Tag: 19th Century Art
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Painter Kenyon Cox
Cox, adamantly loyal to the preservation of the “older methods”, set himself in opposition to modern styles. In his 1917 book Concerning Painting: Considerations Theoretical and Historical, Cox restated his earlier feelings about the “Two Ways of Painting” saying: For at least fourteen thousand years, then, from the time of the cavemen to our own…
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3-D Beauty in a Flat Screen World
Imagine spending 15 years on a work that people see in passing, can touch if they want to, but hardly notice. Plastic Barbie dolls and Star Wars figurines, Pier One trinkets and Walmart cement garden gnomes are hardly capable of producing the emotions and awe once felt by viewers of public sculpture. But can you…
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J.M.W. Turner Catches Mother Earth Polluting Mother Earth!
READ MORE ABOUT TURNER’S PAINTINGS OF POLLUTION AFTER VOLCANO ERUPTION
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No Taxation without Representation!
“Lady Godiva, was an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to a legend dating back at least to the 13th century, rode naked – only covered in her long hair – through the streets of Coventry in order to gain a remission of the oppressive taxation imposed by her husband on his tenants. The name “Peeping…
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Sex in the Garden
“The flower’s leaves … serve as bridal beds which the creator has so gloriously arranged … and perfumed with so many soft scents that the bridegroom with his bride might there celebrate their nuptials with so much greater solemnity. When now the bed is so prepared, it is time for the bridegroom to embrace his…
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Farm Fashion 19th Century
As many of you know I have a small farm thing going on. Despite the freedom of wearing insulated overalls to work everyday I’m often pulled into the fantasy of skirts. So today instead of bringing you dead pigeons and war, let’s look at fashion. I tried this look. At the thrift store I found…
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Spinster Turned Patroness of the Arts: Florence Griswold
Florence did what women fallen on hard times once did with big family houses and nothing but the memories of dead relatives for riches. She mourned the loss of her 16 year old brother, her father, her sister and mother and opened her house to boarders who happened to be artists. I think artists…
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Utopian Artist Communities
Should art be made in solitude? There is a certain loneliness that artists know. The process and emotions seem alien to others. Artists may tear each other apart but they know, they know the loneliness. The Art Colony At Old Lyme: http://florencegriswoldmuseum.org/exhibitions_AmericanPlace.php Byrdcliffe: http://www.woodstockguild.org/about-byrdcliffe/byrdcliffe-history/ Cos Cob Art Colony: http://www.hstg.org/colony.php Provincetown Fine Arts Workshop: http://web.fawc.org/history The…
Author Adrienne Morris 