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“All Things Living & Green”: Van Gogh & Frida Kahlo

Jennifer Rose Realms Of Gold May 26, 2015April 11, 2017Art exhibits, Coco chanel quotes, Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo Art Garden Life, Frida Kahlo self portrait, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Botanical Garden, NYC art exhibits, Van Gogh Irises and Roses, Vincent Van Gogh 0 Comment

“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street. Fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.” –Coco Chanel

“What is Happening” in New York City this summer season are two “fashionable” exhibits that are worth checking out: Van Gogh Irises and Roses at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx.

Van Gogh Irises and Roses

The Van Gogh exhibit at the Met brings together for the first time a quartet of paintings that Van Gogh (1853-1890) did during his stay at the asylum at St. Remy in 1889 before his death in 1890. The exhibition of the four paintings, two of irises and two of roses, was timed to coincide with the blooming of the flowers in the Spring, a period of time he likened to the “calm after the storm.” Calling painting the “lightening conductor for my illness,” Van Gogh’s art became “the first example of a truly personal art, art as a deeply lived means of spiritual deliverance or transformation of the self…” Read more

Journeying Into The Past

Katharine Rose Realms Of Gold January 15, 2015April 11, 2017American Wing, Artists, Founding Fathers, George Washington, Knights, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museums, Paintings 0 Comment

Two years ago almost to the day, on January 16, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City reopened the “American Wing” to the public after a decade-long restoration that included recreating the original frame for the “best-known painting in America’s best-known museum”: Washington Crossing the Delaware.

Measuring 12 ft. 5 in. by 21 ft. 3 in., it was painted in 1851 by the German born artist, Emmanuel Leutze, in his studio in Dusseldorf Germany. It entered the Met’s collection in 1897 after a much storied journey of its own, as told in the Met’s booklet: Washington Crossing the Delaware: Restoring an American Masterpiece. Read more