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Mary Cassatt became the only American artist to exhibit her art with the Impressionists in Paris. Her signature subjects...
12/02/2022

Mary Cassatt became the only American artist to exhibit her art with the Impressionists in Paris. Her signature subjects were portraits of women and portrayals of mothers and children caught in everyday moments.

While fellow French impressionists like Renoir and Degas painted beautiful dances and the life that was happening both upon and behind the stage, Mary Cassatt depicted a woman in the audience watching the dancers instead. In 19th France, the gaze of the observer was very much structured by issues of economic status. “In The Lodge” manages to show the complex relationship between the gaze, public spectacle, gender, and class privilege. The woman in the painting is shown holding opera glasses up to her eyes; but instead of tilting them down (as she would if she were watching the performance below), her gaze is level. She peers straight across the chamber - perhaps at another member of the audience. And if you look closely you will notice that, in turn, and in one of the boxes across the room, a gentleman is gazing at her. The woman is then caught between his gaze and ours (as the viewer) even as she spies another!

Yves Klein was the most influential, prominent, and controversial French artist to emerge in the 1950s. The success of h...
11/30/2022

Yves Klein was the most influential, prominent, and controversial French artist to emerge in the 1950s. The success of his career lay in attacking many of the ideas that underpinned the abstract painting that had been dominant in France since the end of the Second World War. For some critics, he is considered a descendent of Marcel Duchamp - a prankster who lampooned settled understandings of painting and opened art up to new media.

To further his artistic vision of the immaterial, Klein created “Le Vide” (The Void), where he removed everything from the Iris Clert Gallery - except for an empty cabinet. Klein also created a dramatic entrance for the opening ceremony, in which visitors were welcomed into the empty room. He used media strategies to draw attention to his work, in order to make a statement that even when the work of art is invisible and immaterial, it can still affect people. He wanted to change the viewer’s mind of the work of art as an aesthetic object, and his piece can be viewed as a political attack on the traditional art object and the gallery system that supports it. (Much like the Institutional Critique that emerged later)

Whether you’re moving for the first time or already have experience on the matter, it’s important to plan and organize t...
11/29/2022

Whether you’re moving for the first time or already have experience on the matter, it’s important to plan and organize the whole process before it starts. Usually, moving consists of several tasks, including packing, loading, transport, unloading, and unpacking all of your belongings. As if all these tasks aren’t tiring enough, moving is ranked as one of the most stressful events you can experience in your lifetime. We are aware that this statement sounds pretentious - but there are too many tasks to think of, especially if you have never dealt with anything similar. One of the ways to make your move easier is to learn how you can help your movers do a better job! That is why we’ve prepared this list of useful tips to help you along the way: https://dorothyandmarthamoving.com/how-to-help-your-movers/

Nam June Paik’s various experiments positioned video as a viable art form, and a tool toward accomplishing widespread, g...
11/28/2022

Nam June Paik’s various experiments positioned video as a viable art form, and a tool toward accomplishing widespread, global connectivity - an oeuvre eerily prophetic to our contemporary information age. His revolutionary practice laid the groundwork for today's artists working in new media art.

“TV Buddha” is one of Paik's best-known pieces. This sculpture centers on an 18th-century sculpture of a Buddha posed with a tranquil meditation mudra (a symbolic hand gesture used in Buddhism). A video camera in front of him simultaneously records the statue and displays his reflection on a futuristic-looking, sleek white television screen.

In its simplest reading, this installation highlights the juxtaposition between the East and the West, or the historical and the modern. But more complexly - it reveals some fundamental issues brought up by technology, including the ambivalent position of religion, history, and images of ourselves in contemporary society when viewed upon a screen, once removed from reality. As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan states, "It is the continuous embrace of our own technology in daily use that puts us in the Narcissus role of subliminal awareness and numbness in relation to these images of ourselves."

François-Auguste-René Rodin's story recalls the archetypal struggle of the modern artist. He was born in obscurity and, ...
11/25/2022

François-Auguste-René Rodin's story recalls the archetypal struggle of the modern artist. He was born in obscurity and, despite showing early promise, rejected by the official academies. He spent years laboring as an ornamental sculptor before success and scandal set him on the road to international fame – and his reputation as the father of modern sculpture remains unchanged.

Rodin described his statue of Honoré de Balzac as "the result of a lifetime, the pivot of my aesthetic." He received the commission to memorialize the great French novelist and poet in 1891. However, as with so many of Rodin's commissions, the work dragged on and on while Rodin struggled to settle on a composition. He spent years reading Balzac's poems, finding pictures of him and models who bore a resemblance to the heavy-set man.

Finally, he placed the proud head on top of a body swathed in a huge, shapeless robe and made a mound-like protrusion at his crotch as a reference to his virility. Inevitably, the Société des Gens de Lettres, who had commissioned the sculpture, was displeased, and the cast was rejected. Rodin's statue subverted the conventional view of greatness and might and people thought it might lead to such untoward acts as refusing to pay taxes and even revolution! It took 41 years for Rodin's statue of Balzac to find a public space in Paris, at the corner of boulevards Raspail and Montparnasse.

Norman Rockwell presented the world with the definitive picture of what it meant to be "all-American". Preferring to be ...
11/24/2022

Norman Rockwell presented the world with the definitive picture of what it meant to be "all-American". Preferring to be thought of as a genre painter (rather than an illustrator), Rockwell executed his scenes with humor and respect for his subjects, and with an attention to detail that, in his words, would make the spectator "want to sigh and smile at the same time."

“Freedom From Want” is the third painting in a series of four called the Four Freedoms and is considered by many to be one of Rockwell's finest works. In the first days of 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt made his historic “Four Freedoms” speech, attempting to rally support for the war effort. At a time when N**i powers dominated Western Europe, Roosevelt described his vision of a brighter future founded upon freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. Rockwell captured these four ideas of freedom on a series of canvases, and his interpretation of “freedom from want” - a smiling family gathered around a Thanksgiving turkey - is considered to be the most enduring image, speaking to later generations!

Henri Toulouse-Lautrec was the first artist to elevate advertising to the status of fine art. This was an extraordinary ...
11/23/2022

Henri Toulouse-Lautrec was the first artist to elevate advertising to the status of fine art. This was an extraordinary shift in the history of art, which obliterated the boundaries between high art (painting, drawing, sculpture) and low art (posters, logos and other forms of visual culture). The fact that some of his greatest masterpieces were posters for nightclubs does not in any way diminish their value – on the contrary, it set the gold standard for great commercial artists from Alphonse Mucha to Andy Warhol.

“Moulin Rouge: La Goulue” was Toulouse-Lautrec’s first commissioned poster, created to advertise the performance of dancer La Goulue and acrobat Valentin le Desossé at the iconic Montmartre dance hall. Instead of depicting the venue he was advertising (which was a common technique for such publicity), Toulouse-Lautrec decided to focus on the performers. La Goulue (‘The Glutton’) was the famous can-can dancer that gained her nickname because of her habit of finishing customers' drinks as she danced past their tables. In the poster, she is performing her famous high-kicking dance, and she was even known for occasionally not wearing anything under her billowing skirt - which added to her notoriety. With thousands of copies pasted around Paris, the poster was an instant success, propelling Toulouse-Lautrec into the artistic limelight and attracting numerous commissions from other performers and cabaret owners.

Packing a garage is usually the last thing to do and is often neglected when planning a relocation. It is put off due to...
11/22/2022

Packing a garage is usually the last thing to do and is often neglected when planning a relocation. It is put off due to the sheer number of things piled up, and simply put, items in the garage are the most awkward to pack. Garages are full of tools, landscaping tools and equipment, and things you do not want to look at. This is because often garages are simply dumping grounds for junk we do not want in the house! That is why we’ve made a simple guide to help you pack your garage with ease: https://dorothyandmarthamoving.com/how-to-pack-your-garage-with-ease/

Dan Flavin began incorporating electric lights into his works in the early 1960s with his breakthrough “Icons” series. H...
11/21/2022

Dan Flavin began incorporating electric lights into his works in the early 1960s with his breakthrough “Icons” series. He abandoned painting altogether, focusing instead on light works for the remainder of his career - where he produced installations and sculptural pieces made exclusively of fluorescent light fixtures and tubes.

“The Diagonal of May 25, 1963 (to Constantin Brancusi)” is made up of standardized, commercially available material - much like the readymades by Marcel Duchamp that Flavin admired. Having studied and admired Duchamp, Flavin was searching for a simple object to claim for his art. With the revelation of the diagonal, Flavin realized the potential of the fluorescent bulb as a basic form, that could be built upon and infinitely repeated - not unlike the grooved design of Brancusi's “Endless Column”. But rather than creating works that focused on stasis in contrast to the impermanence of his medium of light - Flavin celebrated movement by exploiting the liveliness and speed implied by the diagonal. Dan Flavin emphatically denied that his sculptural light installations had any kind of transcendent, symbolic, or sublime dimension, stating: "It is what it is and it ain't nothing else" - and that his works are simply fluorescent light responding to a specific architectural setting.

Constantin Brâncuși is often regarded as the most important sculptor of the 20th century. His visionary sculptures often...
11/18/2022

Constantin Brâncuși is often regarded as the most important sculptor of the 20th century. His visionary sculptures often exemplify ideal and archetypal representations of their subject matter. Brancusi sought to create sculptures that conveyed the true essence of his subjects or objects by concentrating on highly simplified forms free from ornamentation.

“Endless Column” references the axis mundi (axis of the world) - a concept crucial to the beliefs of many traditional cultures that embodies the connection between heaven and earth. This focus reflected Brâncuși's strong and persistent affinity for the sacred, cosmic, and mythical.

This work also treats another theme of Brâncuși's work - the idea of infinity (here suggested by the repetition of identical rhomboid shapes). The image above is the most famous of Brâncuși's Endless Columns (a motif to which Brâncuși would return over the course of his career), and it served as the centerpiece of the tripartite sculptural memorial to fallen soldiers in World War I erected in Tirgu-Jiu, Romania in 1938.

Do you plan to move anytime soon? If your answer is yes, then you must be feeling at least a little bit anxious about it...
11/17/2022

Do you plan to move anytime soon? If your answer is yes, then you must be feeling at least a little bit anxious about it. Moving can be exhausting and it requires so much of your time and money. But, hey, if you are up for it, there are ways to earn some money as well! How do you earn during your relocation? It’s really simple actually. All you need to do is to make a successful pre-move garage sale. So after you sort your belongings for packing and decide which ones you don’t need in your new home, it’s time to put them on display. Use the opportunity to make some extra cash while preparing for your new home. And here’s how you can do it most efficiently: https://dorothyandmarthamoving.com/tips-for-holding-a-successful-pre-move-garage-sale/

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