Art Detectives

Top of the Day: 29c Speed Skating stamp - United States Postal Service, 1992-01-11 Today's Artwork: Jules Peyron - Paul Cézanne, c. 1885 - 1887 -- link -- The Prodigal Son - Gely Korzhev, 1997 - 1997 -- link -- Portrait of a Young Woman - Edgar Degas, ca. 1885 -- link -- Royal Tiger - Eugène Delacroix, 1829 -- link -- 29c Speed Skating stamp - United States Postal Service, 1992-01-11 -- link -- ​

Top of the Day: Blue--A - Georgia O'Keeffe, 1959 Today's Artwork: Lavender Hill with Green - Georgia O'Keeffe, 1952 -- link -- Blue--A - Georgia O'Keeffe, 1959 -- link -- Above the Clouds I - Georgia O'Keeffe, 1962-1963 -- link -- Head with Broken Pot - Georgia O'Keeffe, 1943 -- link -- Petunia No. 2 - Georgia O'Keeffe, 1924 -- link -- Anything - Georgia O'Keeffe, 1916 -- link -- ​

Top of the Day: Night Beacons III - Vicki L. Johnson, 1991 Today's Artwork: Night Beacons III - Vicki L. Johnson, 1991 -- link -- Mist in Kanab Canyon, Utah - Thomas Moran, 1892 -- link -- The Vestal Virgin Tuccia - Giovanni Battista Moroni, about 1555 -- link -- Monument, Bermuda - Charles Demuth, 1917 -- link -- Le rocce dell'antica saggezza - Achille Perilli, 1957 -- link -- Woman Outdoors - Giovanni Fattori, 1866 -- link -- ​

Top of the Day: The Anguish of Being and the Nothingness of the Universe - Marcos Raya, 2000 Today's Artwork: Still Life with Asparagus and Red Currants - Adriaen Coorte, 1696 -- link -- The Victualling Office, Plymouth - Nicholas Condy, 1793–1857, British, ca. 1835 -- link -- Priyadarshika - Ravi Varma Press, 1890 -- link -- Post-Classical-Back of Mona Lisa A - Wang Guang Yi, 1986 -- link -- Gold solidus of Empress Irene, 797/802 -- link -- Smoking with the Spirit of the Buffalo - Charles M. Russell, 1914 -- link -- The Anguish of Being and the Nothingness of the Universe - Marcos Raya, 2000 -- link -- ​We went down the Charles M. Russell rabbit hole.  He did a lot of amazing sculptures and art.

Top of the Day: Isabella Stewart Gardner in Venice - Anders Zorn, ca. 1894 Today's Artwork: The War - Otto Dix, 1929-32 -- link -- House at Wannsee - Max Liebermann, 1919 -- link -- Japanese Still Life - Elihu Vedder, 1879 -- link -- Isabella Stewart Gardner in Venice - Anders Zorn, ca. 1894 -- link -- ​Started out random but ended up spending the hour wondering the  Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

 Zenobia sent us a message about Mariko Kusumoto -- this marvelous artist who worked first with metal then with fabric and textiles. Astounding!  Top of the Day!  Here's the initial introduce that Zenobia sent -- link --  Weightless sculptures -- link --  Video of Mariko Kusumoto talking about her work -- link --  Mariko Kusumoto & Jean Paul Gauthier -- link --  AND now for something completely different (using Elaine's Monty Python reference!), a tradition from China of using cicada shells as art. It came from looking at Ms. Kusumoto's organic artwork & seeing a cicada sculptures she created -- link -- 

Top of the Day: Dreamroom-Seoungwon - Won, Seoung Won and 원성원, 2003 Today's Artwork: The man - Abdul Abdullah, 2013 -- link -- Dreamroom-Seoungwon - Won, Seoung Won and 원성원, 2003 -- link -- ​Spent the day looking at art by Seoung Won

Top of the Day: Sliced Images 'Left Hand' - Park, Chan Girl, 2006 Today's Artwork: Sliced Images 'Left Hand' - Park, Chan Girl, 2006 -- link -- Lake Winnepesaukee - Thomas Cole (1801-1848), 1827/1828 -- link -- Tibia -- link -- Landscape with a Footbridge - Albrecht Altdorfer, about 1518-20 -- link -- 13 Attempts to Become a Rooster - 13 - Wolfgang Lettl, 1978 -- link -- ​We started with the Sliced Images 'Left Hand' - Park, Chan Girl, 2006, which led us to look at this video (or a very similar video) of David Cerny's sculpture of Franz Kafka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfUQzo6racg .  This sent us down the David Cerny rabbit hole.  To see what we saw, google "David Cerny" and look at some of his crazy sculptures.  We also watched some of a video of a sculpture being installed  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3yEuFNYrAY   (By the way, the sculpture of the 2 men peeing moves!!) Then we got back to a normal random day...unti