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”Many ways of thinking could coexist in one person.” He was ostracized by reactionary Fascist critics in Italy for his religion, sexual proclivity and internationalist perspective on art. An exhibition in NY brings together a dizzying array of work from the boundary-shattering life of Corrado Cagli.
image: Ctr for Italian Modern Art https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/07/arts/design/cima-italian-artist-corrado-cagli.html
#modernart #figurativeart #artgallery #artmuseum #potterdayart #gayart

Crosswalks.... waiting for a sign, deciding where to go. A British photographer has turned "banal parts of urban infrastructure into cinematic scenes of people suspended in a rare moment of peace" amid the typically chaotic life of a bustling city. credit: Oli Kellett https://www.cnn.com/style/oli-kellett-photographer-crosswalks/index.html
#photography #photographer #urbanphotographer #modernart #potterdayart #artgallery

“Girl,” 1961, Cornelis Ruhtenberg (1923-2008), now available. Mesmerizing mid-century figurative. Ruhtenberg explored neither psychological insight nor the appearance of her subjects, seeking instead pure, essential meaning. She depicted her sitters caught in their own contemplative worlds. https://www.liveauctioneers.com/.../167360454_cornelis...
#modernart #abstractart #abstractexpressionism #americanart #artcollector #artgallery #potterdayart #midcentury #Modernism #figurativeart

"She believed that photographs could help change people's minds." It was the Great Depression that spurred Dorothea Lange to turn to documentary photography. Beginning her career as a studio photographer, she began to see people in need on the streets. "It was that experience of seeing something that was not right that made her go out and want to do something." Credit: Dorothea Lange https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20231203-dorothea-lange-10-of-the-uss-most-iconic-portraits
#photography #fineart #modernart #arthistory #artgallery #potterdayart

"She believed that photographs could help change people's minds." It was the Great Depression that spurred Dorothea Lange to turn to documentary photography. Beginning her career as a studio photographer, she began to see people in need on the streets. "It was that experience of seeing something that was not right that made her go out and want to do something." Credit: Dorothea Lange https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20231203-dorothea-lange-10-of-the-uss-most-iconic-portraits
#photography #fineart #modernart #arthistory #artgallery #potterdayart

"She believed that photographs could help change people's minds." It was the Great Depression that spurred Dorothea Lange to turn to documentary photography. Beginning her career as a studio photographer, she began to see people in need on the streets. "It was that experience of seeing something that was not right that made her go out and want to do something." Credit: Dorothea Lange https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20231203-dorothea-lange-10-of-the-uss-most-iconic-portraits
#photography #fineart #modernart #arthistory #artgallery #potterdayart

"Five Nudes on Blue," Harold Frank (1917-1995), mid-century, now available. Mesmerizing Modern abstract created with Frank's signature quick expressive brushstrokes & lyrical lines. Variations on women became a theme for Frank, and he Frank found Abstract Expressionism the ideal means to explore the angst of his world. https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/166770662_harold-frank
#modernart #abstractart #abstractexpressionism #americanart #artcollector #artgallery #potterdayart #midcentury #Modernism

There's an alternate history of modern art to consider, and it's on display at the Georgia Museum of Art. With 100 or so works of art, the exhibition surveys the riches of a stylistic evolution during the early 20th century often buried in art history books. image: UNC Press https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/arts/design/southern-modern-georgia-museum.html
#modernart #southernart #arthistory #artmuseum #artgallery #potterdayart #modernist #regionalism #americanart

He died more than a century ago. Yet Cezanne can feel perpetually new. "He was an artistic nomad," in and out of the Impressionist movement, shuttling between Paris and Aix-en-Provence. Yet after his death, his name became a rallying cry for the Modernist movement. Here are 10 key works selected by curators of a new retrospective. image: Sammlung Feilchenfeldt, Zurich https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/ten-essential-works-by-cezanne-1234637022/?fbclid=IwAR1t2fQY--oX7PisJ6hrz4DCfam170DP1Shp6ylddfR2hDO9OtgxnEXKRy0
#modernart #impressionism #retrospective #artmuseum #artgallery #arthistory #potterdayart #modernist

A major retrospective of Philip Evergood is long overdue. A leading Modernist of the 20th Century, Evergood combined abstraction & realism, with subjects in the 1930s that made him also one of the leading Social Realists of the period.
"Wonders of the Frog," 1960s, Philip Evergood (1901-1973). private collection.
#modernart #socialrealism #modernism #arthistory #artgallery #midcenturyart #artmuseum #artcollector #potterdayart #americanart
#magicrealism #socialrealist

Pronouns are not a new thing. A Museum will now relabel its display & refer to the Roman emperor Elagabalus with the female pronouns of she and her, concluding that he was in fact a trans woman. image PHAS https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67484645
#artmuseum #romanart #classicalart #arthistory #artgallery #potterdayart

John Singer Sargent, it seems, had a penchant for shocking the public. But then "he didn't find conventional, conservative English women very interesting. He liked very strong, often independent women." A new exhibition in Boston explores how this marriage portrait pushed boundaries. Image: Museum of Fine Arts Boston https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20231121-john-singer-sargents-portrait-of-ena-wertheimer-the-painting-that-challenged-sexual-norms
#impressionism #modernart #arthistory #artmuseum #artgallery #potterdayart #portraitart

He married "the crisp, clean lines of European modern art with an American commercial pop sensibility." But his work differed from other graphic designers, offering humor, wit, and humanity. George Tscherny saw himself as "a bridge between commerce and art." image Tscherny family. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/arts/design/george-tscherny-dead.html
#modernart #graphicdesign #commercialdesign #illustrationart #posterart #potterdayart #arthistory #artgallery #visualarts

New York's transformation in the 20th Century into a vibrant, modern city is largely thanks to a cohort of radical women artists, a new book says. But that "transformation was largely thanks to a bold, taboo-busting cohort of women who pushed boundaries both creatively and socially—as artists, writers, salon hosts and patrons." image Library of Congress
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20231114-radicals-and-rogues-these-subversive-1910s-women-made-new-york-cool-but-were-written-out-of-history
#modernart #artcollectors #arthistory #artgallery #artmuseum #womenartists #impressionism #fauve #potterdayart #dada

New York's transformation in the 20th Century into a vibrant, modern city is largely thanks to a cohort of radical women artists, a new book says. But that "transformation was largely thanks to a bold, taboo-busting cohort of women who pushed boundaries both creatively and socially—as artists, writers, salon hosts and patrons." image Library of Congress
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20231114-radicals-and-rogues-these-subversive-1910s-women-made-new-york-cool-but-were-written-out-of-history
#modernart #artcollectors #arthistory #artgallery #artmuseum #womenartists #impressionism #fauve #potterdayart #dada

New York's transformation in the 20th Century into a vibrant, modern city is largely thanks to a cohort of radical women artists, a new book says. But that "transformation was largely thanks to a bold, taboo-busting cohort of women who pushed boundaries both creatively and socially—as artists, writers, salon hosts and patrons." image Library of Congress
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20231114-radicals-and-rogues-these-subversive-1910s-women-made-new-york-cool-but-were-written-out-of-history
#modernart #artcollectors #arthistory #artgallery #artmuseum #womenartists #impressionism #fauve #potterdayart #dada

"Dancer in Pearl Grays," 1964, Philip Evergood (1901-1973), private collection. Portrait of Evergood's wife, JuJu. A major retrospective on Evergood is long overdue. A leading Modernist of the 20th Century, Evergood combined abstraction & realism, with subjects in the 1930s that made him also one of the leading Social Realists of the period.
#modernart #socialrealism #modernism #arthistory #artgallery #midcenturyart #artmuseum #artcollector #potterdayart #americanart #magicrealism

Was there a little remodeling of the cheekbones? (what did that cost? :)) Repeated small changes and rework by Hans Holbein the Younger gave the sitter even more chiseled features each time. image: Royal Collection Trust https://www.cnn.com/style/hans-holbein-painting-cheekbones-xray/index.html
#germanrenaissance #portraitart #renaissanceart #renaissance #northernrenaissance #artmuseum #artgallery #arthistory #potterdayart

"Before WWI, Max Beckman was a neoconservative with no time for Matisse or Picasso." But the war brought on a nervous breakdown, and soon he was painting with nightmarish directness. A new exhibition showcases these formative years: "the real hell, for Beckmann, was the one to which survivors were condemned." image: Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; via Christie's Images
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/arts/design/max-beckmann-neue-galerie.html
#modernart #potterdayart #arthistory #artgallery #artmuseum #expressionism #modernism

"The Bride," 1946, Philip Evergood (1901-1973), private collection.
Which museum is going to have the vision, foresight, resources —and guts— to do the long overdue Evergood retrospective? A leading Modernist of the 20th Century, Evergood combined abstraction & realism, with subjects in the 1930s that made him also one of the leading Social Realists of the period.
#modernart #socialrealism #modernism #arthistory #artgallery #midcenturyart #artmuseum #artcollector #potterdayart #americanart

In art history, Fauvism is often just a blur. But the Wild Beasts are getting their due as the Met narrows the field to Fauvism’s two leaders, Henri Matisse and André Derain. "Fauvism would become the underpinning of Matisse’s life’s work." image: Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris; via Galerie Philippe David, Zurich
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/09/arts/design/matisse-derain-fauvism-metropolitan-museum.html?fbclid=IwAR0VvD7XzF2fBavF7OaVWRxZgif88jGRrbjOpLJioaUvLDusEV_ZOpgMLXo
#fauve #fauvism #modernart #arthistory #artmuseum #artgallery #potterdayart #impressionism

11/22/63. "All eyes were on Jackie, who became an icon of a nation in mourning." Among those watching was Andy Warhol. His response? ‘Let's go to work!’ He had only begun his transformation from illustrator to renowned Pop artist; with the Jackie paintings he would solidify his status & "attain the pinnacle of his examination into the soul of America." Source image: Henri Dauman, 1963
https://www.christies.com/stories/andy-warhol-sixteen-jackies-0693da57e43947e6ba9894b1c70707d1?cid=EM_EMLcontent04144C65Section_A_Story_3_1&COSID=41687561&cid=DM498585&bid=375001059
#modernart #arthistory #popart #potterdayart #artgallery #artmuseum #artcollector

'Compotier et Guitare' holds profound connections to Picasso's relationships with Henri Matisse & Marie-Thérèse Walter, his muse. The "intricate array of colors, shapes, & emotions that unfold on the canvas are stories of love & competition which would define not only Picasso’s iconography, but the broader canon of Western art as a whole." [VIDEO: Christie's] https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/expert-voices-picassos-compotier-et-guitare?locale=en
#modernart #fauve #impressionism #cubism #arthistory #artgallery #potterdayart #artcollector

"Capturing the most significant female relationships of their lives, at their most intimate moments, at the same time." Tamara de Lempicka's portrait of her daughter and Frida Kahlo' work of her sister both capture the subjects on the cusp of womanhood, and "function on a psychological level, striking beyond the surface." (image: Christie's) https://www.christies.com/stories/tamara-de-lempicka-and-frida-kahlo-jerry-moss-collection-e91130d12d9e49b2b74be0710d19ea99?cid=EM_EMLcontent04144C65Section_A_Story_1_0&COSID=41687561&cid=DM498585&bid=375001059
#modernart #figurativeart #arthistory #artgallery #artmuseum #potterdayart #symbolism #artdeco #magicrealism #portraitart

Radical, fluid, creative creatures upended early 20th c. Britain. The Bloomsbury group's bold impact and creativity extended to the Bloombury 'look' as much as to their art. "So, what were the Bloomsberries rejecting, and reacting against?" (image: Alamy) https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20231031-how-virginia-woolf-and-the-bloomsbury-group-unbuttoned-britain
#modernart #artgallery #arthistory #artmuseum #britishart #modernist #potterdayart #bloomsbury

Paying homage to Philip Evergood (1901-1973) at the De Young Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco . 'Jobs, Not Dimes,' 1935. Which museum has the vision, foresight, resources —& guts— to do the long overdue Evergood retrospective? A leading Modernist of the 20th Century, Evergood combined abstraction & realism, with subjects in the 1930s that made him a leading Social Realists.
#modernart #socialrealism #modernism #arthistory #artgallery #artmuseum #artcollector #potterdayart #americanart

He may have studied under an Impressionist master, but he was never a full-time artist, choosing to paint in the evenings after his day-job, well into the night. It was a missed train at Pendlebury station that changed the trajectory of his life, and art. (image: Christie's) Things to know about L.S. Lowry— https://www.christies.com/stories/10-things-to-know-about-ls-lowry-3c9289e2b7fd4fea88ad3822575c6457
#impressionism #modernart #arthistory #artgallery #artmuseum #naiveart #potterdayart #artcollector

He was a painter, an inventor, a physicist, an anatomist. He was also a chemist. As such, did da Vinci create a technique not seen in works until a century later? (image: Aurelien Morissard/AP) https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/16/style/mona-lisa-leonardo-da-vinci-experimental-paint-technique-scn/index.html
#renaissanceart #portraitart #arthistory #artmuseum #artgallery #highrenaissance #potterdayart

It's simple, beautiful, practical... but playfulness is key!

"Stitching is like handwriting; everyone's technique is slightly different. Sashiko, an ancient & time-honored Japanese mending craft, is helping people care for their clothing & make it more bespoke and interesting." (Image: Alexander Trowbridge) https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20231013-the-300-year-old-japanese-method-of-upcyling
#fabricart #japaneseart #embroidery #sashiko #artgallery #artmuseum #arthistory #potterdayart

It's simple, beautiful, practical... but playfulness is key!

"Stitching is like handwriting; everyone's technique is slightly different. Sashiko, an ancient & time-honored Japanese mending craft, is helping people care for their clothing & make it more bespoke and interesting." (Image: Alexander Trowbridge) https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20231013-the-300-year-old-japanese-method-of-upcyling
#fabricart #japaneseart #embroidery #sashiko #artgallery #artmuseum #arthistory #potterdayart

It's simple, beautiful, practical... but playfulness is key!

"Stitching is like handwriting; everyone's technique is slightly different. Sashiko, an ancient & time-honored Japanese mending craft, is helping people care for their clothing & make it more bespoke and interesting." (Image: Alexander Trowbridge) https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20231013-the-300-year-old-japanese-method-of-upcyling
#fabricart #japaneseart #embroidery #sashiko #artgallery #artmuseum #arthistory #potterdayart

"He transformed photography as a tool of artistic expression with radical darkroom techniques & keen involvement with Surrealism. Now, his impact can be felt in not just the art world, but in fashion and even pop culture." Man Ray, Dadaist turned Surrealist, a creative genius who walked the line between abstraction & figuration as he seamlessly crossed media. https://www.christies.com/stories/man-ray-collecting-guide-00b0f87075d54162b4105fd474dc5b0b
#surrealism #photography #artphotography #potterdayart #dada #modernart #artgallery #artmuseum #arthistory

All of us could probably use a good laugh. But what made people in the Dutch Golden Age laugh? Frans Hals knew. "No other artist of the last 400 years painted quite as many smiles." Yet, for long stretches, Hals was forgotten or ignored. Did that that lack of sobriety make it hard to take him seriously? A retrospective takes another look, even considering him on a par with Vermeer. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/arts/design/frans-hals-retrospective.html
#modernart #goldenage #dutchartist #portraiture #potterdayart #baroqueart #arthistory

Among the Nabis, he was dubbed the strange one. Felix Vallotton made art in his own distinctive way. "He suggests but never explains, leaving viewers in the role of voyeur." In still lifes and landscapes, we find an eerie mood, a hard light and an utter stillness. With interior scenes, we find satire on the moral hypocrisy of the day. https://www.christies.com/.../felix-vallotton-writer...
#nabis #modernart #postimpressionism #symbolism #modernism #artmuseum #arthistory #artgallery #potterdayart

They were 'frenemies' before it was even a term. Two early modernist titans built a relationship that thrived—on differences, in ways that could "scratch like sandpaper." An odd couple, they forged a path of two careers shaped by shared influences and tensions, and the Met's "Manet/Degas" presentation is "about as good as exhibitions get." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/21/arts/design/manet-degas-met-museum.html
#modernart #arthistory #artmuseum #artgallery #impressionism #modernism #potterdayart #realism #artexhibition

Loving this—Wonderful mid-century Evergood work set in a fabulous Heydenryk frame. Philip Evergood was a leading Social Realist, painting political & social-message works, but by the 1940s, he had distanced himself from social issues to figures more fanciful and free, becoming a leading Modernist of the 20th century. Private collection.
'Nude with Flowers,' 1967, Philip Evergood (1901-1973)
#modernart #midcentury #socialrealism #magicrealism #surrrealism #artgallery #artmuseum #potterdayart

They just wanted to tell the truth. Far from homogenous, they ended up "agitating the viewing public to the very depth of its soul." Those German Expressionists—Die Brücke, conveying a feverish delirium, and Der Blaue Reiter, united by a love of nature. Then came the Degenerates. https://www.christies.com/features/german-expressionism-guide-12084-1.aspx?sc_lang=en#fid-12084
#germanexpressionism #expressionism #modernart #potterdayart #artmuseum #arthistory #degenerateart

They just wanted to tell the truth. Far from homogenous, they ended up "agitating the viewing public to the very depth of its soul." Those German Expressionists—Die Brücke, conveying a feverish delirium, and Der Blaue Reiter, united by a love of nature. Then came the Degenerates. https://www.christies.com/features/german-expressionism-guide-12084-1.aspx?sc_lang=en#fid-12084
#germanexpressionism #expressionism #modernart #potterdayart #artmuseum #arthistory #degenerateart

The Fauves, led by Matisse, van Dongen, Derain and others. It was an old boy's club, right? No. A new exhibition demonstrates how women were central to the movement—as artists, dealers, and inspiration. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/fauves-kunstmuseum-basel-2352990
#modernart #arthistory #artmuseum #artgallery #modernart #fauvism #fauves #cubism #postimpressionism #potterdayart

Five artists explored the landscape along the river Seine northwest of Paris in the late 1800s. As their paths crossed during this pivotal time, van Gogh, Seurat, Signac, Bernard, and Angrand discovered new motifs to inspire artistic experiments, forged friendships & ignited feuds, and encouraged & critiqued one another’s work. https://www.artic.edu/highlights/58/five-artists-along-the-seine?fbclid=IwAR3nmAxGb2UDW3xW4dPFiR0JXwrI1IgMcWSLb7hUSZTOfgRnvpXaFhQR70s
#modernart #arthistory #pointillism #postimpressionism #artgallery #artmuseum #potterdayart #divisionism

Five artists explored the landscape along the river Seine northwest of Paris in the late 1800s. As their paths crossed during this pivotal time, van Gogh, Seurat, Signac, Bernard, and Angrand discovered new motifs to inspire artistic experiments, forged friendships & ignited feuds, and encouraged & critiqued one another’s work. https://www.artic.edu/highlights/58/five-artists-along-the-seine?fbclid=IwAR3nmAxGb2UDW3xW4dPFiR0JXwrI1IgMcWSLb7hUSZTOfgRnvpXaFhQR70s
#modernart #arthistory #pointillism #postimpressionism #artgallery #artmuseum #potterdayart #divisionism

Two individual artists, a couple, drive the move away from abstract expressionism to Bay Area Figuration as their life experiences, and their art, evolve. An impressive exhibition at Crocker Art Museum weaves the histories, the reciprocal influence with other artists, and simply wonderful, powerful works. [VIDEO] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pJxXOFh-y4&t=23s
#modernart #bayareafigurative #bayareaart #abstractart #contemporaryart #artgallery #artmuseum #artcollector #potterdayart

I couldn't help myself; happy birthday to me. Large, mesmerizing abstract expressionist work, 1970s. 'Five Nudes on Blue," Harold Frank (1921-1995). "Like his idol de Kooning, variations on women became a lifelong, consistent, ubiquitous theme." Growing up in the tenements of the Lower East Side during the Great Depression, he found Abstract Expressionism an ideal means to explore the angst of his world.
#abstractexpressionism #modernart #figurativeart #abstractart #potterdayart

‘He was a poet of the visual.' Producing more than 2,000 paintings in all, Miro was reinventing himself regularly, leaving an indelible mark on the very idea of art. https://www.christies.com/features/how-to-collect-joan-miros-paintings-11530-1.aspx?sc_lang=en#fid-11530
#surrealism #expressionism #abstractexpressionism #modernart #potterdayart #arthistory #artmuseum

‘He was a poet of the visual.' Producing more than 2,000 paintings in all, Miro was reinventing himself regularly, leaving an indelible mark on the very idea of art. https://www.christies.com/features/how-to-collect-joan-miros-paintings-11530-1.aspx?sc_lang=en#fid-11530
#surrealism #expressionism #abstractexpressionism #modernart #potterdayart #arthistory #artmuseum

The self-conscious and sophisticated primitivism that he adopted found Basquiat toying with the premise that a Black artist should in fact be ‘primitive.’ He acknowledged Picasso as one of his most important influences, and 'Untitled,' (Pablo Picasso), painted & drawn in oil, acrylic & oilstick on a square metal panel, is a bold tribute from one 20th-century titan to another.
https://www.christies.com/features/basquiat-portrait-of-picasso-12815-3.aspx?sc_lang=en#fid-12815
#modernart #abstractart #contemporaryart #potterdayart #Neoexpressionism #graffitiart

The self-conscious and sophisticated primitivism that he adopted found Basquiat toying with the premise that a Black artist should in fact be ‘primitive.’ He acknowledged Picasso as one of his most important influences, and 'Untitled,' (Pablo Picasso), painted & drawn in oil, acrylic & oilstick on a square metal panel, is a bold tribute from one 20th-century titan to another.
https://www.christies.com/features/basquiat-portrait-of-picasso-12815-3.aspx?sc_lang=en#fid-12815
#modernart #abstractart #contemporaryart #potterdayart #Neoexpressionism #graffitiart

It was the last painting sitting on his easel. It was also radically different in texture & tone from his better-known masterpieces of a decade earlier. What holds us entranced is the carefully choreographed clash of pattern & pigment that reveals how far Klimt had travelled creatively in the decade before his death. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230621-klimts-lady-with-a-fan-the-painting-thats-valued-at-65m
#modernart #figurativeart #potterdayart #arthistory #artmuseum #artgallery #artnouveau #symbolism

"Since I can remember, art has been magical. That has never changed... It is especially in times like these that we need to look to the spiritual. In art we find it. I cling to the belief that creativity brings truth, that art inspires wisdom, And I continue to believe that art is here to tell us who we have been, who we are, and who we can become."
~ Flora Miller Biddle (granddaughter of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney)
#art #modernart #americanart #arthistory #potterdayart

"Soup can or painting? Masterpiece or salable product?" A survey of the Brant Foundation’s Warhols is on show. But does it "help us acknowledge not the rightness of Warhol’s achievement but the profound and fertile wrongness that was in it from the start?" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/01/arts/design/warhol-peter-brant-foundation-art.html
#popart #modernart #arthistory #artcollector #artmuseum #artgallery #potterdayart #silkscreen

"Soup can or painting? Masterpiece or salable product?" A survey of the Brant Foundation’s Warhols is on show. But does it "help us acknowledge not the rightness of Warhol’s achievement but the profound and fertile wrongness that was in it from the start?" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/01/arts/design/warhol-peter-brant-foundation-art.html
#popart #modernart #arthistory #artcollector #artmuseum #artgallery #potterdayart #silkscreen

For nearly 80 years after O’Keeffe’s MoMA retrospective, the museum didn’t pay her much attention. Now, it's refocusing on her penchant for repeating images as a “serial practice"—by pushing her motifs toward abstraction or exploring different materials. But does MoMA really need to reestablish O'Keeffe's Modernist bonafides?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/27/arts/design/georgia-okeeffe-moma-review.html
#modernism #artmuseum #artgallery #arthistory #modernart #potterdayart #midcentury

For nearly 80 years after O’Keeffe’s MoMA retrospective, the museum didn’t pay her much attention. Now, it's refocusing on her penchant for repeating images as a “serial practice"—by pushing her motifs toward abstraction or exploring different materials. But does MoMA really need to reestablish O'Keeffe's Modernist bonafides?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/27/arts/design/georgia-okeeffe-moma-review.html
#modernism #artmuseum #artgallery #arthistory #modernart #potterdayart #midcentury

He was a Social Realist at a time when the world was going abstract, yet he continued to suggest the enormous emotion of his subjects, saying, "I want to castigate the things I hate and paint monuments to what I feel is noble." Social commentary remained the backbone of his art.
'Man with Sprite,' Joseph Hirsch (1910-1981), ca. 1950 (I prefer to call it 'Enlightenment.') Private collection.
#artcollector #socialrealism #realism #artgallery #artmuseum #arthistory #potterdayart #modernart

He was a Social Realist at a time when the world was going abstract, yet he continued to suggest the enormous emotion of his subjects, saying, "I want to castigate the things I hate and paint monuments to what I feel is noble." Social commentary remained the backbone of his art.
'Man with Sprite,' Joseph Hirsch (1910-1981), ca. 1950 (I prefer to call it 'Enlightenment.') Private collection.
#artcollector #socialrealism #realism #artgallery #artmuseum #arthistory #potterdayart #modernart

Why the heck is Picasso so important? Certainly, the "mystique and machismo" of his personal life are inexorably linked to his unapologetic legacy. But his famed Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) may best encapsulate his incendiary approach to art making. Artnet-
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/pablo-picasso-les-demoiselles-davignon-3-things-2279854
#modernart #cubism #arthistory #artmuseum #artgallery #potterdayart

Why the heck is Picasso so important? Certainly, the "mystique and machismo" of his personal life are inexorably linked to his unapologetic legacy. But his famed Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) may best encapsulate his incendiary approach to art making. Artnet-
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/pablo-picasso-les-demoiselles-davignon-3-things-2279854
#modernart #cubism #arthistory #artmuseum #artgallery #potterdayart

Putting down his brushes in the late 1920s came as a form of liberation for Matisse, who found respite in the raw simplicity of clay. In manipulating clay, he discovered a physical release from the anxieties of the pictorial plane.
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https://www.cnn.com/style/article/old-masters-da-vinci-egg-yolk-painting-scn/index.html

Putting down his brushes in the late 1920s came as a form of liberation for Matisse, who found respite in the raw simplicity of clay. In manipulating clay, he discovered a physical release from the anxieties of the pictorial plane.
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https://www.cnn.com/style/article/old-masters-da-vinci-egg-yolk-painting-scn/index.html

Kandinsky had a spiritual relationship with music, believing it could reveal the route to a new art that shed material appearances in favor of an inner reality. But which music guided his pursuit of an art that reveals a mystical, inner truth? https://hyperallergic.com/731339/on-kandinskys-spiritual-relationship-with-music/?fbclid=IwAR0amoVwsbSI49UYBiRZweOY2bHcBS4crk4rwFMs8cdLsnz8_cRqbxhs3tY
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