Winter in Washington

This past weekend was the National Gallery Extravaganza so super museum time = super now. 


The Corcoran Gallery:

   
    Annie Leibovitz : A Photographer's Life

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/04_03/queenALMS0505_468x453.jpg

http://www.pfendlers.com/blog/AnnieLeibovitzTheWhiteStrip.jpg

These are great, however Leibovitz dosent figure out color until 2003, so a lot of her early color work leave something to be desired. Also her landscapes are out of focus and waaay too large.

    Ansel Adams : The Collective Works

http://www.corcoran.org/adams/images/Freeway.jpg

http://www.corcoran.org/adams/images/Monolith.jpg

Adams however is the destroyer of landscapes, nobody can touch him when you put him in a heavily wooded area or next to a mountains...totally sick.

Annie Leibovitz is also doing a whole bunch of pictures for Disney

http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/disneyparks/en_US/index?name=Gallery&bhcp=1

And on that note the following Disney things are awesome:

Enchanted

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/enchantedpic.jpg

They are also making a Rapunzel Movie

http://gallery.awn.com/data/521/Rapunzel-Unbraided.jpg

http://www.jimhillmedia.com/mb/images/upload/rupunzel_swing.jpg (AND YES!!!!!!!! IT DOES LOOKS LIKE FRAGONARD'S THE SWING)

And the Disney Princesses just got a little Jazzier

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17524865/

http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/arts/photos/2007/03/09/black-princess-cp-2633827.jpg

The National Galleries



Edward Hopper (1882-1967)

http://members.aol.com/ondinemonet/images/automat%20edward%20hopper.jpg

http://newcritics.com/blog1/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/hopper.ny-movie.jpg

http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2007/hopper/hopperinfo_fs.shtm

The only American Surrealist, the lonely dreamer of New England, The Lighthouse of the Soul on the Sea of Desolation

J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851)

http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2007/turner/turnerinfo_fs.shtm

http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/tinternabbey.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/images/multimedia/turner/horse.jpg

The Dark Horse of the Empire, A loyal servent turned dangerous traitor, the Darth Vader of the Royal Academy