"Mabel's place beats anything you can imagine about it — it is simply astonishing," O'Keeffe writes. "... The drive up here — seventy-five miles — was wonderful — It is bedtime and I am not a bit sleepy — not even tired — I lay in the sun a long time this afternoon — the air is cold and the wind — but the sun is hot — "
Alfred Stieglitz attached this photograph to a letter for Georgia O'Keeffe, dated July 10, 1929. Below the photograph he wrote, "I have destroyed 300 prints to-day. And much more literature. I haven't the heart to destroy this..."
What was the relationship like between Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz? A new book published by Yale University Press gives you a glimpse. It is entitled My Faraway One: selected letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, and it is available at the public library [Library catalog].
Georgia O’Keeffe was born on this day in 1887, in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. You can view hundreds of stunning images from the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum over at ArtStor: http://library.artstor.org/library/collection/okeeffe
Did you know Andy Warhol worked in the late 1950s as a freelance artist for the Doubleday publishing house? Here is a link to the images from a 1958 edition of The Little Red Hen: The Atlantic, October 19, 2011.
One of my favorite sources for painting and drawing images has long been the WebMuseum. It is particularly strong on European art of the 20th-Century, but also goes back as early as the 1200s, and contains an extensive area of Japanese art.
The images are often of very high quality, suitable for presentations or use as screen savers. I used the image on the left, Albrecht Dürer's "The Large Turf," for my screen saver for years.
The WebMuseum is one of the oldest websites still around! It was first created in 1994, a mere 3 years after the World Wide Web was developed. Its creator Nicholas Pioch believes firmly that art belongs to everyone and created the site so that people all over the world could have access to part of our cultural history.
"Mona Lisa Descending the Staircase" won an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 1992, and is now viewable on YouTube. One painting morphs into another, and the morphs are so well chosen the meaning of the paintings -- and connections between artists -- are illuminated. Please watch! It is only 7 minutes long.
Are you ready to expand your mind and ideas of what art can be on the internet?
The Webby Awards have been announced, and here are some of the nominees and winners in the art categories for best website:
Winner: Adobe Digital Museum: What Adobe has done is hire a famous architecture firm to design a museum, and instead of building it in New York they built it on the internet, and are holding virtual exibitis and events online. Link: adobemuseum.com.
YouTube Play: A Guggenheim-curated exhibit of 25 art videos. Link: www.youtube.com/play.
Mural Explorer: An interactive introduction to neighborhood murals created by the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. Link: explorer.muralarts.org
Bauhaus: Workshops for Humanity: The online component of MoMA's recent exhibit on the Bauhaus. Link: www.moma.org/bauhaus
Enjoy! I will post more coolness from some of the other arts categories soon.
What an amazing resource! Art Babble is a searchable collection of art and art history videos created by over 30 art museums and other insititutions like PBS's Art|21 series. It is especially strong on contemporary American art, but the videos are also on photography, Chinese art, and much more.
If you find some gems, Please post about them in the comments!
Anyone who has tried to use online translation tools knows that sometimes they produce acceptable results, and sometimes gibberish.
Lexicool is a directory of 7500 dictionaries and glossaries that lets you find specialist dictionaries and glossaries that should have a better chance of translating art historical texts correctly. Their "Arts/Music/Crafts," "Photography/Printing/Publishing" and "Education/Culture/History/Geography" categories would be the most helpful for the research we do.
Wouldn't it be great to snap a photo of a piece of art with your phone and see similar images? Recently Google launched a smartphone app that does just that, named "Google Goggles."
Unlike other services it offers, Goggles is not something that you can use with a PC or Mac; it only works on camera-enabled Android, Blackberry, and Apple mobile devices (iPhones, iPad2s, or iPods). Here's a video of how it works:
Did your ears perk up when they talked about art? Mine sure did. Unfortunately for us, it has some limitations. Here's what it will and won't do:
The image can only come from your phone's camera, not its photo "library" or folders.
For now it works best for objects that don't change shape, like text, logos, artwork, or facial features.
If you don't have the right kind of phone, there are some services that can do the same thing from a PC.
Gazopa, which will let you upload or draw images for searching.
