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Month: October 2016

Georges Méliès and the Dawn of Cinema

Before we subscribed to Netflix a couple of years ago, it had been decades since I had seen a completeversion … More

Animatograph, Cinema, Filmoteca de Catalunya, Georges Méliès, H.G. Wells, jules verne, Kinetoscope, Melies, Montreuil, Robert W. Paul, science fiction, Théâtre Robert-Houdin, Thomas Edison

Detecting Inpainting in Artwork

If you’ve spent time around artists, museums, or artwork in general, you have probably heard the term inpainting. Simply put, … More

acrylic, anton lhota, art conservation, art restoration, dye, gouache, inpainting, isolating varnish, liquitex, pastel, pigments, synthetic resin, uv, uv-a, watercolor

History’s Stylus Remains Stuck in the Same Groove

The 2016 presidential election seems the most contentious of my lifetime. The amount of cognitive dissonance and outright hypocrisy among … More

2016, after democracy, bernie sanders, democratic party, donald trump, gary johnson, george monbiot, H.G. Wells, hillary clinton, jill stein, presidential election, republican party, watts & co

Allegorical Fame by Hyacinth Phileas Sobre

Allegorical bronze figure of Fame by Hyacinth Phileas Sobre (French, 1826-1902)   Virgil wrote of her Roman equivalent, Fama, having … More

allegorical, allegory, Appraiser, bronze, Fama, Fame, greek mythology, roman, sculpture, sobre

Evaluation of the Day: October 7th – Rembrandt van Rijn Etching

Studies of the Head of Saskia and Others  Etching by Rembrandt Harmenz van Rijn (1606-1669), circa 1790s impression on laid … More

art auction, basan, dirk soulis auctions, etching, head of saskia, mariette, rembrandt, rembrandt van rijn, watelet

Lewis Carroll, Salvador Dali and the Héliogravure

Today I had the pleasure of evaluating a copy of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, from a rare, limited … More

alice in wonderland, etching, heliogravures, lewis carroll, maecenas press, random house, salvador dali

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