Vera Molnar. Hommage à Dürer – 400 aiguilles, traversées par un fil.
Acrylic on untreated cotton cloth (plywood), cut needles, approx. 40 m thread (knotted once) . diptych, 1/2, 1989/2004, 84 x 84 cm.
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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art’s audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
Paul Gauguin (via post-impressionisms)
James from Amor Sciendi and I collaborated on his latest video, “The Madonna of the Rosary and the Counter Reformation.” You can watch the video above - and please visit the Amor Sciendi YouTube channel for more informative videos that use art to teach!
I also wrote an article to complement the video. Read it here.
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Artemisia Gentileschi - Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1620. Oil on canvas
Her best-known work is Judith Slaying Holofernes (a well-known medieval and baroque subject in art), which “shows the decapitation of Holofernes, a scene of horrific struggle and blood-letting”.[2] That she was a woman painting in the seventeenth century and that she was raped and participated in prosecuting the rapist, long overshadowed her achievements as an artist. For many years she was regarded as a curiosity. Today she is regarded as one of the most progressive and expressive painters of her generation.
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