Lavoisier succeeded in many areas of science. He is best known for his Law of Conservation of Matter and his experiments with oxygen. He also began a uniform system of measurement in France that we know now as the metric system. He also, with the help of others, initiated a system of chemical nomenclature, commenced … Continue reading
The famous Cardinal Albani commissioned Anton Raphael Mengs to paint the Parnassus Ceiling for the Villa Albani in Rome. The Villa Albani, not particularly suited as a permanent residence or for hosting guests, was a showcase for Cardinal Albani’s rich and extensive collection of classical antiquities. Albani dealt in buying and selling ancient objects from Rome and Greece, and along … Continue reading
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Ancient Greek Bronzes Go on View at the Getty in L.A. : Architectural Digest. Continue reading
How Disposable Coffee Cup Design Became High Art – Eater. Continue reading
[1]The artist Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is hard to classify. We think of Hopper as a modern painter. However, he continues a trend in American painting going back to William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri. In fact, Hopper was a student of both these artists and followed their influence in depicting American life with realism. (Perhaps … Continue reading
Do you remember your first inspiration? Not a fascination, but a true intoxication that leads to a direction, regardless of logic or absurdity; the beginnings of regret and sorrow or elation and spiritual awakening. These moments or fractured experiences that accumulate on the soul rarely become evident in full consciousness, but instead cruize the inward … Continue reading
Brahma BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And … Continue reading
In case you don’t remember the old Whitney Museum, it was a structure designed by Marcel Breuer working with Hamilton Smith, completed in 1966. It is a strong, modernist building which fits the definition of Brutalism. Brutalist architecture shuns the strictures of the International Style and other tenets of modernist movements with boxy, blocks of concrete and … Continue reading
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Paintings by István (Étienne) Sándorfi Istvan Sandorfi was born in 1948 in Budapest, Hungary. Since the age of ten he lived in Paris, where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs. Paintings by István (Étienne) Sándorfi Paintings by István (Étienne) Sándorfi Sandorfi’s painting…
Howard Bosler Artist 