Museums are magic places. They can take you back into history or forward into an artists imagination in just a few steps. This is the National Gallery of art in washington, d. C. Are many worlds to explore at the National Gallery. You can imagine yourself to be almost awhere. You have centuries to choose from. You can be in any mood. You can be any age. Theres Something Wonderful here for everyone. Im julie harris. I love to come here. Art is always an adventure for me. It makes me see people and places with new eyes. There was no such thing as a Public Art Museum 200 years ago. The only people who could explore art were the people who owned it. Sometimes in the gallery, i imagine that im walking in my own house. Well, in a way, it is mine and yours, too. All of this belongs to all of us. Ive picked some special things to show you. Each has something quite important to tell you. Art just doesnt happen, you see. It isnt created out of nowhere. Art reflects its own time, and it changes w
Before it is too late in life, and before your manner and taste were corrupted or fixed by working in your little way at boston. Narrator an impressive letter to a young painter and from the distinguished sir joshua reynolds. Could he be right . harpsichord continues John Singleton copley loved his country, but he wanted the richer artistic influences of the old world. Besides, talk of revolution was everywhere. Political contests, he felt, were neither pleasing to an artist nor advantageous to art itself. In 1774, copley left; it would make him a better painter, he thought. Sad for him, sad for america he never returned to his home. At 34, John Singleton copley was already one of the best and most popular painters in the american colonies. The Young American artist John Trumbull said of him, an elegantlooking man dressed in fine maroon cloth with gold buttons, this dazzling to my unpracticed eye, but his painting, the first id ever seen deserving the name, rivetedabsorbed my attention
Narrator an impressive letter to a young painter and from the distinguished sir joshua reynolds. Could he be right . harpsichord continues John Singleton copley loved his country, but he wanted the richer artistic influences of the old world. Besides, talk of revolution was everywhere. Political contests, he felt, were neither pleasing to an artist nor advantageous to art itself. In 1774, copley left; it would make him a better painter, he thought. Sad for him, sad for america he never returned to his home. At 34, John Singleton copley was already one of the best and most popular painters in the american colonies. The Young American artist John Trumbull said of him, an elegantlooking man dressed in fine maroon cloth with gold buttons, this dazzling to my unpracticed eye, but his painting, the first id ever seen deserving the name, rivetedabsorbed my attention and renewed my desires to enter upon such a pursuit. Copley had more work than he could do. Early in his career, he mastered the
Before it is too late in life, and before your manner and ste were corrupted or fixed by working in your little way at boston. Narrator an impressive letter to a young painter and from the distinguished sir joshua reynolds. Could he be right . harpsichord continues John Singleton copley loved his country, but he wanted the richer artistic influences of the old world. Besides, talk of revolution was everywhere. Political contests, he felt, were neither pleasing to an artist nor advantageous to art itself. In 1774, copley left; it would make him a better painter, he thought. Sad for him, sad for america he never returned to his home. At 34, John Singleton copley was already one of the best and most popular painters in the american colonies. The Young American artist John Trumbull said of him, an elegantlooking man dressed in fine maroon cloth with gold buttons, this dazzling to my unpracticed eye, but his painting, the first id ever seen deserving the name, rivetedabsorbed my attention a
Provided you could receive these aids before it is too late in life, and before your manner and taste were corrupted or fixed by working in your little way at boston. Narrator an impressive letter to a young painter and from the distinguished sir joshua reynolds. Could he be right . harpsichord continues John Singleton copley loved his country, but he wanted the richer artistic influences of the old world. Besides, talk of revolution was everywhere. Political contests, he felt, were neither pleasing to an artist nor advantageous to art itself. In 1774, copley left; it would make him a better painter, he thought. Sad for him, sad for america he never returned to his home. At 34, John Singleton copley was already one of the best and most popular painters in the american colonies. The Young American artist John Trumbull said of him, an elegantlooking man dressed in fine maroon cloth with gold buttons, this dazzling to my unpracticed eye, but his painting, the first id ever seen deserving