Art Detectives

Top of the Day: Samson and Delilah - José Echenagusía , 1887 Today's Artwork: Samson and Delilah - José Echenagusía , 1887 -- link -- The Refectory (Le refectoire) - Alphonse Legros , 1837/1911 -- link -- Ponta de Leste (Ilha dos Búzios) - Benedito Calixto , 1904 -- link -- A Wooded Landscape with Travelers on a Path through a Hamlet - Meindert Hobbema and Abraham Storck , about 1665 -- link -- Altar frontal from Sant Andreu in Sagàs - La Seu d'Urgell workshops , Second quarter of the 12th century -- link -- The Orchestra at the Opera - Edgar Degas , circa 1870 -- link -- Autorretrato - Ado Malagoli , 1941 -- link -- ​A lovely trip through art we'd never seen and a few rabbit hole forays made me go over in time we were having such a lively discussion! 

Top of the Day: View of the Flower of Greece - August Wilhelm Julius Ahlborn (after Schinkel) , 1836 Today's Artwork: View of the Flower of Greece - August Wilhelm Julius Ahlborn (after Schinkel) , 1836 -- link -- Woman with a Jasmine Flower - Transylvanian Anonymous Artist , 1725 -- link -- James Monroe - John Vanderlyn , 1816 -- link -- Landscape from Holmsbu - Oluf Wold-Torne , 1911 -- link -- Hills Over Delaware - Clarence R. Johnson , n.d. -- link -- Logiyadhamma 1 - Thongchai Srisukprasert , 2012 -- link -- The Stoning of Saint Stephen - Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn , 1625 -- link -- A crab on its back - Vincent van Gogh , 1888 -- link -- The Adoration of the Christ Child - Jacob Cronelisz van Oostsanen , 1512 -- link -- The Goldfish Bowl (Mrs. Richard Cary Morse and Family) - Samuel F. B. Morse , ca. 1835 -- link -- The Old Stage-Coach of the Plains - Frederic Remington , 1901 -- link -- Military Discipline on Land - Antonio Vassillacchi detto Alie

 Today we did a deep dive into Perez Celis .  He is an Argentinian artist that does geometric art.

Top of the Day: The Cradle - Berthe Morisot , 1872 Today's Artwork: A Manuela se le arrancó el caballo - Patricia Israel , 1989 -- link -- Pilate Washing His Hands - Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese) , 1663 -- link -- Interior of an Imaginary Catholic Church - Witte, Emanuel de , 1668 -- link -- The Cradle - Berthe Morisot , 1872 -- link -- The Artist Drawing from the Model - Rembrandt van Rijn , c. 1639 -- link -- ​Wow! Among the many paintings down the rabbit hole, we looked at many of Berthe Morisot's great works. Though we'd seen her in the past, we discovered many more paintings and drawings than we had before! Lovely, detailed, feminal, sumptuous paintings & then some surprises when she broke out of her oeuvre to paint ships, fields, and other pieces. Ruth suggested that we might have had a hard time guessing the artist since they were such a departure. Diana pointed out that she softened even the boats in the harbor -- her feminine technique i

Top of the Day: Trouville, Beach Scene (Trouville, scène de plage) - Eugène Boudin , 1874 Today's Artwork: The Tapestry of Tarragona - Joan Miró/Josep Royo and Joan Miró y Josep Royo , 1970 - 1970 -- link -- Small Table in Evening Dusk - Henri Le Sidaner , 1921 -- link -- Day in June - Daniel Garber , 1937 -- link -- The three main elevations of the tower of Seville - Guichot, Alejandro , 1930/1930 -- link -- Landscape - Gonzalo Lindín , 1983 -- link -- Penitent Magdalena - Doménikos Theotokópoulos, El Greco , 1590 -- link -- Marija Ana Elizabeta Baroness Raigersfeld - Franc Linder , Late 1750s -- link -- Still Life with Watermelon, Pears, Grapes - Lilly Martin Spencer , ca. 1860 -- link -- Untitled - Athos Bulcão , 1989 -- link -- Portrait of a Woman in Gray - Edgar Degas , ca. 1865 -- link -- The Triptych of St. Ildefonso - Peter Paul Rubens , 1630/1632 -- link -- Sarah Chew Elliott O'Donnell - Charles Willson Peale , 1791/1791 -- link -- Peace a

Top of the Day: Self-Portrait - Armand Guillaumin , 1890 - c.1895 Today's Artwork: Five Recruits: Ummee Chund, Indur, Goolzaree, Bukhtawur and Juhaz - Artist: Attributed to the family of Ghulam Ali Khan , ca. 1815-1816 -- link -- Self-Portrait with Dr. Arrieta - Francisco de Goya , 1820 -- link -- Kristina Type 3 - Jules Olitski , 1976/1976 -- link -- Self-Portrait - Armand Guillaumin , 1890 - c.1895 -- link -- Emigrants Crossing the Plains - Albert Bierstadt (1830 1902) , 1867 -- link -- The Evangelist Marco - Andrea Michieli detto Vicentino , 1542 - 1617 -- link -- Presumed Portrait of Madame Geoffrin - Marianne Loir , ca. 1750s - ca. 1760s -- link -- Charles Darwin at the Age of 40 - Adrian Ghenie , 2014 -- link -- Un carrefour à l'Hermitage - Camille Pissarro , 1876 -- link -- Bridge in the rain: after Hiroshige - Vincent van Gogh , October 1887 - November 1887 -- link -- ​

Top of the Day: Landscape of Daydream - Kim, Ik Mo , 2007 Today's Artwork: Drawing - Louis Apollinaire Sicard, French, 1807–1881, Lyon , late 19th century -- link -- 'Le Pont d'Argenteuil' - © RMN-Grand Palais (musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski and Claude Monet (1840-1926) , 1874 -- link -- Self-Portrait Somewhere on the Continent II - Edvard Munch , 1906 -- link -- Installation view: Event Horizon (2007), Antony Gormley, Hayward Gallery, 2007 - Antony Gormley , 2007 -- link -- Installation view: Event Horizon (2007), Antony Gormley, Hayward Gallery, 2007 - Antony Gormley , 2007 -- link -- 1814 - Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissionier , 1862 -- link -- Old Kossak's Church - Vlasov Volodymir , 1968 -- link -- The Painter's Holiday - Francis Danby, 1793–1861, Irish , ca. 1844 -- link -- Curve in well-lit room - Camilla Margaret Leiteritz , 1970 -- link -- Landscape of Daydream - Kim, Ik Mo , 2007 -- link -- ​

Top of the Day: Heat - Florine Stettheimer , 1919 Today's Artwork: Dance of the Haymakers (Music is Contagious) - William Sidney Mount , 1845 -- link -- Cismon - Đoko Mazalić , 1917 -- link -- The Piazza Farnese Decorated for a Celebration in Honor of the Marriage of the Dauphin - Giovanni Paolo Panini , 1745 -- link -- The Weeping Burgher (Andrieu d'Andres) - Auguste Rodin -- link -- Heat - Florine Stettheimer , 1919 -- link -- ​

 We had a request last week from several of our gang to look at art that explores U.F.O.s!  “Astronomy 2 Galaxies and Reverse,” a 1997 oil on canvas by Ionel Talpazan. Credit Ionel Talpazan Keith Hariing's UFO drawings -- link --  Spiritualist painter Paulina Peavy channels an interstellar being and portrays him in oil -- link --  Self-taught painter David Huggins believes he was abducted by aliens & fathered many hybrid babies with one of the beings (link contains some nudity in Huggins's paintings) -- link --  David Huggins is the subject of For Love & Saucers, a documentary. The interview is with David, he discusses his work and the film -- link --  Elaine found this wonderful self-taught artist, Ionel Tapazan -- link --  Romanian born Ionel Tapazan believed he encountered a U.F.O. as a child. He also distrusted galleries until later in his life so he sold most of his (sometimes immense) work on the streets of NY and elsewhere -- link --  This Wikipedia article