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Post by Lucky Dan on Dec 11, 2022 5:14:26 GMT
1980s Contemporary
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)
Untitled, 1981, acrylic marker paper collage oil paintstick and crayon
Untitled (Boxing Ring) 1981, Oilstick on paper
Self-Portrait, 1982, acrylic and oilstick on linen
Untitled, 1982, acrylic, spray paint and oilstick on canvas
Untitled, 1982, acrylic and spray paint on canvas
"Anthony Clarke" 1985 Acrylic, oil, oilstick, and photocopy collage on wood
"Black" 1986, acrylic, oilstick, photocopy collage, and wood collage on panel
Jean-Michel Basquiat by Brad Branson, 1984
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Post by Lucky Dan on Dec 11, 2022 9:58:35 GMT
Modern 1900 - 1950
From the National Gallery of Art
Henri Matisse, French (1869 – 1954) "Open Window, Collioure" 1905, oil on canvas
Pablo Picasso, Spanish (1881 – 1973) "Family of Saltimbanques" 1905, oil on canvas
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German (1880 – 1938) "Dance Hall Bellevue" 1909-1910, oil on canvas
Pablo Picasso, Spanish (1881 – 1973) "Nude Woman" 1910, oil on canvas
Wassily Kandinsky, Russian (1866 – 1944) "Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle)" 1913, oil on canvas
Charles Sheeler, American (1883 – 1965) "Classic Landscape" 1931, oil on canvas
René Magritte, Belgian (1898 – 1967) "La condition humaine" 1933, oil on canvas
Arshile Gorky, American, born Armenia (1904 – 1948) "Organization" 1933-1936, oil on canvas
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Post by Lucky Dan on Dec 22, 2022 5:08:20 GMT
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) Russian-born, French, modernist
Early works from his student period in St. Petersburg to his move to a Paris studio in 1911 were influenced by Cubism and Fauvism.
"My Fiancee In Black Gloves" 1909
"The Studio" 1910-1911
"La Pluie Rain" 1911
"The Cattle Dealer (Le marchand de bestiaux)" 1912
Marc Chagall in 1910-11
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Post by Arty Craftman on Dec 22, 2022 16:32:27 GMT
The years 1914 to 1922 were definitive in Chagall's development. In 1914, his paintings were exhibited to great acclaim in Berlin. While traveling there from Paris, he took the opportunity to return to his hometown of Vitebsk (in what is now Belarus) during which time Germany invaded Russia, preventing his return to France. He soon obtained a wartime post in Petrograd in the bureau for wartime economy.
"Self portrait with seven fingers" 1914
"Over Vitebsk" 1914
"The jew in black and white (Le juif en noir et blanc)" 1914
"L'anniversaire" 1915 After the October Revolution of 1917 Chagall returned to Vitebsk, where he was appointed Commissar of Fine Arts, a post he held until 1920.
"Double portrait with wine glass" 1917-1918 In May of 1920, he moved to Moscow where he became involved with the Kamerny State Jewish Theater. His association with theater continued sporadically for the rest of his career.
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Post by Swithin on Dec 23, 2022 18:00:02 GMT
I saw the painting The Favourites of the Emperor Honorius (1883) by J.W. Waterhouse at the Royal Academy of Arts many years ago. The painting was inspired by a passage in Wilkie Collins's novel Antonina, or The Fall of Rome (1850). I've posted the passage below the painting. The novel is online and worth reading -- I enjoyed it. It was Collins's first novel. "In the midst of a large flock of poultry, which seemed strangely misplaced on a floor of marble and under a gilded roof, stood a pale, thin, debilitated youth, magnificently clothed, and holding in his hand a silver vase filled with grain, which he ever and anon distributed to the cackling multitude at his feet. Nothing could be more pitiably effeminate than the appearance of this young man. His eyes were heavy and vacant, his forehead low and retiring, his cheeks sallow, and his form curved as if with a premature old age. An unmeaning smile dilated his thin, colourless lips; and as he looked down on his strange favourites, he occasionally whispered to them a few broken expressions of endearment, almost infantine in their simplicity. His whole soul seemed to be engrossed by the labour of distributing his grain, and he followed the different movements of the poultry with an earnestness of attention which seemed almost idiotic in its ridiculous intensity. If it be asked, why a person so contemptible as this solitary youth has been introduced with so much care, and described with so much minuteness, it must be answered, that, though destined to form no important figure in this work, he played, from his position, a remarkable part in the great drama on which it is founded—for this feeder of chickens was no less a person than Honorius, Emperor of Rome." Another painting by Waterhouse that graced the Royal Academy's exhibition was The Lady of Shalott, inspired by Tennyson's poem.
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Post by Lucky Dan on Dec 24, 2022 5:42:50 GMT
Chagall did not like the art of revolutionary Russia and the propagandistic Socialist Realism of the Leninists. In 1922, he secured permission to leave. His intention was to return to Paris after a stop in Berlin to search for the paintings he left behind in 1914. There he found that his dealer had sold most of the paintings and deposited the money with a lawyer, but inflation devalued his earnings considerably. An opportunity arose to create drypoint etchings for book illustrations, which he found he had great aptitude for.
On his return to Paris in 1923, he continued his etchings and repainted old lost works. The colors of the French countryside inspired him, and new themes began to develop. Alongside his familiar spiritual themes there began to appear flowers, couples, the circus, and larger design surfaces recalling the murals from his Moscow years.
Green Violinist 1924 Les Amoureux 1928 Fruits and Flowers 1929
Equestrienne 1931
White Crucifixion 1938
Marc and Bella Chagall, Paris 1938 (probably by André Kertész)
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Post by Swithin on Dec 25, 2022 14:33:08 GMT
Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) was a poet who committed suicide at the age of 17 (although some contemporary scholars think the death was accidental). I first came across Chatterton's work when I read a few lines at the top of a chapter of C.R. Maturin's 1820 novel Melmoth the Wanderer, which led me to read the whole poem ("The Bristowe Tragedy"). I saw the painting, "The Death of Chatterton" (by Henry Wallis in 1855/56) at the Tate Gallery's 2012 exhibition, Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant Garde. The catalogue states: Henry Wallis's painting of the young poet Thomas Chatterton on his deathbed has become an icon not only of doomed literary genius but also of Pre-Raphaelite painting.
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Post by Swithin on Jan 6, 2023 2:59:02 GMT
I've long been troubled by The Fall of Lucifer (1894), Edward Burne-Jones painting, based on John Milton's Paradise Lost. Lucifer and his knights are flung out of heaven. Burne-Jones paints them as beautiful young men. One of them, in the middle, looks up to heaven as if to say, "What have I done to deserve this?"
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