Thursday, November 29, 2007

A Moveable Feast


It's hard to explain this one. Beautiful? Haunting? Click, watch, let me know your thoughts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs

500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art.
This video progresses more or less chronologically through time from 12th c. through 1946.

Turn up your speakers and bathe to Bach’s Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, performed by none other than Yo-Yo Ma.

Want to know all about the paintings? I did, too. Click here for the artist, name of painting, and year painted. http://www.maysstuff.com/womenid.htm.
Now here's something interesting: 90 paintings of women, 2 painted by women. Discuss.

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