"Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it."
- CONFUCIOUS
Sunday, 31 January 2010
Saturday, 30 January 2010
Baroque Art (c.1600-1700)
Posted on 09:00 by john mical
Baroque art, with its heavy senseof theatrics was a powerful weapon of the Roman Catholic Church in its Counter Reformation war. Carvaggio, Rembrant, Peter Paul Rueben and Diego Valazquez were some of giants used in this war of rich, stage-like aesthetics. It was a time of great wealth in the western work, for the church and for individuals.
Friday, 29 January 2010
What is the Renaissance?
Posted on 09:00 by john mical
Like the subtitle of this blog, "Renaissance" means "re-birth" and the Italian Renaissance (1400-1600) marked a renewed interest in the classical values of ancient Rome and Greece. It marked a return from flat stylized works of the Middle Ages (and still maintained by the Orthodox) to a naturalism. Important artists of this period included Botticelli, da Vinci. Michelangelo and Raphael.
Thursday, 28 January 2010
Quoting Thoreau
Posted on 09:00 by john mical
"The world is but a canvas to the imagination"
- HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Sistine Chapel Ceiling | Italy
Posted on 09:00 by john mical
Widely considered to be one of the artistic wonders of the world, Michelangelo's "The Creation of Adam" (1512) was not a labor of love. Painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, it took his 4-years laying on his back on top a scaffold to complete, all at almost 70-feet in the air but it wasn't the physical strain that pained Michelangelo. It was that this was a forced commission by Pope Julius ll (the pope who established the vatican museums).
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Quoting Michelangelo
Posted on 09:00 by john mical
"Every beauty which is seen here by
persons of perception resembles more than anything else
that celestial source from which we all come."
persons of perception resembles more than anything else
that celestial source from which we all come."
- MICHELANGELO (Re: Creation of Adam)
Monday, 25 January 2010
Art Institute of Chicago
Posted on 09:00 by john mical
With a collection larger than NYC's Museum of Modern Art, but smaller than NYC's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago's 300,000 piece collection is best known for its impressionist and post-impressionist paintings.
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