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Alice Neel. Hartley (1966) @ngadc

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After checking out “Paris 1874”, “The ‘70s Lens”, & “Gordon Parks: Camera Portraits” at the @ngadc , it felt appropriate to get a shot of the Daguerre Memorial at the @americanart / @smithsoniannpg ! Lens c.2002, camera c.2017. #dcondigital #leicalife #summicronlife #35summicronasph #35summicronasphlhsa #leicam10 #leicacamera

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via Game of X @froggyups - This breathtaking view of Paris, painted by Auguste Renoir in 1872 and brought to life by Andrey Zakirzyanov's animation, represents a pivotal moment in art history. 📹andrey.zakirzyanov and ngadc

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🎨#ArtIsAWeapon

I am so excited about this #NewExhibition

"Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies," which opens today, September 13 at @brooklynmuseum, and will be on view through January 19, 2025!

Reposted from @brooklynmuseum The #BrooklynMuseum looks forward to welcoming you to the first major retrospective spotlighting the visionary artist and unwavering activist, #ElizabethCatlett.

With over 150 of Catlett’s well-known and rarely-seen artworks across sculpture, prints, paintings, and ephemera, this exhibition traces a career of creative artistry and bold political activism. As a sculptor and print-maker, Catlett was committed to depicting the strength and struggles of both Black American and Mexican communities.

In fact, the exhibition title takes inspiration from a talk Catlett gave in 1970, following a decade of exile from the United States in response to her political activism in Mexico. Catlett said: “I have been, am currently, and always hope to be a Black revolutionary artist and all that it implies.”

Learn more about #ElizabethCatlettBkM

Can’t make it to Brooklyn? You can experience the show in Washington, DC next year at the @ngadc.

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On September 14 from 12–7:30 pm, join us for close-looking, conversation, and more. You can expect:

🚶 A curator-led tour with Catherine Morris (@catherinejanetmorris) and Dalila Scruggs (@dalilalcs)

💭 Panel discussions on Catlett’s legacy with art historians, artists, and museum leaders

🥁 A tribute performance by Francisco Mora Catlett, AfroHORN, and Oyu Oro (@oyuoronyc)

Register in advance and pay what you can...

🖼1&2: Black Unity, 1968. Cedar. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2014.11. 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS) NY

🖼️ 3: I am the Black Woman, 1946–47, from the series Black Woman in America. Linocut on paper. Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Art by Women Collection, Gift of Linda Lee Alter, 2011.1.172. © 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

#ArtistActivists #BlackGirlArtGeeks

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Auguste Renoir foi um dos artistas ousados do Impressionismo.

Quando ele decidiu pintar a Pont Neuf, a ponte mais antiga de Paris, ele teve uma ótima idéia.

Subiu no andar superior de um café com vista para o Sena e testemunhou uma vista dinâmica da cidade.

Para capturar a cena em constante mudança, Renoir pediu a seu irmão, Edmond, para ir até a ponte, conversar com as pessoas e fazê-las desacelerar o suficiente para que Renoir as pintasse.

Essa técnica inventiva congelar momentos fugazes é uma das grandes novidades do Impressionismo.

Crédito do video: @ngadc

[mycontinuum]

The Other Side of the Hill

The other side of the hill is bathed in sunshine. Willow trees line the yard while inside everything has its place. There are vases of flowers on the counter, the mantle, the kitchen table, and in the sunroom. My most treasured friend puts butter in its dish, bread in the pantry, and strawberries in the fridge. Her daughter babbles happily going up and down and up and down and up and down the stairs. Motown plays through the speakers. It is calm.

Everything and anything I find lovely adorns the walls: a Monet painting that quiets my thought spirals, a print from Yayoi Kusama that I habitually find pause at within NGADC, and watercolors of women I admire. I look around and there's joy anywhere I find room to hang it.

The best women in my life come through the front door without hesitation, bottles of champagne in hand. There are glasses to be filled and meals to be made and laughs to have so. loudly. I am so deliriously happy having them around my counter. "I hear the smile back in your voice," they say. I haven't felt like myself in years: it's a unique high they hear I'm coming back into my own.

I feel buoyant, as though I just came up for air for the first time in such a long time. I thought once I got to where I was going I would be tired. That may come yet, but right now? I sleep hard when it's time but wake up early, ready. I can't remember the last time I felt like I had enough energy to not just exist, but enjoy. I am so wildly, wildly grateful.

The other side of the hill is as bright and lovely as I dared hope. It feels like the biggest exhale. I'm proud of myself: I found the courage, dear heart. Now it's time to make sure I help those still climbing that same hill. To reach my hand out and get them across the finish line. I will spend the rest of my life trying to get as many people over this hill as I can.

The other side of the hill is worth it.

[entomoblog]

Insect paintings from the 1600s, by Flemish artist Jan van Kessel the Elder | National Gallery of Art

See on Scoop.it - Insect Archive

Insect paintings from the 1600s, by Flemish artist Jan van Kessel the Elder

  The National Gallery of Art serves the nation by welcoming all people to explore and experience art, creativity, and our shared humanity. Admission is always free.

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via National Gallery of Art sur X, 06.06.2024 : "...  🖌️ https://t.co/0gk26S6fiw"

https://x.com/ngadc/status/1798501570927370288

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ZAMBONI PATENT 1949 “Ice Rink Resurfacing Machine”

By Miriam Kleiman, Public Affairs, in honor of Zamboni drivers Alex B (NGA's Sculpture Garden Ice Rink) and Uncle Hank (Northern MI University).

Alex rocks the Zamboni at the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden Ice Rink, 12/29/22, image by Miriam Kleiman.

Ever wonder about the incredibly cool “Ice Rink Resurfacing Machine” (aka Zamboni)?

We’ve got the patent! See all 124 pages in our Online Catalog (NARA ID 117724382).

Thanks to the Zamboni, the ice was smooth enough for this talented monkey! See Ice Skating Chimpanzee, 1963 (The Unwritten Record).

Excerpt from the release sheet: SPORTS MONKEY SHINES! THIS CHIMP IS A GAY BLADE: Usually, summer is the whacky season, but this winter things aren’t on an even keel in Germany. They’ve taught a Chimp to Skate and he’s a real swinger! After some tricks “Archibald” leads a Conga that proves he’s a real gay blade with quite a line figure-8-atively.

“Ice Rink Resurfacing Machine” Patent file excerpts:

PROBLEM: "The maintenance of a satisfactorily smooth surface on the ice is one of the major problems in connection with the operation of a skating rink… The squeegees have no effect on the hard-frozen rough ice, and the ice therefore remains rough 'until the next time that it is scraped."

BEFORE the Zamboni: "Heretofore, the usual method of cleaning off and smoothing the surface of the ice has been to send attendants out onto the ice to sweep off the cut ice with scrapers or sweeps that are pushed ahead of them; while in other instances, the ice is scraped clean by scraper blades mounted on towed sleds towed sleds or on automotive vehicles such as the small, four-wheel drive vehicles formerly used in the military services and known popularly as the jeep In either case, after the surface of the ice has 'been scraped clean, a thin film of water is spread over the ice to fill in the cracks and low spots, and surplus water is then squeegeed away, usually by a number of attendants on skates, pushing the squeegees ahead of them… 

GOAL of ZAMBONI: "[An] object of the invention is to provide a self-propelled vehicle that can be operated by one man, and which functions automatically to shave the ice, convey the shaved ice to a large receptacle attached to the vehicle, and then squeegee a thin film `of water over the surface of the ice so as to provide a like-new surface when the water has frozen."

Full citation: Frank J. Zamboni & Co., Inc. RG 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office, 1836-1978, Patent Case Files, 1936-1976, Patent Case File No. 2,642,679, Ice Rink Resurfacing Machine, Inventor Frank J. Zamboni. NARA ID 83876135

Much more online! 

Ice Skating in the National Archives, National Archives News special topics page

Records Reveal Winter Olympics History, National Archives News:��

Ice Skating at Rockefeller Center, 1937, The Unwritten Record: 

Kate S. Todd Improvement in Skating-Wands, 1872

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Rubens Peale with a Geranium, 2801. Rembrandt Peale. #nationalgalleryofart #ngadc #portrait #retrato #artofinstagram (at National Gallery of Art) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYmDSxDg4k4/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Gypsy with a baby 1919 Amedeo Modigliani Galería Nacional de Arte, Washington @ngadc

(óleo sobre lienzo, 115.9×73 cm) . "Zingara con un recién nacido" es una extraordinaria obra maestra de Amedeo Modigliani de Livorno, una de las obras más bellas y entendidas de la última fase extrema del artista. Una joven gitana sostiene a un bebé envuelto de rodillas. Modigliani expresa al máximo las potencialidades de su propio arte a través de una rigurosa composición y gracias a la línea que define las formas. Un primer paso para estar en sintonía con este inmenso artista es, en mi opinión, entender cómo la estilización extrema es el resultado de un trabajo de síntesis profunda y consciente que es fruto del talento y del estudio de las tradiciones. Dentro de esta estructura definida por formas, Modigliani procede con una textura "sucia", con manchas y trozos de pigmento. Los colores se persiguen unos a otros, bailando sobre el lienzo. Los ojos turquesa se oscurecen en gris, un color que se capta en todas partes en la pintura; incluso el turquesa se retira en la falda y la bufanda. La encarnación de la gitana armoniza con el color ladrillo del collar de la blusa. La cara de la niña es intensa, ligeramente melancólica y consciente de su papel como madre. La calidad excepcional de las pinturas de Modigliani surge de pequeños detalles. Son respiraciones de belleza capaces de captar armonías absolutas. Las pinturas de Modigliani son sinfonías donde cada pintura está de acuerdo con todo. Podemos seguir la línea, sorprendernos por un pincel o una nota de color. Nunca pensé que pintura quisiera tener en mi casa porque pintar es ser, no tener y por tanto esencia vital del mundo y de todos. Ciertamente la vista de una pintura de Modigliani podría encantarme durante horas todos los días.

[furcafe]

Saturday = @thomasedisonff winning short films at @ngadc , followed by: (1) drinks (“Sailor Moon Prism Power Punch” & “Kaiju #2”) w/ @flore2pre9 at @thepassengerdc ; (2) random encounters w/ @yoner & @mattdunndc on 7th St.; (3) a beer w/Dunn in his den; & (4) a nighttime sighting of melted Lincoln at Sandy Williams IV’s “40 ACRES: Camp Barker” at Garrison ES, S St. Lens c.2010, camera c.2019. #dcondigital

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CONTRAST IN THE CAPITAL

During your stay at Sofitel Washington DC Lafayette Square, venture through the National Gallery of Art’s light-filled tunnel by Leo Villareal. Titled ‘Multiverse,’ this immersive pathway is the artist’s largest and most complex creation. 

This mesmerizing photo of the installation was captured by yaneth_chen_photography.

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Claude Monet

‘Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city,’ Claude Monet said to the dealer René Gimpel in 1920. ‘It’s the fog that gives it its magnificent breadth. Those massive, regular blocks became grandiose within that mysterious cloak.’ 

Claude Monet made several trips to London between 1899 and 1905. Returning to the principle of the series – portraying the same subject at different times of day and under different light, he focused on three motifs: the Houses of Parliament, Charing Cross Bridge, and Waterloo Bridge. In all he completed more than one hundred Thames paintings. His numerous iterations of the two bridges seen from his balcony track how the sun reflected off the water throughout the day. 

Most artists, such as James McNeill Whistler, used a subdued palette and a limited range of colours to reproduce the greyness of the city. Monet's London paintings are quite different. Even in these subjects dulled by fog and coal dust, he perceived colour in every form. Drifting mists are painted with delicate shades of lilac and pink, and the sky is tinged with pale olive. The shaded arches of the bridge are darkened with blues, not black, and its traffic is highlighted with brilliant flecks of scarlet.

Image 1: Claude Monet, Charing Cross Bridge, The Thames, 1903, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Image 2: Claude Monet, Waterloo Bridge, soleil voile, 1899-1903, Collection of Paul G. Allen, Christie’s 

Image 3: Claude Monet, Waterloo Bridge, at Sunset, 1904, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington 

Image 4: Claude Monet, Waterloo Bridge, at Dusk, 1904, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington

Image 5: Claude Monet, Waterloo Bridge, Gray Day, 1903, Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington

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The epitome of a house that you *have* to pull over to the side of the road to admire from your car window.

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Detail from “Untitled,” 1980, by Philip Guston from the “Philip Guston Now” exhibition, which closes at @mfaboston this Sunday, 9/11/22. Next, the show travels to @mfahouston though 1/15/23, and then I hope to see it at @ngadc while it is there through 8/27/23. #painting #philipguston #philipgustonnow #guston #mfaboston #mfah #ngadc #head #art #contemporaryart #artmuseum https://www.instagram.com/p/CiMRwEHMaZ-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=