Caravaggio
Throughout the duration of my scholarly (lol) career at St. John's I had a professor named Conney Frisk (sp?) who taught art. When I signed up for the class, I figured it would be drawing (which I happen to be good at) and smooth sailing. Little did I know this "Art" course would be more work than any other course I had that semester. CRAZY. Homegirl had us memorizing slides of paintings, the name of the fricking artist and the time they were prevalent. Needless to say I absolutely hated this class, went madddd hard, took a trip to many museums to write these papers and I got a damn A-. BOOOOOOOOOOO.
But when I saw a new Caravaggio painting I was hype because a. I knew who he was, b. I knew he was from the Baroque period and c. I could identify 2 of his paintings(the musician, boy with a basket of fruit) Although when we studied him I thought he was a little .. on the crazy side because he never painted women unless they were destroying men and he liked painting little boys.. (hmm) Anyway according to various news sources a new painting said to be done by him has come about and has the art world in a frenzy! Although the Washington Post reports that the final verdict on this painting is in, the art officials have really yet to come to a general consensus.
image from AP via yahoo
But when I saw a new Caravaggio painting I was hype because a. I knew who he was, b. I knew he was from the Baroque period and c. I could identify 2 of his paintings(the musician, boy with a basket of fruit) Although when we studied him I thought he was a little .. on the crazy side because he never painted women unless they were destroying men and he liked painting little boys.. (hmm) Anyway according to various news sources a new painting said to be done by him has come about and has the art world in a frenzy! Although the Washington Post reports that the final verdict on this painting is in, the art officials have really yet to come to a general consensus.
image from AP via yahoo
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