Album Cover
Album: The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
Released: December 6, 1968
Cover Art Designer: Barry Feinstein
Source: Wikipedia
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
Monday, December 5, 2022
George Shepherd
Art Appreciation
Born on December 5, 1784, George "Sidney" Shepherd was a British topographical, architectural and landscape painter.
He lived in France up until the start of the French Revolutionary War when he moved back to Britain in 1793. At the age of 19, Shepherd was recognized by the Society of Arts with the silver palette.
He was a contributor to John Britton's The Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain, vol IV, and provided illustration to Charles Clarke and Rudolph Ackermann.
In 1831, Shepherd was a founding member of the New Society of Painters in Watercolours (now known as the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours).
Aldermaston (1819)
Red Line Square (1815)
The Serpentine, Hyde Park
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Wikipedia
Wikimedia
https://www.carters.com.au/index.cfm/item/785765-george-shepherd-1784-1862-red-line-square-w-c-1-1815-watercolour/
Sunday, December 4, 2022
Rudolf Hausner
Art Appreciation
Considered "the first psychoanalytical painter" and "psychic realist," Austrian artist Rudolf Hausner was born on December 4, 1914.
At the age of 17, Hausner studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1931 until 1936. He was then drafted into the Austrian Armed Forces. After the German annexation of Austria (Anschluss), his painting was banned from being exhibited by the Reich Chamber of Culture and considered degenerate art.
In 1941, Hausner was drafted into the German Armed Forces, but dismissed a few years later by the Wehrmacht (the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany). He was employed as a technical draftsman in the armaments industry.
Following World War II, Hausner returned to Vienna and resumed work as an artist. Along with Edgar Jené, Ernst Fuchs, Helmut Leherb, Wolfgang Hutter, and Fritz Janschka, he founded a surrealist group in 1946. Around this time, he produced metaphysical art (pittura metafiscia) and psychoanalytical art. A characteristic of his painting technique was the use of translucent resin oil paintings over underpainting of acrylic paints.
Hausner exhibited for the first time in a group exhibition at the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere in Vienna, which opened the door to international exhibitions. He gave lectures and accepted guest lecture positions in Hamburg and Tokyo. In 1959, he co-founded the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism.
From 1966 until 1980, he was a guest professor at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg, and taught at he Academy of Fine Arts Vienna since 1968.
Self-Examination, 1984
Gelber Narrenhut, 1974
The Ark of Odysseus, 1948-1956
Sources:
Wikipedia
http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/02/05/the-art-of-rudolf-hausner-1914-1995/
http://www.artnet.com/artists/rudolf-hausner/
Saturday, December 3, 2022
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Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Adele - Rolling in the Deep
Music Appreciation
Written by Adele and Paul Epworth, Rolling in the Deep was released on November 29, 2010. The lead single and opening track received critical acclaim, reaching number one on many Billboard charts and received a Grammy for Song of the Year.
Epworth and Adele composed the song one afternoon following Adele's breakup with her boyfriend. In an interview with Caroline Sanderson of The Independent, she explained, "[it was my reaction to] being told that my life was going to be boring and lonely and rubbish, and that I was a weak person if I didn't stay in the relationship. I was very insulted, and I wrote that as a sort of 'fuck you'."
Sam Brown directed the music video, which begins with Adele sitting in a chair inside an abandoned house. The video switches between various rooms that includes glass water, a pile of china dishes, a drummer, a cityscape model, and choreographer Jennifer White (IG: movejenmov) dancing in white powder.
The music video won a Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video and the MTV Video Music Awards for Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, and Best Editing.
via Adele
Sources:
Wikipedia
https://www.famousbirthdays.com/songs/rolling-in-the-deep-adele.html
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