Saturday, March 17, 2012

Heres a blonde joke enjoy

Did you hear about the blonde who studied for her blood test and still failed it
Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1, famous under its colloquial name Whistler's Mother, is an 1871 oil-on-canvas painting by American-born painter James McNeill Whistler. The painting is 56.81 by 63.94 inches (144.3 × 162.4 cm), displayed in a frame of Whistler's own design in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, having been bought by the French state in 1891. It is now one of the most famous works by an American artist outside the United States.[1]    
Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1
ArtistJames McNeill Whistler
Year1871
TypeOil on canvas
Dimensions144.3 cm × 162.4 cm (56.8 in × 63.9 in)
LocationMusée d'Orsay, Paris

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Mona Lisa
Italian: La Gioconda, French: La Joconde
See adjacent text.
ArtistLeonardo da Vinci
Yearc. 1503–1519
TypeOil on poplar
Dimensions77 cm × 53 cm (30 in × 21 in)
LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris
The Mona Lisa (La Gioconda or La Joconde, or Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo[1]) is a half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world."[2]
The painting, thought to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, is in oil on a poplar panel, and is believed to have been painted between 1503 and 1506.[1] It was acquired by King Francis I of France and is now the property of the French Republic, on permanent display at the Musée du Louvre in Paris.[1] The ambiguity of the subject's expression, frequently described as enigmatic,[3] the monumentality of the composition, the subtle modeling of forms and the atmospheric illusionism were novel qualities that have contributed to the continuing fascination and study of the work.[1]