Sunday 28 November 2010

October quiz results


And the answer to october quiz is.....(drums...or rather, horns)


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in a painting called "The miracles of St Vincent Ferrer". It was painted in 1473 by Ercole de Roberti, an Italian painter who worked in Italy in the XV century (Ferrara c. 1450-Ferrara 1496).
























It is now part of the Vatican collection of paintings. It's possible to take a virtual tour online here, it's quite worth it I think.

Wishlist: some exhibitions




CLAUDE MONET 1840 1926

Grand Palais

22 September 2010 - 24 January 2011

Paris



Woman with Parasol in a Garden



IMPRESSIONIST GARDENS
Thyssen-Bornemisza
16 November-13 February 2011
Madrid




SEDUCTIVE SUBVERSION:WOMEN POP ARTISTS 1958-1968
October 15, 2010–January 9, 2011
New York



VAN EYCK TO DÜRER

Groeningemuseum

until 30 January

Bruges, Belgium









MICHELANGELO


THE DRAWINGS OF A GENIUS

Albertina

8 October 2010 - 9 January 2011

Vienna


and this time I'll try and make some of them happen!



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                   Juan Pablo Silvestre

The way we were



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The "bikini girls" mosaic
Villa Romana del Casale (a UNESCO world heritage site)
 Piazza Armerina,Sicily
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Sunday 7 November 2010

Homage to women painters II




 ANITA MALFATTI
tropical, c 1916

ANUEMORA SHOEN
flame, 1918
poster via katie in tokyo

ANA BILINSKA
self portrait with apron and brushes, 1887


EMILY MARY OSBORN
nameless and friendless 1857

EVELYN PICKERING DE MORGAN
medea

woman with flowers

TAMARA DE LEMPICKA
la dormiente
LAVINIA FONTANA
portrait of a noble woman, 1580

MINA FONDA OCHTMAN
the evening lamp, 1912

LOU ALBERT-LASARD
ingo (artist's daughter), c 1945

REMEDIOS VARO
to be reborn, 1960

TARSILA DO AMARAL
morro favela, 1924



Art students a couple of centuries ago



Marie Bashkirtseff, The Académie Julian, 1880



Sunday 24 October 2010

webnautics







some images I like from the blog Japonisme

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Wednesday 20 October 2010

October quiz





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Where will you find these two ladies who look so worried ?
Sorry, this one is a tough one!

Sunday 17 October 2010

Polyvore












What a find, I recently discovered the website polyvore.com . Creating  and sharing all those collages online looks like fun (I'm probably the last person on earth to know about it). Here's some images I specially liked when I was browsing here and there this morning.

Collages can get to look something like this, it's up to your taste and imagination:

set by lagomera





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Illustration: Mini Labo

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I love the illustration style and funny characters created by the Mini-Labo team
via a lovely notebook I bought


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