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April 24, 2016October 18, 2017 toniart history, artist, Latin America, Media, painter, portrait

Frida Kahlo, Animated Portrait

An inspired animation of Frida Kahlo’s famous portrait that was taken by her father, Guillermo Kahlo, in 1932 .  The animation incorporates key images from her works that also defined […]

April 23, 2016April 23, 2016 toniartist, Event, Media, Music Performer, video

Homage to Prince with Miles Davis

This is a Billboard article written by Natalie Weiner.  It is about the collaboration of two innovative icons of the music arts, Prince and one of his most powerful influences, […]

February 20, 2016March 2, 2016 toniArt, artist, film, Media, painter, US, video

Animated Short by Salvador Dali and Walt Disney

  Destino An animated collaboration between Salvador Dali and  Walt Disney.  1946.  

February 3, 2016February 3, 2016 toniart history, artist, Europe, painter, photo, portrait

Matisse Sketching a Nude

   

February 3, 2016February 3, 2016 toniart history, artist, Europe, portrait

Renior in His Studio

   

December 23, 2013 toniartist, photo, quote

artist at work

“If I didn’t have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think.  I would have forgotten my reason […]

September 10, 2013 toniArt, artist, book, religion spirituality

Boccardi Hebrew illuminated manuscript

The Jewish community of Florence  flourished in the 15th-century, their position closely linked to the fortunes of the de’ Medici.  Lorenzo il magnifico was their protector; he encouraged Jewish scholarship and […]

August 18, 2013September 27, 2014 toniArt, artist, film, painting, religion spirituality

Caravaggio, the film

I ran across this today.  British bio pic (1986) about Caravaggio through his work.  Staring Nigel Terry, classical stage actor of Excalibur fame. A retelling of the life of the […]

August 8, 2013 toniArt, artist, drawing, painter

master drawings of da Vinci

Da Vinci’s drawings were extraordinary ‘doodles’, ideas, life studies and studies for paintings.  I much prefer his drawings to the paintings.  Blaspheme!   Foremost, aesthetically.  But more importantly, to appreciate […]

August 7, 2013 tonianniversary, Art, artist, birthday, drawing, film, photo, Photography, video, writer

15 minutes

Andy Warhol birth anniversary.  August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987. He was one of the most successful commercial artists of the 1950s.  He began the 1960s  on the edge, avante-gard and […]

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