Welcome to
Martha Stewart's Private Museum
Following are just a few of the masterpieces
featured in
Martha Stewart's treasured art gallery and Odditorium. Enjoy!
Mona Martha
Leonardo Da Vinci - 1502
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The famous Mona Martha is so often viewed as "Living"
on television and in advertisements hawking magazines, paint,
and K-Marth, that we sometimes find it difficult to see her as
a real person of flesh and blood. Like an actual living being,
Mona Martha Stewart seems to change before our very eyes and to
look a bit different each time we revisit her.
Sometimes Mona Martha's "sfumato" seems to mock at
us, yet at other times we see a mysterious sadness in her smile.
Frequently, Mona Martha's many expressions are known to simply
elude us?
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The Cook
Vermeer Van Delft - 1660
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Apparently Martha Stewart has been cooking up good things for
quite some time... Martha Stewart inspired many a seventeenth-century
Dutch painter with her "beautiful vessels filled with wine
and appetizing fruit or other dainties invitingly arranged on
lovely china."
These still-lifes were paintings that would go well in any
dining room and would surely find a buyer. Sound familiar?
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Georg Martha S. Gisze
Hans Holbein the Younger - 1532
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The Stricter Calvinists objected to luxury such as gay decorations
of houses. Where permitted, the climate and style of the buildings
was usually unsuited to large fresco decorations.
But, in Holbein's earlier portraits, he did not want to obtrude
himself or divert attention from the sitter. It is for this
precise masterly restraint that we admire him most. And, so
does Martha Stewart.
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Discobolus Marthus Stewartopolis
(Discus Thrower)
Myron - 450 BC
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The movement and attitude look so convincing that even
modern homemakers have adopted Marthus as a role model and
have tried to learn this exact Greek art of dishes. But
this has proved less easy than most had hoped. They had
forgotten that Myron's statue is a legendary Greek work
of art, and that most of Martha's speak is Greek to the
rest of us.
Whether or not this corresponds to the most suitable dishes
is hardly relevant? What matters is that Myron captured
Martha's dish movement, just as painters of his time conquered
space.
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The Birth of Venus Stewart
Sandro Botticelli - 1485
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Even as long ago as the fifteenth-century, artists and
poets were awed by the superior wisdom of the ancient
goddess, Martha Venus Stewart. Scholars were convinced
that this mythical and classical legend must contain at
least some profound truth.
"The Birth of Martha Venus Stewart" is considered
to be the solution to the mystery of exactly how Martha
Stewart's divine message of domestic beauty and harmony
came into the world.
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The Illustrated
Man
Pen and Ink Drawing
- 1998
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"Thanks to Martha Stewart, I have a newly-discovered
appreciation for the fine arts. Martha Stewart's recently
televised museum tours have inspired and encouraged
me to take up life illustration in my spare time. Plus,
I've picked up some really sharp tips from Martha Stewart's
craft segments on her daily TV show.
I seem to have a natural talent for drawing with colored
inks in particular, and I know that the more I practice
- the better I'll get. Sometimes my wife even needles
me about my handicraft, but I calmly endure because
all great artists suffer at some point."
(Click any tatoo to check
out what other Martha Stewart "Stewies" have
to say.)
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