A fictional memoir of the legendary American-born beauty Virginie Gautreau, the subject of John Singer Sargent's famous 1884 painting, Portrait of Madame X, Gioia Diliberto's I Am Madame X risks dashing cold water on one of the loveliest and most persistent mysteries in Western art history:...
In Paris she met and married Pierre Curie, a young famous scientist. Together they made their experiments in an old house. The Curies were awarded the Nobel Prize for their great contribution to science. In 1911 Madame Curie received another Nobel Prize. It is the only time in history that ...
sitter to the airy realm of the deities of ancient mythology was widely celebrated. As his eldest daughter would write: 'He utilized these two great genres so well in his work that the enlightened public often did not know what to admire most in him: the history painter or the portraitist...
I’m told this is supposed to represent the traditional image of Chinese painting throughout the ages. As the film unfolds, much of this circular ratio we see in the rural scenes. The use of lush colors to create such a tactile, verdant environment works very well. The other thirty per ...
Signing off to do Yoga – eat Breakfast – record names – and start painting… The Soup Lady Share this: Email Facebook X You sill haven’t learned to act your age – and hope you never will! Hear-Hear! I never ever ever wanted to act my age. I never acted my age all my life...
Until the age of Liu-Sung (劉宋), hills and waters themselves had not become the subjects of pictures in the long course of the history of Chinese painting... T Hatano - 《Studies of Chinese Literature of the Middle Ages》 被引量: 0发表: 1968年 Coloration of Han-bok on Modern Korean...
She worked hard every night scrubing and cleaning, and supervised two ‘workers’ – who were being paid to do the painting and repair work. She was always up before we were – and went to bed much later. The physical space definitely had it’s issues. The hostel is on 2 floors – ...
The 1932 painting, ”Espectro del Sex Appeal” is also an impactful representation of Dali’s fear of sex. However, the sexual issue for Dali was perhaps the manifestation of an even larger dilemma ; alienation and loneliness. Art that underlined the inability of men and women to communicate...
were charmed by Seurat’s inimitable dots and introduced them into their freer painting as a motif, usually among opposed elements of structure and surface. In doing so, they transformed Seurat’s dots – one can’t mistake theirs for his – but they also paid homage to Seurat.”( Schapiro...