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Art=Design=Invention

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Disegno: The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes... it seems to me that... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself

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Mona's Noisy Smile

In more news on Leonardo's Mona Lisa, scientists Leonid L. Kontsevich & Christopher W. Tyler have analyzed the painting's famously ambiguous smile in a "novel application of the spatial reverse correlation technique consisting of adding samples of spatial noise to...

Was Michelangelo (Fill in the Blank)?

More Michelangelo silliness in Was Michelangelo autistic?, from those who think "art history" involves some self-projections of the personal pathologies of present day writers themselves. Perhaps Michelangelo was a grumpy, self-absorbed workaholic who didn't care to socialize. Other factors like...

Hockney's Basic Photo Drawing

1960s Pop artist David Hockney speaks to the BBC on the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, based on the ridiculed notion of drawing, which may, after all, be somehow important: "Drawing has been neglected for the last 30 years...

Raphael: Urbino to Rome

The National Gallery, London is bringing together over 100 paintings and drawings of Raphael, tracing the Renaissance master's progress from his apprenticeship with the painter Perugino, through his period of study in Florence, to his mature, classical work in Rome....

American Eden: Hudson River School

A rare view of 19th century American landscapes is on view in the show American Eden: Landscape Masterworks of the Hudson River School at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh. Over 50 paintings mostly on loan from the Wadsworth...

At the Museums

The summer season is usually slow, but there's a few things to see in the New York museums: Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261 - 1557), March 23, 2004 - July 4, 2004, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Fairly...

Hughes: We Need Slow Art

In a scathing dig at the Royal Academy (and all art schools,) critic Robert Hughes denounced the academic collusion with mainstream collectors who need to preserve the value of the stale mini-tradition of Conceptual art- a tradition which is now...

1912 Whitney Bi-Perpetual

After 92 years of the shocking, transgressive challenge of the avant-garde, once again the unenlightened bourgeoisie can don their tails and top hats, derbies and waistcoats to shout their indignant cries of "You call this ART?!!" at the Whitney Biennial....

Arte, Disegno, Invenzione

From the preface to Lives of the Artists, by Giorgio Vasari: On Art (Arte): Up to the present, I have discoursed upon the origin of sculpture and painting, perhaps more at length than was necessary at this stage. I have...

Caravaggio at Met

The Met Museum is opening the show Painters of Reality: The Legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy (May 27 - August 15, 2004), with accompanying publication....

Fire Enhances Saatchi Art

In a cultural disaster of unmitigated proportions, a fire has apparently destroyed many works by the Saatchi YBAs: "Taken as a whole, the fire represents a national artistic tragedy, a cultural loss on a massive scale," said Katherine Heron, daughter of the late abstractionist Patrick Heron, to the Guardian

Gehry Geeks, Again

Interesting piece by John Massengale, Geeks Crit Gehry, on the new MIT Strata Center, also referencing a Wired article on this Post-modernist jargon project by Frank Gehry. The first casualties of Gehry's latest attempt at the same design as before...

Michelangelo Carved in Wood

A possible lost Michelangelo, a crucifixion carved in wood, is going on display in Italy. The 16th century biography of Michelangelo by Condivi tells of how monks at the Priory of Santo Spirito in Florence allowed the 20 year old...

Record Drip for Pollock

A classic Abstract Expressionist painting by Jackson Pollock was sold by MoMA, New York for $11.6 million, the highest amount ever for a work by "Jack the Dripper." This is twice within a week that 20th century paintings have sold...

Mona Lisa X-Rayed

Likely the world's most famous and widely reproduced painting, da Vinci's Mona Lisa is currently undergoing high tech exams under microscopes and x-rays for a reported warp in its wood panel support. Leonardo's commission for the portrait began around 1505,...

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