Art Detectives

Top of the Day: Narihira and Nijo no Tsubone at the Fuji River - Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1882 Today's Artwork: Changing Horses and Porters at Fujieda Station - Utagawa Hiroshige, circa 1833-1834 -- link -- Fashion Plate (A Walking Dress, or Carriage Costume) - Rudolph Ackermann, 2/1/1811 -- link -- Laughing Child - Frans Hals, circa 1620-1625 -- link -- Doily, mid-19th century -- link -- Wrestlers, 1899 -- link -- Narihira and Nijo no Tsubone at the Fuji River - Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1882 -- link -- Funerary Sculpture of a Horse - Unknown, Eastern Han dynasty, 25-220 -- link -- ​We strolled through the hallways of LACMA today! 

Today, because it is Kiki's last weekday until a holiday, we looked at a stunning array of wooden quilts and sculptures by Laura Petrovich-Cheney. Jaw dropping! She's been quilting since she was 17 and after Hurricane Sandy devastated her community and caused a death in her family, she began reclaiming wood and forming sculptural quilts.  Top of the Day .... (there were so many!) .... is this moving image of homes she created from pieces of broken homes. It's called Homesick & while there were so many incredible pieces with abstract or cleanly geometric shapes & a wide array of colors, this one encapsulates a lot of her mission ... reclaiming destroyed objects then repurposing them to elicit hope.  Laura Petrovich-Cheney's website .... check out all the wonderful links at the top of the page; the arrows to the right of each piece of work cycles you through her artistry. -- link --   From her website 2017-present quilts -- link --  Pencil quilt made in collabor

Kiki sent this article full of unusual embroidery and fabric techniques and we went dooooooooown the rabbit hole!  Top of the Day is this Quokka! There were many more intricate pieces we saw & you can view them below .... but this little beauty stole our hearts & you can see an actual naturally "smiling" quokka for comparison in the links below. Tryyyyyyy not to smile!  "Happy" quokka photos -- link --  Forest floor & canopy views by Sew Beautiful -- link --  Shimmering beads in embroidery makes for a celebration of the skies against landscapes by Ksenia Zimenko -- link --  Moth Art!!! Bigggg moths made of vintage and antique fabrics by Larysa Bernhardt -- link --  Animal embroidery by Laura McGarrity -- link --  Secretary Bird correctly identified by Ruth! (from the animal embroidery link just above) -- link -- The wonderfully creative Laure McGarrity chooses such a variety of animals & uses nontraditional colors to tell their stories.  Fossil

Mt. Lefroy - Lawren Harris  1930 Today's Artwork: Girl in Red Robe and Black Stockings - Egon Schiele, 1911 -- link -- Warhol's Gaze - Kang, Hyung Koo, 2010 -- link -- Port Scene (Hafenbild) - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1908 -- link -- Thomson Campfire - Douglas Coupland, 2013 -- link -- ​McMichael Art Collection Group of Seven

Top of the Day: Ocean Life - James M. Sommerville|Christian Schussele Today's Artwork: Ships off a Rocky Coast - Willaerts, Adam, 1621 -- link -- Escena de playa - Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, 1899 -- link -- Portrait of Alida Christina Assink - Jan Adam Kruseman, 1833/1833 -- link -- The sculptures by Aleksander Chellak at the exhibition "To Catch a Big Fish" -- link -- Chestnut Trees at Jas de Bouffan - Paul Cézanne, c. 1885-1886 -- link -- Portrait of Alfonso V, King of Aragon (Retrato del Monarca Alfonso V, Rey de Aragón) - Juan de Juanes, 1557 -- link -- The Daughters of Durand-Ruel - Pierre Auguste Renoir, 1882/1882 -- link -- Valmiki Sees the Hunter Killing a Pair of Kraunch Birds - Unknown, Early 18th Century -- link -- The Virgin and Child with the Magdalen and Saint John the Baptist - Andrea Mantegna, about 1490-1505 -- link -- Ocean Life - James M. Sommerville|Christian Schussele -- link -- ​

I happened to catch a PBS documentary on this amaaaaaaaaaazing artist who, like our last few artists, work with book and printed media -- this time in collage and 3D art forms. She's a South Carolinian artist who goes by the one word name of Aldwyth.  Top of the Day is this Eye Globe collage where Aldwyth combines images of famous artists with the eyeballs of famous artists titled  Many of Aldwyth's works as well as opportunities to examine them very closely -- link --  Collage and Assemblage -- link --  Some of the strange "creatures" that Aldwyth creates -- link --  Aldwyth, A Walk in the Woods -- link --  Aldwyth, a looooooong video of her showing how she creates her 3D art pieces -- link --  A shorter (excerpted) version of the looooooooong video -- link --  Aldwyth's website -- link -- 

Speechless. All of us. AND WE ARE TALKERS!  Don't Even Know HOW it's Possible to Choose ONE Top of the Day from the list below ... please enjoy every piece -- we looked through a LOT with our mouths & eyes wide-open today!  Here are three examples of Brian Dettmer's book sculptures.  Article about Brian Dettmer's brilliant sculptures out of old books -- link --  Video showing Brian Dettmer's work and how he accomplishes it -- link --  Another videos showing Brian Dettmer creating & talking about his work -- link --  Vanessa Mancini's book bathtub -- link --  Alvaro Tamarit's Bench of Thought -- link --  Matej Kren, Octagonal Building made of books -- link --  Marta Minujin, Tower of Babel made of books -- link --  Guy Laramée, Book Sculptures -- link --  More of Guy Laramée's work -- link --  Clip of Guy Laramée working -- link --  Close Ups of Guy Laremée's work -- link -- 

 Stunning photographs of ocean water transformed into sculptural art.   Top of the Day is every single one of them .... but here's just one we loved.  .Photography of Waves & Water by Matt Burgess -- link --  Behind the Shot, a video showing his work & how he makes these astounding photos happen -- link -- 

Thought the artists are lost to time, their artwork lives & is celebrated today.  Top of the Day is this Balinesian Mask ... link with a little bit more info below  Hamburg Flint Tools, Paleolithic -- link --  Skeleton of an Elk, c. 10,700 BCE -- link --  Museum view of Giant Elk -- link --  Brazilian Vessel, 10, 000 BCE -- link --  Bali / Indonesian Mask, 1850 - 1950 (our Top of the Day) -- link --  Islamic Prayer Mat, circa 1900 -- link --  Dance Mask (hornbill mask), unknown -- link --  Hornbill that Beth found (looks like our bird mask including decorative elements) -- link -- 

Top of the Day: The Water Lilies - Setting Sun - Claude Monet, 1915/1926 Today's Artwork: View on the Catskill—Early Autumn - Thomas Cole, 1836–37 -- link -- Windsor Castle: The Round Tower, Royal Court and Devil's Tower from the Black Rod - Paul Sandby, (c. 1767) -- link -- Buffalo Bull, Grazing on the Prairie - George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872, 1832-1833 -- link -- Mughal Emperor Shahjahan in the Marriage Procession his Eldest Son Dara Shikoh - Unknown, 1700/1800 -- link -- Sentado Niña - Elizabeth Catlett, 1951 -- link -- Scrovesni #1 - Carlos Gonzales, 2016 -- link -- Luncheon of the Boating Party - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1880-1881 -- link -- Majestic Mosaic - Karen Kay Buckley and Renae Haddadin, 2014 -- link -- The Water Lilies - Setting Sun - Claude Monet, 1915/1926 -- link -- A Sibyl and a Prophet - Andrea Mantegna (Italian, b.Circa 1431, d.1506), ca. 1495 -- link -- ​

Top of the Day: Grand Bois d’Illet - Loïs Mailou Jones, 1985 Today's Artwork: Medusa (Ricas y Famosas) - Daniela Rossell, 1999 -- link -- He Drowned in Her Eyes as she Called him to Follow [Anatomy: Green] - Janaina Tschäpe, 2000 -- link -- To Kiss The Spirits: Now This Is What It Is Really Like - Hollis Sigler, 1993 -- link -- Grand Bois d’Illet - Loïs Mailou Jones, 1985 -- link -- Hieroglyph - Jan Owen, 1999 -- link -- ​We actually saw more work than this, I will add it later. A day of joyous perusing!! 

Top of the Day: Peter III the Ceremonious - Jaume Mateu, 1427 Today's Artwork: Peter III the Ceremonious - Jaume Mateu, 1427 -- link -- Christ crowning Saint Joseph - Francisco de Zurbarán, 1636/1640 -- link -- Near June Street, Worcester, Massachusetts - John Singer Sargent, 1890 -- link -- The Emerald - Alphonse Mucha, 1900 -- link -- Remembering Kelly - Shirley P. Kelly, 2010 -- link -- Carring My Things - Ricardo Pérez Alcalá, 1999 - 1999 -- link -- Relief of Akhenaten as a sphinx - Unknown, 1349 B.C. - 1336 B.C. -- link -- The Sower - Jean-François Millet, 1814/1875 -- link -- HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL - Bert Monterona, 2017 - 2017 -- link -- Summer Scene in Tamba - HAYAMI Gyoshu, 1915 -- link -- Children in Spring - Lee Jung-seob, 1916/1956 -- link -- Fragrance (Noa Noa), from Fragrance (Noa Noa), title block - Paul Gauguin -- link -- PH-557 - Clyfford Still, 1949 -- link -- Mary Magdalene - Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo, about 1535-40 -- link -- Last

We followed up the majestic intricate pieces of Ursula von Rydingsvard with the equally mesmerizing oeuvre of Anya Gallacio -- this time we found it by accident when we were looking at a park full of statues in Austin, Texas.  Here's the first image we saw, a stump you can actually sit on ... "to see if time was there," 2017 -- link --Simple perhaps, but it intrigued us and we found a treasure trove of sumptuous pieces. Top of the Day of any number of stellar achievements is this "Preserve 'Beauty'' (1991-2003) from the Tate but she replicates it or created other versions including a big red carpet of roses in various other galleries.  Anya Gallacio at The Tate Gallery -- link --  More of her work at Blum & Poe ... some of them delicate pieces, some monumental -- link --  Anya at her home gallery -- link --  More of her works via the Thomas Dane Gallery -- link --  From YouTube: The rose carpet mentioned above then The Light Pours Out of Me, a su

A wonderful day of surprises .... we were visiting the National Museums of Women in the Arts & Luba saw an odd item. We didn't know if it was a sculpture, part of a quilt: but when we looked at it -- it was so wonderfully strange, we looked up the artist & stumbled upon Ursula von Rydingsvard!  And if you think that was random -- Kiki piped up to ask, "Did you all see that I sent info about her to our group yesterday?!" I had missed it for sure. Talk about serendipity! How crazy miraculous is that!! We all agreed it was kismet at work!  The Top of the Day is every single image we encountered!!! But here's just one we all loved.  Scientia, 2016. We saw this on her website, but it's installed at MIT's List Visual Art Center Here is the first image we saw, this strange Apron, from 1997 made out of cedar, stain, and graphite -- link -- Two sculptures she did for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, one primarily bronze & the other out of glass -- link --

  Sketch for set design for theater interior in Kozelets.  Artist Anatolii Petrytsky 1920 Today we went to The Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema of Ukraine.  We saw a bunch of great costume and set designs!! https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/sketch-for-costume-for-choreographic-sketch-masky-set-to-music-by-f-chopin-artist-vadym-meller/hAE8mQCeK5hohQ https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/sketch-of-dance-costumes-for-production-of-excentric-dances/VQH12cpx19r8pQ https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/sketch-for-costume-for-production-of-shakespeares-romeo-and-juliet/3wFFfqBTC6I2kA https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/sketch-of-dance-costumes-for-production-of-excentric-dances/JAE8IU5-tOmUZg https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/sketch-for-europeans-costumes-for-r-glires-ballet-red-poppy/MAHPJ27Al2bXZQ https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/sketch-for-set-design-for-stone-host/EAG3KKkKQv9xAA https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/sketch-for-bacchante-costumei-annenskys-f

Top of the Day: Nakaze Island, Kyukitakami River - Kawase Hasui, 1935 Today's Artwork: Sunset on the New England Coast - Robert S. Duncanson, 1871 -- link -- Homage to the Vallès landscape - Abelló Prat, Joan, 1966 -- link -- Portrait of a Woman inspired by Lucretia - Lorenzo Lotto, about 1530-2 -- link -- Der Blaue Reiter - Wassily Kandinsky, 1912 -- link -- Si amanece; nos Vamos. (When day breaks we will be off.) - Francisco de Goya, 1796-1797 -- link -- Nakaze Island, Kyukitakami River - Kawase Hasui, 1935 -- link -- Saint Barbara - Marie Spartali Stillman, 1865/1890 -- link -- Gleaners - Jean-François Millet, 1857 -- link -- The disturbing muses - Giorgio de Chirico, 1955/1960 -- link -- ​We spent a lot of time exploring the art of Kawase Hasui.  All of us found his art comforting and soothing.

Top of the Day is this wild sculpture by Javier Perez called Carroña (Carrion), 2011 -- link --  This also has a museum view under street view! It's the first piece of art we have seen that listed "crows" as part of its media! Katherine Gray, Forest Glass, 2009 -- link --  Danny Lane, Etruscan Chair, 1992 -- link --  René Lalique, Chat Assis (Sitting Cat), 1932 -- link --  René Lalique, Victoire (Victory), 1928 -- link --  Ginny Rufner, Eat Your Hat, 1985 -- link --  Leopold Blaschka, Bouquet of Flowers, 1890 -- link --  Leopold Blaschka & Rudolph Blaschka, Model of Holly on a Branch, 1880 - 1890 -- link --  Leopold Blaschka, Glass Model of an Orchid, 1880 - 1890 -- link --  Made by an unknown artists in the 1600s (from 1600 to 1699), this weird Flask for Mana of St. Nicholas of Bari is our SECOND Top of the Day -- link --  We've never had a second Top of the Day .... but look at this jewel! It needed it's own special entry. 

  Top of the Day is this fabulous look at the Sky Whales that Ruth saw in Australia   -- with a couple more looks below. Sky Whales from Ruth --  link  --  Sky Whales --  link  --  Patricia Piccinini's website -- link --  Her instagram -- link --  From Google Arts & Culture:  Desert Riders, Mountain at the Mint Museum in Charlotte, N.C. -- link --  Big Mother -- link --  Team WAF (Primo) -- link --  First Satisfied Customer (Your Time Starts Now Series - The Mutant Genome Project)  Some of her "creatures / biological forms" in a warehouse -- link -- Click on the images for more!!

  Today's art is from the National Art Museum of Ukraine. https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/annunciation/fwG9-wkXciSvBA https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/bridge-sevres/RwHytfE98RBGTw https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-intercession/2QF_WEErXZdaoA https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-virgin-hodegetria-of-volyn/-QEqHiMey3DaDA https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/st-george-the-dragon-slayer/5QECnUZ1KFq3-w https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-crucifixion-with-the-portrait-of-leontii-svichka/EgG2UAvjcX14JA https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-portrait-of-paraska-sulyma-the-wife-of-ssulyma/hgHiKslCr2XBvw https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-conversation-between-a-cossack-and-a-pole/NwEZe2dZwFZhdg https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-artists-children/ywGxQ26Q9Vjcvw https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-portrait-of-an-elderly-woman/rAE_XvZB91w-7Q https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/in-beech-forest/IQEjI3c-6qSsZw https://ar

Top of the Day: Madonna of the Magnificat - Botticelli Filipepi, Around 1483 Today's Artwork: The Dinner at the Ball - Adolph Menzel, 1878 -- link -- Upper Fall of the Reichenbach: Rainbow - Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British, 1810 -- link -- Madonna of the Magnificat - Botticelli Filipepi, Around 1483 -- link -- The Avenue in the Park at Saint Cloud - Henri Rousseau, 1908 -- link -- Sem título - Beatriz Milhazes, 1984/1985 -- link -- Late Autumn - Uemura Shoen, Showa period, dated 1943 -- link -- Germaine (Tribute to Michel Tremblay) - Rafael Sottolichio, 2013-09-30/2014-07-04 -- link -- Mixed Feelings - Anthony Cragg, 2012 -- link -- The Concord Meadow - Childe Hassam, ca. 1891 -- link -- ​

Top of the Day is this wonderful graffiti collaboration between Zio Zigler & bumblebeelovesyou  (see the link below)  American Phoenix by Meggs, Culver City, Los Angeles, 2012 -- link --  Building American Phoenix & a street view -- link --  Very vibrant look at American Phoenix -- link --  We Never Die by Cycle, 2011 -- link --  The Guardian by Zio Zigler & bumblebeelovesyou, 2012 --  link  --  More of the work of Branded Arts with some of the graffiti we saw today --  link  --  The website of bumblebeelovesyou: -- link --  Zio Zigler Sculpture & Art: Not sure of these titles, but we will explore them more on Friday -- link --  The Self Reinforcing Myth -- link --  The Transformation of Self I -- link --  Full Awareness -- link -- Thymos -- link -- 

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