Art Detectives

  Top of the Day is Georgia O'Keeffe's Pink Moon over Water from 1924. We're used to seeing her bold flowers & Southwestern settings; this is a Maine landscape from when she lived on the East Coast. A rich, beautiful vision, we got lost in her magical imagery. We loved the lively designs of fabric & fine artist Lois Mailou Jones whose seven decade career influences fashion design to this day with her vibrant prints.  We immersed ourselves in the giant kinetic (not Kinnecticut, as I kept spoonerizing!) light & fabric sculpture of Janet Echelman. The Moon Flask Decorated with Insects Among Plants on a Chinese Meander Background from the latter 18th century made some of our gang bring their own straw! And finally, we looked at Brazilian artist Tarsila do Amaral's colorful Setting Sun. She's someone whose color & bold forms fit with today's bright offerings!  Here are links to all of todays art Lois Mailou Jones, Textile Design for Cretonne, 192...

 Top of the Day is the vibrant explosion of color, a very large mural entitled The Sun by Edvard Munch! Munch is famous for his macabre interpretations of life, The Scream, for instance -- this mural he created is night & day (is this a pun?) from his usual work. Our Grand Gang saw hints of Klimt & they were contemporaries though it's unclear how well they knew each other. But they certainly inspired each other's work.  Our first visual was the Water and Moon Kuan-yin Bodhisattva by an unknown artist around 1227 in a cave grotto! It's part of a series we hope to explore at a later day. We also viewed a 1635 engraving of The Moon in its Final Quarter by Claude Mellan, created only a couple of decades after the (official) invention of the telescope. Such detail for the early 1600s! Finally an eerie (and huge!) painting of The Phantom Canoe: A Legend of Lake Tarawera from 1888 by Kennett Watkins. The legend says a canoe of Maori Spirits appeared ten days before the eru...

  Top of the Day is this sumptuous The Moon on the Musahi Plain from the series One Hundred Aspect of the Moon, by innovative block printer & painter, Yoshitoshi, 1892 We viewed the poster art of Antonio Fernández Reboiro, the mesmerizing quilt painting of Maud Schmid (which Greg thought was an actual quilt! Ha!), Tom Pye's set design for the opera Akhnaten, an Ancestral Pueblo Tonto style olla (wide mouthed jar.) We saw a Lee Krasner painting which some people loved but with which others didn't quite connect. Fascinating time as we discover & explore new works with this auspicious group! Here is the list from Today.  Click on the links to see these great works of art again. Announcement Poster for Edipo Rey -- link -- Akhnaten Set by Tom Pye -- link -- Rising Sun Quilt -- link Sun pottery -- link Lee Krasner -- link Japanese Moon -- link

  Top of the show today was Circular forms. Sun and Moon by Robert Delauney If you want to take a closer look at any of today's art, click on the links below Introduction Slide 1 -- link -- Picasso Sun -- link Robert Delauney -- link Marc Chagall -- link John Coburn Sydney Opera -- link Barantino July -- link

Welcome to the Art Detectives (official name still pending).  This was our first show.  The theme for today was the sun.  All of our images were related to the sun. Our Top of the Day pick today was Sun and Life by Frida Kahlo. If you want to take a better look at any of today's art, click on the links below. Introduction Slide 1 -- link -- Snoopy Sees Earth Wrapped in Sunset, Alma Thomas -- link Altar Vessel Sun Solstice unknown -- link Sun & Life, Frida Kahlo -- link Sun, Dale Chihuly, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts -- link --