The main goal of this blog is to present the best image resources the internet has to offer to the MassArt community. Often the resources we find lean toward the art history side of the curriculum, but another important part of making art is seeing what others are working on right now at this very moment. Creating a venue for new art is one of the things the internet does best. I have a few favorite blogs that are constantly barraging me with new amazing work from folk all over. Booooooom and my love for you is a stampede of horses just to name a couple. I have a new favorite to add to the list Underground Art School .
UAS has set out to support art students, graduates, and teachers with a print magazine and a blog. There is an open call for work for every issue. Recent blog posts have both shown work and given job hunting hints. Check them out and maybe submit some work!
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The students have deserted campus. The first big snow of the year arrived under the cloak of darkness Sunday morning. The solstice came and went yesterday at around 6 P.M. and the VR is winding down for Winter break. Here are a few seasonal images to celebrate the season New Englanders love to hate.
Winter Night by Emile Branchard from Artstor
Momoyogusa, Flowers of a Hundred Generations by Sekka Kamisaka from the New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Winter on 5th Avenue (1893) by Alfred Stieglitz from The MassArt Digital Image Database
See you in the New Year!
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A lot of great image collections have been crossing my desktop these days, all of them worthy of a look around and a book mark.
The first comes from good ole Massachusetts, specifically the Peabody Essex Museum (which any eastern Mass. middle-schooler is sure to be familiar with). They have developed Artscape, an interactive discovery tool. You can explore the collections and book mark them for the future. The PEM has great early American arts and crafts, maritime art, and Asian art colelctions.
Sampler 1915 by Mary Saltsonstall Parker
The second resource is the Smithsonian’s Collections Search Center. Here you can search all of the Museum, Archive, and library collections in all Smithsonian institutions. The collections include Fine Art, natural History, Native American History, and the ever exciting Air and Space collections. If you are looking for images be sure to check the box to “Only return results with online media”. Collections can also be browsed by going to the the About page. The images are well tagged and cataloging making the site easy to explore.
Acysta integra Champion from the National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian’s Collections Search Center
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On Top by Juliane Shibata
Here in the Visual Resources department, we have never been experts on contemporary ceramics. We do have images in MDID and the library has collected quite a few books with faculty help over the last few years, but the collections haven’t felt complete. Now along comes Access Ceramics from Lewis and Clark College. Designed as a teaching tool and an image resource, Access Ceramics, collects images from Flickr.com and presents them in a fabulous interface. The images are curated by faculty, to present only images of great quality. This tool is a great model for what maybe coming down the pike in all sorts of visual disciplines. EXCITING!
Felix Oginsky by Gert Germeraad from the series Depicting criminals
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Do Women Have to be Naked to Get into the Met Museum? by Guerrilla Girls, 1989
The Graphic Imperative is a collection of sociopolitical posters by some of the worlds best graphic designers that has been touring the world since it started out here, at MassArt, four years ago. If you never had the opportunity to see the show the exhibit has a great website, with all of the posters and wall text. The posters will soon retire to the MassArt campus to become a teaching collection but for now we are able to browse the collection from the comfort of our office chairs.
http://www.thegraphicimperative.org
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Glass by Natalie Rose
Curious about what is happening on the 6th floor of Kennedy? The senior photo majors are working diligently as usual and producing some fabulous work. Luckily for us we don’t have to wait until the senior show or sneak in to critiques to see it this year. Fellow student Rebecca Buonopane is undertaking an extended project of compiling the work of the class of 2010. Each week she will feature a new student’s work and interview them about their current project. The samples of work will provide a record for everyone involved of both the work and process of the final year at MassArt.
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We have loved Artstor for a long time. It’s true, but now we love it even more. Artstor has just added over 1,400 new painting and sculpture images from the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. This is very exciting for those of us who are fans of art from the late 19th century to the present. The modern and contemporary collections on Art tor have never been its strongest, but this addition is a step in the right direction.
Homage to the Square: Two Whites Between Two Yellows by Josef Albers
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Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair by Paul Cézanne
I was walking by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, when Jonathan Richman started singing to me about the room where they keep the Cezanne. My iPod had selected “Girlfriend” by hometown heroes and proto-punkers The Modern Lovers. Don’t you just love it when your consumer electronics synchronize with you external environment? With Richman as my tour guide, I surveyed the progress on construction on the museum’s new wing.
“If I were to walk to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston / Well, first I’d go to the room where they keep the Cezanne / But if I had by my side a girlfriend / Then I could look through the paintings, I could look right through them / Because I’d have found something that I understand, I understand a girlfriend, ” sings Richman, providing us an emotional tour of the Fenway, our backyard. Unlike Richman, the room with the Cezanne wouldn’t be my first stop – I generally like to check out the special exhibits in the Foster Gallery before I do anything else. But I digress – Cezanne’s not going anywhere, this new wing is for the American collection.
The song and the walk reminded me to remind all of you, dear MassArt community members, to take advantage of the MFA being only a stones throw from campus. MassArt students get in with your MassArt ID and the library has passes that can be checked out if you want to treat your Mom to a nice Sunday outing while showing off all the fancy knowledge you’re gaining at school. Next Thursday, September 24, the Museum is hosting a College Night that promises live music, DJs, and perhaps most importantly, free Mexican food.
The Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Jonathan Richman – Girlfriend/Roadrunner live
The Modern Lovers – Pablo Picasso
Jonathan Richamn and the Modern Lovers – New England
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Check out the Library’s Main Blog for the upcoming art game show, JeopARTy.
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QTVR of the interior of Notre Dame de Haut by Le Corbusier
Perhaps someday I will happen to be in Ronchamp, France with some time on my hands. If this happens I will make a beeline to the Church of Notre Dame du Haut by Le Corbusier. Chances are however, that will not happen anytime soon. Instead I will take advantage of my favorite collection in ArtStor, the QTVR Panoramas of World Architecture from Columbia University. The collection contains 1,400 360 panoramas of some other the greatest sites in the world, from pre-history to the modern era. The panoramas allow views to see details that may not have made the cut for a traditional slide like the view from a building. QTVRS also allow one to experience how the various elements of a space are brought together in a seamless wa. ArtStor has teamed up with Columbia to create more QTVRs for the collection which as Martha Stewart would say, is a good thing.
To find QTVRs log into ArtStor and enter QTVR in the search box, to find a specific place, refine your search from there.
