#potterdayart — Public Fediverse posts

"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

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

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

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

‘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

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

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

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.
#modernart #sculpture #fauvism #expression #arthistory #artmuseum #potterdayart
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
#modernart #abstractart #expresssionism #artmuseum #artgallery #potterdayart #germanexpressionism

ICYMI: A rich panorama of the key people & places behind the civil rights movement surface in an archive of Doris Derby's searing, intimate images. Her work captured Black people’s everyday struggles for survival and growing political action. https://hyperallergic.com/691080/doris-derbys-searing-intimate-photos-of-the-civil-rights-movement/?fbclid=IwAR2PBVzJOUYp1mmDe1SnPfM8A4_UCKe_kgl5Xq-7x3FsbBwrUkx4BqsTzVc
#photography #arthistory #civilrights #photographer #photojournalist #artgallery #artmuseum #potterdayart

An international art star in an unlikely place: Keith Haring’s subway drawings are among his most well-known & celebrated work, now at the Brattleboro Museum, Vermont. Haring created more than 5,000 chalk drawings in the NY subway system, drawing them quickly on blank advertising spaces covered with black matte paper. While free, they captured the public attention & helped launch his career.
#streetart #graffiti #popart #modernart #artgallery #artmuseum #artcollector #potterdayart

He created realism built of cold structures and isolated people. Hopper twisted the cityscape into a constructed landscape with elevated views, horizontal plains, and private, impenetrable lives. The Whitney exhibition is near-encyclopedic. https://hyperallergic.com/801406/edward-hoppers-views-of-isolation/?fbclid=IwAR1rqcPFl1L0pkKpqFI8dNk_AprITbqMSfcoRhtnC30LLAdNx7ygy3g_CMw
#modernart #museum #arthistory #socialrealism #realism #potterdayart #artcollector #realist

Who the heck bought all of that mid-century furniture when it was new, anyway? Hyperallergic takes a look. (Hint: most of the modern designers were male & white.) More complex, the meaning of these designs can be found in how the designs were advertised, how they were used to advertise other products, and how they appeared in the media. https://hyperallergic.com/639763/mid-century-modernism-racial-history/?fbclid=IwAR1dKE4Ll6m2-vzYWOAM4QfCioXa4lwTo8lCAjM6tHlmi0vOXug3cmbdU78
#modernism #modernart #moderndesign #modernist #midcentury #midcenturydesign #postwar #artcollector #arthistory #potterdayart

She brought to light "the strange in the mundane." Far more than just a muse, Dora Maar was an artist in her own right, creating works that "require repeat viewings, all of which yield something new." https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-strange-surrealist-magic-of-dora-maar-180981226/
#modernart #surrealism #surrealist #femaleartist #arthistory #artmuseum #artcollector #potterdayart

Let's make applesauce. He wasn't an artist, so he said. He was an engineer, albeit one with an artistic eye. And 100 of his photos are held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Engineer Edgerton advanced the field of photography and left an artistic legacy. https://www.cnn.com/style/article/harold-edgerton-bullet-apple-snap/index.html
#photography #photographer #modernart #potterdayart

Women artists in the Renaissance? They not only existed, they flourished in northern Italy. Bologna boomed with professional women painters — with more than any other Italian city. Why was Bologna, the largest city in northern Italy, so receptive? https://hyperallergic.com/522392/women-artists-bologna-lavinia-fontana/?fbclid=IwAR3AT0tpt4RXLfptS4oxzoHRgcEfB-vzKoHd4pr_V159aLpI2gnjgn-3Vls
#renaissanceart #arthistory #womenartists #artmuseum #potterdayart #italianart

"She gave Abstract Expressionism a lyricism, spareness and light that weren’t quite natural to it." The peak of Joan Mitchell's 4-decade career explored in NYC exhibition. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/24/arts/design/joan-mitchell-david-zwirner.html
#modernart #abstractart #arthistory #artgallery #artmuseum #potterdayart