April Brown Explorations in Art

  Neo Gothic St. Patrick’s Cathedral Architect James Renwick William Rodrigue 1851-79, towers 1888 New York, New York 5th Ave. bet. E50 and E51USA Out of all the pieces I selected for this blog St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York has my favorite outside exterior.  I could stand and stare at its details for hours.  The inside view of the rib vault doesn't even show from the outside.  My favorite part of this structure is the cutouts in the large circle window. The stain glass throughout this building is so colorful. This building has what my real estate agent calls gingerbread.  All those cutouts around the windows and steeples.  It just provides this cathedral with so much depth and texture. When lit up inside all the arches on the inside just light up the layers of lines and grooves.  This cathedral takes up an entire block of prime New York real estate.  I love how the shape of the roof forms a cross from above.  I was reading reviews...

  Welcome to my virtual exhibit on Art and Scientific Discovery in the 1700’s    The Landing at Tanna, One of the New Hebrides Painted 1775-1776 London, England, Oil on Canvas. Artist is Willam Hodges I selected this piece of Captain Cook because I love the artwork in the Captain Cook hotel in Anchorage.  There are several original pieces in the hotel of Captain Cook, his ships and his voyages.  I also went to Oahu, Hawaii this month and this piece reminded me of that location.  While in Hawaii I found myself wondering what the Hawaiians looked like hundreds of years ago.  In this era, this piece of art was created because of the discovery of new places and people that were discovered.  The world Europeans knew was growing and this piece reflects that discovery. I not only like the subject matter but love the idea that the artist William Hodges created works to show others what these places and people looked like.  It must have been very exci...

                                             First off,  I promise I am not a serial killer with my choosing yet again a decapitated painting to do my art review on.   I chose this piece because I loved the movie Clash of the Titans and there is a great fight scene in the movie with an actress playing Medusa.   I also went to nursing school and did post mortem care often in the hospital setting.  I find it interesting what artists get wrong and right when it comes to painting death.   Last week I analyzed the Renaissance piece the Head of John the Baptist, and after reviewing the Head of Medusa I noted one main difference between the two. In the painting from last week, the peoples faces were more expressionless whereas in this painting, the severed head looked overly dramatic.        While looking for a bar...