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Random Saturday

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Top of the Day: Crouching Woman with Green Headscarf - Egon Schiele, 1914 Today's Artwork: Le Jugement de Pâris - Paul Baudry, 1866/1874 -- link -- The Beast Acheron - Simon Marmion, 1475 -- link -- The Violinist - Candido Portinari, 1931 -- link -- Girl with a Baby Among Birch Trees - Paula Modersohn-Becker, 1905 -- link -- An August Morning - Francis Augustus Silva, 1876 -- link -- The Little Fourteen-year-old Dance - Edgar Degas, 1878 - 1881 -- link -- Gibbon reaching for reflection of the moon - Artist: Ohara Koson, Publisher: Matsuki Heikichi, ca. 1910-1930s -- link -- Crouching Woman with Green Headscarf - Egon Schiele, 1914 -- link -- Egon Schiele was an Austrian Expressionist painter who lived from 1890 to 1918². He was a protégé of Gustav Klimt and a major figurative painter of the early 20th century³. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and for the many self-portraits he produced, including nude self-portraits²³. Source: Conv...

Random Tuesday

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Top of the Day: Trees in France - Emily Carr (1871 - 1945), c. 1911 Today's Artwork: Night and day - Howard Hodgkin, (1997-1999) -- link -- Trees in France - Emily Carr (1871 - 1945), c. 1911 -- link -- Refugiados - Lasar Segall, 1922 -- link -- Composizione TA (Natura morta metafisica) - Carlo Carrà, 1916-1918 -- link -- Oval Stool with Incised Carving - Unknown, -1 -- link -- Mice - Artist: Ohara Koson, ca. 1900 -- link -- October Noon - George Inness, 1891 -- link -- The Seven Acts of Mercy - Michelangelo Merisi detto Caravaggio, 1607 -- link -- Chalice of Saint John the Evangelist [reverse] - Hans Memling, c. 1470/1475 -- link -- Happy Happy - Choi, Jeonghwa, 2010 -- link -- ​

Random Saturday

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Top of the Day: Peasants Dancing at an Inn - Steen, Jan, c. 1646 - 1648 Today's Artwork: Peasants Dancing at an Inn - Steen, Jan, c. 1646 - 1648 -- link -- PH-160 - Clyfford Still, 1957 -- link -- At the Moulin Rouge - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864-1901), 1892/95 -- link -- St. John the Baptist Preaching - Mattia Preti (Il Cavaliere Calabrese) -- link -- Bust of Stadholder William V (1748-1806) - Falconet, née Collot, Marie-Anne, 1782 -- link -- In the Outskirts of Toledo (The Old Men) - Diego Rivera, 1912 -- link -- ​Jan Steen (1626-1679) was a Dutch painter known for his lively and humorous scenes of daily life, often with a moralizing message. He was born in Leiden, Netherlands, and was the son of a brewer. Although he received a degree in theology, he decided to pursue art and became a student of the Dutch painter Nicolaes Knüpfer. Steen's paintings often depict chaotic and humorous scenes of everyday life, such as taverns, households, and feast...

Random Saturday

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Top of the Day: The Wire Drawing Mill - Albrecht Dürer, c. 1489/1494 - 1494 Today's Artwork: Landscape with an Aqueduct - Nicolas-Antoine Taunay, 1810 -- link -- The Toddy Tapper - Raja Ravi Varma -- link -- Jasmine - Dmitry Nalbandyan, 1985 - 1985 -- link -- Woman and Child with Serving Maid - Pieter de Hooch, 1663/1665 -- link -- The Christ child sitting on clouds - Julius Hübner, 1837 -- link -- The Wire Drawing Mill - Albrecht Dürer, c. 1489/1494 - 1494 -- link -- Democritus in Meditation - Salvator Rosa, 1662 -- link -- Fortune Favors the Brave - Juuri "Julie" Robertson, 2014-10-22 -- link -- ​And just to add text, here is what ChatGPT had to say about Albrecht Durer: Albrecht Dürer was a German Renaissance artist who lived from 1471 to 1528. He was born in Nuremberg, Germany, and was one of the most important artists of the Northern Renaissance. Dürer was a versatile artist who worked in a variety of media, including engraving, woodcuts, drawi...

Random with Beth

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Top of the Day: Soir Bleu - Edward Hopper, 1914 Today's Artwork: The Laughing Boy (Jopie van Slouten) - Robert Henri, 1910 -- link -- Soir Bleu - Edward Hopper, 1914 -- link -- Dress bodice - Unknown -- link -- Frozen North Pole No.28 - Wang Guang Yi, 1985 -- link -- The Blueprint Drawings - Keith Haring, 1990 -- link -- Peacocks - Gaston Lachaise, 1922 -- link -- Yogi Gopichandra - Ravi Varma Press Karla Lonavala and Raja Ravi Varma, Circa 1910 -- link -- Suzon - Auguste Rodin, circa 1872 -- link -- Fan - Unknown, 1775/1790 -- link -- NSF ADBC EPICC TCN - Mr. H. W. Turner -- link -- Bull-fighter's apprentices - Manuel González Serrano, 1948 -- link -- Malati Receives a Visitor, Folio from a Malati-Madhava series - Bhagvan Das, 1798 -- link -- The Client - Jean-Louis Forain, 1878 -- link -- Auf Weiss II (On White II) - Kandinsky, Vassily, 1923 -- link -- ​

Random Saturday

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Top of the Day: The flight of Madeline and Porphyro during the drunkenness attending the revelry (The Eve of St. Agnes) - William Holman Hunt, 1847/1857 Today's Artwork: ANG PIPIT - ANTHONY PALOMO, 2015 - 2015 -- link -- Panel from an Ivory Casket with the Story of Adam and Eve -- link -- Louis Guillaume - Paul Cézanne, c. 1882 -- link -- The flight of Madeline and Porphyro during the drunkenness attending the revelry (The Eve of St. Agnes) - William Holman Hunt, 1847/1857 -- link -- ​

Random with Beth

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Top of the Day: Champs-Elysees - Henri-Edmond Cross, 1898 Today's Artwork: The Miser - Raja Ravi Varma -- link -- Sunset 15 - Diego Rivera, 1956 -- link -- The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds - Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn), 1634 -- link -- Sem título - Polke, Sigmar, 1965 -- link -- Champs-Elysees - Henri-Edmond Cross, 1898 -- link -- Bild auf hellem Grund (Paiting with Clear Background) - Kandinsky, Vassily, 1916 -- link -- New Jersey Beach - William Trost Richards, 1901 -- link -- The Riding School - Franz Marc, 1913 -- link -- ​We went down several "rabbit holes" today and had a great time.

Random Saturday

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Top of the Day: Large Salon with Organ - Unknown, 1830 Today's Artwork: Large Salon with Organ - Unknown, 1830 -- link -- Caernarvon Castle - Joseph Farington, 1747–1821, British, ca. 1780 -- link -- Serbian costume back apron (suknja), 1930 -- link -- Gaivota e mar - Lasar Segall, c.1930 -- link -- Seated Couple - Unknown, ca. 100 BC-300 AD -- link -- Isabella Stewart Gardner - John Singer Sargent, 1888 -- link -- 9801 - Fayga Ostrower, 1998 -- link -- Drum Corps - Frederic Remington, 1889 -- link -- Virgin and Child in Glory with St. John the Baptist, Bartholomew, and St. Bishop (Augustine?) - Jacopo Negretti known as Palma il Giovane, 1620 - about 1623 -- link -- General Henry Knox - Charles Willson Peale, 1778 -- link -- ​

Random Saturday

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Top of the Day: Spectra Four Seasons - Douglas Coupland, 2010 Today's Artwork: Nude with Fan - George Wesley Bellows, 1920 -- link -- The Mango Trees, Martinique - Paul Gauguin, 1887 -- link -- Black Lines - Georgia O'Keeffe, 1916 -- link -- Sketch for Macchina tipografica - Giacomo Balla (18 July 1871 – 1 March 1958), 1914/1914 -- link -- ANGKINAN CLOTH - Unknown -- link -- Beethoven's Quartet - Emily Rund, Photographer and Mark di Suvero, Artist, 2018-10-26 -- link -- Spectra Four Seasons - Douglas Coupland, 2010 -- link -- ​Spent quite a bit of time at the  Tippet Rise Art Center .  There was a lot of videos on the page that people wanted to listen to.

Random Saturday

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Top of the Day: Flora Temple and Highland Maid - Nathaniel Currier, born Roxbury, MA 1813-died New York City 1888, 1810 Today's Artwork: Self-Portrait - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1876 -- link -- The Tame Magpie - Alessandro Magnasco, ca. 1707–8 -- link -- Roosters - Artist: Ohara Koson, 1900-1910 -- link -- Couple on the bow - Costus, 1988/1988 -- link -- Separation - Edvard Munch, 1896 -- link -- The Large Piece of Turf, 1503 - Albrecht Dürer, 1503 -- link -- The Birth of the Virgin Mary - Andrés López, ca. 1775 -- link -- Flora Temple and Highland Maid - Nathaniel Currier, born Roxbury, MA 1813-died New York City 1888, 1810 -- link -- untitled - Tinta Crua, 2013/2013 -- link -- Adam and Eve - Albrecht Dürer, 1504 -- link -- Futura - painting - Futura -- link -- 'Tulip' textile printing block - Morris & Co. and Barrett's of Bethnal Green Road, 1875 -- link -- Boy From Home - Palmer C. Hayden, 1948/1950 -- link -- ​

Chrysler Museum of Art

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Top of the Day: Music - Philip Evergood, 1933, revised 1959 Today's Artwork: Renaissance Space II - Howard Mehring, 1967 -- link -- Miss Montagu - Thomas Gainsborough, circa 1774 -- link -- Waiting for William - John George Brown, 1879/1879 -- link -- Plate (Four Enlaced Profiles) - Pablo Picasso, 1949/1949 -- link -- Throw Away - Robin Rhode, 2010/2010 -- link -- Crucifixion - Master of the Virgo inter Virgines, ca. 1480 -- link -- Harriet Sophia Jones - Erastus Salisbury Field, ca. 1833 -- link -- Slick - Barkley L. Hendricks, 1977/1977 -- link -- The Artists' Wives - James Jacques Joseph Tissot, 1885 -- link -- Music - Philip Evergood, 1933, revised 1959 -- link -- Alien Eye - Tony Oursler, 1996 -- link -- Untitled - Willie Cole, 1991 -- link -- ​The Chrysler Museum of Art has some great art!!!

Random Saturday

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Top of the Day: untitled - Inti, 2013 Today's Artwork: El sueño del caballero - Antonio de Pereda, 1650 -- link -- Distant View of Awajishima - FUJISHIMA Takeji, 1929 -- link -- Sampler - Unknown, 19th century -- link -- Portable island - Alberto Savinio (Andrea de Chirico), [1931] -- link -- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1895 -- link -- Two-handled vase - Sam Schellink, 1903 -- link -- The Great Oaks of Old Bas-Bréau - Théodore Rousseau, 1864 -- link -- Tree with Cut Limb - Georgia O'Keeffe, 1920 -- link -- untitled - Inti, 2013 -- link -- ​

Is is Pollock or Bird Doodie?

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We started out the meeting with a quiz:  https://reverent.org/quizomatic/answers.php?test=pollock_or_birds .  We got 100% right!!!   Here are the pictures that we saw today:  

Random Saturday

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Top of the Day: Epochal Remains - Somphong Adulyasarapan, 1994 Today's Artwork: Threads of Knowing: Hunting and Gathering - Tamar Mason, 2006 -- link -- Fiona Hall, Wrong Way Time (detail) - Fiona Hall: Wrong Way Time and Australian Pavilion, Giardini, Venezia, 2012/2015 -- link -- Élévation du château côté cour - Élévation du château côté cour - Aquarelle de Cyril Bordier -- link -- Epochal Remains - Somphong Adulyasarapan, 1994 -- link -- Rue Transnonain, on April 15, 1834 - Honoré Victorin Daumier (French, 1808-1879), October 2, 1834 -- link -- "Solo Show of Fang Lijun" :2000.6.30 - Fang Lijun, 2006.10.07-2006.10.31 -- link -- Three Lithographs - Keith Haring, 1985 -- link -- Portrait of Mrs. H. (Howell) - William Merritt Chase, c. 1886 -- link -- Study of My Mother - George Bellows, 1921 -- link -- A Lady Writing - Johannes Vermeer, c. 1665 -- link -- Madonna of the Rosary - Michelangelo Merisi, called Caravaggio, 1605/1607 -- link -- Linco...