Is it really the Fall Flickr already? Well, just about.

[Betty]

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.

[Angela M...]

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. 

[Robyn Jodie]

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.

[andyg0404]

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/

[andyg0404]

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 SIMĂ“N COLLECTION.  This is a brief biography of Jose Antonio Perez Simon from Wikipedia.

Juan Antonio PĂ©rez SimĂłn (born 1941) is a Spanish businessman and art collector, resident in Mexico, who became rich in the telecommunications business.PĂ©rez SimĂłn has assembled a collection of over 3000 paintings, including works by DalĂ­, 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/

[sissysamantharebecca]

 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

[andyg0404]

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!!!

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