Little Hokum Rag

Thursday, May 09, 2013

A Blue Ball for Today

"Blue Orb" by Amy Crehore 2005, oil on paper, image size 6 3/4"

Since artist Jeff Koons has a new show in NYC of blue balls (must be "in"), I am posting a painting that I did exactly 8 years (May 10, 2005) ago called "Blue Orb". It is part of my "Little Pierrot" series. Most of these paintings can be viewed HERE.

The Art of Amy Crehore

Wednesday, May 08, 2013

Yale Art Gallery Collection

Young Woman Reclining in Spanish Costume 1862-3 by Edouard Manet

This great Manet painting is in the Yale Art Gallery Collection. Check out the cat.

To see the collection online: LINK

My grandfather went to Yale, but I have never been there.

Would love to visit this gallery in person,

which has a superb collection of masterpieces, but for now,

I will be content to view the collection online.

Adam and Eve 1509 by Mariotto Albertinelli

LINK

The Art of Amy Crehore

Tuesday, May 07, 2013

Ray Harryhausen RIP

Thanks, boingboing.net

Thursday, May 02, 2013

Father of the Modern Comic Strip: Wilhelm Busch 1832-1908

Max and Moritz (A Story of Seven Boyish Pranks)

Wilhelm Busch was a German painter and poet, best known for his drawings and funny verse. His sketches with verse for weekly magazines are considered precursors of the comic strip. He really wanted to be a great painter like the Flemish master painters and indeed he did execute 1,000 oil paintings over the course of his life, living like a hermit.

But by 1910 (2 years after his death), half a million copies of his Max and Moritz from 1865, a black comedy children's story about himself and a real life friend, were printed in German.

The book was the forerunner of the Katzenjammer Kids and is still popular today in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

LINK