LaurieAnnie's photos with the keyword: shoe

Shoes, 1888 Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890) Oil on canvas 18 x 21 3/4 in. (45.7 x 55.2 cm) Signed (lower left): Vincent Purchase, The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 1992 (1992.374) Van Gogh painted several still lifes of shoes or boots during his Paris period. This picture, painted later in Arles, evinces a unique return to the earlier motif. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1992.374

Shoes, 1888 Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890) Oil on canvas 18 x 21 3/4 in. (45.7 x 55.2 cm) Signed (lower left): Vincent Purchase, The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 1992 (1992.374) Van Gogh painted several still lifes of shoes or boots during his Paris period. This picture, painted later in Arles, evinces a unique return to the earlier motif. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1992.374

I thought it was funny that this pair of shoes by a company named Botticelli had "The Birth of Venus" on the sole.

Paa Joe (Ghanian, born 1945) Coffin in the Form of a Nike Sneaker 1990 Wood, pigment Accession # 2000.71 During the last four decades in the coastal region of Ghana, a tradition has developed of burying the dead in elaborate fantasy coffins. The artisans who create them draw their inspiration from the livelihood of the deceased and make such forms as a fish for a fisherman and an onion for an onion farmer. Sometimes they are simply symbols of wealth and prestige, such as a Mercedes-Benz or this Nike sneaker. The dramatic and colorful coffins display a natural joy for life in the face of death and demonstrate an artful way of overcoming adversity. Text from the Brooklyn Museum label.

Paa Joe (Ghanian, born 1945) Coffin in the Form of a Nike Sneaker 1990 Wood, pigment Accession # 2000.71 During the last four decades in the coastal region of Ghana, a tradition has developed of burying the dead in elaborate fantasy coffins. The artisans who create them draw their inspiration from the livelihood of the deceased and make such forms as a fish for a fisherman and an onion for an onion farmer. Sometimes they are simply symbols of wealth and prestige, such as a Mercedes-Benz or this Nike sneaker. The dramatic and colorful coffins display a natural joy for life in the face of death and demonstrate an artful way of overcoming adversity. Text from the Brooklyn Museum label.

Paa Joe (Ghanian, born 1945) Coffin in the Form of a Nike Sneaker 1990 Wood, pigment Accession # 2000.71 During the last four decades in the coastal region of Ghana, a tradition has developed of burying the dead in elaborate fantasy coffins. The artisans who create them draw their inspiration from the livelihood of the deceased and make such forms as a fish for a fisherman and an onion for an onion farmer. Sometimes they are simply symbols of wealth and prestige, such as a Mercedes-Benz or this Nike sneaker. The dramatic and colorful coffins display a natural joy for life in the face of death and demonstrate an artful way of overcoming adversity. Text from the Brooklyn Museum label.

Cup in the Form of a Shoe Silver, leather German, late 16th century Accession # 17.190.608a,b This example and similar shoe-shaped cups appear to have been made for German guilds of shoemakers. The arms are unidentified. Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

E.V Day. Her exhibition Bride Fight is on view in the lobby of The Lever House Art Collection from May 6 – August 26, 2006. Bride Fight, a spectacular high-tension string up of two dueling bridal gowns is E.V. Day’s most complex and most ambitious work to date. The tableau represents a manifestation of anxiety and humor, memorializing an active state of transformation of tradition. Bride Fight developed from a series of E.V. Day's installations called “Exploding Couture,” begun in 1999, in which she suspends women’s dresses in space. Each dress portrays a view of a conventional feminine stereotype in a dramatic stop-action explosion. The “explosions” are constructed to feel as if the internal forces of the figure are so powerful that the garment literally blows off, as if it is outgrowing its stereotype. Ecstasy, strength, humor and release are emotions Day associates with the expression of these sculptures. E.V. Day had a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum at Altria in 2001, where she installed G-Force, a work in which she suspended hundreds of thongs from the ceiling in fighter jet formations. Day had a ten-year survey exhibition last year at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University for which a color catalogue was produced. E.V. Day’s exhibition Intergalactic Installations is on view at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum From April 22 – June 18, 2006. Text from: www.deitch.com/artists/sub.php?artistId=32 Made "Explore" on September 17, 2006

Boot-shaped vessel Near Eastern, Iranian, Iron Age, 10th–9th century B.C. Place of Origin: Northwestern Iran Medium or Technique: Pottery with orange slip Classification: Vessels Accession Number: 1980.8 From Northwest Iran, Caspian coastal region. Shoes or boots with upturned toes were a feature of dress in Anatolia and Northwest Iran since remote antiquity. They are common both in Hittite art and in that of Iron Age Iran. Vessels like this one, buried with the dead, may -- like a magical shoe or carpet -- have been thought to facilitate the journey of the dead in the afterlife. Text from: www.mfa.org/collections/object/boot-shaped-vessel-164833