Joseph MallordWilliam Turner was without doubt one of Britain's finest artists, and the current exhibition at Tate Britain gives an interesting view of his work. Like most great artists through the ages he was well aware of the work that had proceeded him, and was influenced it in many ways. As a student he was encouraged to copy from the works of the great masters, and the earliest paintings on display...
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Pluck a magnifying glass from a rack at the Frick and sift great from good in “Watteau to Degas: French Drawings from the Frits Lugt Collection.” The prodigious Dutch connoisseur Lugt (1884-1970), a collector by the age of eight, acquired thousands of Old Master drawings, with a special . . .
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Jon Hamm is an actor. A real, honest-to-goodness, kick-ass, blow-yr-mind actor. Who knew? In other revelatory news, this long poem is killing me. It's like juggling. The potato I have up in the air has started to sprout and the milk's started to curdle. Meanwhile I'm riding a unicycle straight into hell. How do you all handle long poems? Or do you? Josh is right. I won't be able to publish the thing,...
Two shows, one at the Morgan Library & Museum and the other at the Frick Collection, serve as reminders to the digital age of what we lose when we sacrifice the art of drawing by hand to the programs of machinery.
" Thanks! " to Em (in this post) who let us know that one of J.Crew's wedding gowns appears on the cover of the latest Knot Magazine. (The J.Crew dress is the one all the way to the left, on the mannequin.) The wedding dress featured is the Silk Tricotine Lyden Gown (Item 18138 ; $750.00). This dress is a part of J.Crew's Wedding & Parties Fall 2009 Collection. J.Crew describes it as...
An excuse to post one of these great studies of French soldiers with their backpacks, laden and on the march. These packs were stowed before battle with a small guard. I had this idea of a French reenactment group that would basically do the Watteau style bivouacs and nothing else - no battles - just route marches and bivouacs. But it obviously didn't really catch on but the lazy nature of Watteau's...