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	Art Pottery Blog
		Carl Schmidt was born in 1875 and began decorating vases at Rookwood in 1896.
		Arthur Conant was born in 1889 and died in 1966.
		Weller Art Nouveau is typically found with a light/medium green to buff color matte ground with raised designs of ladies with flowing dresses or fruits and florals.
	www.artpotteryblog.com (3809 words)

	Tolstoy's What is Art?
		Art is a means of communication, and is an important means of expression of any experience, or of any aspect of the human condition.
		Art which is truly "universal" expresses the perception that human beings must respect each other, must try to understand each other, and must share a feeling of brotherhood and sisterhood with each other.
		While he attempts to define a "universal" art as an art of inclusion, his aesthetic theory is narrowly focused on his own theory of morality, and thus defines an art of exclusion.
	www.angelfire.com /md2/timewarp/tolstoy.html (1005 words)

	Art Movements
		Although their art was not particularly radical, they were important in the context of modern art in helping to establish a tradition of setting up exhibiting organizations independent of official bodies, foreshadowing The Eight and the Armory Show.
		An art movement involving a mix of modern decorative art styles, largely of the 1920s and 1930s, whose main characteristics were derived from various avant-garde painting styles of the early twentieth century.
		Their art was experimental, inspired by Marxism, somewhat sympathetic to Expressionism and Surrealism, showing greatest affinity to folk art and children's art and to the works of Paul Klee and Joan Miró.
	www.jjkgallery.com /pages/art_movement.html (2056 words)

	Art Dictionary
		Art deco works exhibit aspects of Cubism, Russian Constructivism and Italian Futurism -- with abstraction, distortion, and simplification, particularly geometric shapes and highly intense colors -- celebrating the rise of commerce, technology, and speed.
		It was popularly considered to be an elegant style of cool sophistication in architecture and applied arts which range from luxurious objects made from exotic material to mass produced, streamlined items available to a growing middle class.
		Art Nouveau is also known as Jugenstil and Yellow Book Style, epitomizing what is sometimes called fin de siècle style.
	www.articrosegallery.com /dictionary.html (2673 words)

	art nouveau to art deco
		Art Nouveau was a response to the radical changes caused by the rapid urban growth and technological advances that followed the Industrial Revolution.
		Art nouveau took hold in a number of German-speaking cities, the most prominent of which were Munich, Darmstadt, and Weimar in Germany, and Vienna in Austria.
		Art deco designers also admired and borrowed from ancient art that was being unearthed by archaeologists at the time, especially the treasures of the ancient Egyptian king Tutankhamun (exhibited in Paris in 1922) and Maya and other Mesoamerican art.
	www.modernsilver.com /artnouveaudeco.htm (3032 words)

	interdisciplines : Art and Cognition Workshops : Authenticity in Art
		Still, his broader description of works of art, tribal or European, is generally apt, along with its corollary is that the study of art is largely a matter of marking and tracing relationships and influences.
		If works of art appealed only to our formal or decorative aesthetic sense, there would indeed be little point in establishing their human contexts by tracing their development, or even in distinguishing them from similarly appealing natural objects — flowers or seashells.
		The propriety of the curiosity cabinet approach to art has been rejected in contemporary thought in favour of a desire to establish provenance and cultural meaning precisely because intra- and inter-cultural relationships among artworks help to constitute their meaning and identity.
	www.interdisciplines.org /artcognition/papers/4 (3876 words)

	Deco Days Antiques and Collectibles Antiques,Decorative Art,Metals Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This is a great early art deco bronze or earlier plaque with graphics suggesting alchemy and/or the struggles of the new machine age.
		Period art nouveau WMF rare silver plated cocktail serving tray with repousse ladies faces at each raised and curved end or handle, and 6 silver plated glass insert bases.
		She has all the drama and risque attitude that is synonymous with the art deco period.
	www.deco-days.com /catalog/Antiques:Decorative_Art:Metals10.html (992 words)

	Berkshires Lodging - Western Massachusetts Vacation - New England Bed & Breakfast
		Located on the scenic route entering Williamstown, Massachusetts, The 1896 House Country Inn and Motels is an upscale three building lodging and dining complex on 17 rural acres.
		The 1896 House offers 17 acres of natural beauty and country space with incomparable water landscapes, romantic footbridges, gardens, and a stately gazebo to embellish the scene.
		Optimally located, The 1896 House Country Inn and Motels is the perfect location from which to tour the Berkshires and Southern Vermont.
	www.1896house.com (342 words)

	ArtLex on Art Nouveau
		- French for "The New Art." An international art movement and style of decoration and architecture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, characterized particularly by the curvilinear depiction of leaves and flowers, often in the form of vines.
		Art Nouveau is known in Germany as Jugenstil and in England as Yellow Book Style, and epitomizes what is sometimes called fin de siècle style.
		One of her children — Samuel Manierre (1908-1988) — became an art historian and teller of tales, and one of her grandchildren produces the Web site you are looking at.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/a/artnouveau.html (1694 words)

	1896 Photographic Salon: Text Panel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Near the turn of the century, increasing numbers of American amateur art photographers were studying the works and principles of European master painters and sculptors, developing clubs and associations with other photographers to discuss techniques, and participating in exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad.
		The Smithsonian's Section of Photography acknowledged their role in the field, and continued to include examples of these amateurs in the collection.
		He turned professional in 1896, relying on commercial work for financial support while continuing to develop his skills as an art photographer.
	americanhistory.si.edu /1896/ps04.htm (215 words)

	Deco Days Antiques and Collectibles Antiques,Decorative Art Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Stunning period art nouveau expanding bookends with original patina and paint of bronze or heavy brass (my guess is bronze because brass is softer and would have dents/bends and this does not.) The highly detailed nouveau designed ladies faces and flower garland are at either end and just lovely.
		This very dramatic, silver plated art nouveau trinket tray or wall plaque has an exquisitely detailed, high relief imagery of a Viking king embrassing his fair maiden, while holding a large three dimensional added on/but still part of the sculpture spear.
		Lovely art nouveau period with a decidedly Georgian revival deisgn with urn style bowl footed bowl with handles, which would also carries some of the art deco design elements.
	www.trocadero.com /decodays/catalog/Antiques:Decorative_Art40.html (972 words)

	Art History & Architectural History
		The fields of art and architectural history have, at the end of the twentieth century, grown to be defined as the study of visual images and monuments.
		Students are trained in the critical analysis of the monumental arts of painting, sculpture and architecture, as well as photography, mass media and material culture in all countries and periods.
		Art and architectural history is, therefore, interdisciplinary, involving the fields of social and religious history, literature, politics, and other disciplines.
	www.library.pitt.edu /subject_guides/arthistory (1748 words)

	ART / 4 / 2DAY
		Berruguete witnessed the death of these heretics and this painting faithfully illustrates the manner in which the sentences imposed by the Inquisition were enforced in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries: he records the half reprieve granted to penitents, the throttling that preceded burning and even the pointed hats worn by those condemned to do penance.
		Believing that art should be made for the betterment of society and not for the private pleasure of the elite, they created large-scale, easily understood murals for public buildings.
		His family had opposed his growing interest in art and not until 1904 did he begin to study painting at the Académie Vitti under Paul Gervais [1859—1934], who disliked Ginner’s bright palette so much that the student was obliged to leave.
	www.safran-arts.com /42day/art/art4jan/art0106.html (7872 words)

	About Carnegie Museum of Art: History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Other collections of note include works of American art from the late nineteenth century, French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, and European and American decorative arts from the late seventeenth century to the present.
		While most art museums founded at the turn of the century focused on collections of old masters, Andrew Carnegie envisioned a museum collection consisting of the "Old Masters of tomorrow." In 1896 he initiated a series of exhibitions of contemporary art and proposed that the museum's paintings collection be formed through purchases from this series.
		There is now a larger works on paper gallery located at the entrance to the galleries, and the contemporary art galleries incorporate decorative arts and works on paper along with paintings, sculpture, and film and video pieces.
	www.cmoa.org /info/history.asp (419 words)

	VLN: S.F. Public Art 1896-1909
		Polk and [Bruce] Porter involved the Guild [for Arts and Crafts] in sponsoring a fountain dedicated to Robert Louis Stevenson, a project patterned after those of the Fairmount Park Association in Philadelphia (1871) and the New York Municipal Art Society (1893), organizations established to donate works of civic art to their respective cities.
		In those years [1892-1906], before the Mark Hopkins Art Institute [today the California School of Fine Arts] was consigned to the flames in the 1906 holocaust, the building served as the center of San Francisco's artistic and Bohemian life.
		Sculptor Robert Aitken, an instructor at the Art Institute for whom Alma [de Bretteville] had previously posed, asker her to model for a monument he was planning in memory of President William McKinley.
	www.verlang.com /sfbay0004ref_public_art_002.html (1931 words)

	Kandinsky Essay for Art
		At the age of thirty, he decided to leave his career in law because of his interest in art, and from 1896 to 1900 attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
		Kandinsky was interested in art that went beyond the figurative from the time he became interested in art.
		It shows that the work an artist does, even though he may think his art work is maturing over time, is possibly his own personal tastes changing and that earlier work may be just as mature as later work.
	www.abslogic.com /ArtEssay.htm (1469 words)

	UW-Madison Special Collections: Frequently asked questions about antiquarian books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This art was practiced by the Egyptians over 3000 years ago, who left in the pyramids priceless colorful wood boxes, panels, and furniture, all enriched with designs.
		By this time, the middle-class home had come to be seen as a moral refuge from public life, and by extension a reflection of its occupants, and household art literature sought to assist wives and mothers in creating a suitable home environment that emphasized the values of utility, comfort and quality.
		Introduced to the West as early as 1295 by Marco Polo, the art of China had its greatest influence on Europe from the second half of the 17th century to the early 19th century, a period of heightened contact.
	www.library.wisc.edu /libraries/SpecialCollections/decarts.htm (4508 words)

	Worcester Art Museum - Stephen Salisbury III
		This intimate art form enjoyed its heyday in America from about 1760 to 1850, when photography overtook miniature painting as a quicker, less expensive means of portraiture.
		When Eliza painted young Stephen Salisbury III (1835-1905) pretending to drive a carriage, she was staying in Worcester at the home of family friends, where her patrons came to sit for their portraits.
		Salisbury founded the Worcester Art Museum in 1896, and his gifts and bequests of painting, sculpture, furniture, miniatures, and daguerreotypes form an important nucleus of the American collections.
	www.worcesterart.org /Collection/American/1901.39.html (187 words)

	Smithsonian Highlights - 'The 1896 Washington Salon and Art Photography' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Washington Salon and Art Photographic Exhibition featured the work of amateur photographers — and some professional — who were experimenting in art photography.
		The aim of this genre, also known as pictorialism, was to create photographs that were similar to paintings and to establish photography as a valid art form.
		"The 1896 Washington Salon and Art Photography," which runs indefinitely, highlights the salon's seminal role in launching the amateur art photography movement in this country and in convincing the American cultural establishment that photography could indeed be considered an art form.
	smithsonianmag.com /smithsonian/issues96/sep96/hicontd_sep96.html (233 words)

	Paul Cezanne Online
		Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
		Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma
		Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/cezanne_paul.html (812 words)

	ARH101: The Home as a Work of Art
		Survey articles on major art movements (e.g., Bauhaus, Arts and Crafts Movement), individual artists (e.g., Frank Lloyd Wright, William Morris), types of domestic architecture (e.g., country house), styles (e.g., Federal Style).
		These two databases cover all aspects of the visual arts including architecture, planning, interior design, and furnishings providing cover to cover indexing of over 400 periodicals published throughout the world.
		Contact Barbara Polowy, the art librarian and instructor for your library session: bpolowy@email.smith.edu, 121 Hillyer Art Library, X2941.
	www.smith.edu /libraries/research/class/arh101ve_sp05.htm (873 words)

	ART / 4 / 2DAY
		In 1889 he transferred to a regiment in Saint-Petersburg, and later enrolled in the Academy of Art (1889—1896), where he was a student of Il’ya Repin.
		Seeking to escape the limitations on expression exhorted by the Russian art establishment, in 1896 Jawlensky and his colleagues Igor Grabar, Dmitry Kardovsky, and Marianne Werefkin moved to Munich to study with Anton Azbe.
		He studied and exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, were he was a classmate of Mary Cassatt and Thomas Eakins.
	www.safran-arts.com /42day/art/art4mar/art0315.html (3471 words)

	Picturing the Past, Art and Analogy in New Zealand Archaeological Reports. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The great 19th Century theme of narrative art; of art telling an uplifting story, went in search of stories to tell and combined with the great New Zealand 19th Century story of the arrival of the Maori.
		The fashionable art of the day was the international styles of abstract expressionism and a later touch of pop art.
		This is a man, fit and in the prime of life, in a stance while relaxed is ready for action, firm chin, set gaze, spear held as if it was a permanent part of his attire, ready to tackle the land and climate of New Zealand with a minimum of clothing, and no footwear.
	members.fortunecity.com /glaw1/artpaper/art.htm (5551 words)

	The Art Bin Magazine
		Everything that had happened in my life would from then on be categorized by if it had occurred before or after that particular date.
		Life took a new direction." The Art Bin editor tells his story, of nine years of illness with fibromyalgia, probably caused by mercury poisoning from dental amalgam.
		Already back in 1995 The Art Bin presented a whole section with documents concerning the female naturale healer Kisamor, who lived 1788-1842.
	art-bin.com /aaehome.html (1015 words)

	Arnold Genthe / The children's hour, Chinatown, San Francisco / between 1896 and 1942; from a photograph taken between ...
		This image is one of over 108,000 from the AMICA Library (formerly The Art Museum Image Consortium Library- The AMICO Library™), a growing online collection of high-quality, digital art images from over 20 museums around the world.
		EVERY image has full curatorial text and can be studied in depth by zooming into the smallest details from within the Image Workspace.
		Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images.
	www.davidrumsey.com /amico/amico428605-74563.html (334 words)

	Jago - Art History Online Reference and Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The name Jago is etymologically related to James, the name of two of Christ's disciples, via the, late 12c, middle english vernacular form of the low Latin Jacomus, altered in turn from the high Latin Jacobus (Jacob).
		In 1896, the art collector and journalist Arthur Morrison, highlighted the horrors of poverty in Victorian England through his descriptions of the fictional slum, the Jago, in London's East End.
		The 'Jago' described by Morrison was an area in which a life of starvation, violence and crime dominated and its inhabitants fought and failed to escape.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Jago (289 words)

	Deco Days Antiques and Collectibles Antiques,Decorative Art,Metals,Silver Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		These pieces date to the Art Nouveau to early Art Deco period and each allegorical figures etched into the crystal.
		Safe to say that these Art Nouveau pieces are rare and highly desirable.
		This is a sweet art nouveau piece, which features on the right a barefoot little girl feeding two kittens (cats.) They are nuzzling up to her while she prepares to feed them.
	www.deco-days.com /catalog/Antiques:Decorative_Art:Metals:Silver.html (1020 words)

	MISSOURI'S GROUP REPORTS-1896 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Poetry is the art, theory, or structure of poems.
		Places see art in the year of 1896 include the City Museum in Saint Louis which was organized by Washington university in connection with its school of fine arts.
		Some examples of art done by artists in 1896 are the Wainright Tomb by Louis Sulliven, and the French Renaissance style, modeled of Terthe Hael de ville in Paris.
	etec.hawaii.edu /~burniske/uv96/MISSOURIGR1.HTML (2122 words)

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