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Updated on 2009-11-11
Created on 2009-01-07
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Man at the Crossroads - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Rockefellers wanted to have a mural put on the wall in Rockefeller Center. Nelson Rockefeller wanted Henri Matisse or Pablo Picasso to do it because he favored their modern style, but neither was available. Diego Rivera was one of Nelson Rockefeller's mother's favorite artists and therefore was commissioned to create the huge mural. He was given a theme: New Frontiers. Rockefeller wanted the painting to make people pause and think.
The huge mural had many parts including: society women drinking alcohol, pictures of cells (sexually transmitted diseases), Leon Trotsky and finally the famous Lenin portion (depicting communism) which upset Rockefeller. The patron asked Rivera to change the face of Lenin to that of an unknown laborer's face as was originally intended but the painter refused.
The work was paid for on May 22, 1933, and immediately draped. People protested but it remained covered until the early weeks of 1934, when it was smashed by workers and hauled away in wheelbarrows. Rivera responded by saying that it was "cultural vandalism."
Rivera repainted the mural, though at a smaller scale, at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City where it can be found today. It was renamed as Man, Controller of the Universe. At Rockefeller Center in its place is a mural with Abraham Lincoln as its fo
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8_Antoni_Loving_Care.jpg (JPEG Image, 709x512 pixels)
Image of Janine Antoni performing Loving Care.
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Andrei Tarkovsky: Film and Painting
A great article on Tarkovsky's films and their connections to painting. Solaris is highlighted - along with Nostalghia and Andrei Rublev.
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It is here that we find the basic difference and juxtaposition between his film aesthetics and those of Pasolini and Fellini. Pasolini raises the language of film to that of literature, writing, with its syntax, semiotics, etc. Fellini’s method, where each scene is put together in the same way as a painting is on canvas, was even more unacceptable to Tarkovsky. What will you have if, instead of a figure drawn on canvas by the artist we see a live actor? This is a surrogate painting, a “live picture”.
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Add Sticky NoteSaint Sebastian, from the painting by Antonello da Messina
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Tipu's Tiger
From Wikipedia: "Tipu's Tiger (a.k.a. Tippoo's Tiger) is an automaton, representing a tiger savaging a European soldier, or employee of the British East India Company. It is currently on display in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London."
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Analytical drawing - student example
Example of an analytical drawing from a student. Note heavy use of line in place of shadow. Line is heavily worked - not singular or necessarily definitive. The shape is worked towards methodically and appears even appears transparent.
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Core Record BDC - VADS: the online resource for visual arts
A student drawing that concentrates on design more than description. Shape, form is primary. Rhythm. Organization.
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Core Record BDC - VADS: the online resource for visual arts
A student drawing where flatness is emphasized. Design, organization is of primary concern.
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Core Record ARTWORLD - VADS: the online resource for visual arts
Sketch for a miniature painting of a charging elephant. Shows planning and stages, importance of sketching.
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Historical Anatomies on the Web: Browse Titles
A large selection of early anatomical books and images.
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MoMA.org | The Collection | Alberto Giacometti. The Palace at 4 a.m. 1932
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Even early on, Giacometti once wrote, he had struggled to describe a "sharpness" that he saw in reality, "a kind of skeleton in space"; human bodies, he added, "were never for me a compact mass but like a transparent construction."
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Kasimir Malevich: Black Square
A brief article on Kasimir Malevich, Suprematism and his painting, Black Square.
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all art should be comforting, literal, narrative, perhaps somewhat erotic, and depict rationally classical
articlesubtitleject matter, then your taste in art coincides quite easily with those of that noted German art connoisseur and would-be
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He labelled his work "Suprematist" and under the influence of Dutch artist, Piet Mondrian, took Picasso's Cubism to its
ultimate conclusion.
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