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crystalclaire · 5 months ago
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details of paintings by john singer sargent: sargent & fashion exhibit at the tate britain in london
Mrs Robert Harrison (Helen Smith), 1886; The Honourable Pauline Astor, 1898-9; In a Garden, Corfu, 1909
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grungeouttakesabstracts · 9 months ago
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At the MFA
Boston, Massachusetts -- 1/21/13
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baebeylik · 23 days ago
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“Le Président Woodrow WILSON à Paris - President Woodrow WILSON in Paris Décembre 1918 Hôtel du Prince Murat, Résidence du Président.” American. 1918.
The Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
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mediaomnivore · 4 months ago
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We stopped by the ancient Egyptian collection at the Boston Fine Arts Museum.
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yz · 9 months ago
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From the MFA program:
“Rashid Johnson, American, born in 1971
Bruise Painting "Lakefront Blues," 2023
Oil on linen
Rashid Johnson paints with looping, calligraphic strokes, using a pigment stick and sometimes his gloved fingertips to evoke the loose style of graffiti. However, these strokes are regimented into a grid pattern, a compositional device that allows the artist to make expressive variations on a theme. The paint color, "Black and Blue," was created for his series of "bruise paintings," of which this is one.
Working during the pandemic, Johnson explored being wounded and healing or, as he notes, "what it felt like to be living after a blunt force trauma of some sort." The hue modulates and changes like a bruise, and might serve as a metaphor for the nonlinear path of mending body and soul in unpredictable times.
Museum purchase with funds donated by Sandy and Paul Edgerley, 2023 2023.133”
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romegreeceart · 3 months ago
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terracotta
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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~ Plaque.
Culture: Italic, Etruscan
Period: Late Archaic Period or early Classical Period
Date: ca. 470 B.C.
Medium: Terracotta
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campaignoutsider · 7 months ago
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Dead Blogging 'Songs for Modern Japan' at MFABoston
Well the Missus and I trundled over to The Fens the other day to check out Songs for Modern Japan: Popular Music and Graphic Design, 1900–1950 (through September 2) and say, it was swell. “Songs for Modern Japan: Popular Music and Graphic Design, 1900–1950” explores how sheet music covers provide a window into Japanese society and culture during this period of immense transformation. Visitors…
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swedebeast · 7 months ago
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A mummy is returned... to Sweden.
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A 3,200 year old mummy sarcophagus is being moved from Museum of Fine Arts in Boston to the Uppsala University Museum after it was discovered it had been sold using forged documents in 1985, and the artifact had disappeared from Uppsala's collection in the 1970's.
"It is very gratifying that this return has now come to pass. The sarcophagus is an excellent complement to our Egyptian collections and will now be available for research. It needs some restoration, however, and it will be some time before it can be shown to the public in Gustavianum,” says Mikael Ahlund, Museum Director of Gustavianum, or Uppsala University Museum.
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lionofchaeronea · 3 months ago
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Dandelions, Jean-François Millet, 1867-68
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makeusfly · 1 year ago
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John Singer Sargent
Intellectually speaking, I know not all art is story. But for me, everything is story, and stories are made of two things. The first is choices. Memoirs are the most obvious example of this. Most memoirs don’t start with birth and even fewer end at death. There is a life, a story happening at either end of the book, and the memoirist chooses where and with what to leave their reader. My…
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chewbaccaaah · 1 year ago
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Um, read the description. Das messed up
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suziwest-scarfcollection · 2 years ago
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arthistoryanimalia · 1 year ago
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For #InternationalCatDay 😻
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Richard H. Recchia (American, 1885 – 1983) Persian Cat, 1931 Bronze, black patina, lost wax cast 49.53 x 26.03 x 30.48 cm (19 1/2 x 10 1/4 x 12 in.) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1984.746
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7pleiades7 · 6 months ago
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Madame Gautreau Drinking a Toast (1882-1883) by John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), oil on panel, 32 × 41 cm, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
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homerstroystory · 2 months ago
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Folding fan depicting scenes from the history of ballooning
French; c. 1785; reformed [horn] protein sticks and skin leaf painted with gouache, diamond paste studs in rivet, brass ring; maximum open of 50.5cm.
Currently in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession no. 43.2078
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fashionsfromhistory · 2 years ago
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Dress
1960s
Afghanistan or Uzbekistan
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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