A Fountain of Artful Links
Every so often, we like to share some of what we’re enjoying on the Internet. Recently we’ve been fascinated by some different takes on art history: reassessing authorship, peeking at old filmstrips, making paint by hand. Dive in and click away!
The headline says it all: “Was Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’ actually created by a long-forgotten pioneering feminist?” If you haven’t read this version of the story behind the first-ever readymade, it’s worth the time.
And hey — for those of you who enter our monthly shows, this is a good reminder that this important piece of modern art was rejected from the show it was submitted to.
Want to watch giant gobs of paint getting mixed and packaged? We thought so. Here’s how it’s made at Winsor & Newton and at M. Graham and how it’s made by hand with a glass muller.
Every once in a while, we’re contacted by someone who wants help identifying an unknown piece of art they’ve inherited or found someplace. For an expert guide to the process, you can use this guide from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
They lived so long ago that we tend to forget they were real people — but not so long ago that they weren’t captured on film. Renoir, Degas, Rodin, and Monet are all featured in these 100-year-old clips by Sacha Guitry, which show them at work and at leisure in their homes and around town.
What’s more fun than satirizing the art world? Parodying the classic Ladybird children’s books. We Go to the Gallery combines both in a fun little book that’s on its way to the United States.
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