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VMFA Beauty

Stunning winter day. As cold as it is crystal Architecture cites function Sun cites earth Romey The winds of change will cleanse this land

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"14th Street" (1924; oil on canvas), by Bumpei Usui. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia [USA]. 20190903
#USA #Virginia #Richmond #VMFA #VirginiaMuseumOfFineArts #BumpeiUsui

A post-cubist streetscape, with buildings and rooftop water reservoirs galore.

"A Gust of Wind (Judith Gautier)" (c 1883; oil on canvas), by John Singer Sargent. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia [USA]. 20190903
#USA #Virginia #Richmond #VMFA #VirginiaMuseumOfFineArts #JohnSingerSargent #AGustOfWind

Painted from a low perspective with very impressionistic brushstrokes, we see a tall woman in a long white coat, holding a wide-brimmed white hat onto her head.

"Lydia Seated on a Porch, Crocheting" (c 1882; oil on canvas), by Mary Cassatt. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia [USA]. 20190903
#USA #Virginia #Richmond #VMFA #VirginiaMuseumOfFineArts #MaryCassatt #LydiaSeatedOnAPorchCrocheting

On a bench with wrought iron legs and green slats, a woman in white dress and hat sits, turned away from us, crocheting. The landscape has a pond in front of her porch.

"Scotch Whaler Working Through Ice" (c 1878; oil on canvas), by William Bradford. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia [USA]. 20190903
#USA #Virginia #Richmond #VMFA #VirginiaMuseumOfFineArts #WilliamBradford

A painting of a ship with sails in an ice floe, in an Arctic landscape with a midnight sun on the horizon lighting many clouds in the sky.

"Portrait of a Girl" (c 1840; oil on canvas), by Erastus Salisbury Field. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia [USA]. 20190903
#USA #Virginia #Richmond #VMFA #VirginiaMuseumOfFineArts #ErastusSalisburyField #PortraitOfAGirl

In this painted portrait of a young girl, dressed in a long blue dress with white trim, wearing long, white gloves and holding a book, is standing in front of a red chair and next to a table. There's a cat at lower left, crouched on the rug decorated with star motifs.

Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867-1947)
The Open Window
1919
Oil on canvas (38,1 × 46 cm)
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

#Bonnard #VMFA #art

Tall-Case Clock (c 1765; mahogany); by unknown artisan, clockworks by David Rittenhouse. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia [USA]. 20190903
#USA #Virginia #Richmond #VMFA #VirginiaMuseumOfFineArts #TallCaseClock #Rittenhouse

"Press Cupbard" (c 1690; oak, tulip, maple, cedar); by unknown artisan. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia [USA]. 20190903
#USA #Virginia #Richmond #VMFA #VirginiaMuseumOfFineArts #PressCupboard

A cabinet of dark-stained word, on small legs, with six doors and two, angled cabinet door in the upper section.

"Metamorphoses" (1941; gouache, sand, pastel on canvas); by André Masson. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia [USA]. 20190903
#USA #Virginia #Richmond #VMFA #VirginiaMuseumOfFineArts #Metamorphoses #AndreMasson

Still thinking about yesterday at the art museum, the lovely shiny Archipenko torso, the giant Kehinde Wiley statue that is my favorite person on horse, and these little icons that go with different art pieces. #vmfa #rva

6 very small icons, tiny portion of a large poster in the entrance to the art museum. They are black and white simplified symbols, including a hand, a wreath some creatures with dots, a deer with sprouting antlers,a woman waving some percussion item at animals, half a running person, and some abstract shapes.

Lucien Gaillard 1900
Maple seeds buckle
#artnouveau
#vmfa

Curved carved horn, with 3 silver maple seeds

Waiting for livestream to start any minute now...#samurai #arthistory #vmfa
https://vmfa.museum/vmfa-livestreams/

Samurai chest armor made of flat plates. The coiled dragon is an applied alloy of gold and copper. Another incredible item in the #samurai exhibit at #VMFA #richmondva, on loan from Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller museum in Dallas, one of the largest collections in the world and the only one in U.S.

Lines of blue thick threads and rivets at the top and a beautiful coiled dragon in the middle. The tail is at the bottom, and the body and legs are formed into a circle with the head and yellow eyes close to the tail.

The #samurai exhibit at #vmfa #richmondva . Glad I took blacksmith class before I saw it. Will add alt text soon, must go put bin out (waving at @psneeze )

Side angle on a gorgeous metal helmet made in the 1600's. The bottom part hangs down to shield the neck and has many rows of rivets, making up an interesting grid pattern. The top part has added stylized metal flames that bend back subtly, as if blown by the wind.

Three good things today, 1/6/2024:
1. My son came home from visiting a friend;
2. I finished an interesting book that I was unaware of yesterday afternoon;
3. We visited the impressionism exhibit at our free-admission beautiful local art museum

#VMFA #ThreeGoodThings

Jazz Wednesday at the art museum

#VMFA #RVA #Jazz

Main hall of the museum with a jazz band up front and an audience enjoying the music, some dancing

Saw a moving immersive exhibit about Frederick Douglass by Issac Julien at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts this evening. I believe the exhibit is at several museums. If you get the chance, you should go.
https://vmfa.museum/exhibitions/exhibitions/isaac-julien-lessons-hour-frederick-douglass/
#vmfa #IsaacJulien #FrederickDouglass #RVA

We saw a nice Toulouse-Lautrec (do the French say "a de Toulouse-Lautrec?) and talked about why he often chose to avoid drawing feet. #VMFA info for this: " The small-statured figure to the left is probably the artist himself, while the figures to his right are possibly the Cabaret dancer Valentin le Désossé (literally, "the boneless one") and Toulouse-Lautrec's cousin Gabriel Tapié de Celetran." Only one leg in the painting for guy on right, who knows in real life. #toulouselautrec

Painting in ornate frame of 2 men at bar, facing bartender. One man is short and has very little of his shoes showing. Other man is tall on a stool, with white shirt and seems to have only one leg, which is unlikely....and his foot is long with indistinct shoe and perhaps a spat.

/13 #vmfa #fonts #lines #water

#VMFA

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