Tag Archives: paintings

Fun and Games with Art and Maps

Posted on April 27, 2024 by Brian D. Butler

Backdrop Backdrop is a map based game which is somewhat similar to the very popular GeoGuessr game. However in Backdrop instead of Google Maps Street View images you have to identify the locations depicted in famous paintings by some of history’s … Continue reading →

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We can have our pick of seats…

Posted on August 8, 2021 by Brian D. Butler

“Edward Hopper’s New York Movie” by Joseph Stanton We can have our pick of seats. Though the movie’s already moving, the theater’s almost an empty shell. All we can see on our side of the room is one man and one … Continue reading →

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Reading Art

Posted on October 15, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

 

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Good Companions

Posted on May 30, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

Frank Morgan Good Companions  

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Garden of Earthly Deights

Posted on October 22, 2019 by Brian D. Butler

H/t to TBTP follower Milly R. for sending me a link to this mindblowing animation of  Bosch’s painting Le Jardin des Delices, which was created by Eve Ramboz for an eponymous show last year.

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La Sagesse

Posted on June 9, 2019 by Brian D. Butler

La Sagesse (1940-1941). Tamara de Lempicka (Polish, 1898-1980). Oil on panel. La Sagesse, or “Wisdom,” takes its inspiration from the Old Masters, all the while exuding Lempicka’s signature style. The layout and type of figure in this painting bring to … Continue reading →

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Film Meets Art

Posted on October 8, 2016 by Brian D. Butler

Britain-based, Azerbaijan-born photographer and filmmaker Vugar Efendi has created two terrific videos pairing scenes from films with paintings that provided the inspiration for the shots.

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Off The Wall(s)

Posted on May 5, 2016 by Brian D. Butler

No one seems to know who is behind The Canvas Project, which inserts figures from famous paintings into real world situations, but you can follow along with the rest of us on Instagram.

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Whoopsie Daisy Indeed

Posted on August 28, 2015 by Brian D. Butler

This week, a 12-year-old Taiwanese boy tripped on a museum display and accidently punched a hole in a $1.5 350-year-old painting. Flowers, by Paolo Porpora, is part of a traveling exhibition called “Face of Leonardo: Images of a Genius”. No … Continue reading →

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Set the art free

Posted on November 7, 2014 by Brian D. Butler

French artist and filmmaker Julien de Casablanca has created a brilliant interactive project for art lovers everywhere. Participants in Outings are encouraged to visit museums and use their phones to photograph “small, secondary and forgotten” paintings and to print out … Continue reading →

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