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I don't care much at all anymore about the merchandise sold throughout Disneyworld, but I will say that Disney is second to none in making their stores visually appealing.
The Office of Student Life at College of DuPage recently hosted a celebration to announce this year’s Student Life Awards. The annual event honors outstanding achievement in COD’s student clubs and organizations.
This statue, along with several others sculpted by Joseph Swynnerton, are located in the Bay Room Cafe of the Manx Museum.
Youth of Today plays the Revelation Records 25th Anniversary Show at House of Blues Chicago on January 5, 2013.
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Our second hotel of the holiday in Sicily was at the Sant Alphio Garden Hotel & Spa, Giardini-Naxos. We stayed here for about 5 days.
Was amazing views from the hotel rooms on both sides. The hotel also had an outdoor swimming pool, and spa facilities.
There is a beach close to the hotel, a short walk away.
There was also a bar there where you could have a drink.
Navì Bistrot del Mare
Cruise ship
Alison & Adam at The Gardens of Castle Rock ~ Kid-Friendly Wedding near Northfield Minnesota
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MAKING OF "Oltre la Barriera" - a Game of Thrones-inspired larp, beyond the Wall
Photos by Federico Barcella. Francesco Tosi, Bruno Soci
This one has an "Imitation of Life" feel. (If you know the classic tear-jerker, you'll know what I mean.)
Istanbul, Turkey - Sep 28, 2018. View of the Istanbul waterfront from Golden Horn. Istanbul is a major city in Turkey that straddles Europe and Asia.
Geckos of the Round Table in Gulfport, Florida. Please credit Eagle Finegan via the Gulfport Merchants Chamber, visitgulfportflorida.com with every instance of reuse.
One of the very first pictures I took when I got my camera last year. It reminds me so much of summer, and today the weather in southern Hampshire, UK is soooo nice. I'm off to enjoy....
Daily Dog Challenge - 383. 11/17 "Beacon of Light" - Take a photo of your dog today and find a creative or beautiful way to add light to your picture.
Our Daily Challenge - Group 1 - All LIT UP is the topic for Saturday 17th November 2012
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Seal Rock - c. 1872-87
Albert Bierstadt (German-American, 1830 - 1902)
At the age of two, Albert Bierstadt and his family emigrated from Prussia to the bustling whaling town of New Bedford, Massachusetts. The source of his early artistic training is unknown. By 1850, however, he began advertising as an instructor in "monochromatic painting" and was soon exhibiting his works locally and in Boston. In 1853 he returned to Prussia with the intention of enrolling in the art academy at Düsseldorf. Instead, he fell under the influence of American painters living there, most notably Worthington Whittredge and Emanuel Leutze, who introduced him to the works of the leading German landscapists, such as Andreas Achenbach. Upon his return from Europe in 1857, he settled in New York, where he joined the growing circle of landscape painters.
Bierstadt had acquired a great deal of experience in painting landscape during several summer sketching trips in Europe. In search of American scenery of comparable grandeur, Bierstadt was not contented by the popular and oft-painted mountains of New England. In summer 1859 he accompanied Frederick W. Lander's survey party to the Continental Divide. Four years later he traveled as far as California, where he visited the illustrious Yosemite Valley, discovered by white men only twelve years earlier. One of the first artists to explore the American West, Bierstadt earned his reputation through his grand-scale panoramas of western mountain scenery, such as "The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak" (1863; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) and "Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California" (1868; National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.). By the 1860s Bierstadt was being hailed as the preeminent American landscape painter.
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"Acknowledged as the first museum in the world dedicated solely to collecting American art, the NBMAA is renowned for its preeminent collection spanning three centuries of American history. The award-winning Chase Family Building, which opened in 2006 to critical and public acclaim, features 15 spacious galleries which showcase the permanent collection and upwards of 25 special exhibitions a year featuring American masters, emerging artists and private collections. Education and community outreach programs for all ages include docent-led school and adult tours, teacher services, studio classes and vacation programs, Art Happy Hour gallery talks, lectures, symposia, concerts, film, monthly First Friday jazz evenings, quarterly Museum After Dark parties for young professionals, and the annual Juneteenth celebration. Enjoy Café on the Park for a light lunch prepared by “Best Caterer in Connecticut” Jordan Caterers. Visit the Museum Shop for unique gifts. Drop by the “ArtLab” learning gallery with your little ones. Gems not to be missed include Thomas Hart Benton’s murals “The Arts of Life in America,” “The Cycle of Terror and Tragedy, September 11, 2001” by Graydon Parrish,” and Dale Chihuly’s “Blue and Beyond Blue” spectacular chandelier. Called “a destination for art lovers everywhere,” “first-class,” “a full-size, transparent temple of art, mixing New York ambience with Yankee ingenuity and all-American beauty,” the NBMAA is not to be missed."
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The NBMAA collection represents the major artists and movements of American art. Today it numbers about 8,274 paintings, works on paper, sculptures, and photographs, including the Sanford B.D. Low Illustration Collection, which features important works by illustrators such as Norman Rockwell, Howard Pyle, and Maxfield Parrish.
Among collection highlights are colonial and federal portraits, with examples by John Smibert, John Trumbull, John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, and the Peale family. The Hudson River School features landscapes by Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Martin Johnson Heade, John Kensett, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederic Church. Still life painters range from Raphaelle Peale, Severin Roesen, William Harnett, John Peto, John Haberle, and John La Farge. American genre painting is represented by John Quidor, William Sidney Mount, and Lilly Martin Spencer. Post-Civil War examples include works by Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, George de Forest Brush, and William Paxton, and 19 plasters and bronzes by Solon Borglum. American Impressionists include Mary Cassatt, Theodore Robinson, John Henry Twachtman, J. Alden Weir, Willard Metcalf, and Childe Hassam, the last represented by eleven oils. Later Impressionist paintings include those by Ernest Lawson, Frederck Frieseke, Louis Ritman, Robert Miller, and Maurice Prendergast.
Other strengths of the twentieth-century collection include: sixty works by members of the Ash Can School; significant representation by early modernists such as Alfred Maurer, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Max Weber; important examples by the Precisionists Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, Preston Dickinson, and Ralston Crawford; a broad spectrum of work by the Social Realists Ben Shahn, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, and Jack Levine; and ambitious examples of Regionalist painting by Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry, and Thomas Hart Benton, notably the latter’s celebrated five-panel mural, The Arts of Life in America (1932).
Works by the American Abstract Artist group (Stuart Davis, Ilya Bolotowsky, Esphyr Slobodkina, Balcomb Greene, and Milton Avery) give twentieth-century abstraction its place in the collection, as do later examples of Surrealism by artists Kay Sage and George Tooker; Abstract Expressionism (Lee Krasner, Giorgio Cavallon, Morris Graves, Robert Motherwell, Sam Francis, Cleve Gray), Pop and Op art (Andy Warhol, Larry Rivers, Robert Indiana, Tom Wesselman, Jim Dine), Conceptual (Christo, Sol LeWitt), and Photo-Realism (Robert Cottingham). Examples of twentieth-century sculpture include Harriet Frishmuth, Paul Manship, Isamu Noguchi, George Segal, and Stephen DeStaebler. We continue to acquire contemporary works by notable artists, in order to best represent the dynamic and evolving narrative of American art.
525/779 The inclusion of the urban parkland has always been considered as one of the most important aspect of the urban space, from Nash's redevelopment of the Regent' park to the more recent Le Corbusier's Garden City based on the communal living idea, the planning of the park area has always been considered quite thoroughly throughout the course of history.
Base on my limited understanding of the constructivists' idea of architecture or landscape design, actually architecture mainly, the plan view of the parkland is somewhat considered as important, and the arrangement and order of each elements are pre-determined in order to preserve the spatial continuity that comes from the form.
Bernard Tschumi's scheme for Prac da le Villette however demonstrates a rather different attitude towards the unity of the form. Instead, he promotes the discontinuity of the form, which the segment are to be arranged through a rational process of patterning. Yet, by looking at many of the de-constructivist architects, the so called rationality was in fact achieved through an unjustifiable process, mostly through instinctive judgement, experience or aesthetic aspiration. It is hard to remain rational through the whole process.
As the development of the city scape is usually a process of organic growth, as the patterns are developed over time and refined constantly through frequent use. Through parametric design, it is possible to model such changing pattern by introducing time, and using the data to simulate the changing pattern therefore as a result, achieving the most desirable form through experimentations.