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Indonesia - climate change canvas

Image by Oxfam International
Indra Sakti
Bandung, Indonesia.

Artist and environmentalist Indra travelled with Oxfam to remote rural communities in Java. “Indigenous people in Ciptagelar-Banten are adapting to climate change in their own way. My painting shows a rice barn (leuit) – where they save enough food to feed the community during times when their harvests are spoiled by the unpredictable climate. Villages have built three rice barns; they told me that they could survive crop failures for at least three years in succession,” Indra says.

Artists from around the world have painted canvases illustrating the human impact of climate change in their countries. Sixteen of these canvases are being exhibited at the UN Climate Negotiations in Poznan, Poland, from December 1, 2008.

Find out how you can help stop climate change now: www.oxfam.org/climatechange.

Credit: Piotr Fajfer / Oxfam International

NYC - Metropolitan Museum of Art: Theodor Kaufmann's On to Liberty

Image by wallyg
On to Liberty
1867
Theodor Kaufmann (1814-1896)
Oil on Canvas; 36 x 56 in. (91.4 x 142.2 cm)

Born in Germany, Theodor Kaufmann studied painting in Düsseldorf and Munich. After fighting in the 1848 uprisings against the German monarchy, he emigrated to the United States which represented the ideals for which he had fought--liberty, democracy and national unity. With great fervor, the artist joined the anti-slavery cause, popular among German emigres. Although he had painted religious subjects in Germany, in the United States Kaufmann switched his focus to images of liberty. In this dramatic canvas, a group of salves progresses toward the dream of freedom, symbolized by the Union lines at the right and the lightened horizon.

Gift of Erving and Joyce Wolf, 1982 (1982.443.3)

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art's permanent collection contains more than two million works of art from around the world. It opened its doors on February 20, 1872, housed in a building located at 681 Fifth Avenue in New York City. Under their guidance of John Taylor Johnston and George Palmer Putnam, the Met's holdings, initially consisting of a Roman stone sarcophagus and 174 mostly European paintings, quickly outgrew the available space. In 1873, occasioned by the Met's purchase of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriot antiquities, the museum decamped from Fifth Avenue and took up residence at the Douglas Mansion on West 14th Street. However, these new accommodations were temporary; after negotiations with the city of New York, the Met acquired land on the east side of Central Park, where it built its permanent home, a red-brick Gothic Revival stone "mausoleum" designed by American architects Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mold. As of 2006, the Met measures almost a quarter mile long and occupies more than two million square feet, more than 20 times the size of the original 1880 building.

In 2007, the Metropolitan Museum of Art was ranked #17 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1967. The interior was designated in 1977.

National Historic Register #86003556

NYC - Metropolitan Museum of Art: Theodor Kaufmann's On to Liberty

Image by wallyg
On to Liberty
1867
Theodor Kaufmann (1814-1896)
Oil on Canvas; 36 x 56 in. (91.4 x 142.2 cm)

Born in Germany, Theodor Kaufmann studied painting in Düsseldorf and Munich. After fighting in the 1848 uprisings against the German monarchy, he emigrated to the United States which represented the ideals for which he had fought--liberty, democracy and national unity. With great fervor, the artist joined the anti-slavery cause, popular among German emigres. Although he had painted religious subjects in Germany, in the United States Kaufmann switched his focus to images of liberty. In this dramatic canvas, a group of salves progresses toward the dream of freedom, symbolized by the Union lines at the right and the lightened horizon.

Gift of Erving and Joyce Wolf, 1982 (1982.443.3)

**
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's permanent collection contains more than two million works of art from around the world. It opened its doors on February 20, 1872, housed in a building located at 681 Fifth Avenue in New York City. Under their guidance of John Taylor Johnston and George Palmer Putnam, the Met's holdings, initially consisting of a Roman stone sarcophagus and 174 mostly European paintings, quickly outgrew the available space. In 1873, occasioned by the Met's purchase of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriot antiquities, the museum decamped from Fifth Avenue and took up residence at the Douglas Mansion on West 14th Street. However, these new accommodations were temporary; after negotiations with the city of New York, the Met acquired land on the east side of Central Park, where it built its permanent home, a red-brick Gothic Revival stone "mausoleum" designed by American architects Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mold. As of 2006, the Met measures almost a quarter mile long and occupies more than two million square feet, more than 20 times the size of the original 1880 building.

In 2007, the Metropolitan Museum of Art was ranked #17 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1967. The interior was designated in 1977.

National Historic Register #86003556