La Grande Maison Blance - Snow Clouds Massing, 2008-9
Le Lapin Agile and Rue du Mont Cenis - Snow Receding,2008-9
Lapin Agile - Snow Coming 2008-9
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
Chaim Soutine
Monday, 19 July 2010
Thursday, 15 July 2010
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
Highlights from Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris. Part 3
Filippo De Pisis
As Delacroix wanted to, he really paints a man as he falls from a window and before his body crashes to the pavement. That is why the execution may appear sketchy, almost stenographic. He is clearly not a creator of forms but a painter of sensations, of unexpected encounters. Chance plays a great part in his work, which comprises some thousands of canvases. It is uneven: every painting by De Pisis is an adventure, but not every adventure is felicitous.
Street Scene in Italy, 1936
Milano
Still Life, 1926
Nittis Salotto Principessa Mathilde
Street Scene in Italy, 1936
Milano
Still Life, 1926
Nittis Salotto Principessa Mathilde
Friday, 9 July 2010
Jean-Michel Basquiat - Untitled (History of the Black People)
Basquiat’s 1983 painting "Untitled (History of the Black People)", according to Andrea Frohne, "reclaims Egyptians as African and subverts the concept of ancient Egypt as the cradle of Western Civilization". At the center of the painting he depicts an Egyptian boat being guided down the Nile by Osiris, the Egyptian god of the dead . On the right panel of the painting appear the words “Esclave, Slave, Esclave”. Two letters of the word "Nile" are crossed out and Frohne suggests that, "The letters that are wiped out and scribbled over perhaps reflect the acts of historians who have conveniently forgotten that Egyptians were black and blacks were enslaved." On the left panel of the painting Basquiat has illustrated two Nubian style masks. Historically, the Nubians that were darker in skin color were considered to be slaves by the Egyptian people . Throughout the rest of the painting, images of the Atlantic slave trade are juxtaposed with images of the Egyptian slave trade centuries before. The sickle in the center panel is a direct reference to the slave trade in the United States and slave labor under the plantation system. The word “salt” that appears on the right panel of the work refers to the Atlantic Slave Trade, as salt was another important commodity to be traded at this time
from wikipedia
Thursday, 8 July 2010
Highlights from Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris. Part 2
Henri Matisse - Portrait de Greta Prozor, 1916
Juan Gris Le Petit Dejeuner, 1915
Joan Miro - Peinture , 1933
Georges Rouault - La Debauche et la Mort, 1926
Balthus - Alice, 1933
Fernand Leger - Les Loisirs-Hommage a Louis David, 1948-1949
Nicolas de Stael - Les toits, 1952
Pierre Bonnard - Le Corsage Rouge, 1925
Juan Gris Le Petit Dejeuner, 1915
Joan Miro - Peinture , 1933
Georges Rouault - La Debauche et la Mort, 1926
Balthus - Alice, 1933
Fernand Leger - Les Loisirs-Hommage a Louis David, 1948-1949
Nicolas de Stael - Les toits, 1952
Pierre Bonnard - Le Corsage Rouge, 1925
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
Highlights from Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris. Part 1
Thursday, 1 July 2010
Max Beckmann
Beckmann's work reflects an era of radical changes in both art and history. Many of Max Beckmann‘s paintings express the agonies of Europe in the first half of the Twentieth Century. Some of his imagery refers to the decadent glamor of the Weimar Republic's cabaret culture, but from the Thirties on, his works often contain mythologized references to the brutalities of the Nazis. Beyond these immediate concerns, his subjects and symbols assume a larger meaning, voicing universal themes of terror, redemption, and the mysteries of eternity and fate.
text from here
Family Picture
The Night
Self Portrait with Champagne Glass
text from here
Family Picture
The Night
Self Portrait with Champagne Glass