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Art and the Bible

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:45:15 GMT

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder ca. 1520 – 1569

The Preaching of St. John

Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Bruegel would often use biblical themes to depict village-life as he knew it. This is another fine example. The viewer’s attention is first drawn to the figures in the foreground, then to the river in the background and only then to John the Baptist, wearing a garment of camel hair.

The painting was created when the Iconoclast raged in the Low Countries and Protestant clergymen were touring the country, stopping in places to call for Reformation. This painting may have been inspired by one such meeting.

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Art of the Doomed.

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:42:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Many of the artists of these clipped works perished in the camps of the Nazis.

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The Sowers by Thomas Hart Benton, 1942

Threesome (1944), by Felix Nussbaum (1904-1944)

Children as well as adults documented events of the Holocaust through art

Laufen (undated), by Josef Nassy (1904-1976), a Black expatriate of Jewish descent
who was one of 2,000 internees with American passports held prisoner in
Germany during WWII

1942. Esther Lurie

described here new deportees arriving
in the ghetto

Unable to Work by David Olère

Inability to work was often an immediate death sentence

By Felix Nussbaum. Born in 1904, he died at Auschwitz in 1944

The Food of the Dead for the Living

Jews in the Hospital, by Aldo Carpi, 1945

"Forced Labor - Building a Tunnel" by David Olere, 1945.
Given severely limited food rations, prisoners
were exploited in hard labor, such as the digging
of a tunnel, depicted here in watercolor and
charcoal. Those unable to work were killed.
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Kommando, by Fernand Van Horen

a Belgian survivor

Normal Life in Flossenburg

Gassing

"Zyclon B cans"

Arrival of a Convoy

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Dark Art

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:03:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Rizpah (‘coal’; ‘hot stone’) was the daughter of Aiah and one of Saul's concubines.

"A famine, which lasted for three years, fell upon the land during the first half of King David's reign. This calamity was sent ‘for Saul and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.’ David inquired of them what satisfaction they demanded and was answered that nothing would compensate for the wrong Saul had done but the death of seven of Saul's sons. David accordingly delivered up the two sons of Rizpah and five sons of Merab, Saul's daughter. The Gibeonites put them to death and hung up their bodies at the sanctuary at Gibeah. Rizpah thereupon took her place on the rock of Gibeah, and for five months watched the suspended bodies of her children, to prevent them from being devoured by beasts and birds of prey, till they were at length taken down and buried by David."

Edited extract from 'Easton's Bible Dictionary'

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Vintage Posters

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:12:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A small sample from the secret collection of the late screenwriter Leonard Schrader.

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Haeckel's "Art Forms in Nature" (1899) on the web

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:06:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: An incredible collection of illustrations of strange and beautiful shapes taken from nature: microscopic organisms, fungi, sea animals, etc. Hard to describe, but worth a look.

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	Ernst Haeckel: Kunstformen der Natur 1899-1904 HTML-Version herausgegeben von Kurt Stüber, 1999 Vollständige elektronische Faksimile-Ausgabe. Index aller 100 Tafeln Dieses Buch ist ein Teil von Kurt Stübers online-Library.

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Viktor Schreckengost

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:50:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Vicktor Schreckengost (1906-2008) died on January 26, 2008 at age 101.
Schreckengost taught industrial design at the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) for more than 50 years, and was a professor emeritus at CIA until his death. He was also the youngest faculty member ever at CIA (then known as the Cleveland School of the Arts). He founded CIA's school of industrial design, the first of its kind in the country. He also enlisted in the Navy at age 37 to help the Allies in World War II. He was flown on secret missions to Europe where he used his modeling knowledge to help improve the radar used in the Battle of the Bulge. Later he helped design prosthetics for wounded soldiers. He retired from the Naval Reserves as a Captain. Schreckengost was also good friends with Cleveland's famed safety director Eliot Ness.

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Born the son of a commercial potter in Sebring, Ohio, Viktor Schreckengost learned the craft of sculpting in clay from his father

Upon graduation in 1929, he studied ceramics in Vienna, Austria, where he began to build a reputation, not only for his art, but also as a jazz saxophonist

New Yorker, or The Jazz Bowl, about 1930

The original Jazz Bowl was made for Eleanor Roosevelt

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American Limoges Manhattan Shape Meerschaum Pattern (working model), 1935

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Jeddu, 1931

A clay head, based on a photograph taken by a friend in Africa

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Murray Mercury bicycle, first issued 1939

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Apocalypse '42, 1942

Death is represented by the figure in a German uniform

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1950. One of Viktor's slab form vessels

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Naama, 1939

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Mammoths and Mastodons, 1956

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Blue Revel, 1931

This painting was inspired by a visit to the Globe Theater

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New York Buildings, Blue Background, 1997

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Champion Child's Pedal Car, first issued 1938

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Sketch and advertisement of the cab-over-engine truck design for White Motors

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Paula Rego: art, power and Woman

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:31:21 GMT

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London Transport - Classic advertising art

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:56:57 GMT

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London Transport poster by Laszlo Moholy Nagy 1937

This remarkable poster is one of three posters designed by Moholy Nagy for

London Transport during his brief stay in England between 1935 and 1937.

It was commissioned by Frank Pick at London Transport.

Frank Pick was the guiding intelligence behind the creation of the world's

first integrated transport system and gave the system a visual coherence

through his interest in architecture, industrial design, poster art and typography.

Pick was introduced to Moholy through Ashley Havinden at the Crawford

advertsing agency. Havinden had worked in Germany during the 1920s where

he had become aware of the pioneering modernism of the Bauhaus.

Nagy counts as one of the foremost graphic designers and

photographers of the 20C. He was born in Hungary in 1895. In 1920 he moved

to Germany and joined the design avant-garde.

Molholy moved to America in 1937 where he established the New Bauhaus and

the School of Design in Chicago.

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Mosaics

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:59:33 GMT

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Clip Source: www.thejoyofshards.co.uk

mosaic goes back some 4,000 years or more

the Greeks

raised the pebble technique to an art form

Roman Empire took mosaics further afield, although the level of skill and artistry was diluted

The inter-twined rope border effect here is called "guilloche

Click for a list of Roman mosaics you can see on this site

Byzantine mosaics

Eastern influences in style and the use of special glass tesserae called smalti

They are sometimes backed with reflective silver or gold leaf

Islamic mosaic art

motifs are mainly geometric and mathematical

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Medieval to modern

tiling patterns in abbeys and other major religious buildings

19th century

a revival of interest

in the Byzantine style

Art Nouveau movement also embraced mosaic art

the stunning ceramic mosaics of the Guell Park

a technique known as trencadis in which tiles

covered surfaces of buildings

Mosaic is in a healthy state in the early 21st century

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La Maison Picassiette is the extraordinary result of one man's work between 1938 and 1964

In the eye of the beholder.

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:37:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Anyone interested in forming an informal art club on CM? No great aims. Post a picture. Ask others what they think about it - what they see. Tell them what you think about it - what you see. We all try to broaden our minds on many subjects; this is just another.

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Historical Art of Chris Collingwood

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:39:27 GMT

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THE PIRATE ‘LONG BEN AVERY’ C1694 oil on canvas30x40

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Well, I ain't taking my clothes off!

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:19:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The writer Quentin Crisp spent the war years as an artist’s model at Derby School of Art. He described the job as “like being a civil servant, except that you are naked”.

Cherie Blair sat for the painter Euan Uglow while she was a trainee barrister. When she and her husband moved into public life, Uglow judiciously decided to avoid exhibiting Striding Nude, Blue Dress. It reappeared in 2006, six years after his death. Her profile is distinguishable but the painting remains unfinished.

Kate Moss was depicted reclining naked on a bed in Lucien Freud’s Naked Portrait 2002 while she was pregnant. The sitting was arranged after the model revealed in an interview that posing for Freud was one of her few remaining ambitions.

A retired art teacher was shocked in 2003 when she found a sketch she had made decades earlier and realised it was Sean Connery, aged 22 and in a loincloth. “When he modelled there were always lots of girls in the classes,” she said.

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Doing nothing for a living is not as easy as it looks. That was the militant message from Italy yesterday where artists’ nude models climbed back into their clothes and went on strike for better pay and conditions

The protesters — male and female — said that they wanted “professional recognition” and full-time contracts

Antonella Migliorini, 42, said that it was “a tough, cold job” posing in the nude, often for eight hours a day. “We are not porn stars,”

However, there will always be people willing to do it, despite the poor pay. “It can be rewarding to be immortalised as great art,” said Rachel Campbell-Johnston

But it can also be extremely physically demanding

The professional life model emerged with the rise of formal art schools and photography in the 19th and 20th centuries

It took a nude protest in the 1970s to secure full-time contracts

“We need to get to the bottom of this,”

Nando Dalla Chiesa, an education ministry official, said

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Art : R A van Haanen (1812-1894)

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:53:10 GMT

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Beached Fishing Boats by Moonlight

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A Moonlit Winter Landscape

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A River Landscape

A Favourite Painting

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:56:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The Three Younger Sons of Shah Jehan (17th C)

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Landscape

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:23:20 GMT

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Clipmarks | mickfinn's 'art' clips

Art and the Bible

The Preaching of St. John

Art of the Doomed.

Dark Art

Vintage Posters

Haeckel's "Art Forms in Nature" (1899) on the web

Ernst Haeckel: Kunstformen der Natur 1899-1904

Index aller 100 Tafeln

Viktor Schreckengost

Paula Rego: art, power and Woman

London Transport - Classic advertising art

Mosaics

In the eye of the beholder.

Historical Art of Chris Collingwood

Well, I ain't taking my clothes off!

Art : R A van Haanen (1812-1894)

A Favourite Painting

Landscape

Ernst Haeckel:
Kunstformen der Natur
1899-1904