Artist: Fan: Mechanical ( - )
Artworks in Museum Collections: (22)
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Fan: Mechanical, 1870 - 1880
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Roger Boyce, "Mechanical Excellence Is the Only Vehicle of Genius" (Blake), 1984
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Isaiah West Taber, Allegorical Fountain and Mechanical Arts Building, 1894
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Artist: Eduardo Paolozzi Title: Biological Mechanical Synthesis Date: 20th century Medium: pen, brush and black
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The Elephant Clock: Leaf from the Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by
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The Castle Water Clock, from Al-Jazari"s "Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices" Manuscript page
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Mechanical Writing and Toilet Table
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Device for Display at a Drinking Party, from a manuscrip. of al-Jazari"s "Book of Knowledge
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Long Case Musical Clock
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Claes Oldenburg, Ice Bag -- Scale B, 1971
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K‰the Kollwitz, Tod und Frau (Death and the Woman), 1910
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Virgin and Child, ca. 1490 Workshop of Hans Memling (Netherlandish, active about 1465, died 1494)Oil
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The Ponds at Obtevoz, Rhône
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Ugo Da Carpi, Aeneas and Anchises, after Ugo da Carpi"s woodblock print after Raphael, circa 19th century
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Salvator Mundi, 1475-99 Workshop of Hans Memling (Netherlandish, active about 1465, died 1494)Oil on wood;
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Model in a White Dress with Studio Easel
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Jean Monet (1867-1913) on His Hobby Horse, 1872 Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)Oil on canvas; 23
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Rolltop Desk
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Artist: Grace Hartigan Title: Billboard Date: 1957 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: H.78-1/2 x W.87
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Cylinder-fall Desk with Cabinet Top, 18th century (ca. 1776-78) David Roentgen (1743-1807; master 1780), MakerGerman
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Secrétaire
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Morte d"Arthur, 1893 Author: Sir Thomas Malory (British, 15th century); Illustrator: Aubrey Beardsley (British, 1872-1898)London:

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Mobius: Barry Freedland: Painting Machine
Painting Machine is a motorized, mechanical like structure that explores the relationship between artist and audience in creating art. The artist's earlier works, many invented mechanical devices, also make reference to popular culture and...
intima virtual base: gsm.art
gsm.art.concept internet registration + information interface + database a mobile | handy | cellular - [net.based] art.action: intimate wireless communication. basic purpose = break the lonely-xxx + create a wireless + inter...
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts: ARTNOW: Arthur Ganson
This ARTNOW exhibition will feature about twenty works by Ganson, whose art has been called, pure aesthetic whimsy, as rendered by delicately engineered gears, gizmos, wheels and wires. ...
Sarreguemines Faience & Majolica Museums: MECANOFOLIE
The world of this sculptor is inhabited by hybrid creatures with suggestive names, such as Métaphoreuse, Cyclotron and Viole de Gambettes. An intricate tangle of bodies, animals and heavy mechanical parts, his ceramic chime...
Katonah Museum of Art: The Art of the Puzzle: Astounding and Confounding
The second half of this exhibition traces the evolution of the jigsaw puzzle, a long-lived favorite dating from 1760, ...
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art: Pamela Joseph: Sideshow of the Absurd
The second venue will be at the Northern Indiana Arts Association in Munster, IL from July 1 - September 2. The third venue will be at the Jonson Gallery at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque showing from November 13 until January 18, 20...
Tatar Gallery: Robert Davies: Chromogenesis
Conceptually, Chromogenesis marks Davies’ skilful resolution of major challenges in contemporary abstract art. The works pay homage to earlier colour field artists Ellsworth Kelly and Joseph Albers, and the erudite writings of theorist John Gage (...
Jack Straw Foundation and New Media Gallery: Archival Investigations: Early Electro-mechanical Sound Works and Artifacts from Trimpin’s First Five Years in Seattle
Surveying these early contraptions and assemblages – playful jumbles of cannibalized analog circuitry, toys, household objects, and motors – Archival Investigations reveals that Trimpin was already thinking digitally, making brilliant (mis)use of ...
Surrey Art Gallery: Digital Media Call for Proposals: Surrey Art Gallery's TechLab
The TechLab is a facility of the Surrey Art Gallery, designed specifically to support production, presentation and experimentation in electronic media art forms. This includes exhibitions as well as the use of the Lab as an artist's studio, whe...
Minneapolis INstitute of Arts: Quality Control: Ruthann Godollei, Alexa Horochowski, Lee Anne Swanson, and Carolyn Swiszcz
Ruthann Godollei decodes patterns of family and social dysfunction in sparse, scratchboard drawings and monoprints. Alexa Horochowski scrutinizes the institution of marriage in a mu...
Irish Musuem of Modern Art: Olafur Eliasson : The Curious Garden
In this, his first exhibition in Ireland, Eliasson takes advantage of the spaces and courtyard at IMMA to present a series of interrelated installations , each creating a different sensatio...
Austin Museum of Art: Luca Buvoli: Flying--Practical Training for Beginners
In this exhibition, which includes his latest animated film as well as sculptural displays and hand-drawn diagrams, Buvoli explores one of man's most ancient dreams, the ability to fly without the aid of mechanical devices. For thi...
Northern Indiana Arts Association: Sideshow of the Absurd: Art by Pamela Joseph
The inaugural venue was at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art on January 12 with the largest attendance in the history of the Museum. The Sideshow will be on exhibit at the Jonson Gallery at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque from N...
shift e.V.: Barak Bar-Am: Hebeschiebewerk
The installation Hebeschiebewerk consists of several elements: 'CPU ATRIUM' basic shape is that of a large simple box with P.V.C surfaces on all 4 sides. The top has been removed to allow us to view its inner structure. The work invites the spe...
University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong: Norman W. M. Ko: 25 Years in Retrospect
A representative figure in contemporary Hong Kong sculpture, Ko is a founder member of the Hong Kong Sculptors Association, alongside veteran artists Cheung Yee and Van Lau in 1982, the first local group of its kind. Around 80 examples of his w...
Vancouver Art Gallery: The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture
Modern culture’s representation of the cyborg shuttles between a celebratory fascination with the machine and an intense anxiety around masculinity and mechanical equipment. Key historical works will include a 19th century automaton, 19th Century...
Plains Art Museum: Claire Corey: The Verge
Intrigued, she pursued this "misuse" of the computer's programming, and began to create her own work using the computer programs. Her works achieve the classic goals of painting blending light, color, and form to create sensuous beauty. She ...
Centre for Contemporary Photography: Love at First Sight: Chris Barry, Pat Brassington, Janina Green, Siri Hayes, Rebecca Ann Hobbs, Selina Ou, Sanja Pahoki, Kimberly Roxburgh, Julie Rrap, Anne Zahalka
'from the first moment that I handled my lens with a tender ardour... it has become to me as a living thing, with voice and memory and creative vigour' - Julia Margaret Cameron, 1874 Love at First Sight celebrates women in front of, behind and...
Colville Place Gallery: Enchanted: Julie Clark, Alexa de Ferranti and Charlotte Prodger
Julie Clark, video
The video pieces and drawings use found footage of little accidents recorded from You've Been Framed to examine moments of embarrassment, when one feels suddenly vulnerable or exposed by a physical kind of lapse and loss of...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Kevin Brand: An Exhibition of Paintings Entitled 4x4
He has always felt free to move from one medium or process to another and, as such, painting is not that radical a departure. Where his ‘Balm of Banal’ series saw him create a series of assemblages made from ‘everyday’ items such as eggboxes and b...
Slought Foundation: Unconventional Three-Dimensional: Michael Gitlin and Michael Zansky
Michael Gitlin's work has been widely exhibited, recently at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, The Jewish Museum, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and ...
New Museum of Contemporary Art: Leah Gilliam: Agenda for a Landscape
Drawing from this massive archive, Gilliam combines found imagery with footage she shot herself to create a "media landscape" of Mars. Interested in discarded or obsolete technologies and their output, Gilliam puts these images-once widely viewed ...
Giedre Bartelt Galerie: Distant Nudes: Violeta Bubelyte and Remigijus Treigys
Violeta Bubelyte who is no stranger to the German public by now has been producing exclusively photographs of her own naked body since the beginning of the 80s. Remigijus Treigys‚ work is really never about man. His still lives and arrangeme...
31 Grand: Jeff Wyckoff: Codex
Jeff’s current body of work, “Codex,” is a collection of 12 drawings and  a functioning clock. The 12 drawings are pastel and chalk on chalkboard paint on paper with dual levels; erased underdrawings appear ghostlike under the top layer drawings. ...
Notting Hill Gate Improvements Group: Kensington Koan
Her early work as a sculptor was preoccupied with light as a metaphor for spirit or mind which led her to an interest in science, technology and science fiction. She has designed and made numerous large scale public sculptures in the UK: Wh...
Design Museum, at University of California, Davis: Reality to Fantasy: The Evolution of Theme Park Design
Theme park attractions begin with a mythology, or established story, and are designed around that theme, with enhancements that involve theatrical design; graphics; interior and architectural design; mechanical engineering; even marketing and adve...
Photofusion Photography Centre: Optic Nerve: Abstract Colour Photography
Their work has a simplicity and visual intensity that is both contemplative and challenging and suggests many possible connections to modernist painting and visionary cinema. Films by Stan Brakhage, co-founder of Anthology in New York and much ack...
Artemisia: Five exhibitions to open friday
CHRISTINE LoFASO, THE BODY PROJECT For several years LoFaso has worked with a range of media as a means of conveying ideas about the body and its many guises: social, political, sexual, psychological, spiritual.  In the summer of 2000, she develo...
Dangerous Curve: Osman Khan: Scanners
While a Design/New Media M.F.A. candidate at U.C.L.A., Kahn extended his curriculum to steep himself in art history. So he knew how Conceptual Art had extended what art could be. However, he went straight to the heart of the matter and asked ...
ARKEN Museum of Modern Art: Fernand Léger: Man in the New Age
The pulse of the big city Broadway 1942. The city’s neon ads captivate Léger. He observes how the yellow, red and blue colours cascade across people’s faces. He transfers the colours onto the canvas as fragments, a technique called couleurs en...

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