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My Personal Museum
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A place to discuss works of art and architecture from pre-history to the present. Let the creativity and opinions flow...
- Added on: May 14th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: T
- Listed in: Arts Architecture
- Tags: art reviews architecture artists art history art appreciation
Recent Posts
Happy Thanksgiving
Norman Rockwell, Freedom From Want, 1943. War bond poster. Story illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, March 6, 1943. Oil on canvas, 45 3/4 x 35 1/2 in.In the world of art Thanksgiving is exemplified by this painting Freedom From Want by No...
Fall of the Berlin Wall
This week on November 9th much of the world is celebrating the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall (1989). For me, when thinking about all the graffiti and other art on the Berlin Wall, the person that immediately comes into my mind, one of t...
Bewitched
With Halloween week here I wanted to present an image that speaks of spookiness and things that go bump in the night, in the world of fine art of course. For me, one of the first images that comes to mind is this woodblock print by Hans Baldung Grie...
Controversial New Sculpture
Entropa by David Cerny, January 2009, outside the European Union in Brussels.As I was catching up on some reading on the latest controversial works by artists, I came across this odd piece by artist David Cerny titled "Entropa." The sculpture was cre...
Autumn in all its Glory
Claude Monet, Autumn at Argenteuil, 1873, oil on canvas, 21.5 inches x 23.9 inches.Fall or autumn is simply my favorite season of the year. I love the fresh crisp air, the smell of cinnamon, the gorgeous colors of the leaves as they change, and of c...
War is Hell (*Graphic Images*)
Title: The Harvest of Death, Gettysburg Pennsylvania, July 1863. Artist: Timothy O'Sullivan. Photo: Julie Jacobson. From the article "The Death of One Marine in Afghanistan." Photo is from Aug. 2009 article is from Sept. 2009.Yesterday while commutin...
