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Happy Birthday Mary Cassatt
Why Mary Cassatt is a big deal. Impressionist Feminism.
Today is Mary Cassatt's birthday as google will remind you. Here's a little bit about the contribution Mary Cassatt made to the art world.
Take a look at the image below. This piece titled "At the Opera" is one of Cassatt's more famous pieces.
Consider the way women had been portrayed in art up until this time. Think Anges' Odalisque, Giorgione's Venus, Manet's Olympia. Paintings and sculptures exhibiting women emphasized the beauty of a woman. The women are often
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Klimt Masterpieces Gone Forever
Today while in the Leopold Museum I came across full sized black and white reproductions of Klimt's "Medicine" and "Philosophy". Not understanding why the pieces were in black and white, my friend and I read the descriptions and realized that these amazing and powerful pieces were destroyed by the Nazis in 1945.
I don't even know how to describe how sad and depressing that is. Clearly, this doesn't begin to compare to the fact that the Nazis murdered and tortured millions and millions of human beings, but somehow it makes me mourn separately.
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A New Chair
In the past 100 years there have been a number of significant changes in chairs. Some of these were motivated by function, some by aesthetics and some were driven by industry and uses for new materials.
Some notables in this period include the Bauhaus Chair and Alvar Aalto's astounding Paimio Chair. And from this decade there's a new chair with a concept that is more astounding than it's predecessors. Tokujin Yoshioka's Honey-Pop chair is organic, biodegradable and will custom form to your body!
