A few nice photo to canvas images I found:
NYC - MoMA: Pablo Picasso's "Ma Jolie"
Image by wallyg
"Ma Jolie", Paris, winter 1911-1912
Oil on canvas, 39 3/8 x 25 3/4" (100 x 64.5 cm)
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973)
"Ma Jolie!" (My pretty girl), the refrain of a popular French song, was Picasso's pet name for his lover Marcelle Humbert ("Eva"). These easily legible words, inscribed with a treble clef at the bottom of the canvas, form a stark contrast to the nearly indecipherable image of Eva playing a string instrument.
A triangular form in the lower center is strung like a guitar; below the strings can be seen four fingers; an elbow juts to the right; and in the upper half, what may be a floating smile is barely discernable amid the network of flat, semitransparent planes. So although the figure appears to disappear into an abstract network of flat, straightedged semitransparent planes, together these elements suggest a woman holding a musical instrument. Thus it manages to be both a representative piece of high Analytic Cubism, while at the same time representing a very traditional theme.
Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest.
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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) was founded in 1929 and is often recognized as the most influential museum of modern art in the world. Over the course of the next ten years, the Museum moved three times into progressively larger temporary quarters, and in 1939 finally opened the doors of its midtown home, located on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in midtown.
MoMA's holdings include more than 150,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, architectural models and drawings, and design objects. Highlights of the collection inlcude Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night, Salvador Dali's The Persisence of Memory, Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiseels d'Avignon and Three Musicians, Claude Monet's Water Lilies, Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie, Paul Gauguin's The Seed of the Areoi, Henri Matisse's Dance, Marc Chagall's I and the Village, Paul Cezanne's The Bather, Jackson Pollack's Number 31, 1950, and Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans. MoMA also owns approximately 22,000 films and four million film stills, and MoMA's Library and Archives, the premier research facilities of their kind in the world, hold over 300,000 books, artist books, and periodicals, and extensive individual files on more than 70,000 artists.
Old cars in HDR
Image by minds-eye
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Saturday morning Kristi and I were traveling the back country roads of Florida to visit her parents near Ocala when we happened across this row of dilapidated cars on a piece of property near Stark. Very cool 1930's and 40's Buick's, Packard's, and Studebaker's.
This was too incredible of a photo op to pass up, so we made a u-turn and drove through the “trespassers will be shot” signs, parked and I walked up to three men working on a race car.
Being the polite person I am, I asked for permission to take some photographs. The owner, who was a shoe-in for a bubba-of-the month award told me that I had to pay him before I could take any photos. He, of course was about 275 lbs, wearing overalls, while sporting a beard and shoulder length hair that would make ZZ Top proud.
Bubba, Cooter, or whatever his name started to tell me that these cars are famous to people that want to take photos of them and he often catches them trespassing in order to capture a shot. Then went on to tell me that he charged them .00 just to drive out alive! I then offered him .00 and he said “that’s just the amount I had in mind”.
Now for the real story. He went on to tell me that if he had any problems with trespassers, he would use these, and pulled two (2) 9mm pistols out of his pockets, and if that didn’t work..pulled two more small guns out of the breast pocket of his overalls. But hey, that’s not all, he pulled up his pants leg and you guess it, a 32 cal. pistol strapped to his leg! 5 frick’in guns on this guy!
Again, being the now very polite person that I am, said, “it must be pretty dangerous around here” and turned to Kristi for a .00 bill who was sitting in the car not wanting to make eye contact with the Cooter dude.
After taking the photos, Cooter had one more weapon to show me. A switch blade!
Anyway, enjoy these .00 photos
NYC - Metropolitan Museum of Art: Salvador Dalí's Madonna
Image by wallyg
Madonna
1958
Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904-1989)
Oil on canvas; 88 7/8 x 75 1/4 in. (225.7 x 191.1 cm)
Salvador Dalí became an official member of the Surrealist group in 1929, and even after he was expelled by its leader, André Breton, in 1941, his work continued to reflect the influence of Surrealist thought and methodology. Dalí's paintings feature intellectual puzzles and visual ambiguities, and his style is marked by superrealistic illusionism that is used to describe completely unrealistic, fanciful subjects. Madonna is one of several works Dalí made after 1941 that uses classical imagery as the basis for Surrealist invention. Here, he paints two different simultaneous subjects with a profusion of gray and pink dots: a Madonna and Child based on Raphael's Sistine Madonna (Gemäldegalerie, Dresden, after 1513), and a large ear, whose ridged interior surface is defined by the presence of these two figures. Each motif is designed to come into focus at a different distance. At close range, the painting looks completely abstract; from about six feet away, it reveals the Madonna and Child; and from fifty feet, it is what the artist called "the ear of an angel." To the left of the main images is a trompe-l'oeil detail of a red cherry suspended on a string from a torn and folded piece of paper; its shadow is cast onto another piece of paper bearing the signature of the artist.
Gift of Drue Heinz, in memory of Henry J. Heinz II, 1987 (1987.465)
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art's permanent collection contains more than two million works of art from around the world. It opened its doors on February 20, 1872, housed in a building located at 681 Fifth Avenue in New York City. Under their guidance of John Taylor Johnston and George Palmer Putnam, the Met's holdings, initially consisting of a Roman stone sarcophagus and 174 mostly European paintings, quickly outgrew the available space. In 1873, occasioned by the Met's purchase of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriot antiquities, the museum decamped from Fifth Avenue and took up residence at the Douglas Mansion on West 14th Street. However, these new accommodations were temporary; after negotiations with the city of New York, the Met acquired land on the east side of Central Park, where it built its permanent home, a red-brick Gothic Revival stone "mausoleum" designed by American architects Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mold. As of 2006, the Met measures almost a quarter mile long and occupies more than two million square feet, more than 20 times the size of the original 1880 building.
In 2007, the Metropolitan Museum of Art was ranked #17 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1967. The interior was designated in 1977.
National Historic Register #86003556
