by Eric Franklin on October 27, 2009
When Jan and I were in New York just last month, I loved how some of the large works at the MoMA were so aggressively raw and unframed. It turns out that there was a fairly recent decision (within the last couple of years) to show how radical these paintings actually are by removing their [...]
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Jackson Pollock,
MoMA,
NYC,
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by Eric Franklin on March 10, 2009
So you’re one of the heirs to a wealthy English family and you notice that this picture (which you’ve erroneously believed to be Sir Walter Raleigh) your family has been hanging for the last 300 years has a striking resemblance to a later, yet much disputed painting of Shakespeare known as the Folger portrait. Luck [...]
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Books,
history,
paintings,
portrait,
Shakespeare,
William Shakespeare