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Ensor article and more!

From your colleague Kathleen Steiger,

“This ArtDaily Newsletter has a great article on James Ensor and an upcoming exhibit featuring the other copy of Intregue as well as a 6 minute video on conserving a large Japanese scroll at the MFA.  Both are excellent and worth the time it takes to read and view.”

Artdaily.org

 

Book Recommendation on Visual Intelligence

From your colleague Sara Wagner, a book recommendation:

Visual Intelligence     Sharpen Your Perception, Change Your Life     By Amy E. Herman

I mentioned this book after Jane Oden Stull talked to our class about touring with teens.  She mentioned the author who trains people (NYC Police, FBI, etc) to perceive and communicate better through viewing art.  She is an art historian who teaches others to hone their “visual intelligence,” a set of skills we all possess but few of us know how to use effectively.

Bonnard’s Dining Room in the Country

“An extraordinary loan from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, this work represents Pierre Bonnard’s dining room, along with his wife and cats, at his country house in Vernonnet, a small town outside of Paris on the Seine River. Rather than painting from life, Bonnard created the work entirely from memory, foregrounding his subjective responses over an optical experience of the interior and landscape.”

http://www.worcesterart.org/exhibitions/pierre-bonnard-dining-room-in-the-country/

 

Getty Museum theme books

As we discussed briefly in class, Mary Ann Wark discovered that the Getty has a series of books developed around themes that could offer some inspiration in developing tours–as well as having good research on the symbolism of many elements.

Per Mary Ann:

“Here are the ones I mentioned yesterday from the Getty Museum

Symbols and Allegories in Art
Angels and Demons in Art
Symbols of Power in Art
Artists’ Techniques and Materials
Music in Art
Food and Feasting in Art
Nature and its Symbols

There are a few more that aren’t out yet as I understand it….”

Interesting new information on Coffer with Print of Annunciation!

From your classmate Bill Wilson:

For my check out tour, I did some research on 2016.14 / Gallery 342 / Coffer with print of the Annunciation, and discovered that the inscription (page glued into the lid) is verses 4 and 5 of Ave Maris Stella – a popular hymn to the Virgin in the Middle Ages.
 
By the way, the last two words are not complete.  The “et” (and) shows up as an “and sign” (like a plus sing) and the “castos” is just a letter C.  Perhaps there was not enough room for the full word “castos”, or it was cut off from the original page, or it appeared on the next page — I have seen old manuscripts where words are split from page to page without modern-day-looking hyphens.
– Bill

AVE maris stella,
Dei Mater alma,
atque semper Virgo,
felix caeli porta.

HAIL, O Star of the ocean,
God’s own Mother blest,
ever sinless Virgin,
gate of heav’nly rest.

Sumens illud Ave
Gabrielis ore,
funda nos in pace,
mutans Hevae nomen.

Taking that sweet Ave,
which from Gabriel came,
peace confirm within us,
changing Eve’s name.

Solve vincula reis,
profer lumen caecis
mala nostra pelle,
bona cuncta posce.

Break the sinners’ fetters,
make our blindness day,
Chase all evils from us,
for all blessings pray.

Monstra te esse matrem:
sumat per te preces,
qui pro nobis natus,
tulit esse tuus.

Show thyself a Mother,
may the Word divine
born for us thine Infant
hear our prayers through thine.

Virgo singularis,
inter omnes mites,
nos culpis solutos,
mites fac et castos.

Virgin all excelling,
mildest of the mild,
free from guilt preserve us
meek and undefiled.

Vitam praesta puram,
iter para tutum:
ut videntes Iesum
semper collaetemur.

Keep our life all spotless,
make our way secure
till we find in Jesus,
joy for evermore.

Sit laus Deo Patri,
summo Christo decus,
Spiritui Sancto,
tribus honor unus. Amen.

Praise to God the Father,
honor to the Son,
in the Holy Spirit,
be the glory one. Amen.

A new insight on the Ship of Virtues…

From your classmate, Mary Ann Wark, a call to check out this article:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bernard-starr/five-stages-of-anti-semit_b_6707728.html

After Mary Ann’s checkout tour, a conversation with one of her guests on the “Vices” pictured in the Ship of Virtues tapestry resulted in some further discussion and research. The one pictured on the lower right may be an example of anti-Semitic medieval iconography to represent a Jew (pointed head, scraggly beard, and beast shape, with tail). Mary Ann is exploring further research on the topic and will keep all updated.

MN Original

Here’s a link to the website for the local TPT show, MN Original:

http://www.mnoriginal.org/

Local artists, such as Maggie Thompson, are profiled, with interviews that give great insight into their work.

 

Information on The Hmong Migration

Attached is a PDF with information on the artwork “The Hmong Migration” in Mia’s collection (The Hmong Migration by Cy Thao, 1993-2001, oil on canvas, 2010.55.1, G374). Suzanne Leroy received permission to share this from Joy Yoshikawa, who is the author of the PDF.

Cy Thao Hmong Migration