Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri

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Trick or Treat--Chocolate for this week's MAA Friday Feature! https://indd.adobe.com//f9eea324-fd84-44c6-ad8b-934bce5d2d

Today's #NAHM theme is karaoke party. Instead of music (iffy in karaoke), let's focus on the response to music. We offer Miguel Covarrubias' "Dancer" (watercolor on buff-colored paper, 69.1010). Born in Mexico City in 1902. Covarrubias moved to New York City in 1923 and soon gained recognition as an illustrator, stage designer and caricature artist. His art deco illustrations appeared in issues of Vogue, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair. His style reflects the influence of ...cubism, Mexican folk art, and the lyrical abstractions of Henri Matisse. "Dancer" represents a female figure simplified down to essential shapes. A rhythmic relationship is established between the sinuous curves of the dancer's body and lines that surround the figure. Covarrubias (properly José Miguel Covarrubias Duclaud) was also an authority on pre-Columbian archaeology, and his iconographic analyses of Olmec art led him to (correctly) infer that Olmec preceded the Classic period civilizations of Mexico, long before either stratigraphy or chronometric dating could confirm the sequence. His argument for the diffusion of cultural complexes from Mesoamerican northward (including the Mississippian-period occupations of Missouri) remained influential until the 1960s. #NAHM #ShowYourArt2020 #mizzeum #WhereArtThou #mizzouaands

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Today's #NAHM theme is "what's on my camera roll?" In my case, it's a three-dimensional interactive walk-through model of the Museum--something to keep my occupied in my copious spare time. Work in progress! #NAHM #mizzeum #ShowYourArt2020 #mizzouaands #help!

Today is the birthday of German artist Horst Antes (born 1936 in Heppenheim, Germany). We share "Figur mit schwarzer Kappe auf Ocker," (Figure with Black Cap on Ochre," a color offset lithograph (70.65), and a lovely example of his distinctive and iconic cephalopod Kopffüßler, or head-footer, which the artist developed between 1960-63, and has featured prominently in his work ever since. Happy birthday, Horst!

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Today we reject the #NAHM theme, "Crafting," with a work that challenges the dichotomy between fine and folk art, among other powerful messages. This luminous print (Faith Ringgold's 1996 lithograph "The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles," 99.1) honors noteworthy Black Americans as well as quilting and sewing, both significant art forms for generations of Black women. Each of the women depicted here represent critical achievements in different areas of the African and Black Ame...rican experience, such as abolition, slave liberation, political activism, and civil rights, as well as education, entrepreneurship, and philanthropy. The ninth women at the left is a fictional character, Willia Marie Simone, an amalgamation of Ringgold and her late mother Willi Posey, who was a fashion designer and master dressmaker in Harlem. Willia’s sunflower dress and the sunflower quilt assert a comparison of fashion, sewing, and quilting with modernist painting by the likes of Vincent van Gogh, pictured at the right. In the early 1990s van Gogh’s paintings were setting record prices at auctions. Ringgold is making the point that needlework traditionally considered women’s ‘craft’ or ‘folk art’ should be regarded as equal to the ‘High Art’ of painting, which has historically been dominated by men. Ringgold’s print challenges the way we value art both in the study of art history and on the art market. #craft #NAHM #SHowYourArt2020 #mizzeum #WhereArtThou #mizzouaands #faithringgold

"Why Does Art Matter?" Because art expresses the truths that words cannot. Because art connects us with the better angels of our nature, our loftiest aspirations, deepest hurts, and our remembrance of who we were, who we are, and who we seek to be. Because art is a mirror held up to our deeds, and a chronicle of the heights, depths and struggles of the human career. Because art celebrates beauty of form, of vision, of expression, and of soul. Because art changes lives. #NAHM #mizzeum #mizzouaands #ShowYourArt2020 #mumaa #WhereArtThou

Today's #NAHM theme is "Architecture." So many choices! But let's stay playful, and share Antonio Joli's mid-eighteenth century "Architectural Capriccio" (oil on canvas, 72.59). This architectural fantasy or capriccio represents an imaginary ruin populated by figures dressed in costumes that recall those of ancient Rome. The painting has been attributed to the Italian artist Antonio Joli, a Modenese painter who worked in Italy, England and Spain. Joli was a follower of the we...ll known painter Giovanni Paolo Pannini, to whom the Architectural Capriccio was formally attributed. Like Pannini, Joli was famous for his vedute, landscape views of picturesque scenes. Sometimes the views represented actual places and sometimes they pictured fanciful locations. In this painting the figures wear ancient Roman clothing, but the buildings represented do not correspond with any known architectural ruins from the Roman period. The grandiose open courtyard makes little practical sense architecturally, and would have had no clear function in ancient times. Aside from working as a painter, Joli also designed theatrical sets. He was influenced by the famous stage designs of Ferdinando and Francesco Galli Bibiena, who introduced diagonal perspectival views into theatrical backdrops. Such views add dynamic, dramatic qualities to set designs. Architectural Capriccio presents viewers with two such diagonal views using a two-point perspective system. #NAHM #mizzeum #ShowYourArt2020 #mizzouaands #WhereArtThou #mumaa

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Today's #NAHM-themed post is dangerous--"What's on My Bookshelf?" I'm not sure the interweb is that big. So instead, let's share a bookshelf work, and the cover of the book open at this moment. The work is a 1993 painting by Frank Holmes, "Interior with Three Oranges" (97.1), a hyper-realistic painting combines the traditional genres of interior and still-life while celebrating notable figures and achievements in the history of canonical Western art. The two works of art han...ging on the wall of this interior are an ancient Egyptian wall mural from the tomb of Nakht of Thebes, ca. 14251350 BCE (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) and a partial view of Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne, 152023 (National Gallery, London).These depictions doubly reference the notion of artifice, both as Holmes’s representations of representations, and as reproductions that could never be presented in this domestic space. Books bearing the names of artists and movements from the early modern to the contemporary period line the shelves, a checklist of masters venerated as artistic heroes. Other allusions are more subtle. The precise grid of vertical and horizontal lines in the nearer room, as well as the orthogonal lines of the foreshortened floorboards in the farther room, use Renaissance architect, sculptor and draftsman Filippo Brunelleschi’s one-point linear perspective to create the illusion of recession into space. Three oranges arranged across the canvas at almost equidistant intervals, and specifically mentioned in the title of the painting, are another Renaissance reference, alluding to the three golden spheres that formed the crest of the Medici family, among the most influential and shrewd artistic patrons in history. And the book? Angela Miller's wonderful "Empire of the Eye: Landscape Representation and American Cultural Politics, 1825-1875."

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Today's #NAHM-theme is "Creativity at Work." Watch this time-lapse video of Dr. Benton Kidd, Barb Smith, Matt Smith, Pete Christus and Museum staff installing the south bay of the Weinberg Gallery of Ancient Art. Video edited by George Sabo. #NAHM #ShowYourArt2020 #mizzeum #mizzouaands #museum