Art and Artifice
ARCHIVE PAGE 30 - August 2018
Girl with Water Lillies
Girl with Water Lillies - bronze 1928. Art by Herbert Adams
"Girl with Water Lilies" – bronze, 1928, by Herbert Adams. At the National Gallery of Art (basically by the downstairs restaurant)
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John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a famous art instruction on seeing art through a new awareness of elements that get overlooked or are somehow obscure for the casual viewer. The book was first published in 1972 and based on the BBC television series. The Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings . . . he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." AMAZON
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Facade at the William Jefferson Clinton west building, formerly the Ariel Rios Federal Building at 14th St NW and Constitution Avenue, Washington DC.
Nearing the issue - 1879
Painting by Horace Bonham, 1879 "Nearing the issue at the cockpit"
The National Gallery of Art has a page talking about this painting National Gallery of Art.
Indian Running with Dog
Sculpt by Paul Manship
Page about Paul Manship sculpture, "Dog and Indian Running" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum - page here
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THE ODYSSEY: With the Greek on one side and the English on the other side this edition allows for easy reading while also opportunities to peruse the original Greek - "the classic parallel text version of Homer." Translation by Augustus Taber Murray (1866–1940) Professor of Greek at Stanford University and George Edward Dimock (1917–2000), Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at Smith College.
Homer was probably born around 725BC and he is from a long line of bards and poets who practiced the oral tradition of storytelling. .AMAZON
"This lavishly produced volume explores Matisse’s lifelong reinvention of art through some fifty works, six extraordinary fold-out spreads, and illuminating essays."AMAZON
172 Pages - Dimensions 8.81 x 0.98 x 10.69 inches
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Inside the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (2017)
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