Word: lithographs
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...department-store sales. Thousands of people were snapping up presents at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's gift shops. Calvin and Sharon Petersen of Mantua, Utah, bought build-it-yourself paper medieval towns (price: $6.95). Cathy Smith of Medford, Ore., bought a framed print of Nathaniel Currier's lithograph The Favorite Cat ($38). For his mother, Steven Prince, a Los Angeles businessman, selected a shawl imprinted with the tree of life ($25). Says Prince: "Museums sell items of quality. They bring art to the people...
...lithograph on the left, the first illustration in the book, is a somewhat innocuous, though certainly abstracted and solidly-colored painting in which a woman appears to be sleeping on an island in the middle of a river. The opposing lithograph, however, from the end of the children’s book, when the narrative has entirely descended into an unsettling stream-of-consciousness, eerily depicts an androgynous but clearly co-ed pair of scrawny, nude adolescents standing in what resembles dream-like Garden of Eden...
...Raphael and the Fornarina” and Géricault’s 1822-23 “The White Horse Inn.” Set next to them are printed “reproductions”: an engraving of the Ingres (Pradier, 1827) and a lithograph of the Géricault (Volmar...
...lithograph of the Géricault emphasizes the further difference between which exist printing processes themselves: The impassioned detail that the lithograph crayon permits the artist to inscribe leaves this work somewhere between painting and etching. The dynamics of the painting (while altered) are amplified in the lithograph, such that we are even aware of background details in it that we have to return to the painting, squinting, to pick...
...exhibit places Bellows in the context of a long tradition of European artists’ portrayals of the ravages of war, including paintings by Edouard Manet, Honoré Daumier and Marie-Anne Collot. One Bellows lithograph in the series, “Massacre of the Dinant,” directly references works by Francisco de Goya, which are also on display in the exhibit...