Lagrimas de Sangre really rocked me when I first saw it. It's a painting I keep coming back to. The coldness of it all. The raw expression there is in a still image. Oswaldo Guayasamin is one of my hugest inspirations

The Canvas did a lovely video on the story of this painting a while back. Give it a watch: https://youtu.be/708VY9l-Ids

#OswaldoGuayasamin #LagrimasDeSangre #ChileCoup #SalvadorAllende #Art #History #ArtHistory #Painting #TheCanvas

Naranjo Stela 30: This stolen Maya sculpture was seized by US Authorities when a crate carrying it broke open in the port of Houston. NEW CASE STUDY: https://traffickingculture.org/encyclopedia/case-studies/naranjo-stela-30/

Photo: before and after trafficking. The sculpture was mutilated and broken into pieces to aid in smuggling.

#artcrime #archaeology #mesoamerica #arthistory

Call for Videos:
Art History Reels. Nachwuchs­forschung in drei Minuten beim 37. Deut­schen Kongress für Kunst­geschichte

Das Nachwuchsforum lädt alle Early Ca­reer Re­sear­chers herz­lich ein, ihr For­schungs­the­ma als 3-minü­ti­ges Reel vor­zu­stellen!
➡️Zur Ausschreibung: https://kunstgeschichte-kongress.de/call-for-videos-nachwuchsforum-erlangen/

Einsendeschluss: 31. Oktober 2023.
#Nachwuchsforum #KKg2024 #EarlyCareer #ArtHistory

Portrait of a Partially Blind Woman, by Agostino Carracci (1557–1602), red chalk, over possible traces of black chalk, 13 11/16 x 9 13/16 in. (34.8 x 25 cm), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. From the website: “Among the finest of Agostino's drawings, this work is also an outstanding example of Bolognese naturalistic portraiture of the late sixteenth century.” #arthistory

It was a brothel scene that birthed modern art. In 1865, the crowds went berserk in front of Manet’s painting of a courtesan— sobbing, shouting, getting into scuffles. Now, "the bored prostitute in her unmade bed is making its way to New York as a focal point of “Manet/Degas,” MOMA’s fall exhibition of "two city boys & the modern capital they painted." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/09/arts/design/olympia-manet-degas-new-york-met-museum.html
#modernart #artmuseum #artgallery #arthistory #potterdayart #modernist #realist #impressionism

meanwhile in #arthistory, the hopes that #artificialintelligence might offer a route out of disputes over attribution are dealt an early blow by two #AI systems coming up with diametrically opposed answers to whether #Raphael
painted 'Bercy Tondo'...

oh well, back to connoisseurship then....

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/09/battle-ai-rival-tech-teams-raphael-painting-uk-gallery-old-master

Your art history post for today: a sketch in oil paint on paper. A drawing or a painting? By Annibale Carracci (1560–1609), Portrait of a Young Girl, oil on paper, laid down on canvas, 14¾ by 10⅞ in (375 by 275 mm), offered at auction Sotheby’s New York in 2020, but went unsold. #arthistory

Charles White (1918-1979), Preacher, 1952. Pen and ink and graphite pencil on board, 22 13/16 × 29 15/16 in. (57.9 x 76 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. "Art must be an integral part of the struggle." - Charles White #arthistory #blackarthistory #blackart

This week I've been mainly reading no. 89.

James Elkins, What Painting Is (2000) is a strangely compelling discussion of the practice(s) of #painters using the extended metaphor of alchemy. Elkins manages to convince you that this is an interesting way of understanding what painters do when #painting by illustration of painterly practices & alchemic ones. Focussing on the surface of paintings, Elkins offers a idiosyncratic approach to understanding painting as process
#arthistory
@bookstodon

The Fauves, led by Matisse, van Dongen, Derain and others. It was an old boy's club, right? No. A new exhibition demonstrates how women were central to the movement—as artists, dealers, and inspiration. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/fauves-kunstmuseum-basel-2352990
#modernart #arthistory #artmuseum #artgallery #modernart #fauvism #fauves #cubism #postimpressionism #potterdayart

@philip_cardella based on actual events and real people. #arthistory

Your art history post for today. Both works by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) — first his sketch, then his painting “Arrangement in Black: Lady Meux.” The sketch: pen and brown ink on cream wove paper laid down on ivory board, Art Institute of Chicago. The painting, oil on canvas, Honolulu Museum of Art. #arthistory

Very stark. Very moving. Christ lying on a block, c. 1573, by Paolo Caliari, called Veronese (1528–1588), brush drawing in grey wash, heightened with white on grey prepared paper, British Museum, London. #arthistory

This week I've been mainly reading, no. 88.

Suzanne Valadon is not well serviced by
Catherine Hewitt's breezy biography, Renoir’s Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon (2017). It captures much of the whirl of her life & the succession of crises through which she passed, but the account of the #paintings themselves is relatively weak & without a good (other) book of reproductions to hand you'd be lost. Still if your interested in Valadon not a bad place to start

#arthistory
@bookstodon

Le prochain congrès consacré aux Danses macabres d'Europe aura lieu à #Brest du 19 au 23 septembre prochains.

Vous trouverez ci-après le programme : https://danses-macabres-europe.org/2023/05/18/xxe-congres-international-brest-19-23-septembre-2023-programme-et-inscriptions/

#dansesmacabres #congres #histoire #histodon #histoiredelart #histoiredelartodon #arthistory

During the 2023-2024 we will organise a series of unique encounters between experts in #arthistory and #digitalarthistory to facilitate convergences between these 2 fields. Each speaker will present their work and discuss how it can be improved through traditional or computational methods. The goal is to find common ground that can support the creation of new synergies between the digital and traditional approaches to art history

The first 'Lecture Series in #DigitalArtHistory ' on narrowing the divide between #arthistory and #dah will start on Zoom 08/09 14:15-15:45 with a great session "#AI for art history, art history of AI". Speakers:
Leo Impett and Pascal Griener. Information and Link: https://bit.ly/3EtZJyQ
Traduci post

"Culture is a weapon" Emory Wilson.
You likely know his work as it gained fame in the 60s as the Minister of Culture for the Black Panthers, but the style continues in a distinctive use of color, thick lines, blocking...

MoMa posted a link on their Insta to an interview and reminder of his contributions.
Figured some here would enjoy:

https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/939

#arthistory

A drawing or a painting? You decide: “Shah Jahan,” c. 1630. Hashim (Indian, active 1598-c.1650), gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper, 5.4 x 3.7 cm (2 1/8 x 1 7/16 in.), The Cleveland Museum of Art. #arthistory

Carpeaux, Why Born a Slave?, 1868. Bernini, Costanza Bonarelli, 1630s. 2 women, 2 busts, 2 male sculptors, 230 years, similar questions. Images 1&2 are a hot topic, too complicated for 400 characters, but I'm delighted she's recently getting the analysis she deserves. Images 3&4 make an interesting comparison. The latter was a lover of Bernini and probably the first time a woman was sculpted as sexually "real" in the West. Later he had her face slashed and was pardoned for it. #ArtHistory