ARTWORK OF THE WEEK
'Veda's Bibles 5/14' by Veda Epling with Harrell Fletcher
Artwork of the Week: July 22, 2024
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'The Raising of Lazarus' by Rembrandt
Artwork of the Week: July 15, 2024
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'The Visitation' by Käthe Kollwitz
Artwork of the Week: July 8, 2024
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'End of a June Day' by Mahonri Young
Artwork of the Week: July 1, 2024
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'Great White Throne' by Phillip Henry Barkdull
Artwork of the Week: June 24, 2024
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'At the Gates' by Henry Ossawa Tanner
Artwork of the Week: June 17, 2024
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Artwork of the Week: Cascade
Is this a painting, or is it a sculpture?
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Artwork of the Week: After the Bath
After the Bath, as the Hispanic Society of American argues, is “without doubt one of Sorolla’s most magnificent and memorable works.”
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Artwork of the Week: Joseph Smith Triptych
On December 3, 1958, the Gold Y Chapter of the Intercollegiate Knights, a National Honorary Service Fraternity at BYU, presented this triptych to the University.
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Artwork of the Week: John the Baptist
At first glance, the abstract imagery of this work may appear unfamiliar to those unaccustomed to its sacred language. However, for Russian Orthodox Christians, this icon is a beautiful invitation to meditate on sacred doctrine.
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Artwork of the Week: Bride and Her Mirror Image
Muriel Magenta is a New Genre artist who works with installation, multimedia performance, video, and sculpture. Using an array of technologies and tools to create hybrid works, Magenta explores the interaction of media and audience.
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Artwork of the Week: Boxelder Tree in Autumn
Florence Ware was an accomplished mural artist and Utah native. Born to artist parents, she obtained her B.F.A. at the University of Utah before studying at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Artwork of the Week: Les Rameaux (Christ Entering Jerusalem)
Yesterday marked the Orthodox Christian celebration of Palm Sunday, the day in which Christ the Savior entered Jerusalem for the last time before His crucifixion.
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Artwork of the Week: Louis Comfort Tiffany
This informal portrait of Louis Comfort Tiffany, President of Tiffany Studios and the son of the founder of Tiffany & Co., reflects both the artist’s skill at depicting light, and the attitudes of the wealthy in early twentieth-century America.
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Artwork of the Week: Right to the Jaw
Mahonri Mackintosh Young, the grandson of President Brigham Young, was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1877. Throughout his career, he created more than 320 sculptures
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Artwork of the Week: Christ Preaching (La Petite Tombe)
Rembrandt Van Rijn, born in 1606, remains one of the most significant artists of the Dutch Golden Age, celebrated for his depictions of the emotional and spiritual states of the human soul.
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Artwork of the Week: Duet for Single Musician
James C. Christensen was a celebrated American artist and illustrator. A BYU alum and former faculty member, he drew inspiration for his whimsical style from fairytales, legends, as well as his Christian beliefs.
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Artwork of the Week: Garden Path with Iris
This vivid sunlit path speaks to the lasting impact the French Impressionist movement had on American artists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
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Artwork of the Week: Open Door at the Governor's Palace
While on a voyage to Honduras in 1908, Carl Oscar Borg stopped in Antigua, Guatemala where he saw the Governor’s Palace. Built in 1550, the Palace was in a state of deterioration.
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Artwork of the Week: Yōrō Waterfall in Mino Province
While Katsushika Hokusai is best known for “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” from his famous series “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji,” an equally stunning series is “Tour of the Waterfalls in Various Provinces” which houses woodblock prints like “Yōrō Waterfall in Mino Province.”
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Artwork of the Week: Kinryūzan Temple in Asakusa
“Kinryūzan Temple in Asakusa” depicts Kinryūzan Sensōji Temple, one of the most famous Buddhist sites in Japan.
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Artwork of the Week: Honeyville Winter
Originally from California, James Blankenship is an artist and professor emeritus in Boise State University’s art department.
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Artwork of the Week: Abraham Lincoln - The President
Over the course of his life, Avard Tennyson Fairbanks created more than 100 monuments and even more artworks.
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Artwork of the Week: The Lovers
Couse was among American artists who formed an artist colony in Taos, New Mexico in the early 20th century. He reveled in the southwest landscape and hoped to create art sensitive to Native peoples of the area.
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Artwork of the Week: Mountains in February
Born in Okayama, Japan in 1885, Chiura Obata moved to San Francisco in 1903. His impactful career included an art professorship at UC Berkeley
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