#art museum dc

[tarvek-sturmvoraus]

bats: tim are you going to tell us anything you did while searching for bruce tim: not unless everyone gets real cool about a bunch of stuff really quickly

[galaxy---ghost]

Halbarry Week Day 3: “…Wish you were here.”

[jube-art]

Hi! Is there any possible way you could share that Night at the Museum AU art by chance that Kay mentioned in her notes?👉👈🥺💖💖💖 love your art!

NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM AU

[arthistoryanimalia]

In celebration of seeing the first fireflies of the season:

Furisode with Fireflies and Irises Japan, Edo period, 18th century silk crepe, paste-resist dyed, embroidery National Museum of Japanese History (photographed on display at The Life of Animals in Japanese Art exhbition at the National Gallery of Art DC in 2019)

[7pleiades7]

Mrs. George Watson (Elizabeth Oliver) (1765), (detail), by John Singleton Copley (American, 1738-1815), oil on canvas, 101.6 x 126.69 cm, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

[factual-flittermouse]

I’ve seen a lot of WC x DC crossovers featuring various bats undercover as Neal Caffrey and, while DG makes an excellent Neal, I think an opportunity is being missed… specially, that Tim Drake is canonically an internationally wanted art thief due to his time searching for Bruce. Additionally, he has the background both in suits and in taking on a variety of undercover roles (like Caroline Hill and Alvin Draper) AND has a bit of a rivalry with Ra’s (which fits with the common ‘LOA spies in the FBI’ motive for going undercover). He has the skills (except painting), the style, and the history to pull it off. I’m not saying DG doesn’t make a good Caffrey, I’m just saying that I think the choice from the options is a bit humorous

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[istandonsnowpiles]

Castle in the Window

[tea-tuesday]

a saturday afternoon

[poiverine]

dickartemis sketch from priv because sometimes I miss yj sillies 

 they're talking about wally because they're both dating him (he's trying to push the pull-door)

[ceairraj]

National Cathedral

[jube-art]

Hi I love your art and I'd love to hear more about you Night at the Museum AU!!!!

Tim, rather notoriously, didn’t have a family. He was the only living exhibit in Space section, the lone cosmonaut among the turning planets and the swirling galaxies. In the day, he hung suspended, an almost weightless figure among the stars. 

He could just imagine Tim trapped in there with no one else. The doors close. The room becoming as dark as the space Tim was made to symbolise. The beautiful exhibit turning into something sinister. Space becoming confined. A prison. 

-@salparadiselost, Kindling, night at the museum au

[arthistoryanimalia]

Its #BatAppreciationDay so please appreciate this awesome 19th century Japanese kosode decorated with embroidered lucky bats, photographed in 2019 at The Life of Animals in Japanese Art exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in DC:

Kosode with Bats Japan, Edo - Meiji periods, 19th century silk twill, paste-resist dyed, embroidery, 67⅜ × 48⅞ in. National Museum of Japanese History, Chiba Prefecture

“In the West, bats - nocturnal in habit and denizens of dark places tend to be viewed as unlucky, but in China they have long been considered an auspicious motif (one of the characters used to write the word "bat" is a homonym for good fortune). The Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjüro VII (1791-1859) used bat motifs in his costumes, and the perception of these animals as a chic design element spread rapidly throughout Japan in the nineteenth century. Here a great number of them are arranged in right-left symmetry from the base of the collar to the hem.”

The above info is from the official exhibition catalog - this bat kosode is on p. 124:

The Life of Animals in Japanese Art (2019)

[artsandculture]

The Boating Party (1893–1894) 🎨 Mary Cassatt 🏛️ National Gallery of Art, Washington DC 📍 Washington, DC, United States

This bold composition reveals the influence of the flat, patterned surfaces, simplified color, and unusual angles of Japanese prints, which enjoyed a huge vogue in Paris in the late 1800s. The dark figure of the man compresses the picture onto the flat plane of the canvas, and the horizon is pushed to the top, collapsing a sense of distance. Our higher vantage point gives us an oblique view into the boat. Its form is divided into decorative shapes by the intersection of its horizontal supports.

After 1893, Cassatt began to spend many summers on the Mediterranean coast at Antibes. Under its intense sun, she began to experiment with harder, more decorative color. Here, citron and blue carve strong arcs that divide the picture into assertive, almost abstract, shapes. This picture, with its bold geometry and decorative patterning of the surface, positions Cassatt with such post–impressionist painters as Gauguin and Van Gogh.

This painting, one of her most ambitious, was the centerpiece of Cassatt's first solo exhibition in the United States in 1895. Her contacts with wealthy friends in the United States did much to bring avant–garde French painting into this country.

[blogboestbelle]

Getting inspired.

Hirshhorn, The National Museum of Modern Art. Washington D.C.

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