Music Apr 19, 2013 at 12:48 pm

The Great Music Writer Ann Powers, Nick Drake's Voice, and the Big-Eyed Shepherd Girl at the Frye

Jen Graves
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Three or four Canalettos (Canaletti?) that I saw in the Philadelphia Art Museum as a child. I loved the detail and intricacy.
Necktieknot on April 19, 2013 at 12:59 PM Report this
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That's funny. I also loved Bougeureau from the time I first saw his work in my mid 20s (a print from the Denver Art Museum hangs on the wall behind me). I toured a fantastic exhibit called "The Birth of Impressionism" at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, led by a Vanderbilt art historian. She explained that Bougeureau and artists like him were derided by their peers for sticking to the passe style of neo-classicism during this time of wild experimentation, even though he was far more successful than they (monetarily, anyway). He was, she explained, "the Thomas Kincaide of his time".

Ha! I still love my little French girls, though.
Christy O on April 19, 2013 at 1:51 PM Report this
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Charles Demuth's "I Saw the Figure Five in Gold" at the Metropolitan in NY. http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/sea…
J. Lasser on April 19, 2013 at 1:53 PM Report this
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neighbor kid had a huge Christinas world print in the living room. As an adult the sntimentality was too sticky to appreciate until recently. now I feel like it's part of me.
ry coolage on April 19, 2013 at 2:07 PM Report this
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Frida Kahlo's The Suicide of Dorothy Hale. I wish I had time to go to the museum every day like I did 15 years ago.
Superjivus on April 19, 2013 at 2:21 PM Report this
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I've always liked the works of Thomas Hart Benton. No specifics come to mind, but I grew up in Missouri, where his stuff was everywhere.
MacCrocodile on April 19, 2013 at 2:51 PM Report this
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My mom had purchased a lifetime family membership to the Art Institute of Chicago on the birth of her first child, for the princely sum of $100 1946 dollars. It Was a Simpler Time, so I occasionally took the el downtown and wandered all over by myself. Probably something pretty modern, like one of their giant Louise Nevelson sculptures or Georgia O'Keefe paintings.
LMcGuff on April 19, 2013 at 3:04 PM Report this
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When I was 14 I saw Picasso's Blue Guitarist at the Art Institute of Chicago and it cracked my brain open. I'm not a Picasso fan anymore but the experience will stay with me forever.
ingopixel on April 19, 2013 at 5:46 PM Report this
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It was endless love for a year or two, which is how endless love is when you're 14 or 15: Modigliani's women. Now they make me think of anime art. I still like his etiolated sculptures, though.
The Accidental Theologist on April 20, 2013 at 9:08 AM Report this
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"And your eyes, your eyes, your eyes, they tell me how much you care, ooh yes, you will always be, my endless love" Lionel Richie
alpha unicorn on April 21, 2013 at 10:12 AM Report this

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