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1. DEYOUC_110729_002.JPG: William T. Wiley Robert Hudson William Allan A Window on History by George, 1993
2. DEYOUC_110729_025.JPG: The Art of Illusion Trompe l'Oeil Still Life Trompe L'oeil ("fool the eye") is a French term for paintings that attempt to fool the viewing into thinking that their subjects are real, rather than imitations of reality. Trompe l'oeil paintings thus render apparent a truth regarding all art -- that it is an illusion. Trome l'oeil still-life paintings date back to ancient times, when images of game, poultry, fruit and vegetables appeared on walls of Green and Roman villas to symbolize the hospitality of the owners. The ancient Greek historian Pliny the Elder described a trompe l'oeil painting competition in which the artist Zeuxis created a grape still life so realistic that it fooled birds into thinking the fruit was real. Yet, when the artist asked him rival, Parrhasios, to remove the curtain that seemed to cover the painting, Zuexis found to his amazement that it was a trompe l'oeil curtain. The quality of still-life painting was greatly enhanced by the invention of single-point perspective in 15th-century Italy and by new discoveries in the sciences of optics and biology in 17th-century Netherlands. Many of these innovations entered the United States through the 17th-century Dutch colony of Nieuw Amsterdam (New York City) and through 18th-century Philadelphia, the scientific capital of the American colonies. Tabletop still lifes of fruit, which celebrated the natural abundance of the landscape and evoked the sensory pleasures of food consumption were especially popular in 19th-century America and provided appropriate decorative motifs for the living and dining rooms where their real-life counterparts appeared. Similarly, paintings of dead game hanging on a wall or door had their origins in European hunting lodges, where such trophies would be displayed or consumed. In late 19th-century America, these hunt still lifes nostalgically brought to mind traditional male pursuits in an era when most men hunted and gathered at the local market.
3. DEYOUC_110729_029.JPG: David Ligare Still Life with Grape Juice and Sandwiches (Xenia), 1994
4. DEYOUC_110729_101.JPG: Dale Chihuly Prussian Green Macchia with Cadmium Yellow Lip Wrap, 1986
5. DEYOUC_110729_224.JPG: Gottfried Helmwein Epiphany II (Adoration of the Shepherds), 1998
6. DEYOUC_110729_252.JPG: Wayne Thiebaud Ponds and Streams, 2001
7. DEYOUC_110729_282.JPG: Mel Ramos Superman, 1962
8. DEYOUC_110729_289.JPG: George Hermes The Meat Market, 1960-1961
9. DEYOUC_110729_316.JPG: Wayne Thiebaud Three Machines, 1963
10. DEYOUC_110729_324.JPG: Samuel Walker Mrs. Mary Jane White (1873-1914), 1871
11. DEYOUC_110729_370.JPG: Mark Rothko Untitled, 1949
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Wikipedia Description: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum
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The M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, commonly called simply the de Young Museum, is a fine arts museum located in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. It is named for early San Francisco newspaperman M. H. de Young.

History:

The museum opened in 1895 as an outgrowth of the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894 (a fair modeled on the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of the previous year). It was housed in an Egyptian style structure which had been the Fine Arts Building at the fair. The building was badly damaged in the earthquake of 1906 and was demolished and replaced in 1929 with a Spanish Renaissance style structure. This building was originally decorated with cast-concrete ornaments on the fa�ade. The ornaments were removed in 1949 as they began to fall and had become a hazard. As part of the agreement that created the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in 1972, the de Young's collection of European art was sent to the Legion of Honor. In compensation, the de Young received the right to display the bulk of the organization's anthropological holdings. These include significant pre-Hispanic works from Teotihuacan and Peru, as well as indigenous tribal art from sub-Saharan Africa. The building was severely damaged by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. It in turn was demolished and replaced by a new building in 2005.

Collections:

The de Young Museum showcases American art from the 17th through the 21st centuries, international contemporary art, textiles, and costumes, and art from the Americas, the Pacific and Africa.
American art gallery

American:

The American art collection consists of over 1,000 paintings, 800 sculptures, and 3,000 decorative arts objects. With works ranging from 1670 to the present day, this collection represents the most comprehensive museum survey of American art in the American West and is among the top ten collections nationally that enco ...More...
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2011 photos: Equipment this year: I mostly used the Fuji S100fs camera as well as two Nikon models -- the D90 and the new D7000. Mostly a toy, I also purchased a Fuji Real 3-D W3 camera, to try out 3-D photographs. I found it interesting although I don't see any real use for 3-D stills now. Given that many of the photos from the 1860s were in 3-D (including some of the more famous Civil War shots), it's odd to see it coming back. Trips this year: Civil War Trust conferences (Savannah, GA, Chattanooga, TN), New Jersey over Memorial Day for my birthday (people never seem to visit New Jersey -- it's always just a pit stop on the way to New York. I thought I might as well spend a few days there. Despite some nice places, it still ended up a pit stop for me -- New York City was infinitely more interesting), my 6th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and San Francisco). Ego strokes: Author photos that I took were used on two book jackets this year: Jason Emerson's book "The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln's Widow As Revealed by Her Own Letters" and Dennis L. Noble's "The U.S. Coast Guard's War on Human Smuggling." I also had a photo of Jason Stelter published in the Washington Examiner and a picture of Miss DC, Ashley Boalch, published in the Washington Post. Number of photos taken this year: just over 390,000.
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