Month: June 2022

• George Bellows: Last stop, 59th Street

  

  “Bellows paints the city in undress,” grumbled the New York Daily News, and they were right. But did the artist’s fidelity to the hard truth necessarily thwart his ability to create beautiful and meaningful paintings?

  Diane Tucker

  2022-06-19

  Art History, Ashcan School, Edouard Manet, George Bellows, Urban development

  Ashcan School, Edouard Manet, George Bellows, Great paintings > great stories, The Lone Tenement, Urban development

• Leonardo’s brazenly feminist portrait

  

  During the Italian Renaissance women were often seen as something other than themselves. In works of art, they were depicted as ideals, symbols, and allegories — even in their own portraits. Then one day Leonardo da Vinci said goodbye to all that.

  Diane Tucker

  2022-06-05

  Art History, Florence, Italian Renaissance

  Domenico Ghirlandaio, Feminist portraits, Great paintings > great stories, Leonardo da Vinci, Women as metaphor