/34319299314/
The legendary John Hunter as a ballerina.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/trannilicious2011/15392817935/
Horizontal Collage - Mourning Dress for Transgender Day of Remembrance
https://www.flickr.com/photos/s_a_essay/26662379459/
Pink Rose
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jessica-jane/23494761398/
May 2007 Transpitt's Garden Party ~ "1950s Housewife" Robyn and Sissy Princess Amber
https://www.flickr.com/photos/robynmichaels/2040811466/
wedding dress 0714
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gailgirl9/28141286460/
Ladyboy princess
https://www.flickr.com/photos/152202283%40N04/36849355000/
Meijimura (2)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mayuko_vienna/12848818103/
Sissymaid Sunday
https://www.flickr.com/photos/142955841%40N07/36578012394/
Prettylady Stephanie
https://www.flickr.com/photos/130283184%40N02/37140157210/
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
This week I visited the Morgan Library for an exhibition of the enormous gift given to them by Eugene V. Thaw, Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection. Thaw and his wife Clare have donated drawings to the Morgan over many years and in 1975 had promised their full collection which has now passed into the Morgan’s hands. Over 400 drawings from which 150 are on display.
This is a link to the Morgan website with a short video about the Thaws and their collection as well as a sampling of the items on display.
http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/drawn-to-greatness
This is a link to the New York Times review with a number of illustrations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/arts/design/a-gathering-of-greats-in-a-trove-of-drawings-at-the-morgan.html
This is a link to a website with many illustrations from the exhibit, a few of which I also reference below.
https://artssummary.com/2017/10/04/drawn-to-greatness-master-drawings-from-the-thaw-collection-at-the-morgan-library-museum-through-january-7-2018/
This is a link to the Morgan website with links to 20 items in the exhibit, each one with a brief audio discussion. You have to click on the artist's name to the left.
http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/online/drawn-to-greatness
Now I’ll speak about some of the things that I enjoyed. Be sure to enlarge all the illustrations.
John Constable – View of Cathanger Near Petworth – This is a wonderful landscape that opens the exhibit. The vastness of nature in all her beauty.
http://www.themorgan.org/drawings/item/122891
Vincent Van Gogh – Two Cottages at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
http://www.themorgan.org/drawings/item/247368
Vincent van Gogh, Letter to Paul Gauguin, 17 October 1888, with a sketch of Bedroom at Arles – These are really fascinating curios, there were several more in the exhibit. In the Christie’s auction there was an illustrated letter Paul Signac sent to Monet.
http://www.themorgan.org/sites/default/files/images/exhibitions/galleries/8-Van-Gogh-Autograph-letter-to-Gauguin.jpg
Caspar David Friedrich - Moonlit Landscape – Atmospheric watercolor with the full moon just above the mountains
http://www.themorgan.org/drawings/item/144365
Jacques Louis David - Study for Execution of the Sons of Brutus – I don’t see that David actually painted the execution but I did find a painting in the Louvre on the same subject, The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons. You can see it in the second link below.
http://www.themorgan.org/drawings/item/247152
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/his/CoreArt/art/resourcesb/dav_brutus.jpg
And two by the Italian painters of Venice that I enjoy so much.
Canaletto - Capriccio: Pavilion by the Lagoon. Verso: A festival gondola
http://www.themorgan.org/drawings/item/246985
Francesco Guardi - Ascent of a Balloon in Venice
http://www.themorgan.org/drawings/item/247226
And a few by my Dutch friends.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn - Four Musicians with Wind Instruments
http://www.themorgan.org/collection/drawings/247242
Jacob van Ruisdael - Ruined Cottage
http://www.themorgan.org/drawings/item/247446
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout - Seated Youth in a Hat, with His Chin Cupped in His Left Hand – This is a new artist to me and I was taken by his depiction of this boy with his hand covering his mouth.
http://www.themorgan.org/drawings/item/247395
And a pair of pendant portraits by the master, Ingres.
Portrait of Adolphe-Marcellin Defresne
http://www.themorgan.org/drawings/item/266255
Portrait of Mme Adolphe-Marcellin Defresne, née Sophie Leroy
http://www.themorgan.org/drawings/item/267055
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - Portrait of a Man Seated in a Chair – I thought this appropriate to follow Ingres as I found it evocative of his portraits. This feeling was justified by the wall card which also called out the similarity but pointed out that Corot’s portraits are far less formal than Ingres.
http://www.themorgan.org/drawings/item/246994
This was an enormous exhibit and I could really list everything as it was all fine but I think this will give you a good sense of the quality of this gift from the Thaws.
Let’s see what quality we can mine from the Flickrs now.
Andy G.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/133827690@N07/36765746061/
22405598_10154858734476231_2295768001845186026_n
https://www.flickr.com/photos/133827690@N07/37961461432/
White 1
https://www.flickr.com/photos/felicitepics/37566663982/
Victoria Secret Pink Sissy Candy 125
https://www.flickr.com/photos/candystavroulakis/37670429576/
Sissymaid Sunday
https://www.flickr.com/photos/142955841@N07/37664719416/
Where to?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nicolerosecd/28479807435/
High beam
https://www.flickr.com/photos/laurenclose/37178766850/
Just out for a sissy stroll.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sissyplaything/36779560250/
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/15417269@N06/30618813502/
sissy andrea
https://www.flickr.com/photos/98488873@N03/9227285868/
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
Well, here we are, our first day in the Winter wonderland. It’s been snowing all day although we only seem to have received a few inches here in Northern New Jersey. My feelings about the snow coincide with my general feelings about cold weather, I’m against it. Being retired now I also look at it from an economic viewpoint. I always thought to myself when sitting in my living room and heard the heat come on that it was my money that was burning in the furnace. Similarly, when I see the snow I compute the cost of having someone else take it away. But I am grateful that I have someone else to take it away as I have absolutely no desire to ever do that particular chore again. I find myself thinking about Spring training in baseball which I tell myself is only two months away. Actually baseball is in my mind because I’ve finally gotten around to watching Ken Burns documentary on the sport. It was on PBS in 1994 over 9 straight nights, if memory serves, and I knew I wasn’t going to devote 18 hours over 9 nights to watching it so I taped it on my VCR. I never did get around to watching it, along with numerous other videotapes and thought to myself I would catch up when I retired. I also have Johnny Carson’s last four shows on tape which was broadcast even longer ago taking place in 1992. When I decided I wanted to see the documentary I first looked on Youtube and was pleased to discover it was available. I watched the first three episodes and then was disappointed to note there were no episodes available so I brought out the videotapes. I wasn’t sure they would still play having not been used in 23 years but happily they did although I had trouble rewinding the second tape. I’m in what they refer to in the series as the sixth inning, when the color line in baseball was finally broken with Jackie Robinson’s ascent to the Brooklyn Dodgers. The series is very enjoyable, lots of old photos and films and interviews with personalities and reminiscences from people directly involved in the game. I especially enjoy the interviews with Buck O’Neil, the first baseman and manager of the Kansas City Monarchs in the old Negro leagues. A few years ago Burns filmed a tenth inning which dealt with, among other things, the steroids era, but I’m not sure if or when I’ll get to see that. Not too sure I really want to either.
Let’s move on to more cultural topics. This week I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art for their current blockbuster exhibit, Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer. It’s an enormous exhibition, with more than 200 works, and a core group of 133 drawings by Michelangelo himself, the largest number ever assembled, on loan from some 50 front-rank collections. It filled a number of galleries and was laid out in a way that made my normal museum navigation of constantly turning right from the entrance and then back difficult to follow but I’m confident I didn’t miss anything. The show was composed of art from Michelangelo as well as his peers, students and associates in his workshop. It was mostly drawings but there were paintings and sculptures as well. It was very crowded, especially in the first gallery, to the point that I wondered if I would be able to go through it. But the crowd ebbed and flowed and I was able to get close to everything.
One highlight is a recreation of the Sistine ceiling at one quarter of the original. It was impressive although it was difficult for me to view it having to look directly over my head and keep turning as the figures face different directions. I was there for more than an hour and three quarters. The Met has to be pleased by the crowds and by the Universal acclaim from the media. The Met website doesn’t have a lot of images but below are other links that will fill in the blanks as to what’s to be seen.
These two links are both 11 minute videos without narration that take you through the entire exhibit. To see the faux Sistine ceiling go to the end of the first video which will automatically continue on to the second video and pick up another minute or so of the ceiling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUqDHoNbxIg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yxykLs5Q18
This is a link to the New York Times review with a number of illustrations as follows, I especially enjoyed the Cleopatra’s and the two sculptures. There is a video with the curator of the exhibit as well:
“Portrait of Andrea Quaratesi,” The British Museum, London
“The Archers,” Queen Elizabeth’s Royal collection
The Fall of Phaeton, Queen Elizabeth’s Royal collection
The painting, “Venus Kissed by Cupid,” by Michele di Jacopo Tosini, after a Michelangelo design;
The sculpture “Apollo-David (unfinished),” by Michelangelo
“Cartoon of Venus Kissed by Cupid,” attributed to Michelangelo and Workshop upon which the painting is based.
The sculpture, “Young Archer”
The drawing, “Studies for the Dome of Saint Peter’s.” Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille
“Roman Soldiers, cartoon fragment for the Lower Left Part of the Crucifixion of Saint Peter in the Pauline Chapel,” a full-size preparatory drawing for a fresco. It is the most important surviving monumental cartoon by Michelangelo. Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples
The drawings, “Cleopatra in Bust Length” and “Sketch for Cleopatra” are on reverse sides of the same sheet, Casa Buonarroti, Florence; Casa Buonarroti, Florence
The drawing, “Pietà for Vittoria Colonna,” Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/arts/design/michelangelo-review-metropolitan-museum-of-art-carmen-bambach.html?_r=0
This link shows, among other items:
Michelangelo’s painting, The Torment of Saint Anthony, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth
Daniele da Volterra’s painting of Michelangelo, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
And this truly remarkable relic,W
Model of the Vault of the Chapel of the King of France. Fabbrica di San Pietro in Vaticano, Vatican City created in wood by Michelangelo and the carpenters of the Fabbrica di San Pietro in Vaticano.
https://artssummary.com/2017/11/19/michelangelo-divine-draftsman-and-designer-at-the-met-fifth-avenue-november-13-2017-february-12-2018/
This link shows all 14 items loaned from Queen Elizabeth’s Royal Collection with descriptive comments for each.
https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/near-you/metropolitan-museum-of-art-new-york#/
As the Times article says, this is the must see exhibit of the season and I’m glad I was able to go. I’ll probably go back before it closes.
Now let’s see if we find any masterpieces at the Flickrs.
Andy G.
ariel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22704178@N07/13918365238/
IMGP5412
https://www.flickr.com/photos/134164999@N08/36990481560/
Sissybrianna's outdoor adventure task
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sissybrianna/36406392641/
IMG_1161
https://www.flickr.com/photos/137498113@N06/36600093202/
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/jasmin963/29800614791/
Prissy sissy slut
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyukslut/26211027073/
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/sallyjj/37031150201/
Service With A Smile :)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/30517065@N00/16354323137/
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/132621551@N07/33384042494/
I love wearing a pretty dress with a petticoat
https://www.flickr.com/photos/53516713@N06/18014852911/
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Up until Tuesday morning we only had about an inch of snow in the city. But 15 or more miles south they got up to a foot in some areas. Tue. morning we got about 4 inches by dawn, & about another inch the rest of the day in the city. South of they city got another 8-10 inches.
1-2 more inches of snow are expected tonight in the city.
It got down to a breezy 10F with a wind chill near 0F this morning. Now it's up to a balmy 17F. It started to get a bit cold in the apartment last night but by then it was near bedtime so was able to stay plenty warm enough under the blankets rather than turn up the heat. By mid-winter after I'm used to it, I probably won't even notice the chill & probably feel uncomfortably warm at 65F.
The cats could cuddle up with me or each other if they get cold, but they usually like it cool, & hate heat from being raised in a place that must have AC on hot days for my COPD. Except on very warm days, they come to cuddle & hang out every time I lay down. But it don't last. After a couple hours, they're back up, & poking around the place or with each other. They've learned I won't play much if I'm laying down, but will still cuddle.
When I got up today, & the place was the coldest, one cat was sleeping on the kitchen chair (he knows it was almost breakfast time), & the other was asleep at the kitchen window, not the warmest places here in the morning. It was probably in the mid 40s F in the kitchen this morning, while the bed area was about 10 degrees warmer.
Wearing a pair of sweatshirts over an undershirt & heavy sweatpants (pink ones), I feel plenty warm. It just hit 61F in here. By cooking a little food, making some coffee, turning on the computer, & the fridge kicking on after opening it (gives heat off the back), the place warmed up quite a bit without having to turn up any heat. The kitchen went from the coldest room in the place to the warmest in about an hour.
Yeah, you have to loosen up tapes by rewinding them once or twice if they've been setting a few years. It'll be easier on the machine's mechanism, tape, & heads to loosen them up first. Tapping them on your knee, then flipping them over & tapping them again a few times helps loosen them up too. It also helps with those old audio cassette tapes.
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
This week brought a few more snowstorms albeit with minor accumulations although not minor enough to prevent the need to move it away, as well as pretty bitter cold weather which certainly made for interesting walks what with ice forming on the sidewalks. There’s more precipitation in the forecast tonight which I’m hoping will just be rain. And we haven’t even come to the actual winter yet. Be prepared for weekly grumbles.
This week I visited the Met Breuer, the old site of the Whitney Museum, for: Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed.
Munch was a Norwegian painter and printmaker of the 19th and 20th Century. He painted in many styles, naturalism, impressionism and symbolism to name a few, and Wikipedia mentions that his expressionistic style in some of his paintings influenced German Expressionism at the turn of the 20th Century. He is a difficult artist to warm up to, his paintings are not especially pleasing to look at and his themes are downbeat to say the least, anxiety, alienation and sickness. He was not a happy man. That would be illustrated by the titles of some of his works such as, The Scream, Despair, Restless Mood and Sick Mood at Sunset. And being extremely prolific, he painted multiple versions of these paintings, some identical and some completely different. This is a link to his Wikipedia biography. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard_Munch
These are some of his paintings with my comments.
The Munch museum hosted an exhibit that brought Munch together with Van Gogh although I’m not sure I see the similarities. Munch painted muted, murky dark canvases while Vincent’s paintings glow with color.
Starry Night – From the Von Der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany. This is a muted version without much evidence of the eponymous stars.
https://tinyurl.com/yd6cpsns
Starry Night – This one is from the Munch Museum and much brighter and closer in style to Van Gogh.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8c/bb/dc/8cbbdc7c21f3f23554aabc0d8d5cba08.jpg
Starry Night – Van Gogh from MOMA. I think you would agree which of these three paintings is the most appealing.
https://tinyurl.com/yay8rg63
Moonlight – I didn’t notice the moon in this painting until I read the card on the wall which pointed out that it is seen in reflection in the window. A stark depiction of a woman in a black brown outfit and her black shadow on the building behind her. Rather menacing I find.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edvard_Munch_-_Moonlight_(1893).jpg
Inheritance – This is a good example of what I mean when I say many of his paintings were not pleasant. This is a macabre depiction of a woman with her dying child on her lap. The accompanying text explains the symbolism intended and the possibility of an analogy to Mary and Jesus.
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/asset/inheritance/PwGlxlHT9yVvMg?hl=en
Red Virginia Creeper – This odd painting is at least colorful, the wall card explained that the red creeper is covering or smothering the house while the text at this website speaks of the man fleeing, his head seemingly decapitated by the bottom line of the painting. More symbolism here.
https://www.edvardmunch.org/red-virginia-creeper.jsp
This is from the Guardian newspaper in the UK with a number of captioned illustrations.
Of all the works in the exhibit I found his self-portraits, and he painted many, the most satisfying. On this site you can see, among others, Self-Portrait with Cigarette. Munch looking rather sinister, appearing seemingly as a player on stage with smoke wafting. You can also see the painting behind the eponymous title of the exhibit, Self-Portrait Between the Clock and the Bed. Also, Sick Mood at Sunset, Despair, which is a precursor of The Scream.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/nov/22/edvard-munch-between-the-clock-and-the-bed-in-pictures
The Storm – Another precursor to The Scream with a series of women in the same pose.
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/80644
And here’s the version of The Scream on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/340029
Madonna – Munch painted several versions of this painting but this one from the private collection of Catherine Woodard and Nelson Blitz Jr. was the one that caught my attention. It’s rather unfinished which when compared to the other versions works in its favor.
https://www.pubhist.com/works/26/large/edvard_munch_madonna_1895.jpg
And I’ll close with this early self-portrait, a rather normal looking depiction of the artist.
Self-Portrait with brushes.
https://www.wikiart.org/en/edvard-munch/self-portrait-with-brushes-1904
This is the press release for the exhibit.
https://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2017/edvard-munch
The Met offered no images for the exhibit but this website has a number of them. The exhibit was previously in San Francisco.
https://artssummary.com/2017/06/16/edvard-munch-between-the-clock-and-the-bed-at-san-francisco-museum-of-modern-art-june-24-october-9-2017/
This is a review of the exhibit from the New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/arts/design/edvard-munch-met-breuer-scandinavia-house-review.html?_r=0
So, not an artist I’m particularly inclined to seek out but I’m glad I visited the exhibit as there were some things I found enjoyable. But I feel I need to add this comment from my brother who has much more a sense for art from a critical standpoint. I asked if he had seen the exhibit and he said, “Waste of time. I don’t get it at all. The work doesn’t even look like it was done by a professional artist.” So, some insight into my mixed emotions about the exhibit.
If Munch is not to your taste perhaps you’ll find something you like in this week’s Flickrs.
Andy G.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/justplainrachel/772809805/
Verena Nova :)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/148469844@N03/34000674186/
My newest wig -full of length mirror view.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jaminheelz/37924165906/
Maid going downstairs
https://www.flickr.com/photos/msemilytv/3278009467/
Susie798
https://www.flickr.com/photos/24899087@N05/37875013996/
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/145992798@N08/36672665994/
Mandy
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stephsdressingservice/37540712636/
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/lololatex71/37927890751/
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