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Last Wednesday was the five-month anniversary of the first ‘Feel Art Again’ post on the mental_floss blog. In the past five months, we’ve presented over 40 different artists and paintings. So today, with the debut of our new ‘Feel Art Again’ banner, is a good day to take a look back.
September 2007
- “Two Men Contemplating the Moon” by Caspar David Friedrich
- “The Love Letter” and “Love Letters” by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
October 2007
- “Self-Portrait at 26″ by Albrecht Dürer
- “Mona Lisa” by Leonardo da Vinci
- “The Three Graces” by Sanzio Raffaello (Raphael)
- “La persistencia de la memoria” (”The Persistence of Memory”) by Salvador Dali
- “Queen Marie-Antoinette and Her Children” by Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun
- “The Champion Single Sculls” by Thomas Eakins
- “Portrait of Isabella of Portugal” by Vecellio Tiziano (Titian)
- “First Communion” by Pablo Picasso
- “Alfred Sisley and His Wife” by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
November 2007
- “Allegory of the Catholic Faith” by Johannes Vermeer
- “An Election Entertainment” by William Hogarth
- “Surrender of Lord Cornwallis” by John Trumbull
- “A Lady in a Fur Wrap” by Domenikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco)
- “The Child’s Bath” by Mary Cassatt
- November Artists: Part 1, including Giulio Romano, Henri Matisse, Alton Tobey, Norman Rockwell, Paul Signac, and Auguste Rodin
- November Artists: Part 2, including Camille Pissarro, René Magritte, Pavel Korin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Clyfford Still
December 2007
- “Madame Récamier” by Jacques-Louis David
- “The Feast of St. Nicholas” by Jan Steen
- “Skrik” (”The Scream) by Edvard Munch
- “The Last Day of Pompeii” by Karl Briullov
- “The Dance Class” by Edgar Degas
- “The Triumph of Galatea” by Jean-Baptiste van Loo
January 2008
- “Adoration of the Wise Men” by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
- “Joan of Arc at Coronation of Charles VII” by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
- “Unconscious Rivals” and “The Roses of Heliogabalus” by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
- “Iris Flowers and Grasshopper” by Hokusai and “Irises” by Vincent van Gogh
- “The Cornfield” by John Constable and “The Beeches” by Asher B. Durand
- “Lark” by Pál Szinyei-Merse
- “The Boyarynia Morozova” by Vasily Surikov
- “In a Shoreham Garden” by Samuel Palmer
- “An Enchanted Cellar with Animals” by Cornelis Saftleven
February 2008
- “The Bookworm” by Carl Spitzweg
- “A Virgin” by Abbott Handerson Thayer
- Art Theft special post, including Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, and Vincent van Gogh
- “A Young Girl Defending Herself Against Eros” by Adolphe William Bouguereau
- “Lady Lilith” by Gabriel Dante Charles Rossetti (Dante Rossetti)
- “Un dimanche après-midi à l’Île de la Grande Jatte” (”A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”) by Georges-Pierre Seurat (George Seurat)
- “A View of Tantallon Castle” by Alexander Nasmyth
- “Amor Vincit Omnia” (”Love Conquers All”) by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Study up, because you never know when there might be a pop quiz!
‘Feel Art Again’ appears every Tuesday and Thursday.
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I’m glad to be the first to congratulate you on your new banner and your anniversary! I can’t wait to see what you have in store for us.
posted by Tricia on 3-4-2008 at 9:26 pm
Did Binney and Smith have anything to do with the new banner? This is certainly more attractive, in any event.
I have really enjoyed this feature, and look forward to learning more about art and artists. Thanks for digging up these treasures and helping us all to appreciate them more.
posted by Tom on 3-5-2008 at 9:23 am
Call me a rebel, but I for one do not like the new banner very much. The thick, gooey paint certainly evokes “real art,” but quite frankly, I loved the old “Crayolesque” banner. I’m just not “feeling” this new banner.
That said, I do congratulate Andréa for five months of outstanding posts. This is a good chance for me to catch up on a few I missed. Thanks… and keep up the good work!
posted by Therese on 3-5-2008 at 12:44 pm
It has been wonderful to catch up on your previous entries in this series here. I just realized that on a previous blog comment, I requested Rodin and El Greco, which you have already included. How about a photo of a Rodin sculpture, though? And also some Toulouse-Lautrec, who you mentioned, but didn’t actually show one of his paintings.
Thanks so much for this feature!
posted by Ginny on 3-5-2008 at 3:54 pm
Ginny: A couple people have requested sculptures, so I’ll try to do a sculpture post, maybe Rodin, in the near future. As for Toulouse-Lautrec, we try to stick to pre-1900 works of art to avoid copyright problems. Most of his works that I know of are post-1900, but I’ll dig around to see if I can find a good pre-1900 one.
posted by Andréa on 3-6-2008 at 3:16 pm