Image title: The Birth of the Virgin Medium: Tempera and oil on wood Date: 1467 Source: The Met Collection “ I can, therefore I am. ” — Simone Weil ‘I Paint Therefore I Am’: Cartesian Philosophy in Abstract Expressionism Introduction: A Brush with Philosophy The phrase “I think, Read more…
Image title: Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560) Medium: Oil and gold on oak Date: 1532 Source: The Met Collection “ I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars; I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over. ” — Warren Buffett The Studio Inside the Prison: Read more…
Image title: Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun Medium: Oil on canvas Date: 1658 Source: The Met Collection “ Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things. Read more…
Image title: Saint Jerome in the Wilderness Medium: Marble Date: ca. 1470 Source: The Met Collection “ When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. ” — John F. Kennedy Written in Flesh: Tattooing as Sculpture in Read more…
Image title: The Harvesters Medium: Oil on wood Date: 1565 Source: The Met Collection “ Life a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of the future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter. ” — Charles Lindbergh Brushstrokes on Read more…
Image title: Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560) Medium: Oil and gold on oak Date: 1532 Source: The Met Collection “ The wisest men follow their own direction. ” — Euripides “The Frame Is a Lie”: Meta-Artworks That Break Their Own Borders Introduction: Frame as Fiction The frame Read more…
Image title: The Adoration of the Magi Medium: Distemper on canvas Date: 1472–74 Source: The Met Collection “ All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. ” — Pablo Picasso Postcards from the Apocalypse: Visual Artists React to Climate Crisis Read more…
Image title: Portrait of Napoleon I Medium: Wool, silk, silver-gilt thread (26-28 warps per inch, 10-12 per cm.); gilded pine frame Date: designed 1805, woven 1808–11 Source: The Met Collection “ This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to Read more…
Image title: The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John Medium: Oil on canvas Date: ca. 1624–25 Source: The Met Collection “ When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself. ” — The Buddha After the Fall: Reimagining Classical Sculpture Through Read more…
Image title: The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke Medium: Gilded silver, gold, enamel worked in cloisonné, and niello Date: early 9th century Source: The Met Collection “ I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ” — Confucius Pixels and Saints: AI Reimagines Medieval Read more…