Don't remember seeing a 'Dorian Grey'. There was one painting that may have been an Albright. The model was apparently a svelte 20 year old, but the artist had transformed her into a puffy old whore/hag attending to her make-up. It looked like the kind of exaggerated stuff you see in 'hotrod art', but it was painted around 1920, I think.
You could swear you could walk into this painting of Paris, by Caillebotte, whose name has far too many letters to sound like some sort of martial art/aerobics.
Oh, and they don't have a picture of it, but they had a beautiful room of arms and armor, with the biggest-assed fuck-you two-handed sword I've ever seen. The haft was at least a yard long. I think you'd need that much leverage to swing the 7 feet of iron around with any ease. It was seriously just as long as the pole arms on the wall next to it.
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timeasmymeasure
Re: Chicago Art
Date: 2004-03-11 12:01 pm (UTC)Ah, yes, here it is. *Ivan* Albright
Since I'm poking around the art institute, here are some of the other things.
Cupid Chastised
Nighthawks
American Gothic (the display said that the woman was Wood's sister, and the gentleman was his dentist.)
Time Transfixed
You could swear you could walk into this painting of Paris, by Caillebotte, whose name has far too many letters to sound like some sort of martial art/aerobics.
Oh, and they don't have a picture of it, but they had a beautiful room of arms and armor, with the biggest-assed fuck-you two-handed sword I've ever seen. The haft was at least a yard long. I think you'd need that much leverage to swing the 7 feet of iron around with any ease. It was seriously just as long as the pole arms on the wall next to it.