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Picturing a World

Marie Egner

February 27, 2017
Tags: Women artists
Marie Egner, Self-Portrait (1878)
A post on Marie Egner at Lines and Colors has just introduced me to this artist. She was an older (and longer-lived) contemporary of the real Jeanette. Born in Radkersburg, Austria, on the Slovenian border, Egner studied in Dusseldorf and exhibited in her native Austria, Germany, and  Read More 
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Editing for impact

February 23, 2017
Khaan mckennai, oil on board by James Gurney
Blog alert: Artist James Gurney specializes in “imaginary realism,” illustrating prehistoric life and fictional worlds. His post, Courtship Display includes a short video that shows him painting a feathered dinosaur and explaining his thoughts about how to achieve effective results. I happen to  Read More 
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Suffragists in advertising

February 15, 2017
Tags: Suffrage
Blog alert: This image from a 1908 advertising campaign that never happened appeared in a Princeton University special collections post, Selling Cigarettes with Suffragettes. Irresistible to repost here, even though I don’t really have a point to make!
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Rune staves

February 12, 2017
Woodcut from Olaus Magnus, Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus (1555)
In connection with my post on Fanny Brate, I looked up her husband Erik Brate and ran across this 16th image of children being taught to read runes. Look! just as a boy learns from a man on the right, a girl learns from a woman on the left!  Read More 
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Nevertheless, she persisted

February 9, 2017
Yesterday, the Republican Senate silenced Elizabeth Warren in debate. Said Mitch McConnell, "She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted." 'Nuff said? No! Buy the t-shirt and keep raising our voices!
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Fanny Brate—Another one lost to marriage

February 8, 2017
Tags: plein air, Scandinavian artists, schools, Women artists
Fanny Brate, Art Friends (1885)
In Where the Light Falls, Amy points out bitterly to Jeanette that marriage means the end of a woman’s career in art. So it was for Fanny Brate (1861–1940), a Swedish painter who entered the Royal Swedish Academy of Art in 1880 and  Read More 
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Carrington links

February 2, 2017
Tags: Women artists
Blog alert: For two more excellent links about Leonora Carrington (in connection with a 2015 Tate Liverpool exhibition), click here and here.
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Immigrants

February 1, 2017
Charles Frederic Ulrich, In the Land of Promise, Castle Garden (1884)
Blog alert: I wanted to search out a painting to illustrate how we are all immigrants or the descendants of immigrants. James Gurney beat me to it in his post, Ulrich's In the Land of Promise.
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Surrealism—Leonora Carrington

February 1, 2017
Tags: Women artists
Leonora Carrington, Green Tea (La Dame Ovale) (1942) and The Garden of Cosmic Speculation

Things come together sometimes to open new vistas and set off resonances.

A few weeks ago, a review led me to buy Too Brave to Dream, a collection of previously unpublished poems that Welsh priest and poet R. S. Thomas  Read More 
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