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Our Final Great and Mighty Artist of the Day:
Purvis Young
Born Miami, 1943; died Miami, 2010Purvis Young lived in Overtown, a once thriving, historically black neighborhood in Miami that was decimated by urban renewal and highway construction in the 1960s. He never attended high school and in his late teens was convicted of breaking and entering, spending three years in a Florida jail. There he began to read and draw. He was particularly inspired by reproductions of urban murals in cities like Chicago.
Upon his release Young began his own mural project at a spot in Overtown called Goodbread Alley, hanging dozens of his paintings edge to edge along a dilapidated stretch of the street. His paintings address issues of racism, poverty, suffering, communal redemption, and hope for salvation. In 1972, the Miami Museum of Modern Art gave Young his first exhibition. Subsequently the artist’s work became well known and widely collected throughout the United States.
Image 1: Purvis Young in Goodbread Alley, early 1970s. Courtesy Larry Clemons and Gallery 721, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Image 2: “Jail Was Heat,” date unknown, © Estate of Purvis Young
Image 3: “Ship and Floating Figures,” date unkown. © Estate of Purvis YoungLearn more about Young and the 26 other artists in “Great and Mighty Things”: Outsider Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection, CLOSING this Sunday, June 9!
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Gold coin of Prakasaditya
470-500 AD
India
Gold coin.(obverse) Prakasaditya, riding a caparisoned horse to the right, wearing a decorated coat and trousers and a diadem. Prakasaditya is leaning forward, holding a sword in right hand pointing towards a rearing lion in right field. A bow is carried across the chest with string over left shoulder. In right field a Garuda standard.
(reverse) Laksmi seated facing on a lotus, wearing lower garments and jewellery with halo around head. Right hand outstretched holding a fillet, left hand, resting on knee, holds the stem of a lotus. In left field a symbol. Surrounded by a border of dots.(Source: The British Museum)
Dragon Pendant
4th - 2nd Century BC
Han Dynasty or Eastern Zhou Dynasty
(Source: The British Museum)
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A very intricate initial “B” (Bernardus) from Douai, Bibl. mun., ms. 0372, t. II, f. 004v.
Various beasts; a scribe at the bottom, a (naked) man wrestling a creature on top; flowers…
12th century, Bernardus Claraevallensis, Sermones ; Epistulae
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Jerónimo Jacinto de Espinosa
Fruit Sellers - Details (c. 1650)
Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
«– Want some melon?»
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“This is a photo of the Harpy Eagle, a bird of prey usually inhabits tropical lowland rainforests in the upper canopy layer. “
Composition abstraite, Tamara De Lempicka. American Painter, born in Poland (1898 - 1980)
