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  Herron School of Art : IUPUI
Romanesque and Gothic art covers the period from about 1000 until 1550, from the artist-craftsman tradition of monasteries and cathedrals to the end of the Age of Faith in Europe.
Emphasis is placed on the political and social climate prevailing from 1400 to 1600, and its effect on the arts of Italy, Flanders, Spain, Holland, France, Germany, and England.
Major art forms from the Islamic cultures of western and central Asia, the Hindu cultures of India and Southeast Asia, and the Buddhist, Tao, and Shinto cultures of East Asia are discussed.
www.herron.iupui.edu /new_web/acad_programs/art_history_curr.html   (1477 words)

  
 Cincinnati Art Museum: History of the Museum building   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Founded in 1881, the Cincinnati Art Museum is one of the country's oldest visual arts institutions and the first general art museum west of the Alleghenies to be established in its own building.
The Schmidlapp Wing's Doric entrance beCincinnati Art Museume the main entrance to the Museum; the Great Hall was divided into two floors; and the stairway, which had been rerouted for entry into the Schmidlapp Wing, was removed altogether.
In addition to the art of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, there are extensive galleries of Near and Far Eastern art, Native American and African art and in the future there will be extensive galleries of furniture, glass, ceramics, silver, costumes and folk art.
www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org /greatplace/history.shtml   (831 words)

  
 List of years in art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2001 in art Janet Cardiff - Forty-Part Motet
1985 in art Charles Saatchi's collection opens to the public arousing interest in Neo-Expressionism (Neo-Geo movement appears in reaction to Neo- Expressionism
120,000 BCE in art - Engraved Bones sculpted at Oldisleben Isite, Oldisleben, Germany
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_art_events   (254 words)

  
 Courses Herron School of Art
Examination of research history and philosophy of art education to discover relationships between developments in education as a whole and art education.
H334 Baroque Art (3 cr.) Exploration of the characteristics of baroque art and its development in the seventeenth century.
H361-H362 Asian Art I and II (3-3 cr.) Major art forms from the Islamic cultures of western and central Asia, the Hindu cultures of India and southeast Asia, and the Buddhist, Tao, and Shinto cultures of east Asia are discussed.
www.indiana.edu /~bltindy/herron/courses.html   (6145 words)

  
 ART / 4 / 2DAY
His art lies in his scholarship and well-founded knowledge, reflecting the interest of the age in the natural sciences and exotic phenomena.
If art were to express the tragedy of the human condition, Rothko felt, new subjects and a new idiom had to be found.
Alternately radiant and dark, Rothko's art is distinguished by a rare degree of sustained concentration on pure pictorial properties such as color, surface, proportion, and scale, accompanied by the conviction that those elements could disclose the presence of a high philosophical truth.
www.angelfire.com /tx/teachers/art/art4feb/art0225.html   (4969 words)

  
 arth206   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This course will follow what was eventually dubbed "Impressionism" by a wise-cracking art critic through to the moment of the dissolution of the exhibiting society in 1886.
The art historical literature on this very consequential "event" in the history of modernist painting is voluminous, diverse and contradictory.
The goals of the course will hence be twofold: it will acquaint students with the rise and development of Impressionist art, and will at the same time survey the historiography of the movement, by looking at its interpretation in the art criticism of the 1870s through to the work of early 21st-century art historians.
www.williams.edu /Registrar/catalog/depts/arth/arth206.html   (236 words)

  
 exhibitions / Corcoran Gallery of Art
He soon became a master of the etching medium, skilled at producing what critic Royal Cortissoz called "portraits of places." Drawn primarily from the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s permanent collection, Portraits of Places: The Prints of Childe Hassam, an American Impressionist is on view at the Museum from June 7 through August 4, 2003.
Art historians and scholars point to this influence in Hassam’s handling of light and color and to his use of abbreviated brush strokes in his painting.
Although he produced a few etchings from 1898 to 1905, it was after 1915 that Hassam turned seriously to printmaking as a favored means of expression.
www.corcoran.org /exhibitions/press_results.asp?Exhib_ID=72   (420 words)

  
 Art History/Classics Library - Art History Resources
Arts and Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities.
Art historians, researchers and curators use it to describe, classify and examine images represented in various media such as paintings, manuscripts, posters, photographs and newspaper clippings.
Americans for the Arts is a nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America and dedicated to representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts.
www.lib.berkeley.edu /ARTH/arthistresources.html   (7443 words)

  
 Leon Lhermitte Biography - Renoir Fine Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, NY In 1866 his first oil painting, Violets in a Glass, Shells, Screen, was exhibited at the Salon, and he produced his first etching, for his friend Frederic Henriet’s book Payagiste aux champs.
On his second visit in 1871 Legros recommended him as an illustrator for Works of Art in the Collections of England Drawn by E. Lie and introduced him to the dealer Durand-Ruel, who agreed to sell several of his drawings.
Lhermitte was commissioned in 1886 to do two large portrait groups to decorate the Sorbonne.
www.renoirinc.com /biography/artists/lhermitte.htm   (519 words)

  
 Pierre-Auguste Renoir. - Olga's Gallery
This early apprenticeship left a certain trace on his art, which was always decorative in spite of its later realism.
In 1886, the art dealer Durand-Ruel exhibited 32 of Renoir's paintings in New York, thus opening the American market for Impressionism.
He was an art dealer, who did a lot to support Impressionists and promote their paintings.
www.abcgallery.com /R/renoir/renoirbio.html   (1325 words)

  
 Art Library
From the classicists to the impressionists; a documentary history of art and architecture in the 19th century
The database is a collection of treatises on art and architecture from the period 1470 to 1775.
The Art Library has a manuscript collection that includes the papers of regional artists and architects, architectural drawings and blueprints, letters, records of local art organizations, etc.
library.louisville.edu /art/primary.htm   (676 words)

  
 Union League Club of Chicago | About the Club | Art Collection
In a letter that accompanied the Union League Club of Chicago’s first significant work of art in 1886, its donor, J.M. Thatcher, wrote: “I trust this gift may soon find company.” Club members quickly took his words to heart and, within a decade, had established an Art Committee and an art acquisitions fund.
Today, the Union League Club of Chicago is recognized as having one of the most important privately held art collections in the region, with more than 750 works of art, including paintings, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts – with particular strength in Midwestern artists.
Ongoing Club activities to promote appreciation of art include recognizing the contributions of distinguished Chicago artists with honorary memberships, organizing exhibitions with other Chicago arts institutions, and producing monthly exhibitions of contemporary art.
www.ulcc.org /about/artcollection.asp   (281 words)

  
 Online Art Journey
Frida's art was influenced greatly by pain: she contracted polio at age six, and was a victim of a bus accident in her teens.
National Museum of the American Indian is a vast resource and filled with beauty of the art and architecture.
The collection of Asian art, with objects dating from the third millennium B.C. to the present, includes ceramics, sculpture, paintings, and decorative objects as well as a Japanese ceremonial teahouse, a Chinese palace hall, and a celebrated collection of Oriental carpets.
www.scils.rutgers.edu /~kvander/Syllabus/art500.html   (1725 words)

  
 Seurat and the Making of La Grande Jatte
Seen by tens of millions of viewers since it entered the Art Institute's collection in 1924, the painting is an icon and a destination in itself for visitors.
This exhibition of approximately 130 paintings and works on paper at once celebrates and sheds new light on Georges Seurat’s masterpiece by bringing together approximately 45 of the artist’s paintings and drawings related to the picture—from rich, yet delicate, conté crayon studies to oil sketches on small wood panels to nearly full-size paintings.
This exhibition was organized by The Art Institute of Chicago and made possible by Northern Trust.
www.artic.edu /aic/exhibitions/seurat/seurat_overview.html   (339 words)

  
 ART / 4 / 2DAY
Those who have followed the course of German art during these last, eventful years, those who sensed what the future held in store for the development of that art, also knew Macke.
After studying briefly at the Art Institute of Chicago, he went to New York, where he attended the Gotham School and the Art Students League (1886—1888).
Sponsored by two Parisian Art Dealers, Vollard and Bernheim (large exhibition in 1901 soon after the Van Gogh's major retrospective) he was assured financial stability and retired in 1902 at Saint Chamas becoming another Provençal recluse artist.
www.geocities.com /art4sep/art/art4sep/art0926.html   (4663 words)

  
 Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 99170955   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In the early 1920s the German art historian and psychiatrist, Hans Prinzhorn (1886-1933), amassed a remarkable collection of some 5,000 paintings, drawings, objects, and collages made by patients in European psychiatric institutions.
His interest, unique at the time, was twofold: to assess the art as creative work, and to use it as a way of studying mental illness.
Questions surrounding art and madness are endlessly fascinating, no more so than today, as science moves to unlock the mysteries of the mind.
www.loc.gov /catdir/description/ucal042/99170955.html   (286 words)

  
 The Ottawa School of Art - 125th Anniversary Campaign
Without your support, OSA wouldn't be able to assist hundreds of students with bursaries, nor provide outreach art programming for children and youths at risk, and the art gallery wouldn't be accessible and free.
The Art school was re-opened yesterday with sixty-four pupils in attendance.
This branch of art is becoming more popular daily, and Miss Barrett, whose experience in New York was very great, is lecturing her pupils with marked success.
www.artottawa.ca /125th   (723 words)

  
 Ozenfant, Amédée on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
He criticized the cubists after 1912 for creating a merely decorative art form.
His painting The Vases is in the Museum of Modern Art, New York City.
Becoming Corbusier: a recent exhibition traced the development of this seminal 20th-century figure from provincial designer to modern architectural master.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/O/Ozenfant.asp   (272 words)

  
 artnet.com: Resource Library: Brown, Frederick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
From 1868 to 1877 he studied at the National Art Training School, London (later the Royal College of Art), where he grew to detest the inept, mechanical teaching methods then prevalent in Britain.
A founder of the New English Art Club in 1886 and author of its constitution, he belonged to the ‘Impressionist clique’ that won control of the club in the early 1890s.
As Slade Professor of Art (1893–1918), he consolidated and expanded Legros’s reforms and ensured the school’s progressive character by appointing Steer and Henry Tonks to teaching positions early in his tenure.
www.artnet.com /library/01/0115/T011596.asp   (365 words)

  
 Magazine Antiques: William Merritt Chase and the French connection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Under the pen name Celen Sabbrin she wrote a pamphlet entitled Science and Philosophy in Art (Philadelphia, 1886) in which she reviewed the 1886 exhibition, concentrating mainly on Monet.
(11.) Among the Manet paintings on view were Battle of the "Kearsarge" and the "Alabama" (Philadelphia Museum of Art); Philibert Rouvi[grave{e}]re as Hamlet (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.); and Bullfight, Beggar with a Duffle Coat (Philosopher), and Beggar with Oysters (Philosopher) (both Art Institute of Chicago).
A similar work by Monet, showing the same garden without figures, was in the 1886 impressionist exhibition in New York City.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1026/is_1_158/ai_63794284/pg_3   (534 words)

  
 ART / 4 / 2DAY
He began studying painting and sculpture at the School of Art in Kiev in 1902 but was forced to leave in 1905 after criticizing the academicism of his instructors.
That same year, in Paris, he opened the first of his many art schools, joined the Section d’Or group, which included Georges Braque, Marcel Duchamp, Fernand Léger, and Pablo Picasso, among others, and produced his first painted reliefs, the Sculpto-Peintures.
Most of Archipenko’s work in German museums was confiscated by the Nazis in their purge of “degenerate art.” In 1947, he produced the first of his sculptures that are illuminated from within.
www.safran-arts.com /42day/art/art4feb/art0225.html   (6449 words)

  
 ART / 4 / 2DAY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Umbrellas, which was evidently begun before the visit to Italy and finished afterwards; the two little girls on the right are painted with the feathery brush-strokes characteristic of his Impressionist manner, but the figures on the left are done in a crisper and drier style, with duller coloring.
The story is taken from Boccaccio, and tells how Cymon, a wild and brutish young man, is so struck by the sight of the sleeping Iphigenia that he falls in love with her, gives up his former wild ways and marries her.
It has both sincerity and grace, and is painted on the purest principles of Venetian art - that is to say, on the calm acceptance of the whole of nature, small and great, as, in its place, deserving of faithful rendering.
www.jcanu.hpg.ig.com.br /art/art4dec/art1203.html   (7879 words)

  
 Cincinnati Art Museum: The Cincinnati Wing
It is one of the country's oldest visual arts institutions and the first general art museum west of the Alleghenies to be established in its own building.
The Emery, Hanna and French wings, built over several years and designed by Garber and Woodward in the Beaux Arts mode, opened Jan. 16, 1930.
The Hanna Wing was connected to the French Wing, forming a rectangular courtyard which later became the Museum's Sculpture Garden.
www.cincinnati.com /cam/cincinnatiwing/timeline.html   (532 words)

  
 Georges Seurat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
His masterpiece, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884-1886, Art Institute of Chicago), achieves an atmosphere of monumental dignity through the balanced arrangement of its elements and the contours of its figures.
His famous canvas Sunday Afternoon on the Island of the Grande Jatte was the centerpiece of an exhibition in 1886.
By then Seurat was spending his winters in Paris, drawing and producing one large painting each year, and his summers on France's northern coast.
www.mcs.csuhayward.edu /~malek/Impression/Seurat.html   (571 words)

  
 Winold Reiss: Native American Portraits - Frye Art Museum - Absolutearts.com
German-born Winold Reiss (1886-1953) studied art in Munich before moving his family to the United States in 1913 to fulfill his dream of painting American Indians.
Settling in New York, the artist quickly established a reputation as a teacher and designer.
A full-color illustrated catalogue, with an essay by historian Scott J. Tanner, is available in the museum store.
www.absolutearts.com /artsnews/2000/07/28/27269.html   (358 words)

  
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Painting by the English artist D.A. born in 1861 and died in 1932...Daniel Albert Wehrschmidt also Anglicized his name to VERESMITH which is how he signed this piece with a dedication to his friend..[signed] To Ed Palmer from his...
Here is a super nice, older, Haitian Art painting on canvas by Aris Charles or Charles Aris as they often turn their names around.
This one is of a boy milking a cow then a calf feeding from her.
search.rubylane.com /art/,page=17,ss=head.html   (1511 words)

  
 winchester model 1886 - TheFiringLine Forums
No, the 1886 wasn't made in.405, that was the 1895.
The.33 is among the least desireable as there were a lot made and the caliber is obsolete, though fairly easy to make from.45-70 brass.
About 159,990 were made betweem 1886 and 1935, but I do not know how many were in.33 Winchester.
www.thefiringline.com /forums/showthread.php?t=16013   (392 words)

  
 Hood Museum of Art Acquires Rare Outdoor Still Life by Maria Oakey Dewing
One of the most influential art critics of the period, Royal Cortissoz, admired the lyricism of her works and what he perceived as her ability to magically capture a blossom's "soul" as well as its "portrait."
Although Maria Dewing's career was eventually overshadowed by that of her husband, when the couple met she was by far the more highly trained and well-established artistic figure, at that time known for portraiture, still life, and figure painting.
Raised in a cultured family in New York City, she studied art at the Cooper Union School of Design for Women and the Antique School of the National Academy of Design.
www.tfaoi.com /aa/1aa/1aa29.htm   (851 words)

  
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This is a magnificent work of art depicting two friends sharing a confidence.
Could be signed on the front as the painting is very dark and...
It is in good original condition and is signed and dated in the lower left corner (Michael Holmes 1886).
search.rubylane.com /art/,page=95,ss=pin.html   (422 words)

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