Comments on: Contemporary Take on Landscape Painting

By: Albert Bierstadt | vita brevis, ars longa

Albert Bierstadt | vita brevis, ars longa — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:32:55 +0000

[…] auf Bierstadts Bild Bridal Veil Falls (oben), das ist moderne Kunst! Die NewYorker Künstlerin ➱Valerie Hegarty hat sich die Bridal Veil Falls als Vorlage für eine schräge Installation genommen. Ja, warum […]

By: Playful Pictures Turn Eye on Landscape – North Carolina Museum of Art | Untitled

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:02:38 +0000

[…] in contemporary art! Check out this post from 2008, which links the painting to an artist at the Brooklyn Museum–Ed. This entry was written by Jen, posted on December 20, 2010 at 3:21 pm, filed under […]

By: NYU Local • NYC Tip: Being Hip(ster) at the Brooklyn Museum

NYU Local • NYC Tip: Being Hip(ster) at the Brooklyn Museum — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:15:54 +0000

[…] its Manhattan counterparts. Huge pre-Independence American murals are just down the hall from the “WTF is this?” contemporary art gallery. Life-size models of Dutch houses in 19th-century Brooklyn are on the same […]

By: Melting Bierstadt - North Carolina Museum of Art | Untitled

Melting Bierstadt - North Carolina Museum of Art | Untitled — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:15:17 +0000

[…] out this post from the Brooklyn Museum of Art…in which our painting of a waterfall inspires a charred, […]

By: Shelley Bernstein

Shelley Bernstein — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:30:31 +0000

Thanks, MBR - everyone, here's the link!

By: MBR

MBR — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:57:07 +0000

Check out this post from the North Carolina Museum of Art:

Melting Bierstadt….
Check out this post from the Brooklyn Museum of Art…in which our painting of a waterfall inspires a charred, warped, tumbling-to-the-floor sculpture of a painting of a waterfall. Fascinating.
Valerie Hegarty’s piece is now on view as part of the Brooklyn Museum’s new contemporary art exhibition. (See more of Hegarty’s work. Warning: Conservators, please avert your […]

By: Caught My Eye

Caught My Eye — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:50:33 +0000

[…] Brooklyn Museum – A Contemporary Take on 19th C. Landscape Painting Valerie Hegarty's "Fallen Bierstadt" (2007) is pretty charming in a disintegrating old masters painting sort of way. (tags: art brooklyn) […]

By: yorgi

yorgi — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:32:07 +0000

It would be great to contrast the Hudson River School Painters with mixed media evidence of the Hudson River today. The harbor today vs mid 19th century idealism. It is a forced and obvious idea but think about the mediums, materials, contrasts of colors and the like that could be used to describe this relationship. Maybe. Let us be all about contrasts, materials, the ‘now’ and the ever referential ‘then.’ the futureclaw

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By: Nina Kuriloff

Nina Kuriloff — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:15:05 +0000

Thanks for sharing your explanation of Hegarty’s piece.
The meaning of the piece eluded me.