#philadelphia art museum

[mechadress]

Christ being baptized by Saint John looking like the personification of my cat when I give her a bath

[40kvirgins]

Museums are cool

[143va]

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: At the Moulin Rouge, the Dance Artist: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864-1901) Date: 1890 Genre: genre art Period: Belle Epoque Movement: Post-Impressionism Medium: oil on canvas Location: Philadelphia Museum of Art

[fashionsfromhistory]

Dress Worn by Mrs. Charles G. Roebling

Emile Pingat (Paris, France)

c.1885

Philadelphia Museum of Art (Accession Number:1949-29-3a--c)

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret (1852-1929) "A Woman from Bern, Switzerland" (1887) Oil on canvas Realism Located in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

[galleryofart]

Noah's Ark

Artist: Edward Hicks (American, 1780 -1849)

Genre: Religious Art

Date Created: 1846

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Pennsylvania

Description

The biblical story of Noah’s ark, depicted here, is found in the book of Genesis (6:9–9:28). To punish people for their wicked and violent ways, God decided to send heavy rains to earth for forty days and forty nights. First, however, he instructed Noah, a righteous man, to build an ark for his family and two of every kind of animal. After the rains stopped, a dove sent out by Noah returned to the ark with an olive branch, proof that the floodwater had receded and plants could grow again. Then God created a beautiful rainbow in the sky as a symbol of his promise to never destroy the earth again.

This painting by Edward Hicks shows a long, curving line of animals approaching Noah’s huge boat. Prancing horses and a serious-looking lion stare out at us, while pairs of elegant, black-and-white-striped zebras, giraffes, camels, tigers, and hippopotamuses stand patiently. In the distance, tiny black birds fly down from the dark, rain-filled clouds overhead.

Edward Hicks learned to paint decorative motifs when he was apprenticed to a coach maker at the age of thirteen. Later he became a successful sign painter and a devout Quaker preacher. Although his business conflicted with Quaker beliefs-that art is a distraction and a needless luxury-Hicks considered his art to be an expression of his faith and created paintings that told religious stories. This is the only painting he made of the story of Noah’s ark.

[didoofcarthage]

Self-Portrait by Jacopo Robusti, called Il Tintoretto

Italian, c. 1546-1548

oil on canvas

Philadelphia Museum of Art

[arthistoryanimalia]

#Baturday :

Edmond Lachenal (France, 1855-1930)

Vases in the Form of Lanterns, c.1885

Glazed earthenware, Hand painted earthenware

Now on display at Philadelphia Museum of Art “Firing the Imagination: Japanese Intluence on French Ceramics, 1860-1910”

“In 1870, at age 15, Edmond Lachenal apprenticed himself to the renowned ceramist Théodore Deck. At the Deck studio in Paris, Lachenal learned both production techniques and the non-Western styles and ornamental traditions which Deck was beginning to incorporate in his work. Lachenal brought these approaches with him when he established his own workshop in 1883. There he produced small and large Japanese-inspired plaques, vases, and sculptural objects.

Shaped like Japanese paper lantern[s], th[ese] vase[s] [are] decorated with two sculptural brown bats. Lachenal may have been influenced by the work of the Japanese potter Miyagawa Kōzan (1842–1916), whose prize-winning ceramics were displayed at the Paris Universal Expositions of 1878 and 1889. Kōzan was celebrated for his decorative technique taka-ukibori (sculptural relief), in which he decorated the surfaces of his wares with realistic three-dimensional high reliefs and sculptures, such as a crab climbing on the edge of a bowl.”

[typo1]

Wharton Esherick - Museum 

Spiral Staircase, 1930

[diemelusine]

Portrait of Frances Sherborne Ridley Watts (the author's childhood friend) (1877) by John Singer Sargent. Philadelphia Museum of Art.

[oncanvas]

Sunflowers, Vincent van Gogh, 1889

Oil on canvas 36 ⅜ x 28 in. (92.4 x 71.1 cm) Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA

[tragediambulante]

The thorny path, Thomas Couture, 1873

[lionofchaeronea]

Poplars, Claude Monet, 1891

[visionsofour-past]

• Woman.

Date: ca. 1860-1870

Artist/Photographer: Bousseton & Appert, Paris (French, active mid- 19th century)

Medium: Albumen silver print

[internationalemeteorologie]

Gabriel Orozco

Black Kites Perspective (front horizontal, right and left). 1997-08