3/25/2020 See art, live longer?There's been a few articles I've read during the last few years about researchers connecting a longer, healthier life to seeing, experiencing, and enjoying art. I can attest to it! I LOVE seeing art by other people. I try to do this often, whether online or in person. I also have noticed a direct connection between my happiness and my making paintings and studio messes. Andy, my husband, has noticed the same. He pushes me into my sketchbooks and studio almost as soon as he notices I'm super sad, frustrated, or just overall down. One article can be found here: https://www.cnn.com/style/article/art-longevity-wellness/index.html Sprinkle Only Joy Siennas and Yellows Girl Against Muted Blue Flowers, 13 by 11 inches, collage, acrylics, vintage paper, ©2019. This one is part of a private collection.
3/11/2020 Figure painting thru the millennia!"Figure painting" is another way of saying "paintings or drawings of humans."
This find is really important, because most cave paintings show animals or hand prints, but not actual fully drawn humans or as more formally called, "figures." Even if you consider that you can barely draw a stick figure, it's so cool that someone 44,000 years ago drew stick figures. You can see some photos here: http://hilltopmonitor.com/2019/12/oldest-cave-painting-in-world-suggests-religion-began-in/ Below is a page from one of my sketchbooks. I take paper and pen with me to every Marlins game that Andy and I attend. I make sure to get the Marlins Park date stamp, as you can tell. These are stick figures that help me get the gesture of each player. I love trying to get the movements of starting pitchers and batters, but I stick to just Marlins. Late in the 2019 season, I decided to add gestures of the in and out fielders once I'm "done" with the Marlins starting pitcher. 12/4/2019 Art basel Miami Beach is for tourism,Every year, during the first week of December, it's Art Basel Miami Beach.
For 2019, it's Sunday, December 1st through Sunday, December 8th. Every year, I try to attend either Art Miami or Art Basel. These are two different art exhibitions, but both are the largest during this time. I try to attend these shows in order to learn what other artists are doing. I love to see what the international galleries are displaying for their collectors. It's an eye-opening, exciting opportunity to see a few hundred world wide galleries and perhaps thousands of different world wide artists. I take notes and sketches, keeping my eyes open for ideas and techniques to use in my paintings. Last year, my husband and I did a Friends and Fire evening when the conversation turned to Art Basel. Everyone in the South Florida area that know little about art believe that Art Basel Time is for local artists and galleries. Art Basel Miami Time is for International Tourism. Art Basel Miami Time averages 80,000ish visitors from all over the world. The two main art shows are Art Basel and Art Miami. Art Basel Miami Beach averages 270ish leading galleries from 35ish countries. Art Miami is averages 250 international galleries. INTERNATIONAL. This means that NO or FEW South Florida artists and/or galleries are exhibited or shared during this time. The satellite shows are lost in the "noise" of both of these large fairs...and there are 100s of satellite shows that piggy back on these two main fairs. It's difficult to get attention to these smaller shows because of the marketing power of the two main fairs. I do encourage you to go see art during Art Basel Time...but remember that to see the actual South Florida artists, you can see them all year around. I attend to see International artworks that I would never get to enjoy otherwise. If you like podcasts, a great episode about why artists should see major exhibits like Art Basel and how to visit Art Basel on a budget, click over to it on this paragraph and listen to The Artist Next Level Podcast with Sergio Gomez: My visit to Art Basel Miami Beach 2018, December 13, 2018. If you decide to attend either show, let me know! Maybe we can meet there for a little while! Angeline About this artwork: Other Side of Fence Palm Tree Abstract, 24 by 24 inches, mixed media on canvas, 2017, by me, Angeline Marie Martinez 10/2/2019 fossils and bones from the birdsHalloween Still Life with Bird Skeleton, 23 by 30 inches, acrylics on paper, available Have kept your wonder for fossils? For dinosaurs and other extinct creatures? Mi Papa and I raised a baby bird for a few weeks when I was about 9 years old. We played catch with Tweety to teach him how to fly. I have a few photos of us, thanks to mi Mama. The design of this fossil is soooo cool. It's as if an etching (type of print), but then adding mixed media materials (the flattened bones, the textures).
What colors would you make the feathers? I love, love, love this fossil! Do you keep wonder about fossils? Which are your favorite fossils? Original location of this photo and for complete article, click here: http://artdaily.com/news/111214/Fossils-reveal-ancient-history-of-perching-birds#.XGFpulVKhaQ Smiles, with paint on my hands, Angeline 4/24/2019 for all the vermeers in the worldI've read Girl with the Pearl Earring. I'd love to travel the world just to see all of Vermeer's paintings in person. Like you, I can only dream, but wait! NOW, THERE'S AN APP for that! I'll be seeing all the Vermeers in the world through that app! I've downloaded it, and when I get the most anxious, I start scrolling thru the paintings. The app has an ad at the bottom of it - with some moving type - but what do you expect for a FREE app!? Occasionally, a full screen pop ad that you have close at the "X" will annoy, too. It lets you crop sections, see details larger, and has the paintings by years. It's really wonderful to zoom in and see the marble floors Vermeer painted in his painting. One painting has a painting in it, lol! Will you go check it out and let me know what you think? The app is named "Vermeer" and has a close up of the girl with a pearl earring as its screen icon. To read more about the app and how it was developed, please continue below by signature: In the meantime, smiles with paint on my hands, Angeline Want to See All the Vermeers in the World? Now’s Your Chance
Meet Vermeer, a new augmented-reality app from the Mauritshuis museum and Google, is a virtual museum containing images of all authenticated Vermeer paintings. From left, an overhead view of the galleries in miniature; a look inside the space; and “Girl With a Pearl Earring” on the wall. Credit via Mauritshuis/Google Arts & Cultur Meet Vermeer, a new augmented-reality app from the Mauritshuis museum and Google, is a virtual museum containing images of all authenticated Vermeer paintings. From left, an overhead view of the galleries in miniature; a look inside the space; and “Girl With a Pearl Earring” on the wall. CreditCreditvia Mauritshuis/Google Arts & Culture By Nina Siegal Dec. 3, 2018 AMSTERDAM — Johannes Vermeer, whose acute eye captured the quiet beauty of Dutch domestic life, was not a prolific artist: Just 36 paintings are widely acknowledged as his work. Still, anyone who wanted to see them all had to travel far and wide — to New York, London, Paris and beyond. Until now. The Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, which owns what is perhaps Vermeer’s best-known masterpiece, “Girl With a Pearl Earring,” has teamed up with Google Arts & Culture in Paris to build an augmented-reality app that creates a virtual museum featuring all of the artist’s works. For the app, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has contributed images of all five of its Vermeer masterpieces, while the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, each with four, have also given photographs of theirs. Two more have come from the Louvre, and three from the Frick Collection. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston has shared an image of “The Concert,” the Vermeer that disappeared after being stolen from the museum’s collection in 1990. That painting will be on view once again in Meet Vermeer, the digital museum. Starting Monday, the free app will be accessible to anyone with a camera-equipped smartphone. A detail of “Girl With a Pearl Earring,” perhaps Vermeer’s best-known work. Users of the app can zoom in on all the paintings. Credit via Mauritshuis/Google Arts & Culture A detail of “Girl With a Pearl Earring,” perhaps Vermeer’s best-known work. Users of the app can zoom in on all the paintings.Creditvia Mauritshuis/Google Arts & Culture “This is one of these moments when technology does something that you can never do in real life, and that’s because these paintings could never be brought together in real life,” said Emilie Gordenker, director of the Mauritshuis. She explained that some of the 17th-century paintings were too fragile to travel, while some were in private collections, and the Gardner’s was lost. But even under different circumstances, it would be unlikely that all the owners would be willing to part with all of their prized Vermeers at the same time. The 18 museums and private collections that own Vermeer paintings, however, were willing to provide high-resolution digital image files of their Vermeers to the project. Vermeer, a somewhat mysterious figure who lived and worked in Delft, the Netherlands, is thought to have created about 45 paintings during a career spanning nearly two decades. Some are believed to have gone missing. Besides the 36 works that a majority of Vermeer scholars accept as authentic, other paintings have been attributed to him. Because the art world continues to debate their authorship, Ms. Gordenker said this virtual museum would not include them. Although many of these images are already on the museums’ websites, Ms. Gordenker said she wanted to give the public a sense of the paintings’ size in relation to one another — something that is hard to convey in a flat picture on a screen. All the institutions contributing to the app sent high-resolution digital images of their Vermeers. Here, “The Procuress” being photographed for the project at the Old Masters Picture Gallery, Dresden State Art Museums. Credit Dresden State Art Museums, via Mauritshuis/Google Arts & Culture All the institutions contributing to the app sent high-resolution digital images of their Vermeers. Here, “The Procuress” being photographed for the project at the Old Masters Picture Gallery, Dresden State Art Museums.CreditDresden State Art Museums, via Mauritshuis/Google Arts & Culture Opening the app, visitors gaze down at a museum with no ceiling. To enter one of the rooms displayed, they touch the phone’s surface, pinching their fingers together and then opening them. As they land in a gallery, the perspective shifts so that they face the walls, where the framed paintings hang. Zooming in, they can approach each work and examine it closely. The first room is devoted to Vermeer’s earliest works. The rest of the museum is organized thematically, exploring subjects such as “contemplation” and the studies of faces known as “tronies.” Laurent Gaveau, director of Google’s Arts and Culture Lab, a nonprofit developed to experiment with new ways to make art and culture accessible to the public, said this was the first virtual museum that Google had created, but that he could certainly imagine making more. “We could think about all kinds of museums that never existed,” he said in a telephone interview, although he added that no other such projects were yet in the works. “We want to first see how people will react to this, and we want to see, from a technological standpoint and a user standpoint, if it’s right and how it can be improved.” Paintings by Vermeer have long been reproduced in all types of formats, from posters to patterns on handbags and umbrellas. But as the technology improves and visitors have the artificial but intimate experience of seeing high-quality reproductions in a museum setting, does Ms. Gordenker worry that they will be less motivated to travel for the real thing? No, she said. “The more information we share, including images, the more I think that people want to have the authentic experience of seeing the work in its home,” she said, “and seeing it as an actual physical presence. One of the reasons that museums have becoming increasingly relevant, and why attendance is going up, is that we’ve been able to harness these digital technologies. It breaks down barriers, and makes what we have much more accessible.” A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 4, 2018, on Page C5 of the New York edition with the headline: All the World’s Vermeers, Under One Virtual Roof. |
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