Art Works from the Louvre in High Resolution

The Virgin and Child with St. Anne
Leonardo DaVinci

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Google Art Project

James McNeil Whistler: Princess from the Land of Porcelain

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Words Become Air: An Art Exhibtion

Ayakoh Furukawa
Dead People in Bloomingdale's
18"x24" graphite and red ink on paper, 2010, $4900

Words Become Air: An Art Exhibition
Curated by Karen Fitzgerald
Holiday Inn Manhattan View, 39-05 29th Street and
Space Realty Group Gallery 29-09 39th Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11106

Public Reception: Thursday, January 26, 2012, 6-8pm., both venues
Dates: December 28, 2012 – April 17, 2012
Viewing hours: 24/7 at Holiday Inn, M-F 10-6pm at Space Realty Group

Language has often been included in visual art. Artists use titles as a way to suggest what they are thinking about. Some artists have also built powerful visual vocabularies using language as a basic visual component within the work. Yet the visual and verbal languages are profoundly different from each other. How do they affect each other? The work gathered together for this exhibition explores how two distinct languages intersect in the visual arena. Words bend color and form yet space within these 2-dimensional works also bends our wordy language. The results are as light as air, and as heavy as air most certainly is.

Ayakoh Furukawa writes:
Words are done only by text. You see dots but actually they are letters.These works are done by repetition of the quotations by Andy Warhol. Warhol has been a mystery to an artist like me. To know his mental side, I focused on his attitude on religion. Some people say he was sincerely religious person yet the words he left illustrate how he tried to be celebrity artist. Or he was just tired of being too serious and chose to party. As I repeat his quotation thousand times I had so many mental conversation with Andy and the conversation turn out featuring voluptuous girls. Warhol's idea of life/death lives in our glamor-seeking society. Or he predicted our current life.

NY Artist Fran Beallor: Annual Open Studio

Free For All 18" x 24" oil on canvas

Fran Beallor is pleased to open her Manhattan studio to visitors. In addition to her oils and prints, she will be featuring works on paper from her flat files - drawings, watercolors and new works from the past year.

The studio is at 839 West End Avenue #6F NY, NY 10025, a few blocks from the IRT subway 1, 2 or 3 to 96th St.

Come see some art, have a snack, enjoy a little pre-holiday cheer:
Saturday December 3rd, 12:00 noon - 6:00 pm
Sunday December 4th, 12:00 noon - 5:00 pm

Come by or make an appointment for a private showing at another time. The artist enjoys receiving visitors!

Check out Fran's work at website www.franbeallor.com

"Accidental Encounters is a series of paintings that emerged from my desire to push the limits of my earlier, more traditional still life work. I became fascinated by the idea of creating still lifes that were not so still. Inspired by interests as diverse as chaos theory, poetics, gravity and romance, I began to paint objects falling through space. I reinvented my concept of an orderly painting, along with my ideal of an orderly world."

THE FOUR ESSENTIALS by Orlanda Brugnola

This is great to ponder on:

THE FOUR ESSENTIALS © Orlanda Brugnola

Before you plan on something
decide on your INTENTION
think of at least 5 possible ACTIONS
think of at least 5 possible +/- IMPACTS for each
then 5 +/- CONSEQUENCES for each impact
then figure out what is really the best action

Orlanda Brugnola -- Depth, Breadth, Creativity and Perseverance
http://www.orlandabrugnola.com/

Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe

Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
October 13, 2011–January 2, 2012

This exhibition is the first large-scale presentation of paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints from Alfred Stieglitz's collection, acquired by the Metropolitan in 1949. In addition to being a master photographer, Stieglitz (1864–1946) was a visionary promoter of modern American and European art, and he assembled a vast art collection of exceptional breadth and depth. Through a succession of influential galleries that he ran in New York City between 1905 and 1946, Stieglitz exhibited many of the most important artists of the era, and he collected works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Constantin Brancusi, Gino Severini, Vasily Kandinsky, Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Charles Demuth, and Arthur Dove. For more than sixty years, the Alfred Stieglitz Collection has been the cornerstone of the Museum's holdings of modern American art.

For more information visit: http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2011/stieglitz-and-his-artists-matisse-to-okeeffe

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