July Cross Currents: Summer Vacation! Take a break as works of art transport you on a trip around the world.

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Training with Curator Yang Liu on 6.27.24

Articles by Yang Liu:

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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

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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