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Is it really the Fall Flickr already? Well, just about.
Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
Yes, regretfully summer ends here in New Jersey tonight at 9:54 PM. The seasons come and go far too quickly to suit me. I guess that’s not true of winter which seems to just go on and on each year. I’m hoping the dire forecasts for lots of snow turn out to be inexact, I don’t look forward to the inconvenience or the financial aspects of removing it.
This week I visited the Rubin Museum of Art at 150 West 17th Street in Manhattan. The museum is the site of the old Barneys New York, a clothing store turned into a museum when Barneys went bankrupt in 2004. Barneys had a six story spiral staircase which was preserved when renovations took place to turn it into the Rubin museum.
This is a link to the museum website with pictures of the staircase and a discussion about what’s on each of the floors.
http://rubinmuseum.org/blog/journey-spiral-staircase-curatorial-director-jorrit-britschgi
I visited Barneys more than 40 years ago when I went there to buy a suit for an interview with the Company that would be a long time employer and the first serious job I had after working for my father, holding down temporary positions and being on unemployment for a year. Life was very different back then, I received unemployment benefits of $70 a week and was able to live quite nicely on that. With three roommates we rented a four bedroom home on a substantial piece of property for $375 a month. I was never much of a drinker but I did like to go to the local tavern in the afternoons and have a few 15 cents beers while I partook of the free cheese and crackers and pretzels. It was a very different life. I remember that for the interview I cut off my very long hair and shaved my beard so as to make a good impression and of course I needed to buy a suit to wear for the interview. Having purchased it, as I was walking out of Barneys a young man approached to enter the store and when our eyes met he looked at me and said, hope you get the job. Clearly it was obvious why I was there. I also have to laugh, I mentioned shaving my beard, and when I opened the door to the office where I was interviewing, the first person I saw had a beard. As did every male employee aside from the man who would become my immediate boss and subsequently a life-long friend.
The museum originated from a private collection of Himalayan art which Donald and Shelley Rubin had been assembling since 1974 and is filled with Tibetan art. I’ve been there a few times and it’s always an interesting visit. The main exhibit was dedicated to Padmasambhava, also known as Guru Rinpoche, an 8th-century Indian Buddhist master widely venerated as a "Second Buddha" by adherents of Tibetan Buddhism in Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, the Himalayan states of India. Among his talents, he could see time in a panoptical, wraparound way: past, present and future simultaneously. He realized people were prone to be crass and forgetful, so he took the precaution of planting emergency supplies of his teachings in secret places for rediscovery, by generations of teachers called “treasurer revealers.” The exhibition was filled with images of him and his treasure revealers. The museum website doesn’t have a specific gallery of objects in the exhibitions so I’ve linked to a number of websites with reviews and illustrations. It’s really difficult to appreciate the detail that went into these works, so small that the museum offers magnifying glasses to help see the images better. And there is always a lot to see as these images usually tell a story of some sort.
This is an article from the New York Times with a very favorable review of the exhibit with a few illustrations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/09/arts/design/review-rubin-museum-future.html
This is another review with more illustrations.
https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/new-york/articles/at-the-rubin-museum-ancient-buddhist-artworks-teach-us-not-to-fear-the-future/
And this is an installation view with many illustrations.
https://artssummary.com/2018/02/08/the-second-buddha-master-of-time-at-the-rubin-museum-of-art-february-2-2018-january-7-2019/
This is a link to the Rubin website with an audio tour describing different pictures.
http://rubinmuseum.org/mediacenter/the-second-buddha-master-of-time
I also went back to the Ronin Gallery for their current exhibition, 47 RONIN - KUNIYOSHI'S BIOGRAPHIES OF THE LOYAL RETAINERS. These woodblock prints tell a story of a real incident in the 18th Century which has been portrayed many times since in all the arts. It was made into a film in 2013 starring Keanu Reeves and a mostly Japanese cast which did not get especially good reviews. This is the actual story as shown on the website.
The celebrated legend of the 47 loyal retainers stems from the historical event known as the Ako incident (1701-1704). Continuously illustrated, adapted, parodied, and performed since the 18th century, the Ako incident entered Edo’s popular culture through the literary rendition Kanadehon Chushingura (1748). The story goes as follows: The shogun appointed Asano, a young lord from the country, to receive the emperor’s ambassadors. The unscrupulous Kira was assigned to teach Asano the ways of court etiquette, but insulted Asano so deeply that the country lord drew his sword in the shogun’s palace. When this offense mandated ritual suicide, Asano’s 47 samurai became ronin, or samurai without a master. Devastated by the loss and outraged by Kira’s trickery, the retainers swore to avenge their master’s death. After much planning, they staged a night attack, killing Kira before turning themselves in and meeting their own death. To this day, the 47 ronin remain enshrined at Sengaku Temple beside their beloved master.
All the wood block prints are of similar format, each shows a Ronin in action with an essay in Japanese describing their life. This is a link to the first in the series, Tokuda Magodayu Shigemori. Off to the right of the image and above the artist’s name and description of the print is the “next” button which you can click on to see each subsequent prints in slideshow fashion. If you scroll down the page you will see 3 drop down menus. If you click on the + sign next to “About The Art” you’ll see a brief description of the Ronin portrayed. The first Ronin is described as, Tokuda Magodayu Shigemori was an expert at Japanese fencing. He took the oath to be a member with his son, Tadaemon. Even though he was 50 years old, he fought valiantly.
https://www.roningallery.com/exhibitions/47-ronin/37
This is a link to the website homepage if you want to explore all the art online which is considerable.
https://www.roningallery.com/
This is a link to a long essay on Wikipedia about the legend of the 47 Ronin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty-seven_r%C5%8Dnin
I always enjoy my visits to the Gallery, it’s a small setting and usually I’m the only one viewing the prints. I look forward to my next visit.
This is an interesting article, “Double Dutch: This Old Masters Dealer Has Discovered Yet Another Previously Unknown Rembrandt.” It’s always exciting when a painting by a revered artist is found. I find this interesting as an old bound volume of newspapers I own has an article on John C. Van Dyke, an art expert, who wrote a book in 1923 claiming the majority of paintings attributed to Rembrandt at the time were not by him. He received a lot of flak but history proved him to be accurate in many cases. One of the paintings mentioned in the article is owned by the Met, Old Woman Cutting Her Nails, and the attribution was changed from Rembrandt to “Style of Rembrandt.” It was also at times attributed to Nicolaes Maes, a pupil, and Abraham van Dijck, an associate. The painting is currently not on view. The first link is the article, the second link is essay on Wikipedia about the painting with an illustration. The third link is an article from Newsweek from 1991 which discusses the Rembrandt Research Project which has been down labeling his paintings since it was founded in Holland in 1967. The article states that there were 1000 of his paintings in 1900 but by 2000, based on work by the Project, that figure would drop to 250.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/jan-six-previously-unknown-rembrandt-rembrandt-1350119
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffer_little_children_to_come_unto_me#/media/File:Rembrandt-Young-children.jpg
https://www.newsweek.com/real-deal-rembrandt-203214
And this is really great news, “Met plans to leave Breuer building, making way for the Frick.”
The Frick will be able to hang their art in a much better setting, better lighting and so much more space. Bigger exhibits and more of the art that usually doesn't get exhibited. The Met saves money and the Frick's art isn't unavailable for several years while they do their expansion renovations. I look forward to the opening.
https://tinyurl.com/y7a5nr6t
Now let’s see what’s new at the Flickrs.
Andy G.
gay sissy 90
https://www.flickr.com/photos/134849928@N07/43114380805/
夏天3
https://www.flickr.com/photos/62540245@N02/39382456564/
Chinese Dress No1
https://www.flickr.com/photos/100293865@N08/37141215651/
2017-10-03_10-41-57
https://www.flickr.com/photos/125427358@N02/36811894173/
JKY6838PRS2013
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jiang-kayee-asian-femdoll/35154667486/
Floral flare minidress
https://www.flickr.com/photos/yuuki/40327610931/
Hi? I’m Kristy, Korean Crossdresser.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/153853850@N04/38229914612/
A pink princess of the sunshine_03
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mika_ayukawa/3114199045/
Nagaoka Tenmangu Shrine, Kyoto
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mayuko_vienna/41548189082/
July 2018 - Sparkle weekend in Manchester
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139558039@N02/43920421332/
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Thanks again Andyg for your Art lesson and gallery visits. I look forward to your post each week as a chance to see both the art and galleries I have no access to right now and I like your comments also ( your first job interview was similar to mine although my father insisted I cut my hair long before that). You know the old story, "under my roof under my rules" and so that is how it was for my first formative years until I was in my late teens, then I somewhat rebelled about the hair rule in high school.
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My first full time job interview was just the opposite. I probably wouldn't have got the job in short hair & a suit, even though everybody who worked there had short hair & a suit.
http://unclegadget.com/media/signs.mp3
It was a high-end audio equipment store & service center.
As a regular there, looking for deals on equipment for the bands or buying odds & ends for them, I was talking to the owner's son (who worked there) about being tired of being on the road with bands, & being shipped out of town working for the pipe organ company all the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNBMt1Q4yFU
I was going to quit it all soon, so I could get to go home at the end of the day.
He asked how soon was I quitting. I said 2-4 weeks notice after I find a full time job just working in the city. He hired me right on the spot... hair down to my shoulders, stubble on my chin, holes in my jeans, & wearing an old Frank Zappa T-shirt.
http://unclegadget.com/media/Zappa.mp4
I started working part time there the next day, & full time about 2 weeks later.
I was the only one not required to wear a suit. Technically I was in the service department, but didn't have to wear their blue shirt & blue dress pants uniform either. I just had to dress neat. No old shirts or worn out jeans.
It turns out I was specifically hired to attract bands & radio personalities that were shopping at their competitors for audio equipment. Their competitors wore jeans, not suits or uniforms. It worked too. I already knew a lot of the local bands & radio DJs. So they did come in when I told them I work there. I even got them a sound/lights installation & service contract for Buffalo's first disco.
But looks aren't everything. The owner said I was the most polite & friendly employee he ever had. When dealing with customers, being naturally polite & friendly seems to help.
http://unclegadget.com/media/naturally.mp3
Most intelligent people can spot a fake. I also knew all about the stuff they sell or service, so when someone had a technical question, I had a good answer.
Even when I started as a DJ, there was no dressed interview. I was just wearing old jeans & a t-shirt (didn't care much for my boy clothes). Working as an independent installing sound in a club, the owner insisted he wanted me to DJ there. Although I DJ'd some events, I did not want nightclub DJ work, & was not qualified to be a nightclub DJ. And disco was the thing in clubs in those days -- I hated disco. It turns out that's why he wanted me. To attract the rock-club, & alternative types. He just wanted a guy with long hair & beat up jeans in there who had a lot of band or rock friends, that wasn't gonna fry the sound system.
http://unclegadget.com/media/jeans.mp3
LOL, a year later I was considered one of the most popular disco DJs in the area, even though I had long hair, & frequently wore a "Disco Sucks" T-shirt on the job. My excuse? In a radio interview (1970s) I said, "I don't play disco, I play dance & alternative music."
http://unclegadget.com/media/grey.mp3
Breathing a lot better most days since the humidty & heat is lower. I have AC but it's too small for very hot or humid days to keep up enough with COPD.
But I'm not looking for bigger AC that will run up my electric bill more. With the AC running, & a bigger O2 machine, I just had the biggest electric bills in almost 20 years this summer. The O2 machine gives off a ton of heat, which makes the AC work harder & longer. Also on warm or humid days, air pollution is higher, which is hard on anyone with COPD, the elderly, young children, some pets, & many animals.
Interestingly, in 2017, things had gotten so efficient, that my electric & heat bills were the lowest in my life for almost the whole year. But that all changed when I needed oxygen by Christmas. A little secret -- I almost didn't make it to the new year. That was my third near-death experience.
So even though I'm working more, & earning more again, I'm still in debt up to my eyeballs because it's costing me a lot more just to stay alive.
Hopefully now that it gets a little cooler, energy & other costs will go down for a while so I can catch up with some debts a little. So I welcome the cooler weather. Unless my COPD gets worse again (which it will eventually), I breathe better most colder or cold dry days, & will save a lot of money until it gets very cold.
There's one thing nice about my place. I don't have to take care of the snow. With COPD I can't go out anyway. People drop stuff off for me to work on, or I work remotely online. Editing, mixing, & streaming for work is done at home too. I have people carry stuff up & down the stairs for me. Most days it would be too hard to get up & down the stairs even with oxygen.
So I don't have to deal with snow. I still keep the heat down very low at bedtime, but under the blankets you don't feel the cold. Getting up can be a chilling experience until the place slowly warms up though.
The building's fire alarm went off last week at the worst possible time.
http://unclegadget.com/media/fire.mp3
My breathing real was bad. Thinking I might have to evacuate, I grab my wallet, phone, keys, & put on my shoes. By the time I did that, I was so out of breath, I had to sit for 5 minutes on oxygen to catch my breath. It was a false alarm. By the time I caught my breath, the fire alarm was reset. But if it was a real fire, I probably would have keeled over halfway down the stairs, or died in the fire. On a cooler drier day, I may make it out easier.
If things get any worse, I might have to move far out of town to live closer to what little family & friends I have left that are still alive... if I can find some place cheap enough there that allows my cats. Then I also have to find someone to move me & my stuff cheap. I'll probably just leave everything behind but basics. Bedroom, clothes, computers, & kitchen items.
Most rentals come with a fridge & stove so don't have to move them. Maybe move just enough stuff that will fit in a van or pickup truck.
Originally I liked this area because it was close to everything, to work, to the store, & a few friends. The friends have moved away or passed on. I can't go out, & only on a very good day can make it down the stairs. Being close to stores doesn't matter anymore. My work comes to me, is done at home, or online.
There's nothing to keep me in the area anymore except that the place is cheap, & I don't know how I would ever move without a lot of free help -- that I can't find. Because of my condition, it is dangerous, & possibly life-threatening for me to stay here much longer. But wherever I live, I can't take care of snow, or a lawn. I still cook & clean by myself, but it goes slower with COPD, even with oxygen.
If I could find a friendly roommate, they'd have most of the place to their self as long as I had a bedroom big enough for my computers, a small table to sit at to work on stuff, & had a decent closet. Maybe I'd even pay more than my share if they're willing to help more with chores & stuff, or give them extra to assist with my work or projects.
http://unclegadget.com/media/64.mp3
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
Well, our first week of Fall has been cool and rainy and I hope it’s not an omen of what’s to come. The weather today is dry and warm and that’s the forecast for the week so I will enjoy it while I can. This is an early Flickr as I’m heading to the Jersey Shore for a day with a friend.
One morning this week I walked downtown and over to the far West Side of Manhattan just short of 11th Avenue. Any further and I would have been in the Hudson river. I visited the Zwirner and Marlborough galleries. The Marlborough exhibition is, Red Grooms Handiwork, 1955-2018, curated by Dan Nadel. Grooms is a contemporary American artist, 81 years old and still working and creative. I’m not fond of many contemporary artists but he is hands down my favorite, someone with a real sense of humor who creates installations, multi-material compositions in three dimensions, some on an enormous scale. For an earlier show he created a full size bus filled with people as well as a porno book store which appears in this exhibit as well. This is in addition to his paintings, drawings and small constructions, some of which hang on walls while others are freestanding. What he is also known for is his enormous home run installation for the Miami Marlins which is triggered when a Marlin hits a home run. You can see it in action here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfnZV9KPJ4g It’s also a bit controversial, when it was first installed the baseball purists were horrified and now Derek Jeter would like to have it taken down and put in storage but Red isn’t going to let this happen so quickly. You can read about it here. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article201240794.html I think it’s great and I love Red, I’ve been to a number of his exhibits and they’re always a lot of fun. This is a link to the gallery website with illustrations. http://www.marlboroughcontemporary.com/exhibitions/red-grooms-handiwork
I’ll also point out some of the things I especially liked.
This is a slideshow showing the bookstore.
https://www.webstagram.one/media/BnxroSTBiGL
Buster Keaton and friends, a hanging three dimensional construction.
http://www.marlboroughcontemporary.com/content/exhibitions/526/buster-keaton-and-friends-by-red-grooms-marlborough-contemporary-new-york-gallery.jpg
Gretchen Meets Calder's Apple Monster – freestanding.
http://www.artvalue.com/image.aspx?PHOTO_ID=1969409
Walking the dogs – painted canvas, papier-mâché and metal chain on wood support
https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/NYR/2012_NYR_02598_0168_000(red_grooms_walking_the_dogs).jpg
Shoot the Moon - colored inks, paper movie with movie scroll
http://www.marlboroughcontemporary.com/content/exhibitions/526/shoot-the-moon-by-red-grooms-marlborough-contemporary-new-york-gallery.jpg
Rat from No Gas - composition and sheet, lithograph
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/64869
I’m disappointed that I can’t find more samples on the Internet, it was a large collection and there were other things I would have liked to link to but this should give you some idea of what he’s all about.
The Zwirner was an interesting show but I was a little disappointed and I’m not sure exactly why. Part of the reason is that there are two Bosch paintings but neither are actually by him. There are only a few images on the website and I really had to do some searching to find things that I wanted to link to. Below are some of the more interesting things I found. I think it’s a very eclectic mix.
Jan Brueghel the Younger - The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Two interpretations of the same topic, one by Brueghel and the next by Martin Schongauer.
http://www.janbrueghel.net/sites/default/files/styles/node_display/public/objects/pic12.jpg?itok=peEsvA3D
Martin Schongauer – The Temptation of Saint Anthony
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/84751
Alfred Kubin – The Pond – When I saw this it reminded me of Edward Gorey and Charles Addams although it’s clearly more sinister. It’s the giant owl, at least I think it’s an owl, that makes the picture so interesting to me.
https://images.curiator.com/images/t_x/art/f4316e0cf4bbe28bbaf48a120604dce6/alfred-kubin-the-pond.jpg
Leonor Fini - Painting and Architecture – Fini was a 20th Century artist, born in Argentina who I’ve included here because a friend of mine knew her and she was an interesting lady as you can see from her Wikipedia page. Artist, author, costume designer and friends with many major artists of the 20th Century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonor_Fini
https://images.curiator.com/images/t_x/art/jym8xw0ku1tgyt6mrwef/leonor-fini-la-peinture-et-larchitecture-1938.jpg
Salvator Rosa – La Strega or The Witch – I thought this a very bold representation of the witch in full throated witchery.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/54/ab/f2/54abf26b045ed0f4638cf6544f9eb465.jpg
Tiziano Vecelli, called Titian - Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist – Always a treat to see a Titian. I had to stand back a little when I first viewed as when I was too close it seemed a little washed out, something not noticeable at all in this image.
https://tinyurl.com/ybjh6yh4
Giorgio de Chirico - La Grande Torre – De Chirico was a 20th Century Italian painter who had his greatest successes with his early metaphysical paintings and then lost favor with his later work when he turned to neo-baroque style, ornate imagery. This infuriated him and according to Wikipedia, produced backdated "self-forgeries" both to profit from his earlier success, and as an act of revenge—retribution for the critical preference for his early work. This is his Wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_de_Chirico
https://tinyurl.com/ya3bn38h
Piero Di Cosimo - The Finding of Vulcan on the Island of Lemnos – This was the only painting that was identified as to the owner, the Wadsworth Atheneum.
https://tinyurl.com/ydx8slt8
Francisco Goya – The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters – There were four Goyas in the show, all good, and I chose this one to link.
https://tinyurl.com/y9gcgtbq
Salvador Dali – Landscape With Telephones on a Plate – Dali is not a favorite but his paintings can be playful and fun and I thought that this which is exactly as described was interesting.
https://uploads2.wikiart.org/images/salvador-dali/landscape-with-telephones-on-a-plate.jpg
Rene Magritte - The Break in the Clouds – Magritte is another playful artist and to me his paintings don’t necessarily have a hidden meaning, they just exist on another plane. I took a picture of this in the gallery so in theory it should appear at the very end of this post.
The exhibition was done in conjunction with the dealer, Nicholas Hall, and this is a link to his website with a slide show showing additional paintings and some explanatory text.
http://www.nicholashjhall.com/projects/endless-enigma-eight-centuries-of-fantastic-art?view=slider
Quite some time ago I went to a Frick exhibition of the Swiss artist Jean Etienne Liotard; it had a portrait of Marie Antoinette as a child which was exquisite. I think it was one of the best exhibitions I’ve ever seen. This article is about an exhibition overseas and the pastel illustration of the Chocolate Girl is absolutely gorgeous.
http://artdaily.com/news/107902/The-most-beautiful-pastel-ever-seen--The-Chocolate-Girl-by-Jean--tienne-Liotard-is-focus-of-exhibition
Andy G.
4th step – I haven’t seen this in years
https://www.flickr.com/photos/80290642@N04/11225467116/
Pink prissy sissy slut at your service
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyukslut/43080135635/
Practice at Debbie's July 2018
https://www.flickr.com/photos/saralegs/42924582075/
IMG_1406
https://www.flickr.com/photos/10792226@N00/43511684682/
Gani_MG_6368
https://www.flickr.com/photos/20905379@N05/6455428393/
Wonderful Vana
https://www.flickr.com/photos/31465024@N06/7887685718/
100_1507
https://www.flickr.com/photos/vicky_tv/36769673720/
DSC02259
https://www.flickr.com/photos/claire122/44055338091/
Staying in on Saturday night
https://www.flickr.com/photos/8692217@N07/44132707281/
Sissy_1234
https://www.flickr.com/photos/132193244@N05/30287671298/
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
We’re in the midst of another beautiful stretch of weather, it had been sunny and mild the last few days although today was rather gloomy and damp. No rain but it looked like it wanted to rain all day. We’ll see if the pleasant forecast holds for the rest of the week.
I visited the Met this week for their current exhibition, Delacroix. Delacroix was a 19th Century French Romanticist who greatly influenced the Impressionists and others who followed him. In the Times review of the show Picasso is quoted as saying about him, “That bastard. He’s really good.” Cezanne said, “You can find all of us … in Delacroix.” van Gogh, an ardent admirer, said of him, “The mood of colors and tone was at one with meaning.” He was very prolific and painted all types of subjects, landscapes, portraits, historical paintings, religious themes and book illustrations among others. As the Times review and the others lament, this exhibition, which originated in the Louvre, doesn’t include his greatest works which are enormous wall size paintings too fragile to travel from the Louvre, although there are a number of large paintings on display. It was an enormous selection filling 12 galleries and it took me close to two hours to work my way through it. This is his page from Wikipedia which explores all the different phases of his career and has many illustrations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix
This is a link to the museum website with images from the exhibit.
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/objects?exhibitionId=794db332-ad42-4bb9-b81e-2d1d602d947f#!?perPage=100&offset=0
These are three reviews of the show from the NY Times, New York Magazine, The New Yorker and two pieces from the Art Daily Blog. The first blog describes the manner in which the show is mounted which is chronologically and the second goes through the entire exhibit discussing it. All have illustrations of the paintings.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/arts/design/delacroix-review-metropolitan-museum-of-art.html
http://www.vulture.com/2018/09/what-was-delacroix-doing-breaking-art-history-in-half.html
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/01/delacroixs-high-performance
http://artdaily.com/news/107640/The-Met-opens-the-first-North-American-retrospective-devoted-to-Eug-egrave-ne-Delacroix-
https://tinyurl.com/y8jpj43d
These are some of the things I want to highlight.
Sunset – I think this small watercolor is my favorite. Probably because it’s so much like Turner’s, the colors and texture coming together in a burst of light.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/342992
Jewish Woman of Tangier – And I think I like this because it reminds of the portraits which Ingres knocked out quickly which is ironic as the artists were eminent rivals and had a contentious relationship. Below the first link is a link to a blog that discusses an argument they had at a party. Actually when you read the article you’ll see that Ingres more or less was arguing with himself, working himself up to a fury. This drawing is from a private collection which is on long term loan to the Met.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/742745
https://artstor.blog/2012/06/17/ingres-vs-delacroix-an-artistic-rivalry-spills-over-at-a-party/
Medea about to Kill her Children (Medée furieuse) – The wall card for these two paintings, Medea and Saint Sebastian, pointed out how Delacroix could express Medea’s rage in her depiction while displaying the quiet and tenderness of the women removing the arrows from Sebastian’s body.
https://tinyurl.com/y9ssl3lt
Saint Sebastian Tended by the Holy Women
https://tinyurl.com/y7v9xnmf
The Battle of Nancy and the Death of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, January 5, 1477 – This is an enormous painting, almost 8 feet by 12 feet, that shows the full fury and violence of the battle. You can see Charles at the lower left of the painting about to be killed and almost being pushed out of the frame as metaphorically he was being pushed off the stage of history. The violence is played out on a desolate landscape covered in snow which hints of the Impressionism he inspired.
http://www.eugene-delacroix.com/images/paintings/the-battle-of-nancy.jpg
Cleopatra and the Peasant – Delacroix drew his inspiration for this painting from Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. He has painted a defeated Cleopatra, her lover dead and nothing but ignominy to follow with her being brought back to Rome as a prisoner so she is contemplating suicide. While in most depictions of her death we see her lying on the couch after the asp has bitten or holding it to her breast, here she is just staring past the slave and basket holding the asp lost in thought. Below the image link is an essay on the painting and its parallels with Shakespeare’s play.
https://tinyurl.com/yaabygha
http://www.freeonlineresearchpapers.com/cleopatra-the-peasant
Lion Hunt – This is a very large painting which is a fragment of a much larger one. Lion Hunt was damaged in the great fire of 1870 during the Franco Prussian war. What remains at almost 6 ft by 12 ft is only two thirds or half of the original painting. You can see what the painting originally look liked in the second link which is an oil sketch he created, one of several. This is a comment from a blog discussing the painting.
Eugene Delacroix learned that it never hurts to make copies when your city is lit by gas lamps. The Director of the Fine Arts department at Musee de Bordeaux commissioned Delacroix to do a large scale painting, but asked him to submit this sketch first. In fact, Delacroix painted several versions of The Lion Hunt. Good thing, too, because the final work was horribly damaged in the great fire of 1870, which destroyed much of the museum’s collection.
https://tinyurl.com/ybekst6v
https://tinyurl.com/ybh5azwe
Basket of Flowers – There is a long essay on this beautiful painting with its brilliant colors if you click on the + sign next to Catalogue Entry. It begins by saying that in September 1848 Delacroix fled the social and political unrest in Paris that followed the downfall of King Louis-Philippe by retreating to his country house south of the city where he undertook a series of ambitious flower paintings that he intended to exhibit at the Salon of 1849. He created five and displayed two, this one which is in the Met’s collection and another that is currently at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
https://tinyurl.com/yd8dpgo8
The Duke of Orleans showing his Lover – The full title of this painting should add, “to her husband.” The painting was a loan from Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza and the link is to their website discussion of the painting. In the discussion it explains what Delacroix drew his inspiration from: This is a passage in the Histoire des ducs de Borgogne by Barante, republished in 1824. It describes how the Duke of Orléans displayed the naked body of his lover Mariette d’Enghien, wife of his former chamberlain Aubert le Flamenc, to her husband, concealing her face. Her husband failed to recognize her.
https://www.museothyssen.org/en/collection/artists/delacroix-eugene/duke-orleans-showing-his-lover
Self-Portrait in a Green Vest – This is the iconic picture of him which serves as the backdrop for the exhibition.
https://tinyurl.com/yc5ncdzo
Women of Algiers in their Apartment – I’ll end with this painting which my brother thinks is the star of the show and is referred to in reviews as one of the best paintings of those allowed to travel from the Louvre. I don’t disagree, there is a lot to admire in this painting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_of_Algiers#/media/File:WomenofAlgiers.JPG
Very enjoyable, I hope to go back with a friend if she’s available.
Below is an interesting article on the cleaning of paintings, in particular Gainsborough’s Blue Boy which lives in the Huntington museum in California. Watch the video.
Watching Art Conservators Work Their Magic Has Become a Hot New Museum Trend. Here’s Why
https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/below-the-varnish-uncovering-the-obscure-sex-appeal-of-art-conservation-1362715
Now, the Flickrs.
Andy G.
Will this fit?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/146558838@N06/40530092182/
Polka dot girl
https://www.flickr.com/photos/28906392@N08/35161708853/
1
https://www.flickr.com/photos/158274655@N05/37772570766/
A very old picture
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99473525@N06/43261872925/
DSC_0151
https://www.flickr.com/photos/daisymaylittle/42953709525/
R007
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ashley_stevens/42016293854/
Shona gets married
https://www.flickr.com/photos/shonajones1/30208865618/
583
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lilyblinz/29225364447/
white polyamide top, pink skater skirt, white patent leather pumps, white leather bag
https://www.flickr.com/photos/adrii06/44092947731/
The Ultimate Bride
https://www.flickr.com/photos/xgirltv1000/26995165209/
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
I just put the heat on in my house; it was 65 degrees on my thermostat and I was feeling chilly. Cold weather seemed to come out of nowhere today. I went out this morning and it was in the lower 50’s and drizzling. I didn’t think it was going to turn out to be a very nice day although the weatherman said the rain would end by noon but I was pleasantly surprised to see the sun emerge although it never got much warmer. Friday had been a beautiful day albeit incredibly windy but it looks like the coming week will be cool but hopefully not as rainy as the past week. Our rain is nothing in comparison to the horror of the hurricane, the reports from the affected areas are devastating.
This week found me back at Sotheby’s for their American art auction preview. Aside from the American there wasn’t anything else especially compelling on view. The other floors were taken up with contemporary photographs and items from the collection of Robin and Marsha Williams. The art in the Williams collection wasn’t anything to get excited about and will sell more for the cachet of having been owned by him than for its innate worth. This is true of the other items such as furniture, his awards, his toys and other such stuff. The American selection was fairly weak for the most part, no big names or big ticket items, although I always see things I like. I’ll link to some of the highlights below.
Thomas Moran - YELLOWSTONE LAKE – This delightful watercolor is hands down my favorite item in the auction. It was the colors and the delicate brush strokes that caught my eye. This is a brief section from the catalogue essay, “Yellowstone Lake is exemplary of the robust color and composition of Moran’s best western watercolors. Although the scale is intimate, he adeptly conveys the largess of the landscape utilizing brilliant blues, pinks and yellows and browns.”
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/american-art-n09917/lot.114.html
Thomas Moran - CONWAY CASTLE - This is the second Moran in the auction and I was also drawn to it due to its dream like quality and mysticism. It appears as if just magically dropped into the valley with no adjoining neighbors, rather like the lost City of Shangri-la. The beautiful green landscape set off against the blue sky with some clouds is very appealing. There’s no essay, just a note that it will be in a catalogue being compiled of the artist’s career.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/american-art-n09917/lot.110.html
Hovsep Pushman - MY PAST DREAMS NO. 2 – This is an artist I’m unfamiliar with although he’s been in previous auctions. He’s a contemporary American artist of Armenian descent. Mysticism played a part in my preference for this one as well, the inscrutability of the figure sitting in his Thinker like pose. Contemplating who knows what. I’ve linked to his Wikipedia page and this excerpt is from that source. “Pushman's paintings typically featured oriental idols, pottery and glassware, all glowing duskily as if illuminated by candlelight. They were symbolic, spiritual paintings, and were sometimes accompanied by readings, which help explain their allegorical significance. Most important, they were exquisitely beautiful, executed with technical precision.” Like the Moran painting there is unfortunately no essay.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/american-art-n09917/lot.80.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hovsep_Pushman
Norman Rockwell - PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN – I always enjoy Rockwell but I thought this a very interesting painting as it’s style is so unlike his usual work. Nothing realistic about this portrait, it has Matisse like qualities to my eye.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/american-art-n09917/lot.43.html
John Singer Sargent - ALEXANDER HENRY HIGGINSON – Unlike his very finished oil portraits this is a charcoal sketch that he probably knocked off in a very short time. Higginson is portrayed as the very dapper gentleman he must have been, author, fox hunter and horse breeder. Several years prior to creating this Sargent painted Higginson Senior which you can see at the second link.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/american-art-n09917/lot.96.html
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Henry_Lee_Higginson_by_John_Singer_Sargent_1903.jpeg
William Trost Richards - THE SKELLIGS, COAST OF IRELAND – Richards is someone I’ve linked to many times, he’s a favorite of my brother and I enjoy his landscapes as well, mostly marine views. There are three of his works in this auction and I just chose this one, all of them are worthwhile. I like the rolling waves across a threatening sky. Initially I thought those were icebergs or mountains but they seemed out of place sitting in the middle of the ocean like that but when I Googled Skellig I discovered that they are islands off the coast of Ireland.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/american-art-n09917/lot.101.html
Gilbert Stuart - PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN (MR. BADCOCK) – Always nice to see a Stuart portrait, our first official portrait painter whose picture of George Washington we in the United States see every day when we pull a dollar bill out of our pockets. Although it appears that a majority of people nowadays pull a debit card out of their pocket rather than money.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/american-art-n09917/lot.123.html
Dale Nichols – SPRING – Another contemporary American artist I was unfamiliar with. I was drawn to this painting due to its similarity to paintings I saw in the recent large Grant Wood exhibit I wrote about, the bright colors attracting me . Wikipedia places him in the same category of regional landscape artist as Wood and Thomas Hart Benton. There were two of his paintings in the auction, this one and Morning which is the second link. They both had estimate ranges of $25-$35K and both went for $68,750 which tells me that they were vastly undervalued or someone really wanted to own them.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/american-art-n09917/lot.22.html
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/american-art-n09917/lot.23.html
Norton Bush - SUNSET – This drew me in by its similarity to many of the Hudson River artists which Wikipedia tells me is not surprising as Bush studied under Jasper Cropsey and Frederic Edwin Church. He’s not someone I’m familiar with but he certainly had a beautiful brushstroke. I was surprised at the lack of a Cropsey in this auction as he’s usually represented by at least one painting.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/american-art-n09917/lot.109.html
So, no blockbusters but many beautiful things to visit with.
This is a link to all the items in the auction.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2018/american-art-n09917.html
Now it’s time for the Flickrs.
Andy G.
f41309736
https://www.flickr.com/photos/142892918@N05/41638245570/
Bride or groom
https://www.flickr.com/photos/carol38/41760955950/
Got the day off work today,
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sissyplaything/43436601782/
47,000 views. Bournemouth May 2013.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/saralegs/8768714973/
A parasol is a must for a sissy to protect her delicate skin. Makeover by Stephanie in Blackpool.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/142877968@N07/42803791395/
Olesya
https://www.flickr.com/photos/queerpoint/42499099360/
What would you like me to do next Sir?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/150101413@N05/44434532661/
More pink in P-town
https://www.flickr.com/photos/msemilytv/30333405808/
Another Evening Out!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kaceycdpix/43527101105/
I just love dressing up - yee-haw!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tranniefun/30548712348/
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
It was a chilly week. I wrote last week about turning on my heat Saturday so I was unpleasantly surprised when Sunday morning arrived with no heat. I’m very lucky to have a plumber in the neighborhood who I’ve used since I bought my current house. He has a full time job but moonlights as a plumber. I called him in the afternoon and he came to my house on Sunday night around 7PM. I was on the phone with a friend and left the door open for him so he went right downstairs into my basement. Less than ten minutes later he yelled to me the heat was back on and he would catch up with me later. Now think about having an emergency plumber show up at your house on an early Sunday evening and then leave without waiting for payment. Of course I will pay him the next time he comes but I marvel at how lucky I am to know this man who is also a very amiable guy. He’s saved me on numerous occasions. The first time was on the day before I moved into the house. I went over to check things out. I had been told that the water in my boiler was not on automatic feed and I needed to monitor the level. As the water in the little viewing tube is clear and my eyes are weak it looked like it was empty when it was in fact full. I turned on the water feed and after a moment water started coming out of the boiler flooding my thankfully empty basement. I was sure I had blown the boiler up. A friend gave me his number and he came right over, checked it out quickly and assured me I hadn’t done any damage to the furnace. We’ve been friends ever since.
This week found me back at the Neue Galerie for their current exhibit, FRANZ MARC AND AUGUST MACKE: 1909–1914. They are two artists I had never heard of and I probably would not have gone if my brother had not pointed it out to me. When he did I wrote back to say that I thought he didn’t like German expressionism and this was his reply:
I like Franz Marc although you hardly ever seen any of his work. He and August Macke were early colleagues of Kandinsky in The Blue Rider group. They have a different sensibility from Schiele and Klimt et al.
Both artists were born in the late nineteenth century and died at a young age in the first World War. They were friends and worked together and corresponded until Macke died in 1914, Marc died in 1916.
Below are links to each of their Wikipedia pages which will give you some background on their lives and art styles. Of the two I think I like Macke a little more as Marc’s paintings seemed a little more abstract although I very much liked his Siberian Sheepdogs which you can see in the Art Summary link below. Wikipedia says that Macke spent time viewing the Impressionists and while I was walking the gallery I thought some of his paintings owed something to Cezanne and I was gratified to see notes on the wall saying he had spent time with Cezanne. Portrait With Apples which is also on the Art Summary page is a good example of this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Marc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Macke
This is a link to Art Summary which has many illustrations from the exhibit.
https://artssummary.com/2018/10/05/franz-marc-and-august-macke-1909-1914-at-neue-galerie-new-york-october-4-2018-january-21-2019/
Below are a few more images.
Macke - Riders and Strollers in the Avenue – This theme reminded me of Seurat’s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte although the styles are certainly different.
http://the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=21018
Marc – Fighting Cows – Marc painted many animals and one of the things I enjoyed about both artists was their use of bright colors which draw you to the image.
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-fighting-cows-franz-marc-1911-metropolitan-museum-of-art-manhattan-170723773.html
Macke – Little Walter’s Toys – Simple little still life filled with color.
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/little-walter-s-toys/mAGBrBvNUnYDgg
Marc – The Dream – The blue horses depicted in this painting recur in other paintings and this is another example of his being influence by cubist art.
https://www.museothyssen.org/en/collection/artists/marc-franz/dream
Macke – Lady in a Park – This is expressionist art. The link below explains the difference between Impressionism and Expressionism. In another discussion of the two it was mentioned that expressionism taken in a further direction, extreme in my view, is evidenced by the drip paintings of Pollock.
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78459
http://canvas.saatchiart.com/art/art-history-101/art-history-101-impressionism-vs-expressionism
Marc – The Wolves (Balkan War) – You feel the movement and violence of the wolves
https://www.albrightknox.org/artworks/19511-die-w%C3%B6lfe-balkankrieg-wolves-balkan-war
Macke – The Lute Player – I just found this to be a lovely image.
https://tinyurl.com/ybt2lo4w
Marc – The Bewitched Mill – I’ve linked to an enlargement without text so I’ll just copy from the Art Institute of Chicago Website for a discussion of this large painting.
Among the German Expressionists, artists who used strong color and exaggerated form to express emotional content, Franz Marc was unique in his empathic interest in the life of animals. "Is there a more mysterious idea," he asked, "than to imagine how nature is reflected in the eyes of animals?" Beginning in 1905, he devoted himself to representing the world with a fresh and purifying vision. Marc painted The Bewitched Mill following a sojourn to the Italian town of Merano in the southern Tirol. The work's title refers to the "magical" harmony he sensed there between human life, represented by the houses and mill on the left, and nature, embodied by the lyrical region of trees and animals on the right.
https://tinyurl.com/yc32ht3p
I close with this portrait of Franz Marc painted by his friend August Macke.
https://www.augustmacke.org/Portrait-Of-Franz-Marc-Bildnis-Franz-Marc-1910.html
So, two new artists to watch out for in future exhibitions and auctions.
Thought this would be of interest to the board if for no other reason than the picture.
The Monnaie de Paris opens Grayson Perry's first major solo exhibition in France
http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?m=1102761004044&ca=ae42cb3f-19cf-446d-9927-7f7c721ef4cb
And I found the subject of this article remarkable. The images are wonderful. I’ve read many mystery novels set in ancient Rome and there have always been descriptions of things that are depicted in the article so it’s nice to actually see what they looked like.
Archaeologists in Pompeii Have Discovered an “Enchanted” Shrine Covered in Gorgeously Preserved Frescoes
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/archaeologists-shrine-discovery-pompeii-1372657
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Derek Jeter and the Marlins baseball team trying to get Red Grooms home run installation out of the park. It appears they have succeeded and the question now is whether Red will disavow the artwork rendering it valueless to the team. I hope he does, these guys have no sense of humor. The home run installation always reminded me of the old exploding scoreboard at Comiskey Park from when Bill Veeck ran the team. Veeck was someone who understood baseball was a game and you needed a sense of humor if you were going to own a team. Naturally the other owners loathed him and finally forced him out of baseball. I’ll never forget watching the Yankees play the White Sox when I was a kid and someone on the Yankees hit a home run. Since the exploding scoreboard only went off for home team home runs the Yankees came out of the dugout to greet the hitter waving sparklers. I guess baseball was very different back then.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/derek-jeter-red-grooms-sculpture-1373434 This is a link to a remembrance of Veeck that appeared in the Times in 2006. https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/20/sports/baseball/when-baseballs-circus-came-to-town.html
And now let’s visit the Flickrs.
Andy G.
Gender Switch 101
https://www.flickr.com/photos/60741642@N06/44212652784/
160
https://www.flickr.com/photos/149823568@N02/43465332084/
TM_LG_Peach1
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tiffmich_2000/5096067967/
Dirndl Darling
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nina_petite/4078458426/
Little Ho Peep & Little Miss Stuffit
https://www.flickr.com/photos/wanda/283301516/
TM_PinkWt03R_Lolita
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tiffmich_2000/8268827893/
White Square Dance Outfit
https://www.flickr.com/photos/19712934@N00/607418865/
Fit for a wedding??
https://www.flickr.com/photos/138596089@N06/43844529564/
IMG_20180828_215908
https://www.flickr.com/photos/132475386@N07/43615625754/
IMG_2218
https://www.flickr.com/photos/elliekent/29730524898/
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
I visited the Frick museum for their current exhibition, The Charterhouse of Bruges: Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, and Jan Vos. It’s a very small exhibit in the Cabinet Gallery, a tiny exhibition space right next to the gift shop as you enter the galleries. I’m guessing it’s about 5 feet wide and 10 feet deep. The reason for the exhibit is one painting by Jan Van Eyck and his workshop of The Virgin and Child with St. Barbara, St. Elizabeth, and Jan Vos. The essay explains that Van Eyck laid out the essential design for the figures but the execution was left to a skilled assistant, possibly due to Van Eyck’s death in June of that year. There is another painting showing The Virgin and Child by a Fountain which is solely attributed to the workshop. Also shown is a painting by Petrus Christus with the same scene but lacking St. Barbara. Vos more than likely gave the Van Eyck painting to Christus to use as a model but the essay also explains that he may have used a different Van Eyck as well. The fourth and final painting is also by Christus and it’s of a Carthusian monk. I’ve put links to the four paintings below. There are several other objects in the exhibit as well which you can see if you click on the objects menu on the overview page.
This is a link to the overview page of the exhibit. There is a menu off to the list where you can view all the objects as well as two videos, one introductory which runs just under five minutes and the other, a lecture, which is close to an hour
https://www.frick.org/exhibitions/charterhouse_bruges
Jan Van Eyck and workshop – This is from the Frick collection. This is really two paintings in one, you have the figures in the foreground and in the background you have a wonderful landscape with a blue sky with clouds, a church, a bridge over a river with a boat on it, greenery, mountains, people, many details that are hard to see on the screen. In the gallery there were magnifying glasses to aid you in seeing. St. Elizabeth is holding an ornate crown and the detail in that is remarkable.
https://www.frick.org/exhibitions/charterhouse_bruges/1
Workshop of Jan Van Eyck – In this painting you can marvel at the details in the tapestry the angels are holding as well as the folds of the blue cloak that wrap the Virgin. This is from a private collection.
https://www.frick.org/exhibitions/charterhouse_bruges/5
Petrus Christus - The Virgin and Child with St. Barbara and Jan Vos (Exeter Virgin) – Less detail in this one but he painted a village in the background, house by house. This is from the Staatliche Museen in Berlin.
https://www.frick.org/exhibitions/charterhouse_bruges/2
Petrus Christus – Portrait of a Carthusian Lay Brother – This is a very simple straightforward painting of the Brother staring out at you. Unlike paintings by Hans Memling, there is no intricate background landscape just a single color. The card accompanying the painting in discussing it said, “The sitter’s lack of tonsure and beard identifies him as a lay brother.” I was confused by this as the man in the painting definitely has a beard so I wrote to the Frick to hear their explanation which is as follows:
“I am sorry if the wording on the label was confusing. We should have phrased it as follows: "The sitter's beard and lack of tonsure identifies him as a lay brother." Carthusian lay brothers only wore a hooded white robe, without the distinctive scapular mantle tied at the side by loose straps, that were only worn by the choir monks. In addition, lay brothers were not tonsured, and though shaved above the lips, they grew their beard.”
This painting is on loan from the Met so I checked their website to see how they handled this but they ignore his facial growth entirely. But they comment on the fly sitting on the faux frame around the painting and I confess I never noticed it at the museum nor the many times I’ve subsequently looked at it on the website.
https://www.frick.org/exhibitions/charterhouse_bruges/4
Afterwards I visited the permanent collection and saw old friends. The museum has moved things around again and there were a few things up that I don’t remember seeing on my last visit. Of course with my memory that doesn’t absolutely mean they weren’t there but I really didn’t remember them the way I do most of the collection. The Frick changes around the permanent collection every now and then. The museum owns 8 paintings by Van Dyck and when most of them reappeared in 2015 it had been years since they had been on view. The Frick owns four paintings by Whistler and they were all back in the Oval room where they really stand out. This is a link to one of them.
Harmony in Pink and Gray: Portrait of Lady Meux
https://collections.frick.org/objects/288/harmony-in-pink-and-gray-portrait-of-lady-meux?ctx=f8510d80-601c-4c22-9739-7c44e339f14f&idx=14
And these are the other ones that seemed to have not been on display for a while.
Jean-François Millet - Woman Sewing by Lamplight – This is the one painting I am almost certain hasn’t been on display while I’ve been visiting which is now a fairly long time. It’s hung by the staircase behind the rope that denies access to the second floor. A floor I look forward to visiting after the Frick renovation completes in a number of years.
https://collections.frick.org/objects/224/woman-sewing-by-lamplight
Jacob van Ruisdael - Landscape with a Footbridge – I’m fond of Jacob and his equally famous Uncle, Salomon, their landscapes are all lovely.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/Jacob_van_Ruisdael_-_Landscape_with_footbridge_fisherman_and_horsemen.jpg
Henry Raeburn – Mrs. Cruikshank – This has been up and down, I found an email from 2012 in which I commented on its reappearance.
https://www.outpost-art.org/images/Raeburn%20Henry/Portrait%20of%20Mrs.%20James%20Cruikshank.jpg
J.M.W. Turner - Calais Harbor - The Frick owns five Turners and four of them I think are always on display. This is a smaller one and it just seems to me that I haven’t seen it that often.
https://sphong13.weebly.com/uploads/2/5/1/6/25169531/8774808.jpg?664
Gabriel De Saint Aubin - Private Academy – Like the Millet I’m fairly certain this hasn’t been up. It’s another small painting and its hung in the hall near the wonderful Ingres painting of Comtesse d'Haussonville http://collections.frick.org/objects/105/.
https://tinyurl.com/y7spnsqz
Always a treat to visit the Frick, looking forward to when I will be able to visit the expanded site.
I also visited Kraushaar Gallery which is a block away from the Frick. Kraushaar has been in business for 125 years according to their website and judging by the images on the website they had a nice size gallery for exhibitions. You can read about that here. http://www.kraushaargalleries.com/history/ But in 2014 they moved to the present site that I visited, a much less impressive venue. It’s on the second floor of a brownstone in a studio apartment which looked like a college kids dorm room, lots of stuff just lying around, in some cases literally. I went because It was described as American art and they mentioned Edward Hopper, a favorite of mine. It was as advertised but still a disappointment. All very low key stuff including the Hopper which wasn’t even noted in their price list which identified the art on display. it was a rather modest sketch of a woman which you can see here. http://www.kraushaargalleries.com/edward-hopper/ Don’t get me wrong I was pleased to see it as I am any of his works but I think I was expecting more of a finished piece or possibly a painting which in retrospect would have been a longshot. This is a link to the exhibition page but there are only two illustrations, one by John Sloan and the other by Guy Pene DuBois which, again, are pleasant but nothing to rave about.
And finally I went back to Cavalier Gallery, a venue I’ve written about before. They also specialize in American art and had a small exhibit, 57th Street: America's Artistic Legacy, Part II [New York, New York]. It was a pleasant visit as has been the case each time I’ve been there. These are a few of the things I liked.
Everett Shinn - The Yellow Dancer – I liked the composition and color and thought it looked like a fuzzy version of a Hopper painting. They were peers of the Ashcan school.
https://www.cavaliergalleries.com/exhibition/136/exhibition_works/6969
Reginald Marsh - New York from Bedloe's Island – Dreamy watercolor landscape of the Manhattan Skyline in 1937.
https://www.cavaliergalleries.com/exhibition/136/exhibition_works/6966
George Benjamin Luks - Matches Mary – Like Marsh, Luks got his start working in newspapers drawing the Yellow Kid in the Hogan’s Alley comic strip for Pulitzer’s New York World after its creator, Richard F. Outcault, left for Hearst’s New York Journal. The second link is to one of his Sunday strips. The portrait of Matches Mary shows the influence of the artist William Glackens who Luks lived with while he was illustrating for the newspapers and who encouraged him to spend more time on serious painting. He and Glackens were also part of the Ashcan school of art which painted realistic depictions of city life which was not favorably received the art world of the day.
https://www.cavaliergalleries.com/exhibition/136/exhibition_works/6970
http://cartoonician.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/YK-w-YKtwins.jpg
George Wesley Bellows - Anne in a Black Hat – And I’ll close with this wonderful charcoal portrait of his daughter Anne.
https://www.cavaliergalleries.com/exhibition/136/exhibition_works/6980
This article about a series of videos looks really interesting. I’ve made a note on my calendar to check out the website on November 25th when the series is set to begin. In theory it will allow me to see art in museums I’m unlikely ever to visit.
Vivienne Westwood, Karl Ove Knausgård, and Other Stars Offer Irreverent Tours of Their Favorite Museums in a New TV Show
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/the-art-of-museums-preview-1376662
I had no idea that Paul Allen was an art collector although it’s a common theme for multi-billionaires. Equally I was unaware of the magnitude of the collection. It’s spectacular. It toured and visited the Phillips and I’m sorry I missed it. This article gives no idea of what will become of it although I’m guessing he will bequeath it to the Seattle Art museum. Doesn’t sound like it will go on the block. I hope another exhibit is organized and comes to New York.
‘A 21st-Century Andrew Carnegie’? How the Late Paul Allen’s Unorthodox Taste Made Him One of the Top Art Collectors in the World
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/paul-allen-art-collector-1373518
An interesting article on how color is used in art to display different emotions and sensations.
The Science of Color Explained by Art
https://www.invaluable.com/blog/colors-and-emotions/?utm_source=artnet&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=artnetnewsletter102318
Artemisia is not someone you see very often. I was very lucky to visit an exhibit at the Met way back in 2002 that displayed works by her and her father Orazio. It was a brilliant exhibit. The paintings in this article are quite beautiful.
A Painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, the Female Renaissance Painter and Now #MeToo Symbol, Just Sold for Over $2 Million
https://news.artnet.com/market/painting-female-old-master-artemisia-gentileschi-sells-2-million-1378720
Now on to the Flickrs.
Andy G.
Sweet girly boys
https://www.flickr.com/photos/138690271@N03/30534207017/
Lolita photoshoot. I can be cute too.. . #cutiemei #crossdresser #crossdress #mtf #伪娘 #男の娘 #女装男 #女装子
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cutiemei11/45336619722/
Practicing walking in Lace Skirt
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stephiworld/44349013651/
Happy...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/missfrancescamcminn/44461329182/
Corset Sissy Maid
https://www.flickr.com/photos/phillymichaela/32489298625/
Little sissy 1
https://www.flickr.com/photos/146436560@N03/40473170682/
Sissy Christie Maid 1
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sissychristie/42791448560/
maid
https://www.flickr.com/photos/151092724@N08/30669937278/
Red Petticoat Fun (5 of 5) Saloon Gurl
https://www.flickr.com/photos/s_a_essay/44658007681/
Angel of the woods.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/156147874@N07/42845657622/
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
I visited Christie’s this week for their Old Masters auction preview. It was also their European preview as well. There were some nice things among the Old Masters but the absolute stars of the preview were a few paintings that will be auctioned in London on December 6th and 7th. They are from the Eric Albada Jelgersma Collection of Dutch art and 400 items will go on the block. This link to Art Daily describes the collection and some of the items which will be among the lots. It has an illustration of Frans Hals, Portrait of a lady, aged 36 which was in the New York preview along with its pendant painting, Portrait of a Gentleman, Aged 37. You just don’t see paintings by Frans Hals up for auction these days.
http://artdaily.com/news/108383/Christie-s-to-offer-the-Eric-Albada-Jelgersma-Collection
Since the auction won’t be held until December Christie’s website doesn’t have the individual items up yet. But they have an essay posted with illustrations and a five minute video. Of the few items that made the trip to New York you can see the two Hals side by side as well as in place in Jelgersma’s home. Additionally you can see, Jan Brueghel the Elder, An Extensive Wooded Landscape and Judith Leyster, Merry Company along with two other paintings that unfortunately didn’t make the trip, Sir Anthony van Dyck, Venus and Adonis and Frans Snyders, Larder.
https://www.christies.com/features/The-Eric-Albada-Jelgersma-Collection-9465-3.aspx
The first of the two other paintings from the collection in New York were Pieter Brueghel the Younger’s Netherlandish Proverbs. The original which I’ve linked to below is by his father and is hung at the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, Germany. The link is to Wikipedia and you can read the essay about the painting which explains how the copy came about: “His son, Pieter Brueghel the Younger, specialised in making copies of his father's work and painted at least 16 copies of Netherlandish Proverbs. Not all versions of the painting, by father or son, show exactly the same proverbs and they also differ in other minor details.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlandish_Proverbs
The second of the other two paintings is Gerard ter Borch’s The Glass of Lemonade. In searching the web for an image I came across some conflicting information indicating that this too may be a painting with more than one version as the Hermitage in Russia is noted as owning it. This link is to a site that tracks auctions and may be from when Jelgersma acquired it but I can’t be certain as there is no mention of the winning bidder nor of the date of the auction. But it was really a treat to see it as ter Borch is another favorite of mine. I’m sure I’ve mentioned the brilliant exhibition of his I saw at the National Gallery in Washington many times.
http://www.artnet.com/artists/gerard-ter-borch-the-younger/the-glass-of-lemonade-sojqIYuESCszAV7bZ4CFHw2
Also hung in the same room was another brilliant painting that will be auctioned at the December sale, Anthony van Dyck’s Portrait of Princess Mary, Daughter of King Charles I of England. You can see that here in another essay on the Christie’s website.
https://www.christies.com/features/Anthony-van-Dyck-Portrait-of-Princess-Mary-9392-1.aspx
I’m hoping that the New York museums are paying attention to these auctions and are considering acquiring some of the items for their collections. I wish the whole collection had come to New York but that would have been unrealistic.
Rounding out the room were two other paintings,
Thomas Lawrence, Portrait of Lady Selina Caroline Meade, later Countess Clam-Martinic
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lady_Selina_Meade.jpeg
And a small landscape by Jan van der Heyden, View of Arnhem, which unfortunately I can’t find an image of. A number of years ago I saw a wonderful exhibit of his work at the Bruce Museum in Ct.
There were four paintings from the regular Old Masters preview that I though worthy of noting and they are below. All of these are from the Christie’s website and have essays along with the image. As with all the paintings be sure to enlarge them for a better view.
Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun - Portrait of Jean Charles Sapey - Vigée Le Brun is another artist to whom I keep harking back to the magnificent exhibit at the Met that introduced me to her. Occasionally I’m pleased to find one of her paintings up for auction.
https://tinyurl.com/ybg5ugwd
Claude Lorrain - A landscape with Apollo guarding the herds of Admetus and Mercury stealing them – You have to look carefully to see Mercury off in the background behind Apollo’s back. This is a subject from mythology. Apollo is doing his duty as punishment for killing the Cyclopes.
http://www.artnet.com/artists/claude-lorrain/a-landscape-with-apollo-guarding-the-herds-of-1ShmvDP1uc7vG-LsLhUObw2
Thomas Gainsborough - Portrait of a lady, half-length, in a painted oval – It’s not as evident on the web but when I stood in front of this painting I found it to be not in the best condition. In looking through past auctions on the Christie’s website it seems that Gainsborough’s paintings appear with some regularity.
https://tinyurl.com/y8c7uqau
Nicolaes Maes - Portrait of a woman seated at a table holding a garland of flowers, three-quarter-length, a view into a landscape beyond – Maes was a pupil of Rembrandt and many of his paintings hang in museums. This lovely portrait has a very reasonable estimate of $6-$8K. Reasonable I guess if you have $8K to spend on art.
https://tinyurl.com/y8vu4sou
And I’ll close with just a few from the European auctions.
Josef Theodor Hansen - The Sala delle Quattro Porte, Doge's Palace, Venice – Hansen is a Danish artist of the late 19th Century and someone I’m unfamiliar with and even Wikipedia doesn’t have any information on his background. But I was attracted to this painting by its ornateness and attention to detail as well as the paintings on the ceiling and walls and on the enlargement you can also see a building he painted in the distance through the windows.
https://tinyurl.com/ybn7og82
John Atkinson Grimshaw - Under the Beeches – Grimshaw was a 19th Century English artist who painted in a realistic style. You can’t see it on the web but standing in front of it in the gallery it had a golden shining glow. He’s someone else you find frequently at the auctions, there are three of his paintings in this one. I’m pretty sure I’ve linked to him before. This link is to a previous auction as it is no longer shown on the site for the current one.
https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/john-atkinson-grimshaw-british-1836-1893-under-5549941-details.aspx
Jules Scalbert - Le bord de la Marne – Scalbert was a 19th Century French realist and I was taken by this painting due to its similarity in theme although certainly not in style to Renoir’s masterpiece, Luncheon of the Boating Party. That link is below the Scalbert just to allow a comparison.
https://tinyurl.com/y9mf7rlm
https://tinyurl.com/yd7plfes
Vilhelm Hammershøi - Interior with an Easel, Bredgade 25 – Hammershøi is another 19th Century Dutch artist who I came to appreciate a few years ago when I went to an exhibit of his art at the Scandinavia House. The long essay explains that he painted Interiors but only four of them included an easel. One of those was in the show I saw and you can see it at the second link.
https://tinyurl.com/yceh4sb5
http://www.italianmodernart.org/hammershoi/
Jan Breughel II - A wicker basket of roses, peonies, tulips and other flowers with a silver gilt tazza and flowers and a butterfly and other insects on a stone ledge strewn with carnations – Above you saw a painting by the elder Brueghel and this is one by the son, a dazzling still life of flowers in a basket that extends off the canvas in a little trompe l’oie. Love the little bug at the bottom.
https://media.mutualart.com/Images/2018_10/04/17/171348348/62eab60e-91f0-4989-9bc3-153232aa33ff_570.Jpeg
There were certainly other interesting and worthwhile things I saw but this will give you an idea of the pleasant morning I spent at Christie’s.
Now it’s on to the Flickrs.
Andy G.
Carol54
https://www.flickr.com/photos/153136683@N05/36062570171/
P8090505
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jayneh/20395921656/
sitting pretty
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cindy_denmark/42892494070/
Heading for the hot tub
https://www.flickr.com/photos/61861835@N07/43980489584/
White 5
https://www.flickr.com/photos/145905338@N03/32260842960/
wedding self
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gailgirl9/42754099554/
20160606_85
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sissymaidjoslyn/26020176787/
Hey, not to close with that camera, showing me wrinkles to everyone. He said I,ll marry you, nip in there and get a ring (cheap bugger) they didnt have anything under a fiver.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/suziecdtv/43901285615/
I love this look and outfit! Feeling great. Happy weekend and take care of you! ❤️
https://www.flickr.com/photos/starborn/42865974180/
Waiting for someone
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
I went to Sotheby’s for their Impressionist and Contemporary art auction previews this week. More auctions coming next week. There was a veritable sea of art the bulk of which was Contemporary. Although contemporary art is not my favorite there were many very nice things and I will list the highlights below.
Edward Hopper - TWO COMEDIANS – This is actually part of their American art auction which is upcoming. Hopper is a favorite and this is a painting I had never seen at any of the exhibitions of his art that I’ve attended and I will probably link to it again when I visit for the American. I see on the website exhibitions of the painting are noted and the last time it was shown in the United States was in 1993 which is before I started attending museums and galleries. As with most of the items in the auction there is a lengthy essay discussing the artist and the painting. It begins by stating that this is his last painting and the images are of he and his wife Jo, taking their final bow on the stage. I think we can agree he ended on a high note.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/lot.15.html/2018/american-art-n09939
Georgia O'Keeffe - CALLA LILIES ON RED – This is one of the finest of her paintings I’ve seen which is not surprising as it’s being sold by the O’Keeffe museum to raise funds for other artwork. There are three other paintings by her but I consider this the star although her painting below of a street has the higher estimate. I like that one as well but the colors on this one are just overwhelmingly beautiful. She clearly loved the painting as it was painted and shown in 1929 but she acquired it in 1965 and kept it until her death.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/contemporary-art-evening-sale-n09932/lot.15.html
Georgia O'Keeffe - A STREET
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/contemporary-art-evening-sale-n09932/lot.34.html
Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian artist born in the 19th Century who lived and painted to the mid-20th Century. He more or less invented abstract art so he’s never been someone I’ve followed closely but like Mondrian I’ve seen compositions by him that I found pleasing especially when he uses vivid colors. There are six of his paintings in this auction and three of them are really brilliant due to their color. They’re being auctioned under the term, The Triumph of Color and with these three paintings it’s certainly apt. The first one was my favorite although like the O’Keeffe’s it has the lowest estimate of the three.
Wassily Kandinsky - IMPROVISATION AUF MAHAGONI (IMPROVISATION ON MAHOGANY)
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/impressionist-modern-art-evening-sale-n09930/lot.6.html
Wassily Kandinsky - LE ROND ROUGE
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/impressionist-modern-art-evening-sale-n09930/lot.4.html
Wassily Kandinsky -ZUM THEMA JÜNGSTES GERICHT (ON THE THEME OF THE LAST JUDGEMENT)
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/impressionist-modern-art-evening-sale-n09930/lot.8.html
This video discusses the painting and the theme.
https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/the-creativity-of-wassily-kandinsky-in-three-key-masterworks
There were six pieces by Degas in this auction, 2 oil paintings, 2 pastels, a drawing and a sculpture. I’ll link to two below.
Edgar Degas – ITALIENNE – This is the watercolor and I’m including it as I don’t come across that many watercolors by him at the auctions and it’s a nice change from his dancers.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/impressionist-modern-art-day-sale-n09931/lot.444.html
Edgar Degas - L'ECOLIÈRE (OR FEMME MARCHANT DANS LA RUE) – Degas created his sculptures mostly for himself and when he died 150 of them were found in his studio. The second link is to a long essay from the Met which discusses these sculptures. The Met has a nice selection of them on view.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/a-modernist-vision-property-from-the-collection-of-nelson-happy-rockefeller-n09934/lot.124.html
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/dgsb/hd_dgsb.htm
Renoir was prolific and there are always multiple items up for auction, there are 13 in this auction. I love his work and I’ll just include a few below.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir – GABRIELLE – Gabrielle was governess to his children and an early model for him before she left his employ, possibly due to the jealousy of Madame Renoir. He painted many pictures of her alone, clothed and nude, and with his children,.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/impressionist-modern-art-day-sale-n09931/lot.419.html
Pierre-Auguste Renoir - PORTRAIT DE MADAME ADELA OCAMPO DE HEIMENDHAL – Another of his portraits and I found it evocative of Goya’s portraits which is not surprising as the Madame is from Buenos Aires and it appears the painting was commissioned by her.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/impressionist-modern-art-evening-sale-n09930/lot.45.html
Édouard Manet - JEUNE FEMME DECOLLETTÉ – This is one of his 89 pastels. Pastel is a very unforgiving medium, once you’ve committed to the paper it’s difficult to change. This portrait is very light and delicate.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/impressionist-modern-art-day-sale-n09931/lot.439.html
Camille Pissarro - PRAIRIE AVEC VACHES, BRUME, SOLEIL COUCHANT À ÉRAGNY – There were a number of his works available any of which I could have linked to as they are all beautiful. I chose this one for its layered composition going from top to bottom as well what really are just hints of cows on the prairie.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/impressionist-modern-art-evening-sale-n09930/lot.13.html
August Macke - STILLEBEN MIT STRAUSS UND DREI ÄPFELN (STILL LIFE WITH FLOWERS AND THREE APPLES) – This is another painting that is being sold under the Triumph of Color label. I recently wrote about an exhibition of Macke’s at the Neue and I liked this bright still life.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/impressionist-modern-art-day-sale-n09931/lot.178.html
Pablo Picasso - IRIS JAUNES- This too comes up under Triumph of Color. Picasso is not a favorite but he was so long lived and prolific that there are always going to be things I can find of his to admire. And there will always be multiple items available at these auctions. He went through so many different stages in his career and I enjoyed this early Impressionist work of his, he was only 19 or 20 years old.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/impressionist-modern-art-evening-sale-n09930/lot.5.html
I could keep going on but I think this will give you a good idea of what a pleasant morning I spent at Sotheby’s.
I’m appalled at this but I also have to question how the wall was secured if someone was able to just push it over. What museum would have a free standing wall that wasn’t solidly anchored to the floor.
Selfie-taking museum visitors ‘damage valuable works of art’ after wall collapses
https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/02/selfie-taking-museum-visitors-damage-valuable-works-of-art-after-wall-collapses-8098990/
Let’s visit the Flickrs now.
Andy G.
June 2018 - Leeds
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139558039@N02/43869647055/
Chris Shaw
https://www.flickr.com/photos/144957155@N06/29828368857/
LatexSissy - CharmOLatex
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lauracdgirl/44867030901/
alice1
https://www.flickr.com/photos/alice_uk_cd/43928761452/
Pink CosPlay Outfit_310908 (36)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/142892918@N05/29277523687/
Girlyyy
https://www.flickr.com/photos/charliesweetie/35616102913/
eVentures- Dorothy
https://www.flickr.com/photos/55377997@N05/44769645781/
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/147118884@N03/44849187991/
Light Blue Dress and Block Heels
https://www.flickr.com/photos/134008694@N07/43569908594/
timt to go to bed_♥︎
https://www.flickr.com/photos/saki_75153/43936619862/
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Andy, great selection (as always). I do miss the future generation pics, but understand why Betty preferred them not to be here.
I wonder how the new Flickr rules will affect the great selection currently available? Not everyone can afford $50 (even though Flickr assumes they can). But the majority are prepared to share.
I can't help but wonder why they don't introduce ads to pay the way of the non-Pro members? Ah well time will tell .....
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Hi Ace,
Can you fill me in on what you're talking about regarding future generation pics, I have no idea what that is. I wasn't aware of new Flickr rules either. For quite a while the search was screwed up and it seems to me there's far fewer newer pics than there used to be. Perhaps because of what you mention.
Thanks
Andy G.
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Can you fill me in on what you're talking about regarding future generation pics
Sorry Andy, maybe should have said younger generation, teens etc.
Yahoo sold Flickr so "free" users have until February next year to become a "Pro" member, or have their free repository limited to 1000 photos. From that date, any photos over the 1000 limit will be deleted, starting with the older ones.
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/11/flickr-is-going-to-delete-a-bunch-of-photosback-up-yours-now/
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Ah, now I understand. Thanks Ace.
Andy G.
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There are people who seem to post pictures of almost every meal they ate, every pair of shoes they've owned, & 1,000 pictures of a new baby. I used to joke that I can guess somebody's weight by how many pictures of food they post. Seriously, if you're posting pictures of your food once every couple days or more, you're probably overweight.
Perhaps if enough people know about a 1,000 picture limit, they'll select the pictures that they really don't need there to delete before the company decides what to delete. Some people's pages really need to get rid of a lot of clutter.
A 1000 picture limit is a bit unfair though. It should be set to a maximum amount of GB in storage space or bandwidth usage. I see people posting a 800x600 image at 2.5mb (2500kb) in size, where the same thing could have been posted in loss-less jpg compression at only 40-70kb in size with no loss in quality. Make the people pay extra who still haven't figured out the internet & how to post pictures after over 20 years of trying.
Then there's those people who post 9000x5000 pixel images at 4-20mb in file size. That's sort of pointless because the most common resolution of people's screens on the internet is 720-800 x 1280-1360 pixels, followed by around 1080x1920 pixels. Whichever screen they use, they usually have their text DPI or browser zoom turned up a notch to view small print easier. So most people are only viewing at 70-80% their maximum resolution.
When you add a tool or browser bar at the top or bottom of the screen, you only have enough space in your viewing area left for a picture 600-800 pixels tall.
Not only do those oversized pictures take up a lot more drive space, they suck up a lot more of the servers & users bandwidth every time somebody clicks on them. People who run lots of over sized pictures because they don't have a clue, or just don't care about such things should pay more.
Also a page that only gets a dozen hits a week uses a lot less bandwidth & server resources, than a page that gets thousands of hits a day. That's how the real internet works. You pay for a server by how much storage it will have, & how much bandwidth (traffic) it can handle. A web host serving a few thousand 50-70kb pictures to a few dozen people a week is pretty cheap. A web host serving just a simple page to 10,000 people a day can get pretty expensive.
Google drive offers 15gb of storage space for free. That's about 1/4 million normal sized JPGs. You can share a link to any folder or file on it with friends & family. But it's not a web hosting platform. If you share a lot of files on Google drive with a lot of people, it will poop out.
You can still post pictures for free on Facebook or here. But beware that the board or I will probably compress & resize over sized pictures posted here. The board is set not to display images taller than 600 pixels, or wider than the board itself, & will resize the display. So it's pointless waste to post images bigger than what you can see on the screen. I've caught Facebook over compress images & video so they look worse.
You probably won't see many new people signing up to Flickr for $50 a year (over $4/mo). What will happen is that many that don't have a clue, didn't save all their pictures offline, might pay $50 not to lose what they already have there. So they're essentially holding large or overloaded pages hostage for money. I'm sure others have no idea they have 1,000 pictures there until Flickr starts deleting them.
It doesn't look like it, but we're serving over 13,000 pictures here just from our Betty's Pub server... mostly the galleries. The stories server (not known for many pictures) is serving over 2,000 pictures. The Unclegadget server serves about 1,000 more. I use that one for larger pictures & files. It's the least used server so has more resources available for bigger files. Our background music comes from there too.
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
We had our first snowstorm this week, a little early in the season but hopefully not a harbinger of what’s to come. Especially since it was predicted to be minor with 1-3 inches and we wound up with 6-8 inches. Today is a much more pleasant day. The aftermath of the storm in New Jersey and New York is very different. We had piles of snow in the streets and many sidewalks uncleaned while in New York much of the snow had been cleared away. What surprised me were the number of branches that had been knocked off of trees in Manhattan, I can’t ever remember seeing so many.
This week I had the pleasure of going to Christie’s Contemporary and Impressionist art auction preview. Among the large amount of art on display were two outstanding collections. Barney Ebsworth and Herbert and Adele Klapper. I thought the bidding was going to go through the roof for these works as they are really of fine quality and you can see from this article and video that I was right.
https://www.christies.com/features/Barney-Ebsworth-Collection-results-9552-3.aspx
I really hope these paintings don’t wind up in some distant foreign land where we won’t be able to see them again.
This is a long, well-illustrated essay on Barney Ebsworth and his collection.
https://www.christies.com/features/An-American-Place-The-Barney-A-Ebsworth-Collection-comes-to-Christies-9363-1.aspx
This is Christie’s press release announcement.
https://www.christies.com/about-us/press-archive/details?PressReleaseID=9109&lid=1
This is two articles discussing the Edward Hopper painting that is the star of this auction and, of course, my favorite item in it. It set a record for the artist. It’s so famous that when my brother first saw the announcement he echoed my thoughts and said that he had seen it in so many exhibits he had no idea it was in a private collection. The first article mentions that it had been a promised gift to the Seattle Art Museum but Ebsworth’s children decided to put it on the block instead.
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/a-hopper-promised-as-gift-heads-to-auction-block-instead
https://news.artnet.com/market/edward-hopper-leads-christies-barney-ebsworth-sale-1343087
This is an essay on the Christie’s website which discusses the lives and collection of Herbert and Adele Klapper.
https://www.christies.com/features/The-Collection-of-Herbert-and-Adele-Klapper-9399-1.aspx
This is the Christie’s press release announcement.
https://www.christies.com/about-us/press-archive/details?PressReleaseID=9171&lid=1
These are some of the many things that I enjoyed. Some of them have long essays with interesting background on the artist and the work.
These are the two Hopper paintings for sale, an oil and a watercolor. Chop Suey is so iconic and has been in so many exhibitions that as my brother said it was surprising to discover it was still in private hands. You can see on the website the dozens of exhibits it appeared in since it was first shown in Rochester, New York in 1930. I love Hopper so you can imagine how pleased I was to get this opportunity to see it for what may be the final time although I certainly hope not.
Edward Hopper – Chop Suey
https://tinyurl.com/ycjpzoj6
Edward Hopper - Cottages at North Truro
https://tinyurl.com/y9y6aawn
Charles Demuth is another American artist I’ve written about many times, each of his watercolors is a treat to see. I wish I was one of the billionaires who do the actual bidding in these auctions as waking up to a Demuth on the wall would be very pleasant indeed.
Charles Demuth – Fruit and Flower
https://tinyurl.com/y8emo8uh
Charles Demuth - Three Lilies – This is unfinished and I assumed he had been working on it at his death but he had painted it a number of years prior. It left me wondering if he deliberately left it unfinished or abandoned it to work on something else and never went back to it. The little bit of color on the pencil drawing is very light and delicate.
https://tinyurl.com/yazz8bpy
Albert Bierstadt - Western Landscape – This is a lovely little landscape, 7” x 10”, showing a mountain lake in pure untouched serenity. I’ve enlarged it in the second link.
https://tinyurl.com/y9zu24fd
https://tinyurl.com/yb2zxn4y
I’ve also written about Charles Sheeler whose paintings of industrial sites can seem almost photographic. There are two works of his in this auction, one an industrial scene and the other a still life of a pitcher, a vase and a glass with water and a leaf in it. The essays on each site explain his work as a photographer and then his translation of that into the paintings. I think what draws me to Sheeler’s paintings is their geometric appearance, the same thing that allows me to enjoy Mondrian’s geometric paintings. The still life was a bit of a surprise as I don’t think I’ve come across many of those before.
Charles Sheeler – Cat-walk
https://tinyurl.com/ybd5yk45
Charles Sheeler – Still Life
https://tinyurl.com/y6vz77qs
I refer to Mondrian above and this is one of six paintings in the Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale by that artist, all ironically landscapes. I’m not sure I’ve ever come across a landscape by him before and here we have six. This is one of them. The second link is an enlargement.
https://tinyurl.com/yca6ln6d
https://tinyurl.com/ycdb3z3v
Vincent Van Gogh - Coin de jardin avec papillons – This is the start of the Klapper’s collection, there’s very little I need to say about these paintings, they’re all by major Impressionist artists and of fine quality. The second link is to a video and essay on the painting. I was very surprised that it didn’t sell falling $10M short of the $40M low range estimate. My brother, who is far more knowledgeable about art than I am, had said he thought it wasn’t a major painting and didn’t think it would live up to the pre-auction hype.
https://www.christies.com/features/Van-Gogh-Coin-de-jardin-avec-papillons-9423-3.aspx
There are six paintings by Monet in this auction and all of them are going to go for many millions of dollars. These two will bring the biggest yield.
Claude Monet - Le bassin aux nymphéas – This is a large painting roughly 3ft x 6 1/2ft and one of the 60 Nympheas paintings he executed. It was the top lot of the night, selling for $28M to an anonymous Asian buyer. Hark back to my concern about where these paintings would land. The price, however, was still below the $30M-$50M estimate.
https://tinyurl.com/y9ww6s4c
Claude Monet - L’Escalier à Vétheuil – This is a depiction of the stairs on the property on which he and his family lived and is one of a series of paintings.
https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/claude-monet-1840-1926-lescalier-5790371-details.aspx
Claude Monet - Vue du village de Giverny – When I approached this painting I assumed it was by Cezanne or Pissarro and was surprised to see it identified as Monet. But the essay explains that the period when this was painted was one of turmoil for the artists as some of them were moving towards Post Impressionism. This is an excerpt from the lot essay. “In the present painting, however, he came as close as he ever would to a Post-Impressionist interpretation of the landscape, transmuting the forms of the natural world into an abstract order. More characteristic of Cézanne than Monet, Vue du village de Giverny is first and foremost a carefully composed patchwork of formal elements—different shapes, colors, and textures—that takes priority over the depiction of a particular place under specific conditions of weather and light. Rather than a panoramic landscape in the conventional sense, the painting represents a constructive transformation of a corner of the countryside, seemingly viewed at close range and excerpted from a larger whole.”
https://tinyurl.com/y7egjc4j
Paul Cézanne - Vue d’Auvers-sur-Oise—La Barrière – I thought it appropriate to follow with the only painting by Cezanne in the auction. This is his earliest Impressionist work which was exhibited at the First Impressionist Exhibition. He had been working with Pissarro and it was Pissarro who arranged for the painting to be in the exhibition despite objections from the other artists. It was also the first painting to be sold outside of his immediate circle. The second link is an enlargement.
https://tinyurl.com/y9d4ncwu
https://tinyurl.com/yapg6etn
Camille Pissarro - La Rue Saint-Lazare, temps lumineux – There were six paintings by Pissarro in the auction and this one was my favorite and apparently was the favorite of the bidders as it had by far the highest pre-sale estimate. It closed just above the high end. I love the busy City street with the people and the carriages. I’ve enlarged it in the second link.
https://tinyurl.com/y82kxgrz
https://tinyurl.com/y8qah6cc
The Klappers owned six bronze statues by Degas as well as this lovely pastel depiction of dancers.
Edgar Degas - Quatre danseuses
https://tinyurl.com/y9fbwhlz
Edgar Degas - Préparation à la danse, pied droit en avant
https://tinyurl.com/y9dlrnq4
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – Danseuse – It’s appropriate to follow Degas with this Lautrec as he idolized Degas and followed in his footsteps at depicting the dancers at the ballet. Unfortunately for him, according to the lot essay Degas never acknowledged him whether due to being annoyed at his idolatry or feeling a moral sense of distaste since Lautrec’s dancers came from the lower forms of entertainment.
https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/henri-de-toulouse-lautrec-1864-1901-danseuse-3905803-details.aspx
This was just an extraordinary visit for me seeing so many brilliant paintings. Both Ebsworth and the Klappers had exquisite taste to go with their riches.
Elsewhere in the art world was this story which I really find outrageous. A similar situation arose a few years ago in New York City and had an unsatisfactory outcome as I remember. Very ingenuous to say you put in picture windows so you’re not entitled to privacy.
As Angry Neighbors Sue Tate Modern Over Peeping Visitors, an Artist Installs Binoculars on Its Terrace to Better View the ‘Art’
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/tate-modern-viewing-platform-binoculars-1395007
On that outraged note let’s visit the Flickrs.
Andy G.
Another Himekaji shot from our time in Puroland (Hello Kitty Land)!!!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/164347564@N04/43806319652/
Susan Louise Fox 46
https://www.flickr.com/photos/155501406@N06/40416185951/
sexy maid
https://www.flickr.com/photos/151092724@N08/41433757790/
Stevie515
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevieg99/44174750925/
20161218_92
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sissymaidjoslyn/31699815736/
Little pink dress and heels.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/juliapanther/29915190117/
Pvc maid's outfit.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/21134240@N03/43081254320/
Pink satin maid
https://www.flickr.com/photos/glampriscilla/45053279131/
112H2L
https://www.flickr.com/photos/klarissakrass/41327838605/
A look of love and joy
https://www.flickr.com/photos/debbie_lewissmith/30687335258/
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Hi Betty, I came here as usual on Saturday to see andyg's post and I see he has not posted anything since last week. I hope all is well and he is just away visiting his brother or something. Will check back in the morning and hope all is OK.
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
For those of you accustomed to reading the weekly Flickr on Saturday I would certainly have liked to oblige. Aside from when I moved to my current house more than ten years ago I don’t think I’ve ever missed a Saturday. Unfortunately on Thanksgiving morning I turned on my computer and nothing happened. I really will make a long story short by saying I took the computer into a local repair shop where they wiped the disk and reinstalled the operating system. Of course that left me with no programs or files. So I called an old associate of mine who does tech work and he spent the day bringing everything back to more or less the way it had been. By chance last month I bought an external drive to back up the system. He was able to retrieve everything including my emails which were the most important thing as far as the Flickr post. I do the Flickrs several weeks in advance and store the links in a draft folder. Had he not been able to retrieve my draft folder I don’t know when I would have returned to posting it as the time I spend on it each week is considerable. But I’m happy to say, here we are, so enjoy.
Other than that things are fine. We experienced two days of bitter cold weather. On my morning walk the first day it was 15 degrees while the second day it was 10 degrees. I walk for an hour and while I loathe the cold I can deal with it as I’m constantly in motion. What I can’t deal with, and is one of the contributing factors to my retirement, was waiting in sub-freezing weather for a bus to come that didn’t arrive. My last winter working I stood in 3 degrees temperature for an hour one morning waiting for the bus. That was when I decided I couldn’t retire soon enough. But back to art.
More auctions this week; I think this does it for a while, we’ve now viewed all the major art periods.
I walked up to Sotheby’s and all I achieved was a long walk. When I went for the Impressionist preview they had highlights from the American preview. The auction was scheduled for the following Friday so I went back expecting to see the full lot. All that was up was the same highlights I had seen. I queried one of the consultants and she couldn’t tell me why, offering to have someone take me to see anything I wanted to see but I didn’t want them pulling things out of the back. She gave me the business card of a VP Specialist in American Art and I emailed her as to why the full selection wasn’t up. She wrote back and said the full collection would be up the next day. I wrote back and pointed out that the preview dates preceded that by a week which was definitely misleading. She agreed and apologized and said she would personally contact me prior to upcoming auctions so as to give me the heads up. Not being a billionaire I wrote back and said it was very nice of her to reach out but that I kept a close eye on the website and as long as the preview schedule was accurate I would be fine. Her being so accommodating is an example of the concept that on the Internet nobody knows you’re not a billionaire. Which is homage to this old cartoon from the New Yorker. https://tinyurl.com/nqgt4ep
I hadn’t planned on going back but the next day was such a beautiful day, albeit a little chilly, I decided to go. I initially thought the collection still wasn’t up because there were a number of things I didn’t see. I asked at the counter and was sent to a young man who showed me several of the things I missed. But for whatever reason there were a few things missing from the wall that I would have liked to see, a Winslow Homer and a Thomas Moran for two. But the rest was very nice. I’ll link to a few things below.
Edward Hopper – Two Comedians – This is Hopper’s last painting and he and his wife Jo, a model for many of his paintings, are the two comedians bowing off the stage. I linked to this with the last Sotheby’s post but I love Hopper so I’m including it again as I said I would. Perhaps my last chance of seeing it as it will more than likely wind up in some billionaire’s living room. Or worse, in some Asian Country from which it will never be seen again.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/lot.15.html/2018/american-art-n09939
Jasper Cropsey – Mediterranean Ruins – There was a collection of Hudson River painters and those are always enjoyable. I liked this fairly large landscape and it appears so did Cropsey. After he painted it he retained it to hang in his studio where it remained until he died. The notes say he was fond of the Italian landscape which he visited often in the 1840s and 1850s.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/american-art-n09939/lot.51.html
Winslow Homer – The Life Brigade – A watercolor – There were several items that had been on display and taken down leaving just the card on the wall and I was disappointed as one of them was a Homer and another was a Moran. Below the Homer is the Moran that was up.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/american-art-n09939/lot.52.html
Thomas Moran – Big Springs in Yellowstone Park – Another watercolor – There’s a long essay on the website describing how this painting came about. I’ve truncated it to 3 paragraphs below.
“In March 1871, the United States Congress appropriated $40,000 for the geological survey of the Yellowstone Territories to be led by Dr. Ferdinand V. Hayden, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, Columbus Delano. Along with his team of scientists and geologists, Hayden invited Thomas Moran and photographer William Henry Jackson to document the inherent artistic beauty of the region’s dramatic landscape.“
“Big Springs in Yellowstone Park is a stunning example of Moran’s artistic capabilities as both a colorist and draughtsman. Showcasing his mastery of the medium, the present watercolor depicts the expedition’s survey of the geothermal springs at Yellowstone. The striking modulation of color and deft handling of multiple washes of watercolor echoes the work of J.M.W. Turner.”
“Upon his return from the survey, Hayden wrote a complete account of his scientific findings and experiences. Illustrated with Moran’s sketches and Jackson’s photographs, Hayden’s report was presented to Congress in March 1872, alongside a bill that proposed to block the Yellowstone area from private land development. Since most members of Congress had never seen the region’s geological marvels, Moran’s sketches were fundamental to the Committee’s appreciation of Yellowstone’s natural artistic wonder. On March 1, after the bill passed unanimously in Congress, President Ulysses S. Grant signed the act establishing Yellowstone National Park into law. Yellowstone became the first official national park, not only in the United States, but anywhere in the world.”
So we have Moran to thank for this and other National treasures.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/american-art-n09939/lot.67.html
Norman Rockwell - TIRED SALESGIRL ON CHRISTMAS EVE – There were five Rockwell’s and below are two of them. Both of them were painted as Saturday Evening Post covers and whoever wins the auction will receive a copy of the magazine as well which is a rather neat bonus.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/american-art-n09939/lot.19.html
BOY HIDING UNDER COUCH SNEEZING (THE SNEEZING SPY)
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/american-art-n09939/lot.22.html
Maxfield Parrish – Dupont Mural – This is a very large painting, 12ft wide x 7ft high. In the gallery there is no space between the panels and I thought it was one large canvas. I say this every time I show one of his works but he always achieved a special effect with the way the colors come off the canvas and I wondered how he did it. Wikipedia explains it thus, “He achieved such luminous color through glazing. This process involves applying alternating bright layers of oil color separated by varnish over a base rendering.”
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/american-art-n09939/lot.60.html
Andrew Wyeth - THE JAMES PLACE – I discovered Wyeth a few years ago and I’ve come to enjoy the simplicity of his paintings. His buildings look lived in and his landscapes seem natural as do his people.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/american-art-n09939/lot.61.html
The Heartfelt Story Behind Grant Wood’s Portrait of his Sister – This is an article about a painting of Grant Wood’s sister Nan which I surmise has been withdrawn from the auction as it no longer appears on the list with the other lots. She was his model for many paintings especially American Gothic. The image of her in that painting elicited hurtful comments about her stern appearance and to make it up to her he painted this portrait which the article says endows her with a Mona Lisa quality. He said that he painted it as a gift for her but it’s the only painting of his he kept his entire life.
https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/the-heartfelt-story-behind-grant-woods-portrait-of-his-sister
I also visited Christie’s for their American art auction preview. It was a smaller group than Sotheby’s but there were some very nice Hudson river paintings which I’ll link to below. The first four are gorgeous landscapes by three artists I love who weren’t represented in the Sotheby’s auction.
Sanford Robinson Gifford - White Mountain Scenery
https://tinyurl.com/yaju56e7
https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/NYR/2018_NYR_16390_0012_000(sanford_robinson_gifford_white_mountain_scenery).jpg
Sanford Robinson Gifford - Lake Winnipesaukee
https://tinyurl.com/yb8dyq7p
https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/NYR/2018_NYR_16390_0017_000(sanford_robinson_gifford_lake_winnipesaukee).jpg
Frederic Edwin Church - On Otter Creek
https://tinyurl.com/yddllynv
https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/NYR/2018_NYR_16390_0014_000(frederic_edwin_church_on_otter_creek).jpg
Albert Bierstadt - Lake Tahoe, California
https://tinyurl.com/y7jq23v3
https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/NYR/2018_NYR_16390_0025_000(albert_bierstadt_lake_tahoe_california).jpg
Jasper Francis Cropsey - The Home and Studio of Thomas Cole, Catskill, New York – This is wonderful pencil sketch which I wish I was able to enlarge more than the site allows. It’s from an online auction not the main auction and the website treats online auctions differently in sizing. Cole is considered one of the fathers of the Hudson River group and artists like Cropsey visited and paid homage to him.
https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/american-art-online/jasper-francis-cropsey-1823-1900-161/63397
Thomas Moran – Jumièges and Ponts de St. Cloud et De Sévres: A Pair of Works – Moran was a follower of JMW Turner as I’ve mentioned previously. He identified these paintings as being, “after Turner”, Jumieges is a watercolor copy of Turner’s engraving.
https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Jumieges-and-Ponts-de-St--Cloud-et-De-Se/36DDB8E7EDE76169
Thomas Moran - Venetian Scene – Moran painted many Venetian scenes and they are really evocative of Turner.
https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/american-art-online/thomas-moran-1837-1926-148/63384
Winslow Homer - Arthur B. Homer and Entrance to Roslin Chapel: A Double-Sided Work – Homer isn’t part of the Hudson river group but he’s also someone I love. This drawing of his younger brother was done when he was 17 years old, another precocious artist.
https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/american-art-online/winslow-homer-1836-1910-160/63396
Georgia O'Keeffe - The Red Maple at Lake George – I’ll end with this colorful depiction of a leaf. It’s a nice addition to the other O’Keeffe’s I discussed that recently went for big bucks. There’s a very long essay on the painting at the website.
https://tinyurl.com/ya3jkbj9
https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/NYR/2018_NYR_16390_0006_000(georgia_okeeffe_the_red_maple_at_lake_george).jpg
Let’s visit the Flickrs now.
Andy G.
2018-11-18_06-57-08
https://www.flickr.com/photos/101631711@N05/44120741270/
Gothic Lady in red
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nordic_angel/45153967891/
Creamy Treat
https://www.flickr.com/photos/91219737@N08/44093421895/
R091
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ashley_stevens/45095154791/
1910 Boy Girl Matching Dresses
https://www.flickr.com/photos/162657292@N02/32038608288/
First nervous dainty steps outside. Makeover by Stephanie in Blackpool.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/142877968@N07/42803778775/
20180430_070507
https://www.flickr.com/photos/14515130@N07/27931686668/
disney princess curtsy
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22704178@N07/31157494958/
bridesmaid for a day
https://www.flickr.com/photos/knessia/44636185972/
wedding gown
https://www.flickr.com/photos/martinahoever/44458596474/
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I didn't think much about the delay. I thought with the holidays, you got too busy with other stuff. I wasn't gonna worry unless we didn't hear from you by Monday.
A real repair shop would have found what caused the problem, fixed it, & restored your files even if you didn't have a backup drive. Basically to wipe out a drive & do a clean fresh install of the OS, all he had to do is insert the OS istallation disk from a DVD or thumb drive, & press "install". Then come back in about 20 minutes when it's done. Windows would then get updates & drivers for it automatically.
Your emails & their drafts are stored on the internet on whatever email service/server you have. You may have a program or folder that links to them from the internet in your computer, but all that stuff is really out there stored on your email service. You can log into your email service directly from your browser of your choice to get to them too.
I'm about a week behind in clicking on all the links in your art reviews. I do too much reading, so I usually have to stall some of it for later.
Looking at the one about the binoculars on the terrace, I don't think anyone has to worry about privacy. Looking close at the binoculars in the pictures, I recognized them all small kid's toy binoculars that can be bought at Walmart or your corner drugstore for under 10 bucks. As a binocular astronomy fan, I can spot those crap toy models a mile away.
Those toy binoculars will make things look a little bigger, but the view would be a very narrow spot. The optics/lens in them are so crappy, the image would be blurry, distorted, & low contrast. You'd get a better view with more detail looking in the windows with the naked eye, than through those toys.
The binoculars may be a gimmick & attraction, but not very useful.
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Hi Betty,
My tech friend said exactly the same thing about the repair guys and I certainly will never use them again. If it hadn't happened on Thanksgiving the first person I called would have been my associate.
What you say about the binoculars sounds right so in this case it's not so egregious. As I recall from the previous similar incident, a photographer set up a camera and then took pictures of people in their apartments and put together a book with the pictures. The courts ruled there was nothing the people who had been photographed could do about it which I truly felt was not only outrageous but incredibly unfair.
Andy G.
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In our day we had curtains & blinds. We closed them when we didn't want people to see inside & opened them when we didn't care what they saw. But it was always assumed that windows are 2-way, so people will see in them. Usually we leave our curtains open all day for natural light, & it's harder to see inside, & close them at night when it's easy to see inside.
I'm seeing in modern housing, apartments & condos, hardly anyone is using any curtains & blinds anymore. Do they really expect that nobody will see inside, even if they're on an upper floor?
Curtains & blinds also can be only partially open to allow only a narrow view from outside. Or there's light colored & sheer curtains that allow lots of light in but a dull or distorted view of the inside.
If you like a wide open glass look, you should expect people to see inside.
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Hey andyg, glad to see you got the computer fixed. Nice to see your Art posts again also. You did not mention Thanksgiving so I assume yours was a good one. I don't much like having computer problems or any problems for that matter as it is getting harder for me to fix things these days. I might have a wiring problem in the old house as some lights are flickering or going out at random times but come on if I shake the fixture. I also have a front porch light that has not worked in awhile and I think the squirrels have chewed the wire in the attic. I keep waiting for a good day when my arthritis is not so bad and I can go up and investigate. Like you Betty, I do a fair bit of reading these days and fall back on my housework and repairs. I don't like the idea of moving to an apartment just yet as I love my house and the little dungeon downstairs as well as my girly storage area. I also have many things I collected over the years that I should think about selling as I get the impression my family members are not interested in any of it these days.
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The internet doesn't give any privacy -- or not much, anyway. Maybe people have stopped expecting it.
On the other hand, there is no such thing as true "one way" glass, unless by "one way" you mean dark side sees out, bright side sees a mirror, in which case *all* glass is "one way." I have blinds, but since during the day it is brighter outside, I don't worry about closing them for privacy except at night. But I'm with you in that I can't understand how people could get along with no blinds at all.
Just for laughs, here's a funny story.
An older lady called the sheriff to complain about the boys skinny dipping in the river outside her kitchen window and how it was offending her. The sheriff talked to the boys and they moved their "swimming hole" half a mile upstream. The next day, the lady called the sheriff to complain again. The sheriff said he thought they had moved upstream and asked if they were back. "Oh, no," she replied, "they've moved. But I can still see them with my binoculars."
And I think that's the state of people "taking offense" today, where most of the time no offense if intended.
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
I visited the Morgan Library this week and checked out several of their current exhibits. The weather was a little frosty and while it wasn’t bitterly cold it was windy, although today is fairly mild. I think with climate change we’re never going to know what to expect from the weather every day other than the unexpected.
The main reason for going was the exhibit, Pontormo: Miraculous Encounters. It’s a very small exhibit held in the Clare Eddy Thaw Gallery which is similar in size, actually I think it’s smaller, than the Cabinet gallery at the Frick I described a few weeks ago. Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontormo, tells us that Jacopo Carucci usually known as Jacopo da Pontormo, Jacopo Pontormo or simply Pontormo, was an Italian Mannerist painter and portraitist from the Florentine School who painted in the sixteenth Century. There was only one painting in addition to a large altar piece along with a few drawings. The star of the exhibit was the altar piece, The Visitation, which depicts the intense moment of encounter between the Virgin Mary and her cousin Elizabeth, who reveal to each other that both are pregnant. But I was much more taken by the other painting, Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap, which was thought to be a lost painting until it was discovered in a private collection in 2008. This is the first time it’s been seen in public after its recent restoration. It is truly beautiful. The Portrait is owned by the billionaire J. Tomilson Hill and there was quite a controversy when he acquired it as he purchased it England and planned on bringing it to the United States, something the British Government was aggressively against as the painting is considered a national treasure. You can read about the controversy at these two links. They say that he was precluded to taking the artwork out of England for ten years but he had to have found a way out of that as its not much more than a year since he acquired it and here it is at the Morgan. There is a nice reproduction of the painting in the first article.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/heritage-protection-pontormo-865172
https://burlingtonindex.wordpress.com/2017/05/19/pontormo-brexit-and-the-national-gallery/
You can see an illustration of The Visitation as well as information on the other items in the exhibit in this press release from the Morgan.
https://www.themorgan.org/sites/default/files/pdf/press/PontormoPressRelease.pdf
You can see a chalk drawing which is a study for The Visitation at this link from the Uffizi Galleries, Florence
https://tinyurl.com/ya26r7kj
This is a 57 minute video from the website on Pontormo and the painting.
https://www.themorgan.org/videos/pontormo-drawing-painting
And here are two reviews of the exhibit
https://www.artandobject.com/news/morgan-hosts-pontormos-visitation-first-time-us
http://2fwww.haberarts.com/pontormo.htm
The second exhibit is, Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice. I confess I was a little disappointed in this owing to the very roughness of many of the drawings displayed, really just bare sketches. There was a nice painting, Christ Mocked, but it’s from a private collection and to the best of my knowledge doesn’t appear anywhere on the web. Tintoretto was a 16th Century Italian painter and this is a link to the Wikipedia page on his life. There’s an exhibition of his portrait paintings at the Met which I will write about in a few weeks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintoretto
This link shows a selection of the drawings and I think you’ll see what I’m talking about as you go through them although the ones that are barest of detail aren’t shown.
https://artssummary.com/2018/10/16/drawing-in-tintorettos-venice-at-the-morgan-library-museum-october-12-2018-january-6-2019/
This is the Morgan press release.
https://www.themorgan.org/sites/default/files/pdf/press/TintorettoPressRelease.pdf
This is a 41 minute video on Tintoretto.
https://www.themorgan.org/videos/impetuous-genius-drawings-jacopo-tintoretto
This is the Overview and Objects from the website.
https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/tintoretto
The third exhibit was It’s Alive! Frankenstein at 200 which spotlights Mary Shelley’s book from which the entire Frankenstein legend grew. The gallery is filled with the various media that promoted Frankenstein, the monster, including comic books, film posters, publicity stills, movie memorabilia as well as original manuscripts and artwork. It was a fun exhibit with snippets of videos from film versions of the monster. This is a link to the website overview with selected objects and a three minute video.
https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/frankenstein
This is a well-illustrated review of the exhibit.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/arts/frankenstein-at-200.html
This is the Morgan Library press release discussing the exhibit and also showing a number of images.
https://www.themorgan.org/sites/default/files/pdf/press/FrankensteinPressRelease.pdf
These were a few of the items in that I especially liked.
Henry Fuseli - The Nightmare – This is one of the first images you see in the exhibit and it’s quite striking. The link is to a long essay on Wikipedia discussing the painting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nightmare
Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg - A Philosopher in a Moonlit Churchyard
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1666679
John Hamilton Mortimer - Death on a Pale Horse
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1668388
Joseph Wright of Derby - Alchemist Discovering Phosphorus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alchemist_Discovering_Phosphorus
Bernie Wrightson - Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus – Bernie was a comic book artist who I always enjoyed; he brought a new style to the comics he drew and this is from the illustrated graphic novel he created based on the Shelley novel. This, unlike the movie and other media, is faithful to the book as Shelley wrote it. It’s a book I acquired when it came out.
https://www.themorgan.org/sites/default/files/images/exhibitions/galleries/16-1977-Wrightson-Stars.jpg
And finally this is a very large wood block print by Titian - The Submersion of Pharaoh's Army in the Red Sea. It’s not part of any of the exhibits, it stands alone outside the upstairs gallery. It was created from 12 wood blocks and pieced together. Click on the image to enlarge so you can enjoy the detail.
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/titian-the-submersion-of-pharaohs-army-in-the-red-sea
Here are a couple of brief art videos from Sotheby’s that I found interesting. The Brueghel is one minute and the Sgt. Pepper is three. The technology of animating the paintings is fascinating and I wonder how they do it.
Experience Jan Brueghel’s Stormy Seas Like Never Before
https://tinyurl.com/y7gs76ut
Let Me Introduce to You…The Alternative Sgt. Pepper Art Work
https://tinyurl.com/y9yudwfn
And this three minute video is a preview of the London Christie’s Impressionist Art auction in February. There will be some really beautiful things and I’m really annoyed that it’s going to travel to other sites but in America it will only go to Los Angeles not New York. I find this very odd, New York seems to be the auction center of the United States.
Hidden Treasures from a radical era in European art history
https://tinyurl.com/ya85yovc
Now let’s see what treasures are at the Flickrs.
Andy G.
Cinderella cosplay 3
https://www.flickr.com/photos/128988220@N03/43369744470/
1292DSC_1487
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mika_ayukawa/44554970082/
Corinne with new skirt
https://www.flickr.com/photos/corinnetgirl2011/40306371901/
1902 Family Boys Girls Dresses
https://www.flickr.com/photos/162657292@N02/45322840194/
1980-1
https://www.flickr.com/photos/miss_lisa_dee/43976649914/
The Legendary Heather Fontaine
https://www.flickr.com/photos/trannilicious2011/43152844170/
October Fetish Night
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gentv2000/45187875751/
Albert Carroll's Pavlova
https://www.flickr.com/photos/13026340@N00/28153379429/
IMG_5718
https://www.flickr.com/photos/debbie_dolittle/30419079367/
Do you marry me?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/152673990@N05/39452471910/
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
It was a really chilly and windy day today, did not enjoy my walk at all.
This week I visited the Louise and Bernard Palitz Gallery at Syracuse University Lubin House at 11 East 61st Street in Manhattan. It’s affiliated with Syracuse University and has a small gallery on the second floor which I’ve visited in the past. I wish they had more exhibitions as it’s an intimate venue and I can’t remember ever being there when I wasn’t the only person in the gallery. This exhibition was, “Selections from the Rona and Martin Schneider Collection of Late 19th and Early 20th Century American and European Fine Art Prints.”
There’s very little information available on the Internet about the Schneiders. They are listed as major donors to Syracuse University in 2017, their donation being the source for this exhibit. This is the brief biography shown.
Schneider, Rona and Martin
An important gift of over 650 original prints to the Syracuse University permanent art collection came in 2017 from Rona and Martin Schneider of Brooklyn, New York. Rona, a well-known print dealer and member of the International Fine Print Dealers Association, specialized in late 19th and early 20th century American and European prints especially those made as part of the “Etching Revival.”
This is a link to an article discussing their gift as well as showing a few images.
https://fineartconnoisseur.com/2018/08/art-exhibition-significant-gift-syracuse-university/
I think the most notable artists in the exhibit were Thomas Moran, Henry Farrer, Joseph Pennell, James David Smillie and Julian Alden Weir. At least they were names I’ve come across previously. Everything in the exhibit was quite nice. I was able to take pictures and took three. I have a Trac Fone and the camera isn’t the best. It doesn’t help that I have trouble keeping my hand steady while I hold the phone and try to press the button. I emailed them to myself but when I got home it wasn’t in my inbox although the first one I composed, which had only one image in it, had arrived although I didn’t send it. So I sent it to myself again and when I checked my desktop both of them had arrived. I wanted to add my Verizon email address to the Gmail account so it would automatically populate when I do this but I saw no access to the address book on the phone. I checked Google help and it appears that is due to no address book being there. Help suggested I add the contact through the desktop which I did. You can see how familiar I am with my phone and its features. I took the photos as the website has no images displayed, just a long view of the gallery space. But happily I was able to find images on the Internet and I’ll link to some I especially liked below.
Charles Frederick William Mielatz – Below are two images by Mielatz, he’s someone new to me as are, for the most part, the others below. These two really struck me for their intricate designs and details. To create an etching a metal plate is covered with a waxy ground which is resistant to acid. The artist then scratches off the ground with a pointed etching needle where he or she wants a line to appear in the finished piece, so exposing the bare metal. The plate is then dipped in a bath of acid which "bites" into the metal where it is exposed, leaving behind lines sunk into the plate. The remaining ground is then cleaned off the plate. The plate is inked all over, and then the ink wiped off the surface, leaving only the ink in the etched lines. So to create a design like these two is to me a remarkable feat.
A Restaurant in Mott Street
http://dac-collection.wesleyan.edu/CUS.18.zoomobject5.9733?sid=40441&x=26552862&x=26552863
The Golden Door – I wish I could have found a larger image so you can see just how detailed this etching is. If you click on it you can enlarge it a little more.
http://digital.cincinnatilibrary.org/digital/api/singleitem/image/p16998coll67/7/default.jpg?highlightTerms=
Henry Farrer – Washerwoman – Something about this really appealed to me, perhaps its sentiment or a kinship to some of Rembrandt’s etchings that I’ve seen. The poor woman hunched over her basin.
http://wordpress.conncoll.edu/ahi246digitalexhibition/2015/05/04/henry-farrer-washerwoman/
Henry Farrer - Old House, Corner of Peck Slip and Water Street (from Scenes of Old New York) – I think he really captured this aged dwelling in all its warped glory. The Met owns this copy.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/380982
John Leon Moran - A JAPANESE FANTASY – I like this as it is reminiscent of Whistler’s Asian etchings like the one in the second link. Another interesting point is this is from a proffered sale from Rona Schneider’s business. I wonder if she wound up keeping it or if the one in the exhibit is another issue from the plate.
https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/A-Japanese-Fantasy/C893C1C95FB63D49
https://www.periodpaper.com/products/1904-print-james-mcneill-whistler-princesse-pays-porcelaine-asian-princess-fan-204592-xala5-013
Robert Swain Gifford, Algerian Landscape - (The first plate etched at the New York Etching Club) – The first link is to a blog which discusses The New York Etching Club which is where all of these etchings are from and in particular Gifford. The second link is an enlargement. The actual plate is tiny 2 3/16 x 3 ½.
http://adventuresintheprinttrade.blogspot.com/2011/03/new-york-etching-club-r-swain-gifford.html
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r7vqZMASwqA/TZCukzVHdLI/AAAAAAAAC0A/6Duy3q6JX4A/s1600/Gifford+-+Algerian+scene.jpg
Robert Swain Gifford – Near The Coast – The first link is to the etching while the second link is to an oil painting that Swain also did. Both are in the Met collection although for some reason no image is available on the Met website for the etching. I think this could illustrate, “it was a dark and stormy night.”
https://www.pafa.org/sites/default/files/artworkpics/1933_13_2_l.jpg
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10944
Otto Henry Bacher - FONDAMENTA DEI TOLENTINI – This is another item listed for sale by Rona Schneider and in her notes she points out, “Amazingly, the nearest building still stands, with the shop occupied by a watchmaker.” It must be very difficult for etchers to show depth, such as the man shown inside the shop. Having no depth perception myself it’s beyond me. This is another one where I could only find a small image unfortunately.
https://media.mutualart.com/Images/2013_05/31/07/070817749/ae568379-cd58-4ba7-a457-1cbd4368b5ea_570.Jpeg
Samuel Colman - The Belfry of Bruges – I thought this ornate structure was well depicted along with the wagon, horses and people.
http://www.robinprints.com/shop/prints/the-belfry-of-bruges-1882/
Thomas Moran – The Rainbow – Moran is a famous Hudson River painter and I’ve mentioned him numerous times from auctions and exhibits I’ve seen. I would think he’s probably the most noted of all of the artists I’ve mentioned here. Interesting the way he suggests the rainbow without using any color
https://www.dia.org/art/collection/object/rainbow-54874
There were many more and as I noted above I enjoyed seeing everything in the exhibit. I look forward to the next one although their website says they only do one twice a year.
I also visited the Di Donna Gallery at 744 Madison Avenue, a site I had never been to, for A PASSION FOR COLLECTING: MODERN WORKS FROM THE PÉREZ SIMÓN COLLECTION. This is a brief biography of Jose Antonio Perez Simon from Wikipedia.
Juan Antonio Pérez Simón (born 1941) is a Spanish businessman and art collector, resident in Mexico, who became rich in the telecommunications business.Pérez Simón has assembled a collection of over 3000 paintings, including works by Dalí, Goya, El Greco, Rubens, Van Gogh and Monet. In 2010, Paris Match described the collection as the largest in private hands in the world.
It’s a remarkable collection and he’s been good about lending it to museums and galleries for exhibits. There are no images on the website and when I asked if I could take pictures with my phone I was told no. This link is to their press release with a description of the exhibit and a few illustrations, ironically one of his Rothko; you know my feelings about Rothko’s art. http://www.didonna.com/attachment/en/592dccf9dca837ed225523d3/TextOneColumnWithFile/5b6c52c92cd850257070bb5a
I also found this review from Bloomberg which has several illustrations including a Magritte I particularly liked and a Miro.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-12/telecom-tycoon-s-paintings-return-to-n-y-10-years-after-lehman
And this shows his Cezanne among others, be sure to click to enlarge.
https://deskgram.net/explore/tags/P%C3%A9rezSim%C3%B3nCollection
Two nice shows made for a very pleasant morning.
Let’s visit the Flickrs now.
Andy G.
christmas dress – Hi Samantha, new pictures I see
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sissysamantharebecca/45418338934/
CIMG4287.jpg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tsukiko/44733883121/
Short bridal dress 3
https://www.flickr.com/photos/136587301@N08/44718870162/
549
https://www.flickr.com/photos/91894461@N07/30791282692/
Brenda
https://www.flickr.com/photos/boyswillbegirls/35184187290/
Wedding dress
https://www.flickr.com/photos/wendiw/4838016640/
As a sexy bride last night at translivings event in Bournemouth
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ninajay/38783256971/
S1050121
https://www.flickr.com/photos/167027157@N06/44829149714/
Fairygirl is back :-)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/fairyboyprincess/43696162520/
20180525_184853
https://www.flickr.com/photos/slavejane/43976699764/
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:-*blushes, Thank you Andy for looking for me again. Yes i have been having fun dressing up. It only took over a year for me to wear that dress. I now have to take to the dry cleaners as it is only dry clean only.
Not sure when i am going to wear it next.
Big hugs
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
Looks to be a rainy weekend although it was supposed to rain this morning and hasn’t as yet done so. After our cold wave it’s much milder today, in the 50’s now.
This week I walked up to the Met. With all the auctions it’s been a while since I’ve been there.
I was there for their exhibition, Celebrating Tintoretto: Portrait Paintings and Studio Drawings. Tintoretto was also known as Jacopo Robusti. His birth name was Jacopo Comin. According to Wikipedia this fact was unearthed by a researcher at the Museo del Prado in Madrid and was announced at a retrospective of the artist at the Prado in 2007. The current exhibit celebrates the 500th anniversary of his birth in Venice, a place he seldom departed from. This is a link to his biography on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintoretto
I thought it was a very good exhibition, the paintings, aside from three from the Met’s collection, one of those being a Titian, all came from diverse venues both here in the United States and overseas. Certainly there are at least three paintings which are seldom seen as they are in the hands of private owners and it’s unlikely they will be lent again anytime soon. Others came from the Uffizi in Italy, Queen Elizabeth’s Royal collection, one from Germany and several from museums in the United States.
There are no images of the paintings on the Overview page of the exhibit on the Met website so I made a point of noting where all of them came from so as to see if they were published on the Internet. Photography was allowed for this exhibit, that’s not always the case, so I made a point of taking pictures of the three from private owners as you seldom find those on the web aside from if they were won at auction and the auction website still lists it. Just for good measure I also photographed the Queen’s copy since I wasn’t sure that would be up either. Like everyone else I took the pictures on my cellphone camera. My cellphone is an inexpensive Tracfone and is probably the smallest cellphone with a screen you can buy. I find taking pictures very difficult, the difficulty stemming from how hard it is to keep my hands steady and then press the capture button. I had to retake most of them because my first attempts were either out of the frame or out of focus. My personal focus isn’t so great either. On one attempt I wound up creating a five minute video, probably of my feet, without realizing it. Happily I was able to delete it. I emailed the pictures to my home email and I was surprised when I checked to discover they never arrived. And when I went into Gmail on my desktop they weren’t in the sent box either. I opened the cellphone to check and found the two emails in the sent box and forwarded each. What a surprise when they arrived on my desktop accompanied by the earlier emails. Another mystery which I’ll never solve.
The exhibit is being held in the main gallery of the Lehman Pavilion which was constructed behind the Met in 1975 and is situated behind the museum. There was a controversy when the addition was first announced which seems to always be the case when a museum looks to expand, the recent controversy concerning the Frick’s expansion is another example, but the Courts ruled in favor of the Met and it was allowed to proceed. Robert Lehman left his enormous collection, which covered seven hundred years of western European art from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries, with the stipulation that the collection be displayed as one and not broken up with the components going to the appropriate galleries devoted to each period. It consists of 2,600 objects with 300 being paintings and 750 being drawings. It’s a magnificent collection and was a real coup for the Met to get. I’m sure I mention it whenever I write about an exhibit there.
When I sat down to create this post I started searching the web for images and after finding several I found this link from the Arts summary website. Almost every painting in the exhibit is shown including the three from private owners. From what I’ve discovered in searching the web all these years it’s very unusual for a painting in private hands to be displayed on a website. They even have a selection of drawings from his son Domenico that end the exhibit. I wrote recently about an exhibit of Tintoretto’s drawings at the Morgan Library. Like those these are rather rough drafts rather than finished artwork.
https://tinyurl.com/yb23o2hx
This is a detailed review of the exhibit from Art Net.
A Haunting Virtuoso of the Renaissance, Tintoretto’s Personal Side Has Remained a Mystery. Now the Met Wants to Change That.
https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/tintoretto-metropolitan-museum-1386538
The only items not included in the Art Summary link were this painting by Titian and paintings by Tintoretto from the Uffizi in Italy and another from the Met which you can see below.
Titian - Portrait of a Man
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437825
Portrait of A Man
https://www.virtualuffizi.com/portrait-of-a-man_15.html
The Finding of Moses
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437820
Afterward I wandered through the galleries of the Lehman permanent collection and was disappointed that his two paintings by the Dutch artist Gerard Ter Borch weren’t on display. I also didn’t remember him having a room full of El Greco paintings. On my way to the Lehman I always look to see if the Linsky Pavilion is open and it wasn’t. The Linsky also owned Dutch paintings and I always enjoy seeing them although due to staffing problems the Met seldom has those galleries open to the public. Leaving the exhibit I walked around the oval area, two sides of which house his Impressionist paintings and subsequently went downstairs where the Met has re-located the best of their Dutch holdings while the roof and skylights are being worked on in the European galleries. I was pleasantly surprised to see the Ter Borch’s from Lehman and Linsky on display there, as well as Lehman’s Rembrandt and the Linsky’s Dissolute Family by Jan Steen I think the Dutch are even more impressive in the oval setting.
These are the paintings from the Lehman and Linsky collections.
Gerard Ter Borch - Margaretha van Haexbergen
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/459084
Gerard Ter Borch - Burgomaster Jan van Duren
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/459083
Gerard Ter Borch - The Van Moerkerken Family
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435716
Rembrandt - Portrait of Gerard de Lairesse
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/459082
Jan Steen – The Dissolute Household
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437747
As I’ve said so many times, it’s always a treat to visit the Met and view their treasures.
This is an excellent review from the New York Review of Books of two books that discuss Japanese art and their influence on the Impressionists. One of them is the catalog from an exhibition mounted in Japan by three Japanese museums in conjunction with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. It explores Van Gogh’s appreciation of Japanese art especially the Japanese woodblock prints I so enjoy, he owned 600 of them. This is an exhibit I would have loved to see but unfortunately it was only mounted in Japan. I bought the book and it’s really wonderful showing Van Gogh’s works side by side with Japanese great artists like Hiroshige and Hokusai.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/12/20/van-gogh-impressionism-japan/?sub_key=5c1142a5b32f8
This five minute video of the art critic of New York magazine shows him with a copy of Michelangelo’s David on a subway station platform interviewing passersby about the statue.
https://www.vulture.com/2018/12/facts-on-michelangelos-david-in-a-subway-with-jerry-saltz.html
This four minute video discusses Cezanne’s five famous versions of The Card Players.
https://tinyurl.com/y7ungchz
Now let’s visit the Flickrs.
Andy G.
Simple Statements of Fact
https://www.flickr.com/photos/60741642@N06/45352054825/
May 2007 Transpitt's Garden Party ~ "1950s Housewife" Robyn and Sissy Princess Amber
https://www.flickr.com/photos/robynmichaels/2040811466/
10/26/18 Halloween Party
https://www.flickr.com/photos/trans-amee/44703225555/
Susie971
https://www.flickr.com/photos/24899087@N05/44664670865/
IMG_1093_pp
https://www.flickr.com/photos/113408194@N07/45081434632/
tallulahhh.com
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tallulahhh/39721701095/
Debbie's August 2018
https://www.flickr.com/photos/saralegs/43608612135/
Blue & Pink Sissy Maid
https://www.flickr.com/photos/142877968@N07/43140123434/
Latex Nurse - from the archives
https://www.flickr.com/photos/claudiatmuk/26717304763/
Sparkle2018 Life long goal complete!!!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/87097249@N03/42360325465/