Shock of the Old: The Pre-Raphaelites Go Back to the Future
Henry Wallis, “Chatterton” (c. 1855–56), oil on canvas, 62.2 x 93.3 cm (24 ½ x 36 ¾ in), Tate…
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John Everett Millais, “Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind” (1892) and “A Peaceful Retreat” (2002) were…
(via Met Envy Apparently Fueled National Gallery of Art’s Interest in Corcoran)
Buried in a Washington Post story about the court appearance of philanthropist Wayne Reynolds, a benefactor to the Corcoran Gallery opposed to its planned integration with the National Gallery of Art and George Washington University, is this gem (emphasis added):
(via Finding Refuge in Wyeth’s Windows)
Over the course of his career, the 20th century American artist Andrew Wyeth created 300 drawings and paintings of windows that are more about the people looking out them than the views they depict. Sixty of these meticulously crafted studies are on view through the end of November in the National Gallery of Art’s Andrew Wyeth: Looking Out, Looking In — the first show ever exclusively devoted to them.
(via The Mouse, an Unexpected and Enduring Art Muse)
As one of the most common mammals on our planet, the diminutive mouse has been scurrying its way into art for centuries. The rodent has now finally received its own art compendium with Lorna Owen’s Mouse Muse: The Mouse in Art, out next week from Monacelli Press.
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Dürer in DC: Some Observations on the Great Observer
Albrecht Dürer, “Head of an Apostle Looking Up” (1508). Brush and gray and black ink, gray wash,…
On its own, a painting by Joachim Wtewael can seem like a two-dimensional manifestation of an absurdly complex gâteau — gorgeous, delicious, but perhaps best taken in in small servings. Gathered together in critical mass in the exhibition, Pleasure and Piety: The Art of Joachim Wtewael (Utrecht, Centraal Museum, traveling this year to Washington, DC and Houston, Texas), however, the paintings’ immaculate surfaces and fervid sensuality make an intoxicating but satisfying meal.
Sexy, Satin Surfaces: Paintings from the Dawn of the Dutch Golden Age
