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"Pink and White Flowers in a Vase," Marsden Hartley, 1929.

Hartley (1877-1943) was an American Modernist painter; he learned to paint observing Cubist artists in Paris, and in 1917 he began experimenting with reducing his still lifes to very basic forms. Instead of tabletops and arrangements, he would focus on a few elements observed closely, and rendered very basically.

Here, as with many of such still lifes, it's just two flowers in a vase, but very simply rendered with strong brushstrokes and bold outlines. The flowers are not presented in any real detail, and you can only guess what they are by outline. Roses? Carnations?

Hartley would later be noted for his paintings of his native Maine, but his still lifes are worthy of study.

Happy Flower Friday!

From the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

#Art #MarsdenHartley #Modernism #AmericanArt #FlowerFriday #StillLife

"Provençal Conver­sation, Cagnes-sur-Mer," Stella Bowen, 1936.

Bowen (1893-1947) was Australian by birth, but was educated in England....where she hung out with folks like T. S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, Violet Hunt, and William Butler Yeats, but it was Ford Madox Ford who she really connected with, and they became lovers for almost a decade.

The two ended up in Paris of the 20s, which they loved. She established a studio and blossomed as a painter. She separated from Ford in '27 and ended up back in England, but spent a month in Provence with friends. This painting is a memory of that time, hanging out with friends, working at her art, having leisurely meals of wine, bread, olives and grapes bought from a local market.

She wasn't earning much from her art, and was also a writer and broadcaster for the BBC. During WWII she was an official war artist, which finally gave her security and acclaim, especially for her portraits of Australian RAF pilots.

From a private collection.

#Art #StellaBowen #Modernism #Idyllic #Provence #Lunch #WomensHistory #WomenArtists

Exhibition: A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
6 Nov–6 Dec, Scottish Storytelling centre, Edinburgh – free

Painter Alexander Moffat marks the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s epic poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle – a landmark of modern Scottish literature

https://scottishstorytellingcentre.online.red61.co.uk/event/913:6850/913:30634/

#Scottish #literature #art #visualart #painting #exhibition #HughMacDiarmid #MacDiarmid #poem #poetry #modernism