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04/26/2004

• Images of Native Americans
  A great exhibit from the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley.

Cigarette Smoker
A Moki Indian. Arizona c 1899

• The Great Parade - Portrait of the Artist as Clown
  An interesting exhibit from the National Gallery of Canada.

Dancing Clown
by Jonathan Borofsky 1982-83

• Mark Twain at Large: His Travels Here and Abroad
  One of my heroes also from the Bancroft Library.

Mark Twain at age 56 in Berlin 1892

• Original and Rare American World War One Recruiting Posters

Reminds me a bit of Slim Pickens
 in Dr. Strangelove

• POP ART UK
  British Pop Art from 1956-1972.

Bunk! 1972

• Photographers of Genius at the Getty (Scout)
  A wonderful exhibit of early photographs and daguerreotypes.

Sadie Pfeiffer by Lewis Hine 1910

• The Art of Alex Gross (Burp)

The Twenty

04/19/2004

• Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret

Marguerite au Sabbat

• The 'Queen of the Night' Relief

Queen of the Night, Babylonian,
1800-1750 BC From southern Iraq

• National Art Gallery, Malaysia - Print and Drawing Gallery

Carrying Fish
BY A.A. Almelkar 1962

Two Sisters
By Mohamad Hoessein Enas 1963

• William Merritt Chase

The Blue Kimono 1888

• Lisa Adams
  Here is an article on Lisa Adams, and more images by the artist.

Gaze

• Lynn Bennett

Hollywood Reporter

• Miss Ping (Blort)

• Shuanna Peterson (Neurastenia)

Robot Romance

04/12/2004

• Kunsthistorisches Museum Picture Gallery of European Art
  This is a great collection of images from Austria's premier museum.

Young Woman ("Laura)
by Giorgione 1505
 

Young Woman at her Toilette
By Giovanni Bellini 1515

The Death of Cleopatra
by Guido Cagnacci 1659/63

• Mary Cassatt
  "Known for her perceptive depictions of women and children, Mary Cassatt was one of the few American artists active in the nineteenth-century French avant-garde."

Woman Bathing 1890-1891

• European Art
  This is an interesting collection of images from Australia's NGA.  In particular, I was impressed with the fascinating costume model and marionettes of Alexandra Exter.

Alexandra Exter's Costume model of a Martian guard for the film Aelita 1923

• The North American Landscape in Art (Life In The Present)

Young Girl and Hydrangeas
By Alfredo Ramos Martinez 1916

• José Guadalupe Posada (Cipango)
  "In 1900 Maucci Brothers, a Spanish publisher, commissioned Posada to illustrate a series of pamphlets for children on the history of Mexico."

The White Mermaid and the Black Triton

• Games We Play
  "The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections investigates the evolution of games since 1800."  This is a wonderful collection from Cornell.

Gay Wolves Punchboard, ca. 1940

04/05/2004

• William Bouguereau
  These paintings seem to capture the innocent beauty of Bouguereau's youthful female subjects from the last quarter of the 19th century.  Contrast these images, for example,  with the annoying narcissistic modern sheboy look of Britney Spears et al.

Twilight 1882

• Kenjione's Art Book
  I like Kenjione's delicate and whimsical paintings.

Lovely Blue Cat 1999

• Zlota Galeria - Salvatore Dali
  This site has a huge collection of Dali images. 

Nude In Landscape 1923

• Musée National Picasso
  A nice place to visit when in Paris.

The Bathers 1918

• Laurie Luczak Illustrations (Neurastenia)
  When will the hands come out of the screen?

Disease

• African Barber Signs (Blort)
  I love the color in these signs.

A Barbershop Sign

• Bush Mosaic of Soldiers Who Died in Iraq

Powerful Image

• Luminous Organisms (MF)
  Great photos!

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