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15
Nov
2009
Gustav Klimt

6 days ago by free2xpress

The work of the Austrian painter and illustrator Gustav Klimt, b. July 14, 1862, d. Feb. 6, 1918, founder of the school of painting known as the Vienna Sezession, embodies the high-keyed erotic, psychological, and aesthetic preoccupations of turn-of-the-century Vienna's dazzling intellectual world. ...

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13
Nov
2009
Days Alone … Grace Hartigan

8 days ago by harvey70plus

Now my days alone have a certain shape to them – I wake about nine, turn on the symphony and have juice, fruit and a pot of black coffee. Read a bit (still Gide’s Journal), talk on the phone – to Richard [Miller], or Frank [O'Hara] – sometimes Mike [Goldberg], or others. The three or four, sometimes ...

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11
Nov
2009
Reading Carrington as Art and Artist

10 days ago by clarissal

Ok, my professor had a bit of issue with it in terms of the critical perspective in which it takes, as well as what he sees as too much emphasis on Carrington rather than her art and drawing more on the relationality between both. He is right. It fails somewhat as an academic piece but [...]

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10
Nov
2009
Barbed Hula

11 days ago by harvey70plus

Just back from my Birkbeck class on Women Artists from 1950 to the Present, held, less than fortunately in an airless room lacking any natural light, that feels as if it were underground though actually it isn’t. Two hours in the middle of the afternoon, it’s sometimes difficult, despite the latté a ...

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Get a Move On

11 days ago by kimmco

Video Fear(s) of the Dark

If you want to be moved and you're visiting or live in New York, I suggest you spend some kinetic time tomorrow at " Moving Pictures: A Symposium of Illustration and Motion. " Moderator and organizer Lauren Redniss reveals a history of blind spots; Jody Rosen unveils “The Knowledge” of London taxi d ...

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09
Nov
2009
Kees van Dongen's "Jeune Arabe" Sells for $13.8 Million

12 days ago by kimmco

“Jeune Arabe” (Young Arab) painted in 1910 by Van Dongen when the Dutch-born painter still remembered the coloristic fury of his Fauve days a few years earlier. The linear simplification has a Matisse touch about it. Its impact is multiplied tenfold by the blazing red color of the boy’s skin, which ...

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03
Nov
2009
Styles in Paintings

17 days ago by annmucc

I know I haven’t finished uploading the notes yet, but I thought I’d write a bit about my impression of the course. So, a bit of background: In the middle of summer I was looking for courses on history of art, as, especially after my visit to Pisa when I got to visit Florence and the rest, I realise ...

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01
Nov
2009
what is art 1

19 days ago by dillon

How did art begin? What is necessary to call something art? No related posts. No related posts.

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"November Night"

19 days ago by kimmco

Listen. . With faint dry sound , L ike steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees And fall. By Adelaide Crapsey Photograph: Gueorgui Pinkhassov

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