Or, maybe the paintings merely need to be cleaned.
They could use Picasso to see how Women have changed.
Posted on 08/11/2006 9:19:39 AM PDT by presidio9
The French painter Claude Monet is being used as an environmental monitor, for scientists believe his legendary paintings of the Houses of Parliament can serve as a useful indicator of smog levels in late 19th-century London.
Monet's so-called London series was painted during visits between 1899 and 1905, capturing scenes that are often astonishing for their grey and purplish haze.
Many experts have assumed, though, that this extraordinary effect was an Impressionistic embellishment.
Environmental researchers at the University of Birmingham in central England analyzed nine out of 19 Monet paintings of the Houses of Parliament, painted between 1899 and 1901.
Using the position of the Sun, they calculated the date when the paintings were made, as well as the precise location where Monet set up his easel -- the far end of St. Thomas' Hospital, on the South Bank of the Thames, opposite the British legislature.
The dates and the angle of the Sun concur with Monet's accounts in letters back home to his wife, in which he described his progress on the London series, the weather and other matters, as well as with the daily meteorological records during this period.
The scientists believe there is strong evidence Monet faithfully rendered the London sun as he saw it at the time. In other words, the painter is unlikely to have added artistic touches when back in his studio in France in order to enhance the city's eerie "pea soup" atmosphere.
The next step is to see whether the extraordinary colours captured in Monet's haze give a clue to the chemistry and particles of the pollution.
The study appears in the latest issued Proceedings of the Royal Society A, a journal published by the Royal Society, Britain's de-facto academy of sciences.
In previous research, geometrists have determined the exact date when the US photographer Ansel Adams captured his landscape entitled "Autumn Moon, the High Sierra from Glacier Point" and when Van Gogh made some of his most important night paintings, including "Starry Night."
Smog became a major problem in London by the end of the 19th century, triggered by the burning of coal and particulates from factory chimneys. The phenomenon, celebrated in innumerable books and films, became a worsening health problem until it was curbed by clean-air legislation in the 1950s.
How long will it be in DC? It's not housed there permanently, is it?
I don't know. It is still listed on their website.
From what I hear, Michaelangelo wasn't particularly interested in female models, if you catch my drift.
There are a number of posters who come onto any thread having to do with modern art, in which they express the fact that they know little to nothing about modern art, but then denounce it all as crap (or worse).
The poster known as Jeff (pinged out of courtesy) is one such poster. So much time. So little credibility.
Or, maybe the paintings merely need to be cleaned.
They could use Picasso to see how Women have changed.
More propaganda from the buttsex community. Michelangelo had three female lovers that we know about. THe heterophobes just love outting dead people who can't defend themselves. Lincoln and Jesus? Both gay dammit!
If I implied that all modern art is crap, then I revise my umplication. Most. Most of what is passed off as "modern" art is crap. Maybe all, but definitely most.
Modern artistes have a good thing going, I'll admit that. Once you're a member of the vaunted precious artiste club, suckers will buy your crap for huge sums of money. The fact that modern crap is so easily faked by zoo animals doesn't even enter into the equation.
I have a print of Monet's `LeParc Monsieu, Paris' hanging in my office. And `Poppy Field' at home.
Painting is at least one thing the French do well.
Baby got back ...
What's an umplication?
Which proves?? What do millions of people and millions of dollars say about Rap and Hip Hop music?
And I'll revise my comment as well. I may have lumped you in with a group of which you are not a member. I disagree with you, but there's nothing really wrong with that. It is unfortunate that the middle has been so colored by the extreme. The person who did piss christ, or any of the artist working in the "shock 'em" vein have overshadowed the work of some really good modern artists.
What's an umplication?
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LOL. That's when a baseball umpire doesn't see the play but calls it based on what he thinks may have happened.
good read http://www.artcyclopedia.com/feature-2003-11.html
(but alla the pitchers have alreddy been colored-in)
Have you seen the Emperor's new robe? You have to be really smart to be able to see it.
Thank you.
I just think that we need to keep a perspective about our culture. Maya Angelou is considered a modern genius by the same folks who adore Jackson Pollock.
When bad "art" is touted by the artist community as good, good art gets displaced.
I think one way to sort this out is to remove all government funding of the arts. Then fools will part with their money, but eventually the market will support actual art.
Perfect depiction of the elite artiste.
I think that in 1000 years, scholars will look at a large percentage of modern "art" just shake their heads.
You would be looked down upon by the elite art community. Too ignorant and/or bigotted to understand, etc..
I was very serious about painting in college. I won some awards and was accepted to a pretigious school of design for post graduate work. I decided to work on Wall Street because even back then I was politically conservative and I knew that a life surrounded by that community was not for me. For the most part they are all full of crap. And so is most "modern art." There are some noteworthy exceptions though. And several of the leading contemporary artists including Chuck Close and David Hockney are realists.
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