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This reconstruction was worked up from the early Nineteenth Dynasty base of a model temple gateway in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum (acc. no. 49.183) decorated with representations of King Sety I making offerings. The bottom of this model has been cast from the original and painted brown to match its quartzite stone. The statues, flagstaffs, pylon, and sidewalls, all of which were lost from the original, have been reconstructed to fit the depressions in the base. The result simulates the basic elements of a typical approach to a temple of the
For nearly twenty years,John Frederick Kensatt produced numerous works inspired by Lake George in New York's Adirondack Mountains:a tourist attraction frequented by mid-nineteenth century landscape painters.This late canvas marks a departure from the tranquil views of luminous skies and still waters that characterized Kensatt's depiction of the area.Richer,variegated color and animated brushwork suggest movement and atmospheric breadth,and the ominous sky creates dramatic tension.
One of my most favorite landscape paintings. Done by Albert Bierstadt 1830-1902 and hung in the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY. “1863 Bierstadt exaggerated their scale and introduced dramatic weather to thrill audiences at a moment when North America was under rapid development.”
In addition to painting the splendor of North American scenery,Frederic Edwin Church traveled through South America in the 1850s and created dramatic Andean landscapes that were inspired by the German scientist Alexander von Humboldt's 1849 travel accounts.Humboldt urged artists to paint South America in order to study and represent the earth in its most original state.The soft outlines and suffused golden light of this placid Ecuadorian landscape,however lend it a nostalgic air.Altered perhaps by the veil of memory or the mellowing that comes with age,Church's later renderings of area relinquished the scientific purposefulness of his earlier paintings in favor of more generalized views and quieter moods.
Made by Bomard Industries Grand Haven,Michigan (20th century), fiberglass,chromed steel,rubber,other metals and vinyl
The aluminum prototype for this futuristic bicycle was handmade by MG Auto Company in England in 1946 and incorporated an ingenious dynamo that stored the downhill energy and released it on uphill runs.It was prohibitively expensive for consumer production,but in 1960 Bowden contracted with Bomard Industries in Michigan to produce this more mechanically conventional,one- speed version of the dynamic organic design in fiberglass,a new design material.Ultimately,the endeavor was too costly for Bomard Industries as well and the firm went out of business after only manufacturing only 522 examples.
Charles Ethan Porter was a leading nineteenth century still life painter and one of the first African Americans trained at the prestigious National Academy of Design in New York,from 1869 to 1863.This work exhibits the earthy palette and visible brushwork that were then coming into vogue to replace a more detailed and finished mud century aesthetics-Brooklyn Museum
In Jasper Cropsey's Autumn at Mount Chocorua, the artist celebrates the When Cropsey exhibited a similar work in London Autumn on Hudson River richness and variety of the colorful New Hampshire landscape in fall.When Cropsey exhibited a similar work in London,Autumn-on Hudson River,many British viewers could not believe the intensity of the colors-fall foliage is not as bright on the other side of the Atlantic.To convince viewers that his colors were accurate,Cropsey displayed specimens of leaves from American trees alongside the painting.
¹Mount Chocorua is a summit of the White Mountains in New Hampshire,elevation 3,490 feet
I finally went to visit the Brooklyn Museum yesterday.There were some paintings there I wanted to see for a while,but the museum's hours did not coincide with mine.Hope you will enjoy the artwork as much as I do and not be bored 😴.I'll be sharing them randomly,so don't worry.Thanks so much for your interest and support.
Weeks probably painted this seemingly spontaneous sketch of the banks of the Ganges River in the sacred city of Benares during his first extended visit to India,in 1882-83.It most likely served as one of many preparatory for his large and important painting The Last Journey,Souvenir of the Ganges,Benares,exhibited to acclaim at the Paris Salon of 1885. Although the broad brushwork of this study is characteristic of his sketches executed on the spot,its size suggested that it may have been painted in his temporary studio in Benares,perhaps with the aid of some of the photographs that he also employed to document his firsthand observations.
Asher B. Durand,considered a founder of the Hudson River School along with Thomas Cole was also identified with the progressive practices of plein air (outdoor) painting and innovative pictorial types.By the 1850s forest interiors in a compressed vertical format,as seen in this outdoor study,had become Durand's signature compositional type.Here,the diagonal thrust of the tree dominates the foreground,while crisply delineated textures and contrasts of light and shadow convey minute detail,suggesting careful study from nature.
Queen Ankhnes-meryre and Her Son Pepy ll.Old Kingdom Dynasty 6,reign of Pepy ll,circa 2288-2224/2194 B.C.E.Probably from Upper Egypt,Egyptian alabaster
Pepy ll became king as a small child,so his mother acted as regent.The statue conveys her role,evoking the typical Egyptian pose of a mother nursing a child.Pepy is seen as a miniature king rather than a child,and instead of nursing him,the queen holds him protectively as he clasps her hand.Each figure looks straight ahead and has its own inscription,as if it were a separate statue.
Eastman Johnson,(American,1824-1906) Study for the "Wounded Drummer Boy",circa 1864-1870,oil on laminated paperboard
Eastman Johnson drew his inspiration for this Civil War picture from an incident that reportedly occurred during the Battle of Antietam (1862) in which an injured drummer boy asked a comrade to carry him so that he can continue drumming his unit forward.The emblematic image of a heroic youth literally rising above the chaos of the battlefield resonated deeply with Northern audiences both during and after the war.Johnson's initial drawing of the subject was exhibited in 1864 to foster support for the army,and the finished painting of 1871-for which this work is a preparatory study-helped to commemorate the hope and sacrifice of the Union effort.In this study,the loose brushwork,bright highlights, and lack of detail powerfully evoke the experience of battle-the steady drum beat,the smoke-filled air,and the drama of life and death.
Egypt:Kaemwaset Kneeling with an Emblem of Hathor,New Kingdom,Dynasty 18,reign of Thutmose lV,circa 1400-1390 B.C.E.,granite
Frederick James Boston,American,The Morning News oil on canvas
Who wouldn't prefer a newspaper (or a cellphone:) to dirty dishes? Paintings of women reading newspapers were rare in the 1880s,and this featuring working-class mothers and maids were even rarer.With few exceptions,newspapers were still the purview of men.
While he was still and art student in Paris in the 1880s,Frederick Boston may have seen Mary Cassatt's Impressionists portraits of her wealthy female relations reading newspapers.In the 1890s,Boston became a major figure on the Brooklyn art scene and served as the first instructor at the fledging Brooklyn Museum.
In Greek mythology,Pandora,the first woman to be created by the gods,opened a box that released all the evils of humanity in the world.This sculpture depicts the moment just before Pandora gives in to the temptation,and shows her hand raised and about to open the box.
Fred Wilson often appropriates art objects to explore issues of race,gender,class,politics,and aesthetics.Made up of five portrait heads of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti,Grey Area (Brown version) refers to one of the most copied works of ancient civilization.The otherwise identical plaster effigies,which he purchased and painted,illustrate a value scale ranging in color from oatmeal to dark chocolate.Thus,Wilson raises,but does not answer,controversial questions about the racial identity of ancient Egyptians.
In both his provocative,groundbreaking installations in cultural institutions and in his studio work,Wilson encourages viewers to recognize changes in context create changes in meaning.He had said of his practice,"I use beauty as a way of helping people to receive difficult or upsetting ideas.The topical issues are merely a vehicle for making one aware of one's own perceptual shift-which is the real thrill."
I'm not a huge fan of Georgia O'Keefe so I didn't actually go in but I liked the architecture and the humans passing by in this moment.
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There’s always something to do during Summertime in New York. Neil Clarke Trio + performed at the Brooklyn Museum. (free concert, but support Jazz artists when you can)
For some,modernity resulted in an increasing feeling is alienation as people began moving through spaces at a faster pace.Edward Hopper captured this transitory nature of modern life in paintings infused with a sense of isolation and estrangement.
Completed at the height of Hooper's career, this painting shows Macomb's Dam Bridge,which connects Manhattan and Bronx.There are no signs of life in the city.Instead,an eerie stillness pervades the scene,resulting in a disquieting mood
In 1913 Max Weber wrote of his creative process:"We shall not be bound by visible objects-only the essence we as human beings can get out of them... Memories are visible."Weber saw a performance of the Russian Ballet in New York in 1914 and shortly afterward executed a watercolor recording his expressions of the dancers.Two years later he painted this oil,which shows crystallization of this memory in even greater abstraction.
Impressionist painter Gustave Caillebotte identified the small town of Argenteuil as an ideal modern landscape where nature's blue skies and rivers mingled harmoniously with industry-represented here in the town's new concrete and iron railroad bridge spanning the Seine.In 1851 the Paris/Saint-Germaine-en-Laye railway line came to Argenteuil,bringing with it thousands of middle class tourists from the French capital in under twenty-five minutes.Developers and industrialists followed transforming the suburb intro the regions most popular boating and sailing destination.
According to its first owner,who acquired the work from David Gilmore Blythe,Art versus Law "portray(ed) a true incident in the life of the artist."Blythe showed himself arriving, canvases and brushes in hand,at the door to the attic studio on which he owed rent,only to find it padlocked by his landlord and posted"TO LET-ON GOOD SECURITY!."The artist,clearly lacking any "security,"is dressed in tattered clothes and worn boots.On the barrel to his right hand and in the wood box at the left are broken and empty bottles,which suggest the cause of Blythe's distressed situation.
Talk about "a starving artist."
Francis William Edmond's All Talk and No Work features two figures,one white and one African American,who appear to be mid-conversation outside a barn.Although both wear tattered clothing and neither is engaged in productive work,unequal power dynamics are suggested.Leaning lazily on a pitchfork,the white farmer towers over the black figure,presumably his laborer,who holds an empty basket and gestures with his other hand.
This genre evokes the work of William Sidney Mount whose farmyard subjects and anecdotal characterizations of yeomen and African Americans were highly popular with New York audiences. Edmond's treatment of the black is neither idealized in Mount's manner nor caricatured in works by other genre artists,but the painting's enigmatic visual clues might be interpreted as an attempt to justify or obscure the racism of the era.
Albert Bierstadt was a skilled showman.Here,he reorganized Rocky Mountain landmarks,exaggerated their scale,and introduced dramatic weather to thrill audiences at a moment when the North American continent was under rapid development.Bierstadt's display for profit of theatrically large canvases like this one was a forerunner of movies.
In 1863 Bierstadt made an on-site study for the work,which he completed in his New York studio.The painting had a personal significance for "Mt. Rosalie" (now Mount Evans) was named by the artist in honor of his traveling companion's wife,Rosalie Osborne Ludlow whom Bierstadt would marry in 1866 following his divorce.
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About the artist-Bierstadt was born in Prussia in 1830,and was brought to live in the United States in New Bedford, Massachusetts at just a year old.He had a flare for art from an early age,and spent his youth sketching with crayons,before switching to oils at the age of 21.It was when he traveled back to Dusseldorf in 1853 that he officially studied painting and perfected his technique.Back in New Bedford a few years later with his newly acquired training,he dabbled in teaching art before dedicating himself to full-time painting.
The artist's subject of choice was landscapes.Spending time in alpine scenery while he studied made portraying nature his forte,and he received a lot of praise when he exhibited one of his paintings of Swiss mountains,Lake Lucerne and the National Academy if Design.This helped put his mastery of capturing stunning wilderness panoramas in the map.He was hailed as a bright new star on the American art stage and was elected an honorary member of the
Academy.
In 1859,Bierstadt joined a land surveyor for the US government called Frederick W. Lander on a trip west.He documented the trip with photographs and sketches,and inspired by the scenery he witnessed,he began reproducing what he saw on large canvasses in his studio back in New York.Four years later he returned west this time with author Fitz Hugh Ludlow.This trip provided more material for his paintings,as well as furnishing himself with a wife:Rosalie Ludlow divorced Fitz Hugh on their return and married Bierstadt instead.
Bierstadt's paintings were popular.Not only were they technically proficient but allowed their viewers to to marvel at serene unpopulated vistas that they would never get to witness in real life.Many would have heard of places like Rocky Mountains or Yosemite,but few would ever see them.Viewers lapped his work up.His presence was requested by every explorer venturing out west,including the Atchison,Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad who asked him to visit and paint the Grand Canyon.
When Bierstadt finished one of his gigantic paintings it would be quite an event.Audiences would flock to see a new thrilling vision of nature being unveiled,often bringing opera glasses to study the minute details of the canvas.He was known as his skills as a showman,as he often exaggerated scale,introduced dramatic weather patterns and reorganized landmarks,such as in A Storm in the Rocky Mountains,Mt Rosalie (shown)
Not everyone was a fan however.Some of Bierstadt's contemporaries criticized his overly romanticized depictions,stating that his use of light was excessive and unrealistic.This didn't impact the artist's commercial success:his paintings sold at record prices and he exhibited frequently.His artwork The Rocky Mountains,Landers Peak was purchased for $25,000 in 1865 (appx $480,558 today).
Bierstadt's fame did not last.As fashions changed the art world shifted their interests towards more impressionists styles,and his landscapes and theatrical lighting feel out of favor.In 1876 Bierstadt and his wife moved to Nassau inn the Bahamas to be in warmer climes,as Rosalie was suffering from consumption.
Although his work was largely forgotten after his death in 1902,he was a prolific artist completing over 500 paintings in his lifetime.By drawing people's attention to the majesty of the natural world his work also played a role in renewing people's interests in preserving these areas and establishing National Parks.
In this nocturnal scene, the Native American appears as something of a lone relic, disconnected from his culture and ambiguously detached from a specific historical moment. Depicted in isolation, the figure simultaneously suggests former glory and inevitable demise, a fate that most European Americans at this time considered to be certain for Native Americans.
Frederic Sackrider Remington painted many versions of the solitary Native American—a motif inspired by the lingering psychological impact of his harrowing experience in wartime Cuba as a war correspondent. However, it is the American Impressionist–inspired style, featuring broken brushwork and lightened palette, that dominates the painting’s narrative content.
Beauford Delaney arranged this still life composition as if to present an offering to the Fang reliquary figures that appears at the right.His vivid colors and the energetic brushwork create a sense of vibration-the bowl appears to spin and the figure to rock.Delaney may have seen Traditional African Art at the Primitive Art Center in Manhattan or at the Brooklyn Museum.
Winslow Homer was among the first artists to paint the modern American woman enjoying the physical liberation and social independence of leisure life.Here,Homer depicts four unaccompanied female hikers on a steep slope in the Adirondacks.This work demonstrates his interest in both dynamic asymmetrical compositions influenced by Japanese woodblock prints,which were becoming increasing popular in the West,and the color effects of bright outdoor light.