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06 Feb ' 07:18
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02 Feb ' 15:06
Monday, February 01, 2010
"Miss Perry's Pottery"
Classic shape and colors, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MIThe Pewabic pottery was founded by Mary Chase Perry Stratton in 1903 in Detroit and the building they built to house the pottery in 1915 is still being used today. They have a museum, they offer classes, and they run a retail shop out of the original building. It is the only arts & crafts pottery still in production in the Midwest.
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27 Jan ' 23:19
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Holy Cows
Nebamun’s cattle , fragment of a scene,Thebes, Egypt Late 18th Dynasty, around 1350 BC, The British Museum.The Egyptians considered cows an essential element of life and survival. As the once fertile area of Northern Africa became a desert, the domesticated cow brought life and nourishment. The goddess Hathor was also frequently depicted as a cow's, or at least with the horns of cows as part of her crown. -
25 Jan ' 23:13
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25 Jan ' 00:54
Sunday, January 24, 2010
For Mother
MamanLouise Bourgeois,1999 (cast 2001)Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, SpainAt first glance it may seem that by entitling this pieceMaman(Mother in French) that Louise Bourgeois was not fond of her mother, but that is not the case. The spider she created is protecting her sack of eggs and Bourgeois saw her as a nurturing yet formidable figure, just like her own mother.
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23 Jan ' 10:29
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21 Jan ' 01:17
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19 Jan ' 10:19
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Floating
Calder was from a family of artists but chose to himself to train as an engineer; skills that would serve him well when he changed course and began to study art at the Art Students League in NYC. -
18 Jan ' 15:32
Monday, January 18, 2010
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16 Jan ' 18:25
Friday, January 15, 2010
Resting
Flower Market, Tokyo by Robert Frederick Blum, c. 1892, The Manoogian CollectionBlum was born in Cincinnati where he worked for a lithographer before he began to take classes in drawing. He had a strong interest in all things Japanese as did many other artists at the time such as Whistler and Monet. Blum's preferred medium was pastels and he and W.M. Chase founded the Society of Painters in Pastel in New York.
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