The Journey to Recovery: A Tale of Earthquake Damage and Repair in Haiti
February 21, 2021
The eighteen-month long Smithsonian Institution Haiti Cultural Recovery Project was an international, collaborative, conservation effort to recover cultural patrimony gravely damaged by the January 12, 2010 earthquake. As Chief Conservator and Paintings Conservator, respectively, Stephanie directed conservation activities to support projects at twenty public and private institutions, and Viviana oversaw the paintings conservation activities. Here we relate the story of one remarkable conservation treatment and its context, the recovery of a fragmented Stivenson Magloire painting, mentioned in an earlier blog post here on The Bigger Picture.
Though Roy Lichtenstein liked to pretend that his art had nothing to do with him, being its owner, you cannot do the same. Roy Fox Lichtenstein is a well-known iconic figure when it comes to pop art and has created great masterpieces like "Whaam!," "Crying girl," "brushstroke," etc.
The people living in Florida are fond of beautiful things. It has become a hub of aesthetes, people who love and understand beautiful things. No matter where you go, you can find beautiful decorative paintings in Miami, Florida. Miami has also given us various famous painters and sculptors. One such example is Romero Britto, who is a world-renowned pop art painter and sculptor of Miami.
The majestic deep shade and brilliance of the ultramarine blue pigment has conquered the heart of artists and viewers of the Western world since the medieval illuminated manuscripts from c.1100. Natural Ultramarinus (lapis lazuli), which literally means: "beyond the sea” was imported from Asia, more specific from the quarries of Badakhshan, northeastern Afghanistan.
by Viviana Dominguez, Chief Conservator, Art Conservators Lab
The Conservation of Wallpaintings Workshop (2012 and 2014) in Yachay Wasi Institute in Lima, Perú is an introduction to different types of wallpainting media conservation. Instructor: Viviana Dominguez
"Untitled" Pierre August Renoir
Thousands of paintings have been rescued from the rubble of collapsed museums and galleries in Port-au-Prince after the devastating earthquake of January 2010.
The back drops and props of the Ravel's childrens' opera " L'enfant et les Sortileges" painted by David Hockney are on display at THE CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM, Honolulu, Hawaii.
The stabilization and removal of the celebrated murals at Ste. Trinité Cathedral in Port-au- Prince damaged during January 12 earthquake, 2010 in Haiti.