August 10

And the survey says…

hi there, fuck yea art history tumble-people,

i know this was asked just under a year ago, but we’ve gotten a lot more followers since then. i promise to update this tumblr more often, but before i do, i’d like to see what everyone wants from this blog.

just pictures? pictures and some text to give it background (that’s what i’d been doing)? more articles? less articles? any specific areas you want to see more art from?

thanks!
jen (irockgnomes, casual poster of all things tagged IRG)

so, without further adieu… what would you like to see here?

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June 22
Édouard Manet A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (Le Bar aux Folies-Bergère) 1882, Oil on canvas96 × 130 cm (37.8 × 51.2 in)Courtauld Institute of Art  

Édouard Manet

A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (Le Bar aux Folies-Bergère) 
1882, Oil on canvas
96 × 130 cm (37.8 × 51.2 in)
Courtauld Institute of Art 
 

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March 1
  Pablo Picasso Spanish, 1881-1973The Old Guitarist1903/04Oil on panel

 

Pablo Picasso 
Spanish, 1881-1973
The Old Guitarist
1903/04
Oil on panel

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Eadweard Muybridge’s The Horse in Motion 1872 Do All of a Galloping Horse’s Hooves Leave the Ground? In 1872, Eadweard Muybridge, a British-born photographer, was hired by Leland Stanford (who later founded the university), to settle a question (some people say a $25,000 bet) whether there was a point in a horse’s full gallop where all four hooves were off the ground. Muybridge arranged 12 cameras alongside a race track and attached a string to the camera switches across the track. When the horse ran through the string, it triggered the shot. The series of photographs showed that indeed, all four hooves leave the ground when the horse is in full gallop. Muybridge went on to develop systems and techniques to photograph motion of people and animal. excerpt from The Wonderful World of Early Photography

Eadweard Muybridge’s 
The Horse in Motion 1872

Do All of a Galloping Horse’s Hooves Leave the Ground?

In 1872, Eadweard Muybridge, a British-born photographer, was hired by Leland Stanford (who later founded the university), to settle a question (some people say a $25,000 bet) whether there was a point in a horse’s full gallop where all four hooves were off the ground.

Muybridge arranged 12 cameras alongside a race track and attached a string to the camera switches across the track. When the horse ran through the string, it triggered the shot. The series of photographs showed that indeed, all four hooves leave the ground when the horse is in full gallop.

Muybridge went on to develop systems and techniques to photograph motion of people and animal.

excerpt from The Wonderful World of Early Photography

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July 22
The ScreamEdvard Munch1839oil, tempera, and pastel on cardboard “ Did you know that there is mysterious graffiti scribbled within a streak of the sky in Edvard Munch’s famous painting The Scream (1893)? No one knows whether it was Munch himself who wrote it, or if a disgruntled visitor to one of his early exhibitions scribbled the pencil inscription onto the painting itself. But the fact remains that, for whatever reason, Munch never removed it from his now famous painting, though he must have been aware of it. What does the graffiti say? In Norwegian: “Could only have been painted by a madman”.” Quote from The Art History Blog

The Scream
Edvard Munch
1839
oil, tempera, and pastel on cardboard

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Did you know that there is mysterious graffiti scribbled within a streak of the sky in Edvard Munch’s famous painting The Scream (1893)? No one knows whether it was Munch himself who wrote it, or if a disgruntled visitor to one of his early exhibitions scribbled the pencil inscription onto the painting itself.

But the fact remains that, for whatever reason, Munch never removed it from his now famous painting, though he must have been aware of it. What does the graffiti say? In Norwegian: “Could only have been painted by a madman”.”

Quote from The Art History Blog

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April 4
The AstronomerVermeer, 1668Oil on CanvasLouvre, Paris

The Astronomer
Vermeer, 1668
Oil on Canvas
Louvre, Paris

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MichelangeloThe Creation of Adam, 1511The Sistine Chapel Ceiling, Vatican City

Michelangelo
The Creation of Adam, 1511
The Sistine Chapel Ceiling, Vatican City

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September 10
Rembrandt Self Portrait 1639

Rembrandt

Self Portrait 1639

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