Jul. 2nd, 2017

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Some places change more rapidly than others. At the Davis Museum, objects now seem to be arranged by period and geography, although there are a few rooms with out of place objects.

There's the first exhibiton on Carlo Dolci in the Americas and goes counterclockwise through his life and includes a sketchbook which he used to teach his daughters to paint. One of the things that stuck out in my mind is that his parents had different surnames so I'm thinking "oh, so they didn't adopt their husband's surname back in the 17th century" and that's not completely true. Italian women don't change their surname upon marriage. Interestingly, I found that Turkey forced women to change their surnames and my guess is that was part of a secularization or westernization policy.

The painting of David standing over the head of Goliath with a stone embedded in his face is in the MFA's collection. There's a painting with the souls in Purgatory and one of the faces in the fire is his own. There's a painting of the marriage of Tobias and Sarah obscured by shadow and there's a painting of the holy Trinity that got me thinking about when artists and pop culture started depicting God as an old man with a long white beard.
There are Piranesi prints of Roman ruins and works inspired by Piranesi; Daphne Wright's Prayer Project, which depicts six people of diverse faiths in prayer or in contemplation or in meditation. A delft vase made by the Dutch depicts what I thought was a tuatara but was meant to be a komodo dragon and a man in Chinese clothing riding a turtle because that's what happened in China.

There's a sea sculpture of stacked teacups fused together when the ship caught fire recovered from a 18th century wreck off the coast of Indonesia.

Benglis - Embryo 1 refuses to upload and I don't know why. It's not like I didn't try to gank it from the same site I ganked Reproductions of Art of Masters.


Delauney-Terk (try typing that with autocorrect) - Electric Prisms. Apparently this was at the Tate in London.


Koorosh Shishegaran - Reproductions of Art Of Masters. This is too small but I can find nothing better. Looks like Arabic Zapf Dingbats. Or actually Farsi Zapf Dingbats. Azeri if Azeri used an Arabic-based script rather than a Latin script.

It would seem that Jenny Olivia Johnson is involved with Andes Inverted at the MFA and has a new composition for amplified piano, violin, cello, electronics, and with the samples of TV sounds and fragments of 80s songs about sailing and water, it reminds me of something from systems/layers by Rachel's.

burning question: are anti-sjw people a bunch of schoolyard bullies who somehow aged without growing up?

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