Art: Art Appreciation
Being poor in the fifties was not the ordeal it had been during the Depression. Artists scrambled from week to week, month to month, without deep fears of complete ruin, and now they can't recall precisely how they managed. Even memories of first sales are dim. Most of the hard facts about artists' incomes in the fifties float on the currents of Jackson Pollock's legend. According to Tony Smith, Pollock's art earned him about $2,600 in 1950. One sold for $6,000 in 1954; soon afterward, Blue Pole ...
Art: Baroques Art Sites
Art History Resources
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHbaroque.html
This page is an art history page of a large site created by Dr. Christopher Witcomb : http://witcombe.sbc.edu/Witcombe.table.html The larger site covers the whole range of art history. I cannot begin to describe what is available on this site, which must have been a huge work of love. The site includes high resolution photos of sculptures, paintings and other visual arts as well as architecture, photography, textiles, icons and eve ...
Art: Dancing
In 1997 I've attended the live concert of band Portishead, which was held in Roseland Ballroom, New York. This was the first live musical performance that I have even been to. Partially, because of it, this concert has left me deeply impressed. But it was also the quality of the music and authentic band's style that instantly made a Portishead's fan out of me.
The first thing that turned out to be a completely different from my idea of live concert, was the fact the band was playing in the mi ...
Art: Baroque
What must be taken into account in any consideration of the Baroque is the equilibrium of the secular and the religious. The naturalism of seventeenth-century art is inextricably bound up with a metaphysical view of the world. It is for this reason that the familiar objects of visible reality may be looked on as emblems of a higher, invisible reality. But that transcendent world can in turn only be apprehended through the faithful rendering of things seen. In this sense, naturalism may even be s ...
