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May 24

The Warrior

FRAGONARD, Jean-Honore

1769, oil on canvas

Clark Art Institute, currently being shown at the Kimbell

Self Portraits from 1875 and 1899

RENOIR, Pierre Auguste

Oil on canvas

Clark Art Institute, currently on exhibit in Fort Worth, Texas at the Kimbell

These are kind of breathtaking right next to each other - the sheer difference in the texture of the paint is incredible, though it’s hard to tell how raised and rough the surface is on the first (make sure you click to get a better idea). (Renoir intended to throw the first portrait in the trash, but a friend persuaded him not to.)

October 13

Interesting news story that broke this afternoon:

In African Cave, Signs of an Ancient Paint Factory

Digging deeper in a South African cave that had already yielded surprises from the Middle Stone Age, archaeologists have uncovered a 100,000-year-old workshop holding the tools and ingredients with which early modern humans apparently mixed some of the first known paint.

(Full Story here: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/science/14paint.html)

The innate love for art, and for creating, is so interesting.

August 28