MY WRITERS SITE: Landscape with Pumpkin, 1979
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Franklin Park, Boston, 1897, Maurice Prendergast
Franklin Park, a partially wooded 527-acre parkland in the Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, and Dorchester neighborhoods. Considered a country park when it was formed in the 19th century, Franklin Park is the largest and last component of the Emerald Necklace created by Frederick Law Olmsted. Although often neglected in the past, it is considered the "crown jewel" of Olmsted's work in Greater Boston
Maurice Brazil Prendergast (October 10, 1858 – February 1, 1924) was a Post-Impressionist artist who worked in oil, watercolor, and monotype. He exhibited as a member of The Eight, though the delicacy of his compositions and mosaic-like beauty of his style differed from the artistic intentions and philosophy of the group.
The Ashcan school is sometimes linked to the group known as "The Eight", though in fact only five members of that group (Henri, Sloan, Glackens, Luks, and Shinn) were Ashcan artists. The other three – Arthur B. Davies, Ernest Lawson, and Maurice Prendergast – painted in a very different style, and the exhibition that brought "The Eight" to national attention took place in 1908, several years after the beginning of the Ashcan style. However, the attention accorded the group's well-publicized exhibition at the Macbeth Galleries in New York 1908 was such that Ashcan art gained wider exposure and greater sales and critical attention than it had known before.
The “Ashcan school” is sometimes linked to the group known as "The Eight", though in fact only five members of that group (Henri, Sloan, Glackens, Luks, and Shinn) were Ashcan artists. The other three – Arthur B. Davies, Ernest Lawson, and Maurice Prendergast – painted in a very different style, and the exhibition that brought "The Eight" to national attention took place in 1908, several years after the beginning of the Ashcan style.
Prendergast exhibited at the Macbeth Galleries in 1908 with the short-lived association of artists known as "The Eight" because he supported their protest against the academic bias and restrictive exhibition policies of the powerful, conservative National Academy of Design. He believed in a "no jury, no prizes" openness that would allow independent or unconventional artists greater opportunities to find a wider, appreciative audience for their work. art.
Prendergast's work was strongly associated from the beginning with leisurely scenes set on beaches and in parks. His early work was mostly in watercolor or monotype, and he produced over two hundred monotypes between 1895 and 1902.
He developed early in his career and continued throughout his life to elaborate a highly personal style, with boldly contrasting, jewel-like colors, and flattened, pattern-like forms rhythmically arranged on a canvas. Forms were radically simplified and presented in flat areas of bright, unmodulated color. His paintings have been aptly described as tapestry-like or resembling mosaics.
The bull on the Elmer’s glue logo
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Mysterious 'Nude Mona Lisa' may have been drawn by da Vinci
Mysterious 'Nude Mona Lisa'
may have been drawn by da Vinci
By James Rogers
Mysterious ‘Nude Mona Lisa’
possibly drawn by da Vinci
A mysterious painting titled
the ‘Nude Mona Lisa’ may have been drawn by Leonardo da Vinci.
A new analysis of a charcoal
drawing that has puzzled experts for centuries suggests that it was likely
created by Leonardo da Vinci.
The “Mona Vanna,” better
known as the "Nude Mona Lisa," was long thought to be from da Vinci’s
studio, AFP reports. However, analysis of the drawing at the C2RMF laboratory
beneath the famous Louvre Museum in Paris indicates that the famous artist
himself may have created the work.
The figure’s hands and body
bear similarities to the "Mona Lisa," and may have been used in da
Vinci’s preparations for the masterpiece. Citing microscopic exams of the work,
AFP reports that the “Mona Vanna” was drawn from top left to bottom right,
which indicates that it is the work of a left-handed artist such as da Vinci.
Purchased by the Duc d’Aumale
in 1862, the drawing is in the collection of the Condé Museum at the Chateau de
Chantilly, north of Paris.
“The Italian master spent a lot of time
perfecting his work,” explained the Domaine de Chantilly, in a statement
emailed to Fox News. Laboratory analysis shows that the Chantilly drawing
"was used as a tracing (to transfer the composition) for paintings
probably created in his workshop,” it added.
The “Mona Vanna,” sketch is
almost as large as the “Mona Lisa” itself. The famous painting is housed in the
Louvre.
2019 marks the 500th
anniversary of da Vinci’s death and the “Nude Mona Lisa” will feature
prominently in a Condé Museum exhibition this summer. “In the manner of a
police investigation, and in an immersive way, the visitor will discover the
results of the scientific analyses,” explained the Domaine de Chantilly, in its
statement
Da Vinci continues to be a
source of fascination. Later this year, The British Library in London is set to
showcase a number of Leonardo da Vinci's most important notebooks, all written
in his famous “mirror-writing.”
The "Leonardo da Vinci:
A Mind in Motion" exhibit will include notes and drawings from three of
his most revered scientific and artistic notebooks, the "Codex
Arundel," the "Codex Forster" and the "Codex
Leicester."
In addition to using his own
shorthand, da Vinci also wrote his personal notes starting on the right-hand
side of the page. It is not clear whether this so-called mirror writing was a
way to keep his notes private or simply a means to prevent smudging, as da
Vinci was left-handed.
Last year, experts in Italy
said they had found the earliest surviving work by da Vinci. The small glazed
terracotta tile, described as a self-portrait of the artist as the Archangel
Gabriel, was unveiled at a press conference in Rome.
However, the tile’s
authenticity was questioned by noted Leonardo expert Martin Kemp, professor
emeritus of the history of art at the University of Oxford.
There has even been some
debate about the authenticity of Da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi” painting, which
sold for a record $450.3 million in 2017.
The painting grabbed
headlines around the world when it was sold at Christie’s auction house in New
York. "Salvator Mundi," Latin for "Savior of the World,” is one
of fewer than 20 paintings by da Vinci known to exist and the only one in
private hands.
The Associated Press
contributed to this article. Follow James Rogers on Twitter @jamesjrogers
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