Amedeo Modigliani in Worldwide Museums: 17. The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The 17th place I would like to introduce for this week is The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is the largest art museum in the Americas. The museum's permanent collection includes over two million works and is divided into 17 curatorial departments. 

Located at 1000 Fifth Avenue, along the Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan's Upper East Side, the main building is one of the largest art museums in the world by area. A much smaller second museum, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, houses an extensive collection of medieval European art, architecture and artifacts.

The Met Cloisters

The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 with the mission of providing art and art education to the American people. The museum's permanent collection consists of works of art from classical antiquity and ancient Egypt, paintings and sculptures by almost all the European masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern art. The museum also has extensive collections of African, Asian, Oceanian, Byzantine and Islamic art. It also has extensive collections of antique weapons and armor, musical instruments, costumes and accessories from around the world. The galleries in the museum feature several noteworthy interiors, ranging from 1st-century Roman to modern American design.

The works of Modigliani currently in the possession of The Metropolitan Museum of Art are as follows.

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Amedeo Modigliani in Worldwide Museums: 4. Barnes Foundation

 

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The 4th place I would like to introduce for this week is Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

The Barnes Foundation is an art collection and educational institution that promotes the appreciation of art and horticulture. Its founder, Philadelphia-born Albert C. Barnes, made his fortune by co-developing Argyrol used to combat gonorrhea and inflammations of the eye, ear, nose, and throat.

Albert C. Barnes

In 1922, he founded the Barnes Foundation to teach people how to look art. Today, the foundation owns more than 4,000 objects, including more than 900 paintings, estimated to be worth about $25 billion. They are primarily works of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and Modernist artists, but also include paintings by leading European and American artists, African art, antiques from China, Egypt, and Greece and Native American art.

In 2012, to better serve Barnes’s educational mission, the Foundation moved to a new building on Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The works of Modigliani currently in the possession of The Barnes Foundation are as follows.

 

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Interesting Art Stories: 46. Nighthawks, Edward Hopper, ACJ Art Academy

 

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Currently, I am introducing the stories about various artists and their paintings with the title “Interesting Art Stories”.

The 46th story is “Nighthawks” by Edward Hopper.

Edward Hopper

“Nighthawks” is an oil painting painted in 1942 by Edward Hopper, an American realist painter. It portrays people in a downtown diner late at night as seen through the large glass window of the diner, and the light coming from the diner illuminates the dark and deserted city street.

The painting, which is Hopper's most famous painting as well as one of the most famous paintings in American art, was purchased by the Art Institute of Chicago on May 13, 1942, a few months after the painting was completed.

Art Institute of Chicago

It has been suggested that the painting was inspired by Ernest Hemingway's short story, either "The Killers" or "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.” 

Ernest Hemingway

Some art historians have suggested that the painting may have been inspired by Vincent van Gogh’s “Café Terrace at Night”, which was exhibited in a gallery that Hopper visited frequently at same time he painted this painting.

Café Terrace at Night, Vincent van Gogh
(1888)

Responding to the question for loneliness and emptiness in this painting, Hopper said, "I didn't see it as particularly lonely, but unconsciously, I was painting the loneliness of a large city.”

In this painting, Edward Hopper posed for the two men and his wife Josephine posed for the red-haired woman.

Self-portrait, Josephine Hopper

The scene in this painting was supposedly inspired by a diner in Greenwich Village in Manhattan, which was demolished after the painting. Hopper said “This painting was suggested by a restaurant on Greenwich Avenue where two streets meet.” He also said “I simplified the scene a great deal and made the restaurant bigger.”

This very famous painting has been influenced on many works of culture and arts.

For the paintings, Hopper influenced on the Photorealists of the late 1960s and early 1970s, including Ralph Goings. 

Ralph's Diner, Ralph Goings (1981–1982)

Gottfried Helnwein's painting "Boulevard of Broken Dreams (1984)" replaced the four characters in this paintings with American pop culture icons Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, and Elvis Presley.

Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Gottfried Helnwein (1984)

For the films, Hopper was an avid moviegoer and critics mentioned that his paintings resembled film stills. 

This painting and his works, such as “Night Shadows (1921),” resemble the look of film noir, in which Hopper may have been influenced.

Night Shadows, Edward Hopper (1921)

Hopper influenced on the musical film "Pennies from Heaven (1981)," for which the film's production designer Ken Adam recreated this painting as a film set. 

Pennies from Heaven (1981)

Director Wim Wenders recreated this painting as the set for a film-within-a-film in “The End of Violence (1997).”

The End of Violence (1997)

For the music, the title, cover and lyrics of Tom Waits' album “Nighthawks at the Diner (1975)” were inspired by this painting.

Nighthawks at the Diner, Tom Waits (1975)

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The Stories about Music Films: 40. Danny Collins (2015)

 

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Title: Danny Collins

Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Country: United States

Language: English

Running time: 107 minutes

Release date: March 20, 2015

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Director: Dan Fogelman

Producer: Nimitt Mankad, Jessie Nelson, Denise Di Novi, Shivani Rawat

Written by: Dan Fogelman

Music: Ryan Adams, Theodore Shapiro

Cinematography: Steve Yedlin

Edited by: Julie Monroe

Cast

Al Pacino as Danny Collins

Annette Bening as Mary Sinclair

Jennifer Garner as Samantha Leigh Donnelly

Bobby Cannavale as Tom Donnelly

Christopher Plummer as Frank Grubman

Summary

"Danny Collins" is a 2015 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Dan Fogelman in his feature directorial debut. Inspired by the true story of folk singer Steve Tilston, the film starred Al Pacino, Annette Bening, Jennifer Garner, Bobby Cannavale, and Christopher Plummer. This film made Al Pacino nominated for Best Actor in the Motion Picture Musical or Comedy category at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards.

Steve Tilston

The story of the film is based on a real-life situation in which John Lennon and Yoko Ono wrote a letter to the English folk singer Steve Tilston in 1971, but the letter remained unknown to him for 34 years. The real letter was signed as "John + Yoko" while the letter in the film was signed as "John".

John Lennon and Yoko Ono

Movie Review

“Surprisingly good”

“A Beautiful Film! Pacino Shines”

“Another treat from the ever-impressive Pacino”

“Intellectually and Emotionally Stimulating Film”

“A Movie For Anyone That Loves John Lennon”

“Charming, funny, moving. Pacino was fantastic”

Interesting stories about the film

1. This film is inspired by the story of singer Steve Tilston, who learned of the existence of a letter that John Lennon had written to him 34 years after the letter was written.

2. The beginning of the film’s concert footage was shot at a Los Angeles concert by the band Chicago.

3. Dan Fogelman had Al Pacino in mind for Danny Collins’ role while writing the script. Al Pacino agreed with the role, with one request that Bobby Cannavale play his son.

4. The photos on the wall of Collins' house are all pictures from the movies that Al Pacino has previously appeared, including The Godfather and Serpico.

The Godfather (1972)

Serpico (1973)

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