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| Allpaintings Art Portal http://www.allpaintings.org Art portal with information of the greatest painters, with thousands of images. Buy handmade reproductions and prints. Free gallery where artist can expose his paintings. Galleries, painters, or companies can rent an exclusive gallery to promote their art works and business. Also, Allpaintings offer multimedia content for the art promotion and the services of an Art Directory |
| Tate Britain http://www.tate.org.uk/britain Tate Britain is the national gallery of British art. Located in London, it is one of the family of four Tate galleries which display selections from the Tate Collection. The other three galleries are Tate Modern, also in London, Tate Liverpool, in the north-west, and Tate St Ives, in Cornwall, in the south-west. The entire Tate Collection is available online. Tate Britain is the world centre for the understanding and enjoyment of British art and... |
| MoMA The Museum of Modern Art http://www.moma.org/ Throughout its history, The Museum of Modern Art has used architecture as a vehicle for self-renewal and regeneration. The recently completed building project represents MoMA's most extensive redefinition since its founding seventy-five years ago. The Museum combines new spaces with MoMA's original architecture to dramatically enhance its dynamic collection of modern and contemporary art. MoMA conducted an extensive worldwide search for an architect who... |
| Museo Nacional del Prado http://www.museodelprado.es The building that is now the home of the Museo Nacional del Prado was designed on the orders of Charles III in 1785 by the architect Juan de Villanueva in order to house the Natural History Cabinet. Nonetheless, the building’s final function was not decided until the monarch’s grandson, Ferdinand VII, encouraged by his wife, Queen María Isabel de Braganza, decided to use it as a new Royal Museum of Paintings and Sculptures. The Royal... |
| Tate Modern http://www.tate.org.uk/modern Tate Modern is the national gallery of international modern art. Located in London, it is one of the family of four Tate galleries which display selections from the Tate Collection. The Collection comprises the national collection of British art from the year 1500 to the present day, and of international modern art. The other three galleries are Tate Britain, also in London, Tate Liverpool, in the north-west, and Tate St Ives, in Cornwall, in the south-west. The entire Tate... |
| THE NAKED IN THE ART http://desnudoart.blogspot.com/ Representation of Naked in art throughout history and its painters |
| Dalí Theatre-Museum http://www.salvador-dali.org/museus/figueres/en_in The Dalí Theatre-Museum of Figueres offers a unique experience of being able to observe, live and enjoy the work and thought of a genius. The different collections managed by the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation include all kinds of works of art: painting, drawing, sculpture, engraving, installation, hologram, stereoscopy, photography, etc., up to a quantity of some 4,000 pieces. Of these, some 1,500 are on show. Inaugurated in 1974, the... |
| Museo de Arte Contemporáneo http://www.munimadrid.es/museoartecontemporaneo El Museo de Arte Contemporáneo se ubica en el histórico Cuartel del Conde Duque, obra de principios del siglo XVIII del arquitecto Pedro de Ribera. Al igual que otros museos de arte contemporáneo, nacionales o extranjeros, se ha utilizado un edificio histórico para albergar las colecciones de arte contemporáneo del Ayuntamiento de Madrid con arreglo a un programa de rehabilitación integral del edificio para usos y servicios... |
| Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya http://www.mnac.cat The MNAC embraces all the arts (sculpture, painting, objets d'art, drawing, engraving, posters, photography and coinage) and has the task of explaining the general history of Catalan art from the Romanesque period to the mid-twentieth century. In the case of the Romanesque and Gothic collections, this discourse is characterized by the Catalan provenance of most of the pieces, although, particularly in the Gothic, comparisons are made with art from other provenances. With... |
| The National Gallery http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk The National Gallery in London is home to one of the greatest collections of western European painting in the world. More than 2300 paintings embrace the years between 1250 and 1900. The entire collection is on display in four wings on the main floor where they are arranged by period: 1250-1500, 1500-1600, 1600-1700, and 1700-1900. In addition paintings are displayed on a lower floor. To help the visitor manage the large number of paintings and galleries, various trails and... |
| National Gallery of Art http://www.nga.gov The National Gallery of Art was created in 1937 for the people of the United States of America by a joint resolution of Congress, accepting the gift of financier and art collector Andrew W. Mellon. During the 1920s, Mr. Mellon began collecting with the intention of forming a gallery of art for the nation in Washington. In 1937, the year of his death, he promised his collection to the United States. Funds for the construction of the West Building were provided by The A. W.... |
| Sorolla Museum http://museosorolla.mcu.es A hidden gem, Sorolla Museum was the home of renowned Spanish Impressionist painter Joaquín Sorolla (1863-1923) and his family. Donated to the government in 1929 by Sorolla's widow, the house now operates as a memorial and museum, displaying a large collection of Sorolla's glowing works and other contemporary collections including sculpture, ceramics, furniture and jewellery. A fine example of a bourgeois Madrid home from the early 20th century, the attractive... |
| The British Museum http://www.britishmuseum.org The origins of the British Museum lie in the will of the physician, naturalist and collector, Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753). Sloane wanted his collection of more than 71,000 objects, library and herbarium to be preserved intact after his death. He bequeathed it to King George II for the nation in return for payment of £20,000 to his heirs. If refused, the collection was to be offered to centres of learning abroad. A large and influential group of Trustees was charged... |
| Guggenheim Museum http://www.guggenheim.org/new_york_index.shtml The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, founded in 1937, is a modern art museum located on the Upper East Side in New York City. It is the best-known of several museums owned and/or operated by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and is often called simply The Guggenheim. It is one of the best-known museums in New York City. The main part of the building is a very unusual shape, and was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Originally called "The Museum of... |
| The Russian Museum (The Mikhailovsky Castle) http://www.rusmuseum.ru/eng/museum/complex/mih_cas The Mikhailovsky Castle - now a branch of the Russian Museum - is one of the most mysterious buildings in St. Petersburg. The history of the castle, built between 1797 and1800 for Russia's most enigmatic monarch, Emperor Paul I, is full of unusual and dramatic events. In the early 1990s the castle became a branch of the Russian Museum and now houses its Portrait Gallery, featuring official portraits of the Russian Emperors and Empresses and various dignitaries and... |
| Paris Art Center celebrates 54th year
- The Bicentennial Art Center is celebrating its 54th year showcasing the Annual Fall Show.
The Art Center, located at 132 S. Central Ave., Paris, is hosting the show in its main floor galleries now through Nov. 14. The long tradition of the Annual Fall Show brings forth the works of artists residing within a 100-mile radius of Paris. Because the show is open to all art media, except photography, the exhibit is diverse in content, and this year 120 works were submitted by 46 artists. Joan Stolz, associate professor of art and design at Parkland College, was the juror for this show and selected 63 works of art for inclusion in the exhibit. The judge awarded the following awards: Judge's Choice Award: J. Anna Roberts, Brownsburg, Ind., for her watercolor painting, "Got Milk?". The five merit awards were given to John Gabb, Effingham, for his oil painting "The Faces of Aids: Alone"; Mary Ann Lipousky-Butikas, Westville, for her pencil drawing, "Boattail Speedster"; Betty Lusk Hughes, Champaign, for her oil painting, "Antique Plate with Pomegranates"; Deborah Anderson, Carbon, Ind., for her wood piece "Fall Colors"; and Tom David, Mattoon, for his acrylic and oil painting "Cathy." Honorable mention awards were given to Tom Swopes, Dennison; Kari Rajkumar, Paris; Louis Ballard, Seymour; Martha Seif, Urbana; and Louise Hansen, Terre Haute. Local businesses and individuals sponsored the awards for the Annual Fall Show. The art center is handicapped accessible. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, or by appointment. For more information contact the art center at 466-8130. 1 Vote(s) Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:45:28 CET |
| Art gallery effigy up in flames
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An effigy of an art gallery has been burnt in Hastings in protest against plans for the multi-million pound Jerwood project in the town.
Under the plans, the Jerwood Foundation would build a gallery on the East Sussex seafront and invest up to £4m. But in a protest over local democracy, Hastings Bonfire Society said people would not be driven into accepting it. Hastings Borough Council has approved the plans. The Jerwood Foundation said it had "consulted widely". Bonfire societies across Sussex stage processions and fireworks in the autumn and traditionally burn effigies. Keith Leech, from Hastings Bonfire Society, said members were "not against this particular project as such". He said: "This is just another one in a long string of things that people are trying to foist upon us." But Hastings Borough Council spokesman Kevin Boorman said: "Hastings Old Town is unique in lots and lots of ways and I think it's good that people have strong local opinions. "I absolutely believe that this is right for Hastings Old Town. "Clearly, not everyone agrees with me, but let's have a proper debate." Alan Grieve, chairman of the Jerwood Foundation, said the plans had been "welcomed and supported" by the majority of Hastings residents and the council. He said the project would "make a major and unique contribution to regenerating an historic and important site close to the Old Town and the Fishermen's Heritage site". He added: "We have consulted widely and continue to meet representatives of local groups and the community. A public exhibition was held in May which was widely publicised. "We can listen but cannot please everybody." He said the gallery would offer an "outstanding collection" and the town would "benefit enormously". 1 Vote(s) Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:43:37 CET |
| Making secular art out of religious imagery
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Somewhere between Pollock and Pop, new art developed an allergy to the word spiritual unless it was attached to ethnicity. It was O.K. to make altars in galleries if you were Mexican-American - in fact, you were sort of required to - but if you were plain old American, no.
Yet on the fringes, where the most together thinking tends to take place, there was resistance to this bias. In the late 1960s the American poet Ishmael Reed coined the term Neo-HooDoo to describe an aesthetic that was devotional without being dogmatically religious, ritual-related without having prescribed forms, and rooted both outside and inside the Western mainstream. Reed's concept, which riffed on African religious practices transmitted to the New World, embraced incantatory poetry, hypnotic popular music and art that was activist in an emotional, political and formal sense. Now it lends its name to a quiet, meditative, spare-to-the-point-of-thin-looking exhibition, "NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith," at the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in New York. The 30 artists in the show cover three generations and a wide swath of the Americas, from Brazil to Canada. Most are familiar from other shows on similar themes; more fresh faces would have been welcome. And although all the work is secular, some of it draws heavily on religious imagery. Amalia Mesa-Bains, a Chicana artist living in California, has assembled a room-size altar adorned with family photographs, fragrant herbs, bottled elixirs and images of the Virgin of Guadalupe, on an art-as-healing model that she has been developing for years. José Bedia, a practitioner of the Afro-Cuban religion Palo Monte, contributes a different kind of altar, "Things That Drag Me Along." An elaborated version of a piece he first created years ago, it has two parts. A painting of a double-headed deity fills a wall. Iron chains extend from its chest to a wooden boat sitting on the gallery floor and packed with symbolic objects - African, Christian and American Indian - as if for a journey. Michael Tracy's "Cross of the Sacred Peace" (1980) is also a carrier of spiritual matter. A bulky wooden cruciform on a gilded base, it is encrusted with Mexican votive charms and pierced, like an African power figure, with energy-releasing spikes and swords. Tracy, who lives in Texas near the Mexican border and whose work comes straight from a Roman Catholic upbringing, had a retrospective at P.S. 1 in the late 1980s. A lot of pe 1 Vote(s) Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:42:08 CET |
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