Ettore Sottsass ceramic, 1955.
Sottsass - of the Memphis Group - is one of my favourite Italian furniture designers… this is the first piece of ceramic artwork I have seen of his…
When I look at her and read about what she is creating, I think there’s hope yet for the planet…
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“Seafood” ~ Howard Hodgkin, 2001.
Etching, aquatint and carborundum on paper,
43.4 x 52.5 cm. Tate Gallery.
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Gorgeous dress… beautiful body…
…but in which order do I see them?
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“Hopfgarten” ~ Lyonel Feininger, 1920.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Oil on canvas, 32.25 x 25 inches.
Lyonel Feininger (New York City, July 17, 1871 - January 13, 1956) was the son of German musicians. He was immersed in music and art from a young age, and at 16 he moved to Germany to study music, but soon turned to art. He began his career as a commercial caricaturist, illustrating both political cartoons and comic strips. He created his first painting in 1907, but it wasn’t until around 1911 that his trademark prismatic style was established. He was one of the original artists hired by Walter Gropius to teach at the legendary Bauhaus School, working there as the Master of the graphics workshop from 1919-1926. He returned to New York City in 1936 due to Nazi pressure and continued to paint and teach till his death in 1956.
Flickr.
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“Violin Melodie” ~ Georges Braque, 1914.
(French, 1882-1963), Oil on canvas, 55.4 x 38.3 cm.
Private collection.
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“Moonlight Haven” ~ Gustav Rudberg.
I have twenty-four different Tumblr “Buzz” themes… and this image fits none of them specifically. However, the image is so moving to me I will include it on my personal page. It does remind me of a couple of rocky coves I used to visit when we lived in mid-west Wales many years ago. Maybe I should use it as the basis of a “SeaScapeBuzz” theme… but where does one stop!
“Portalerna” (Portals) ~ Sven Jonson, 1938.
(Swedish, 1902-1981), Oil, 120.5 x 135.5 cm.
Hallands Konstmuseum, Halmstad.
Biography on Sven Johnson… http://www.mjellbykonstmuseum.se/omwebbplatsen/english/thehalmstadgroup/svenjonson.4.293aa03e12928a822b180006724.html
“For Moholy” ~ Kurt Schwitters, 1934
The Art Institute of Chicago.
Kurt Schwitters was a genius of composition, color, typography, texture, contrast, and form. And he did it all with little scraps of paper, old train tickets, and newspaper bits.
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The beautiful, sensual dress…
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“Love Letter” ~ Georgy Kurasov, 2001.
An interesting quote from Kurasov’s website bio: “Americans see Georgy Kurasov as a Russian artist, Russians as an American artist. Painters think he is a sculptor. Sculptors are sure he is a painter. And when Georgy Kurasov thinks of it, he rather like this borderline existence. Perhaps it what makes it possible to be himself, to be unlike anyone else.”
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“Boating on a River” ~ Robert Falk, 1935.
Robert Falk was born in Moscow in 1886. He studied art from 1903, and in 1910 was one of the founders and the most active participans of artistic group “Jack of Diamonds”. The group considered Paul Cézanne the only painter worth following, and the rest of visual art to be too trivial and bourgeois.
In 1928 Falk went on a supposedly short trip to France and refused to return; he worked in Paris until 1938, when he returned to Moscow. After 1938, until his death in 1958, he worked in Moscow, most of the time in isolation, where his works were in a “neo-impressionist” style.
