July Cross Currents: Summer Vacation! Take a break as works of art transport you on a trip around the world.
Gallery 203
Training with Curator Yang Liu on 6.27.24
Articles by Yang Liu:
Three_Eremitic_Pictures_and_a_Song_of_Despair
Fantastic_Mountains_Where_Man_Meets_Nature
Fantastic_Mountains_Chinese_Landscape_Painting
Essay from the Met: Landscape Painting in Chinese Art
From Khan Academy: Chinese landscape painting
From the Asian Art Museum: The Development of Landscape Painting in China through the Tang Dynasty (618-906) (in particular, note this statement: “In Chinese color theory, black contains all colors; thus theorists believe that people can conceive all colors in the various tones of ink.”
Lesson on Chinese landscape painting from Princeton, with some good questions under the “Lesson” heading: Chinese Landscape Painting during the Song Dynasty
Gallery 355
Worcester Art Museum Video: Matthias Waschek: Pierre Bonnard’s ‘Dining Room In The Country’
French Quarter magazine: Exploring the Intellectual Haven: The Legacy of Parisian Café Culture (Vuillard’s Place Saint-Augustin)
BBC Arts: The Pursuit of Paradise: Eight paintings tracing Paul Gauguin’s quest for the exotic in Tahiti
Gauguin, Tahitian Landscape (in /Art Adventure, People and Their Environments)
National Gallery of Art: Gauguin: Maker of Myth
Musee Giverny: Signac, the colors of water
PDF fact sheet on Salmon Fishers at Nesøya, 1891, by Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen: Eilif Peterssen – Laksefiskere på Nesøya (Salmon Fishers at Nesøya) – factsheet
Van Gogh, Olive Trees, ArtStory
Gallery 379 (Going on a road trip, boat ride, or scooter–in streamlined design)
Streamline Moderne: Speeding into the future!
From Wikipedia, a history of the Road Trip
From the Library of Congress blog: America on the Road: The Family Vacation by Car
Go on a road trip with the Tatra! Tatra 603 ad video (a later Tatra version, but good sense of how fast it could go, even in the countryside)
From Wikipedia: Tatra 87
Tatra ArtStory on artsmia.org
Classic Car Review: The Death Eaters, Chapter 1: Tatra T87
Skippy Racer Scooter history, with photos: 1938 ‘Skippy Racer’ Streamlined Scooter