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Tag Archives: LACMA
Copenhagen: Roofs Under the Snow, My New Favorite Painting of the Day
There was a lot of ornately carved marble, sandstone and alabaster, great, big Victorian portraits of unfortunate looking British people, various Rodins, Degas’, Gauguins and Monets, and on a wall, next to a doorway to a gallery was a tiny, tiny canvas called Copenhagen: Roofs Under the Snow by Peder Severin Krøyer. Continue reading
Posted in Artists I Like, Museums
Tagged Copenhagen, Kroyer, LACMA, new favorite painting
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Tim Burton at LACMA
Burton’s vision and aesthetic are so singular and ingrained in our collective consciousness that the works on display, from Robot Boy to the early sketches he did while bored at work for Disney to all the Jack Skellington heads, are exactly what you’d expect from a Tim Burton exhibition, but taken as a whole is a genuinely wonderful experience through the gentle (if macabre) mind of America’s most famous eccentric. Continue reading
Posted in Artists I Like, Exhibits, Film, Museums
Tagged Edward Scissorhands, exhibits, LACMA, Tim Burton
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Manly Men at LACMA
Review of an Eakins exhibit that addresses sport in American art over the last century. Continue reading
Posted in Artists I Like, Exhibits, Museums
Tagged Art, Catherine Opie, cultural identity, exhibits, football, Friday Night Lights, LACMA, manly men, Mendenhall Glacier, museums, Painting, photography, Sport, surfing, Tad Beck, Thomas Eakins, Visual arts, wrestling
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With White Center – My New Favorite Painting for Today
Interpretation of a painting I find fascinating. Continue reading
Posted in Artists I Like, Favorite Things, Museums
Tagged A Fish Called Wanda, Abstract Expressionism, Art, Artists I Like, LACMA, Mark Rothko, museums, new favorite painting, Painting, Red
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