The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini Metropolitan Museum of Art Through March 18, 2012
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, in conjunction with the Bode-Museum, Berlin, has gathered over 150 fifteenth-century portraits: sculptures, drawings, paintings, and bronzes. Unlike most Renaissance portrait exhibitions, this one limits its purview to Italian artists and focuses specifically on the courts of Florence and Venice, as well as the princely courts of Ferrara, Milan, and Naples (the Met has supplemented the exhibition with some examples, from its permanent collection, of Northern European Renaissance works; not to be missed is Rogier van der Weyden's three-quarter portrait of Francesco d'Este (after 1475; below right), here displayed in a vitrine so as to permit a rare viewing of the d'Este coat of arms and dedication van der Weyden painted on the verso). This approach wisely narrows our view of this seminal moment in history, one that literally defined the...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, in conjunction with the Bode-Museum, Berlin, has gathered over 150 fifteenth-century portraits: sculptures, drawings, paintings, and bronzes. Unlike most Renaissance portrait exhibitions, this one limits its purview to Italian artists and focuses specifically on the courts of Florence and Venice, as well as the princely courts of Ferrara, Milan, and Naples (the Met has supplemented the exhibition with some examples, from its permanent collection, of Northern European Renaissance works; not to be missed is Rogier van der Weyden's three-quarter portrait of Francesco d'Este (after 1475; below right), here displayed in a vitrine so as to permit a rare viewing of the d'Este coat of arms and dedication van der Weyden painted on the verso). This approach wisely narrows our view of this seminal moment in history, one that literally defined the...
- 2/28/2012
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
With Toy Story 3 about to land at British cinemas -- it opens on July 23 (it has already earned more than $250 million in North America, which it did at a near-record-breaking pace) -- art and design writer Jonathan Jones in the Guardian decrees that digital animation, especially as exemplified by the works of Pixar, are modern masterpieces of fine art: t is time to acknowledge the Renaissance masters of our time. Pixar and other studios at the forefront of digital animation and effects are dealing with something very comparable to the problems solved by artists in 15th-century Italy. In the current exhibition of Italian Renaissance drawings at the British Museum you can see a drawing of a goblet by Paolo Uccello to which the natural reaction is "it looks just like a computer graphic". The reason it looks so digital is that artists such as Uccello were trying to turn their minds into computers....
- 7/2/2010
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
You only have to watch the 'making of' features on your Pixar DVD to see a modern Renaissance in progress
Andy Warhol did not know how near he was to the end of his life when he painted his own compelling set of variations on Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper. Or did he intuit it? His black screenprints reduce Leonardo's subtle tones to a bleak tearjerker, a grief stain. In an interview he said there were no artists like Leonardo any more: in the late 20th century those kinds of geniuses were creating haute couture, he observed.
There's some truth in that remark. If he was around nowadays, however, the pop prophet would surely see another, more convincing modern Renaissance legacy.
As excitement builds about Toy Story 3, it is time to acknowledge the Renaissance masters of our time. Pixar and other studios at the forefront of digital animation and...
Andy Warhol did not know how near he was to the end of his life when he painted his own compelling set of variations on Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper. Or did he intuit it? His black screenprints reduce Leonardo's subtle tones to a bleak tearjerker, a grief stain. In an interview he said there were no artists like Leonardo any more: in the late 20th century those kinds of geniuses were creating haute couture, he observed.
There's some truth in that remark. If he was around nowadays, however, the pop prophet would surely see another, more convincing modern Renaissance legacy.
As excitement builds about Toy Story 3, it is time to acknowledge the Renaissance masters of our time. Pixar and other studios at the forefront of digital animation and...
- 6/23/2010
- by Jonathan Jones
- The Guardian - Film News
The Prey isn’t a movie to be recommended lightly. You’ve really got to have spent some time mining the depths of the slasher subgenre in order to gleam any appreciation from this little oddity. It’s not particularly well made - padded to the nines with more wildlife footage than most nature documentaries and bogged down by the most lugubrious pace imaginable – and it fails at creating any substantial tension or suspense.
And yet, for all the valid criticism, there remains an allure to the proceedings that can be amazingly difficult to articulate.
A forest fire claims the lives of several gypsies leaving only a misshapen child to survive in the wilderness. It sounds like the set-up for a really bad punchline and, to an extent, it is. Thirty years later, six campers head to the North Point mountain peak for a weekend of rest and recreation only...
And yet, for all the valid criticism, there remains an allure to the proceedings that can be amazingly difficult to articulate.
A forest fire claims the lives of several gypsies leaving only a misshapen child to survive in the wilderness. It sounds like the set-up for a really bad punchline and, to an extent, it is. Thirty years later, six campers head to the North Point mountain peak for a weekend of rest and recreation only...
- 4/24/2010
- by Masked Slasher
- DreadCentral.com
Year: 2008
Release date: DVD Spring 2009
Director: David Gregory
Writers: David Gregory & John Cregan
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: cyberhal
Rating: 7.7 out of 10
An Irish village full of zombie-ghoul children in Michael Myers masks, a dysfunctional American family on a visit to the Auld Country to get in touch with their roots. And verily the blood did flow, and we did find it pleasing. You've got to check out (probably dead) Rosemary, the freaky eyed chick with skin that goes crunchy crunch when she lovingly rubs the hand of the live boy she wants to have a baby with. She's the one in the poster for the movie. Plague Town is director John Gregory's first feature and it's written with his mate John Cregan. For one million bucks they did a brilliant job, and I hope they do a load more, and people give them more money. Not everything...
Release date: DVD Spring 2009
Director: David Gregory
Writers: David Gregory & John Cregan
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: cyberhal
Rating: 7.7 out of 10
An Irish village full of zombie-ghoul children in Michael Myers masks, a dysfunctional American family on a visit to the Auld Country to get in touch with their roots. And verily the blood did flow, and we did find it pleasing. You've got to check out (probably dead) Rosemary, the freaky eyed chick with skin that goes crunchy crunch when she lovingly rubs the hand of the live boy she wants to have a baby with. She's the one in the poster for the movie. Plague Town is director John Gregory's first feature and it's written with his mate John Cregan. For one million bucks they did a brilliant job, and I hope they do a load more, and people give them more money. Not everything...
- 10/25/2008
- QuietEarth.us
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