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Good morning from real courtroom drawings of the past.
Sid Viscous - 1979
Goodnight from Johan Christian Dahl; "View of Dresden by Moonlight"; 1839.
Looking at reproduction of Velazquez’ transcendent “Las Meninas “; 1656 - got stuck on the cherry-crimson-ruby juice paint that makes up the tiny jug held by the little forward-facing infanta. The hovering honey heavy-lightness of being.
An iron-clad law of art: If your art is only of use/value to *you*, it has no use/value at all.
Image: Goya; "The Forge"; 1817.
Hello from "The Minotaur" by George Frederic Watts; 1885.
Outside in the cold distance, standing along the watchtower of his labyrinth, the Minotaur keeps watch for his next victim. Notice he has crushed small bird under his hoofs.
The winds began to howl
Happy Birthday to one of the greatest American Painters of the 20th Century, Alice Neel; Born today in 1900. Invisible elements made flesh.
R.I.P. artist, activist & educator Tim Rollins - who harnessed the creative potential of a group of special-needs students at a South Bronx public school and in 1982 began 35 year collaboration. Image Tim Rollins & K.O.S.; "Amerika"; 1988.
More from the petition to remove Degas works from the Metropolitan Museum "in these sensitive times."
Gustave Courbet; "Woman Rowing in the Surf"; 1850s. One of the strangest paintings of the 19th century.