 Today’s ArtDrop is a baked clay prehistoric mother goddess sculpture created circa 6000 BC excavated from modern day Turkey.
The image shows a massive female figure seated on a throne-like chair with the heads of two great cats adorning the arm rests. The woman is giving birth with the baby’s head between her ankles.
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 Today’s ArtDrop is a Roman marble copy c. 130 AD of a Greek bronze sculpture c. 350 BC known as “Leaning (or Resting) Satyr” attributed to the sculptor Praxiteles.
The image shows a classical white marble figurative sculpture of a youthful faun or satyr. The creature has all of his weight on one leg and a bent second leg allowing for an elegant and natural S-curve in the figure. The satyr is nude except for the skin of a panther draped across his torso with the head dangling over the right shoulder and onto the chest. He holds a pipe in his right hand. That arm is supported by a part of the tree trunk that he’s lounging against. The other hand rests languidly on his left hip.  Today’s ArtDrop is a suprematist painting circa 1920 by Kazimir Malevich. “Mystic Suprematism” is an oil on canvas.
The image shows a simple geometric painting of balanced shapes. A black circle hangs just offset to the right in the upper part of the work. Layered over the circle is a large red cross extending through most of the piece on a slight angle. A few more red rectangles and strips balance the black circle at the bottom. The background is a textured cream color.  The “Crochet Coral Reef Project” was a series of international collaborative crafting workshops and exhibitions that raised awareness about the dangers to ocean life of global warming through fiber arts such as crochet, knitting, and beading. The project was spearheaded by Margaret and Christine Wertheim in 2007. The project continues today all over the world.
The image shows a section of a colorful fiber arts coral reef with a myriad of patterns, textures, and organic forms.  Today’s ArtDrop is an Egyptian sculpture from the Middle Kingdom c. 1900 B.C. It is carved out of Gabbro or diabase and paint.
The image shows a sculpture of a woman sitting back on her heels. She wears a light Egyptian gown and a longish wig or head covering that curves behind her prominent ears to a blunt cut just above her breasts. One hand rests on her right thigh. The left hand reaches up to cover her left breast which appears to be exposed.  Today’s ArtDrop is an oil on canvas from 1934 “Girl in a Red Dress” by Charles Henry Alston.
The image shows a portrait of a young lady from the waist up. She is seated in front of a blackboard or a dark window. The girl wears a red dress with a white collar and a red earring. Her hair is short. The artist has exaggerated the length of her straight, graceful neck.  Today’s ArtDrop is an oil and acrylic painting “Forces of Change” from the Great Lakes Cycle series by Alexis Rockman. This piece is from 2017.
The large artwork gives visitors a view above and beneath waters of the Great Lakes. Here, the artist is showing how decaying industry, pollution, invasive species, and microbial overgrowth endanger the health of the Great Lakes habitat. Amusingly, there is an invasive kaiju-like “E coli monster” burrowed into the lake bed with extended tentacles guiding snacks to its toothy maw.  Today’s ArtDrop is an abstract sisal fiber sculpture ‘Abakan Red’ from 1969 by Magdalena Abakanowicz. This piece is from the artist’s Abakan series.
The photo features the artist in black standing next to her monumental organic woven sculpture suspended from the exhibit space’s ceiling. The sculpture is dyed red and resembles female anatomy.  Today’s ArtDrop is a portrait of “Lexington”, a thoroughbred horse painted around 1860 by Edward Troye.
The painting shows the famous racehorse in a warm-palette landscape with a creamy colored hazy sky. The horse is mostly a reddish color with dark mane, tail and lower legs. He has white socks markings above his hoofs.  Today’s ArtDrop is a Victorian hair craft memento woven into the shape of a tree and tiny bouquets under a bell jar from the mid 1800s. (Artist unknown.).
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