A place for my musings on art, art history, artists, etc.
Twittering Machine, Paul Klee
I found this delightful piece by Klee, done in 1922! Twitter should totally use it in their advertising!…[Read more]
November 28, 2019
This morning I am traveling. Not really, but I am traveling through art. I decided to go to Los Angeles to check out some of their greatest pieces of art. Some I knew about, some I am discovering for the first time….
Picasso painted this piece in 1932 as an homage to Ingres’s Portrait of Madame Moitessier. He used his mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter as the model.
Check out the profile in the mirror to her side. Some say it reflects a Neoclassical precedent in art. Some say it’s an abstract self-portrait.
One of John Singer Sargent’s pristine portraits. They are almost photographic in nature. This one is life-sized image of Dr. Samuel-Jean Pozzi was a famous surgeon, gynecologist; as well as soldier, politician and art collector, not to mention notorious womanizer. This is in the Hammer Museum.
This depiction of a couple in the forest could have many stories. We are left to create our own. In the past, it was believed that the man in the painting was landscape painter Alfred Sisley (1839–1899) and the woman was Rapha, a companion of musician Edmond Maître (1840–1898).[6][7]The style is decidedly rococo.
Van Gogh started painting Irises within a week of entering the asylum, in May 1889, working from nature in the hospital garden. There is a lack of the high tension which is seen in his later works. He called painting “the lightning conductor for my illness” because he felt that he could keep himself from going insane by continuing to paint.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
This piece hangs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Some believe that the scene is intended to show the ancient Mexican tradition of dedicating flowers to the gods.
I am pretty familiar with Frida Khalo, less so with her more famous husband, Diego. I think this is cool, though I had to look twice at the flowers.