2024年1月28日 星期日

Minotaure : Artistic and Literary Review No 10, Paris, 1937.Cover illustration : René Magritte

 René Magritte

Clarence Descy  
René Magritte (Belgian, 1898-1967)
Minotaure : Artistic and Literary Review
No 10, Paris, 1937
Editions : Albert Skira
Cover illustration : René Magritte
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
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an environmental group threw pumpkin-colored soup at the Mona Lisa

 

Protesters Hurl Soup at the Mona Lisa

Two women from an environmental group threw pumpkin-colored soup at the artwork, which is behind bulletproof glass at the Louvre and did not appear to sustain damage.

Two women, one in a black jacket and one in a white shirt, toss orange-colored soup at the Mona Lisa.
Environmental activists hurling soup at Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa on Sunday at the Louvre in Paris.Credit...David Cantiniaux/AFPTV, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

2024年1月27日 星期六

Isoda Koryūsai (礒田 湖龍斎, 1735–1790)

 

Snow big deal, just made a snow rabbit ❄️ 🐇
As a winter amusement during the Edo period in Japan, children often made snow sculptures—the two most popular types being the snow rabbit (yuki usagi) and the snow Daruma (yuki Daruma).
This hanging scroll transports a children’s outdoor pastime into an elegant interior setting where a woman, probably the boy’s mother, paints on the eyes of a snow rabbit he holds on a lacquer tray.
The seated woman wears an obi decorated with chrysanthemum flowers, while the standing younger woman has a kimono with summer hydrangeas—a reminder that people often wore garments with unseasonal references to distract from frigid or humid weather.
Instead of using berries to fashion the eyes of the snow rabbit, they are being painted on as if it were a Daruma figure, on which one eye is painted when setting a goal or making a wish.
🎨 Isoda Koryūsai (Japanese, 1735–ca. 1790). Painting the Eyes on a Snow Rabbit, ca. 1780. Edo period (1615–1868). Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk.
A painting on silk featuring two Japanese women and one small Japanese child. The woman kneeling helps the child paint eyes on the snow rabbit he fashioned. In the background, out a window, we see tree branches heavy with snow.


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hinagata wakana no hatsu moyō

Isoda Koryūsai (礒田 湖龍斎, 1735–1790) was a Japanese ukiyo-e print designer and painter active from 1769 to 1790.

Life and career[edit]

Koryūsai was born in 1735 and worked as a samurai in the service of the Tsuchiya clan. He became a masterless rōnin after the death of the head of the clan and moved to Edo (modern Tokyo) where he settled near Ryōgoku Bridge in the Yagenbori area. He became a print designer there under the art name Haruhiro in 1769, at first making samurai-themed designs. The ukiyo-e print master Harunobu died in 1770, and about that time Koryūsai began making prints in a similar style of life in the pleasure districts.[1]

Koryūsai was a prolific designer of individual prints and print series,[1] most of which appeared between 1769 and 1881.[2]

In 1782 Koryūsai applied for and received the Buddhist honour hokkyō ("Bridge of the Law")[1] from the imperial court[3] and thereafter used the title as part of his signature. His output slowed from this time, though he continued to design prints until his death in 1790.[1]


Wang Mingyue 王明月 Realist painter

 

Wang Mingyue 王明月

Printmaker, painter and art critic. Born in Peng'an, Sichuan Province, worked in Sichuan Branch of China Artists Association; later became the vice director of ...


Wang Ming Yue | Realist painter - The Gallerist


The Museum Without Walls/Le Musée Imaginaire

MWW Artwork of the Day (1/27/24)
Wang Mingyue (Chinese, b. 1962)
The Beloved Looking Forward (2013)
Oil on canvas, 74.9 x 51.1 cm.
Private Gallery
Wang Mingyue blends Western surrealist oil painting with Eastern thought and charm to create figure paintings and portraits. Since 1996, Wang Ming Yue has been interviewed and reported in many authoritative art magazines such as Art and Art Market, and published monographs in China; her works have been featured in Asia Daily, World Daily and other global media. In the process of bringing oriental and Chinese beauty to the international art world, Wang Mingyue has been invited to hold many international solo exhibitions in the UK, the US, Japan and other countries, and has also been invited to paint portraits of celebrities and dignitaries from all over the world. Former British Prime Minister Edward Heath said that he was most satisfied with the portrait that Wang Mingyue had painted of him, and Prince Chilakon Jithya of Thailand praised him as "the soul artist of China.
(Bio adapted from the Artmajeur website)
For more Chinese art see these MWW galleries or Special Collections:
* The Art of Imperial China: I - Qin through Yuan Dynasties
* The Art of Imperial China: II - Ming & Qing Dynasties
* Non-Western Painting Gallery
* Non-Western Sculpture & Architecture
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