Georgia Museum of Art (2/18/2025)

Tuesday, February 18, 2025 (continued)

Welcome (2023, by Gregor Turk using
security cameras) to the Georgia Museum of Art
at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA

Waffle House Vistas:

A video (2024, by Micah Cash) of Waffle House Vistas

The Awe of Ordinary Labors: 20th-Century Paintings from Ukraine:

The Soviet Union's official style of art was
socialist realism from about 1930-1980, as seen 
here in Shipyard (1960, by Heorhii Petrov)

Scene from World War II (c 1960, by Valerii Mashnytskyi)
appears to be influenced by ...

Barge Haulers on the Volga (1873, by Ilya Repin,
a forerunner of socialist realism)

Waiting (1945, by Ivan Babenko) is said to quietly
denounce the official triumphalist rhetoric, as not
all the soldiers returned to their loved ones

Portrait of a Young Woman (1966, by
Serafima Senkevych); artists were to
record "typicality" since individuality was
an undesirable feature of the bourgeois

Easter Still Life (1951, by Volodymyr
Synytskyi) is small because it was not meant
for public display, especially during the era
when celebrating Easter was forbidden

Lenin in the Hours of Rest (1960, by Serhii Lysenko)
presents Lenin as a relatable human being, even though
he is living in an appropriated landed estate

Autumn (1979, by Mykola Kravtsov) illustrates
the artist's native region with spectacular fall colors,
and in the background are spoil tips/mounds of
waste rock and soil removed during coal mining

Elders (1967, by Valentyn Chernukha) perhaps depicts
that people of all ages must do their share of the work

At the Museum (c 1950, by Stepan Holub)
has a painting in a painting ...

The schoolboys are admiring this painting,
At the School Doors (1897, by N Bogdanov-
Belsky) that actually shows a beggar who
is not allowed into the classroom of students

Beyond the Medici: The Haukohl Family Collection (featuring the Florentine baroque period):

St John the Baptist in the Wilderness
 (early 1620s, by Giovanni Battista Vanni)

San Sebastian (early 1690s, by
Onorio Marinari) is a rare painting where
St Sebastian is not poked full of arrows;
instead he holds his symbols of a
palm frond and arrow in his hand

Mercury (1580, by Jean de Boulogne aka
Giambologna, cast 19C) against a
backdrop of the city of Florence, Italy

Decorative panels with fruits and flowers
(17C, from Lucca, Italy)

Relief Portrait of Galileo Galilel
(c 1710-1720, by Antonio Montauti)

Harlequin and His Lady (c 1745, by
Giovanni Domenico Ferretti) are stock
characters of Italian commedia dell-arte/
comedy of the profession; of note is the frame
with children acting and playing instruments

Permanent Collection:

March of the Weavers (1893-97, by Käthe Kollwitz)

Taking Sunflower to Teacher
(1875, by Winslow Homer)

Taking Sunflower to Teacher close-up

Permanent Collection: Gifts and Prayers: The Romanovs and Their Subjects:

Full Dress Helmet of Her Majesty's
Chevalier Guards (late 19C)

Presentation cigar box with a coronation scene
and coats-of-arms of provinces (1856)

Pin with enamel miniature portrait of
Peter the Great (c 1872) and relief
showing Peter the Great's feast on
the battlefield at Poltava (1809)

Permanent Collection: American Highlights:

Quilting Scene (undated, by Pris Butler)

Mat (1990, by Rowena Bradley, Cherokee)

Silver Teapot (c 1820-1830, by Frederick Marquand)

Footed Berry Bowl (c 1890s, by Gorham
Manufacturing Company in Rhode Island)

Platter (c 1817-1825, by Davenport Ceramic Firm in
England) made for John McKine of Augusta, GA

7 Steps (1994, by Radcliffe Bailey)

Sound Suit (2017, by Nick Cave)

Sound Suit from another perspective

Window (1903, by Frank Lloyd Wright)
from Walter J Walser House in Chicago, IL

Evening, Dogtown (1916, by John Sloan)

Bucks County Barn (1940, by Charles Sheeler) is
one of his images of barns around Doylestown, PA

Taxi! Taxi! (1933, by Eugenie McEvoy)

Study for The Sun Bath (c 1900, by Mary Cassatt)

Permanent Collection: Ron Meyers Ceramics (born in Buffalo, NY and taught at University of Georgia):

Serving Dish with Hog (c 1980)

Jar with Lid (1994-1997)

Permanent Collection:

Medicine Bottle (c 1560-1580)

My House in Vernon: The Garden (c 1922,
by Pierre Bonnard)

Still Life with Pears (1888, by De Scott Evans)

Minnehaha (1868, by Edmonia Lewis)

assinajaq from Shining Stars
portrait series (2020, by Kent Monkman)

Andreas (2022, by Jane Manus)