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“Caravaggio’s flower and fruit pieces, half-figures of frivolous boys and musical scenes are extremely charming and amusing, and their loss would certainly be perceptible. However, it should not be forgotten that after the few years in which he produced these youthful, bohemian canvases, he turned his attention almost entirely to the creation of monuments of devotion, all of which are permeated with the same desire to realize the unrealizable, to bring the miracle within the immediate grasp and understanding of everyone.” - Walter Friedlaender 

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philamuseum:

More Art Monday: Collection Travelogue

Some of the works in our collection have accrued impressive mileage while traveling to exhibitions in other museums. Check them out in this travelogue. Brought to you by ART 24/7

Image 1: “Lute Player”, c. 1620, Theodor Rombouts, Flemish
Now on view at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Distance: 214 miles

Image 2: “Face Vessel”, c. 1860-70, Attributed to Thomas J. Davies Pottery
Now on view at The Georgia Museum of Art
Distance: 728 miles

Image 3: “Christ Healing a Lunatic and Judas Receiving Thirty Pieces of Silver”, c. 1425-26, Francesco d’Antonio, Italian
Now on view at Palazzo Strozzi
Distance: 4,246 miles

Image 4: “Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War)”, 1936, Salvador Dalí, Spanish
Now on view at Museo Reina Sofía
Distance: 3,665 miles

Image 5: “Fountain”, 1950 (replica of 1917 original), Marcel Duchamp, American (born France), © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / Estate of Marcel Duchamp
Now on view at Barbican Centre
Distance: 3,546 miles

Image 6: “Wounded Soldier”, 1914, Marc Chagall, French, © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Now on view at Musée du Luxembourg Paris (official)
Distance: 3,711 miles

Image 7: “Ewer: Scene from the Triumph of Scipio”, 1875, Decoration designed and executed by Thomas John Bott, Jr., English
Now on view at The New Orleans Museum of Art
Distance: 1,089 miles

Image 8: “Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge”, 1879, Mary Stevenson Cassatt, American
Now on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Distance: 104 miles

Image 9: “Man with a Lamb”, 1943-44, Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, Spanish
© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Now on view at Museo Guggenheim Bilbao

Distance: 3,624 miles

Image 10: “Tomb in Three Parts”, 1923, Paul Klee, Swiss
Now on view at Fundación Juan March
Distance: 3,665 miles

nprradiopictures:

Todd McLellan must have a lot of fun at his job.

How else to explain someone who meticulously dismantles, then painstakingly rearranges hundreds of tiny parts of machinery. And that’s before he throws everything into the air.

The Toronto-based commercial photographer was the kind of kid who always took things apart, including an entire 1985 Hyundai Pony in secondary school. He said that if an object interested him, it would soon be in pieces.

“I’ve always had a technical grounding trying to figure out how things work,” he said in a phone interview.

That fascination followed him into adulthood, when he decided to disassemble 50 design classics for his book Things Come Apart: A Teardown Manual for Modern Living. The objects range from modern “smart” technology to older things that he collected on the street and at thrift shops. He looked for objects that were outdated but still functioned.

“I remember thinking, ‘Wow, all this technology still works,’ ” he said.

To photograph the objects, he first tried conventional portraits but found the results “boring and stuffy.” Eventually he decided to take the objects completely apart and lay out all of the pieces on a white backdrop.

Things Come (Very, Very) Apart

Photo Credit: Todd McLellan/Courtesy of Thames & Hudson

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