Image title: Portrait of a Carthusian Medium: Oil on wood Date: 1446 Source: The Met Collection “ I can, therefore I am. ” — Simone Weil ‘I Paint Therefore I Am’: Descartes Reimagined Through Self-Portraiture Introduction: Brushstroke Meets Cogito What does it mean to exist? René Descartes famously Read more…
Image title: The Harvesters Medium: Oil on wood Date: 1565 Source: The Met Collection “ The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. ” — Alfred North Whitehead ‘Melted Gods’: Climate Change Through the Lens of Contemporary Sculpture Introduction: The Read more…
Image title: Sash Medium: Camelid hair Date: 10th–15th century Source: The Met Collection “ Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick. ” — Bruce Lee When Weavings Speak: The Visual Rhetoric of Andean Khipus as Proto-Art Introduction: The Read more…
Image title: Headdress ornament Medium: Gold Date: 100 BCE–700 CE Source: The Met Collection “ To fly, we have to have resistance. ” — Maya Lin Tactile Protest: Textile Art in Global Resistance Movements Introduction: When Threads Speak Louder Than Words Throughout history, textile art has quietly stitched Read more…
Image title: Joan of Arc Medium: Oil on canvas Date: 1879 Source: The Met Collection “ To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well. ” — John Marshall Celestial Palettes: Astronomy’s Influence on Art from Galileo to James Webb Introduction: Read more…
Image title: Young Lady in 1866 Medium: Oil on canvas Date: 1866 Source: The Met Collection “ The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. ” — Alfred Tennyson ‘This Is Not a Nude’: Revisiting the Read more…
Image title: The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment Medium: Oil on canvas, transferred from wood Date: ca. 1436–38 Source: The Met Collection “ Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. ” — Martin Luther King Jr. Ultraviolet Truths: What Read more…
Image title: The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil Medium: Oil on canvas Date: 1874 Source: The Met Collection “ The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. ” — Richard Bach Brushstrokes Behind Bars: Prison Art Movements That Changed National Conversations Read more…
Image title: The Harvesters Medium: Oil on wood Date: 1565 Source: The Met Collection “ I can, therefore I am. ” — Simone Weil ‘I Paint Therefore I Am’: Ontology Through the Eyes of Agnes Martin Introduction: Painting as Existence Agnes Martin, the enigmatic pioneer of minimalist art, Read more…
Image title: The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment Medium: Oil on canvas, transferred from wood Date: ca. 1436–38 Source: The Met Collection “ Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship. ” — Johann Kaspar Read more…