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zitterberg: Lena LafakiThe Four Seasons, 2011

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 23:41:28 -0400

zitterberg:

Lena Lafaki
The Four Seasons, 2011

inspiring-illustration: Lostsoulx44

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:06:36 -0400

inspiring-illustration:

Lostsoulx44

cavetocanvas: Frantisek Kupka, Yellow Spectrum, 1907

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 02:38:14 -0500

cavetocanvas:

Frantisek Kupka, Yellow Spectrum, 1907

cavetocanvas: Frantisek Kupka, Planes By Colors, Large Nude,...

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 02:35:51 -0500

cavetocanvas:

Frantisek Kupka, Planes By Colors, Large Nude, 1909-10

From the Guggenheim:

Theosophy—a synthesis of philosophy, religion, and science—guided Kupka’s holistic approach to art. His paintings draw on a variety of sources, including ancient myths, color theory, and contemporary scientific developments. The invention of radiography at the turn of the century was especially significant for Kupka, whose search for an alternative dimension through a kind of painterly X-ray vision is captured in his monumental Planes by Colors, Large Nude. In this work, Kupka rendered the figure of his wife, Eugénie, in vivid shades of purple, green, yellow, and blue, devising an innovative modeling technique based on color, not line or shade, that sections her body into tonal planes in such a way that her “inner form” is made visible. This unveiling of the unseen is crucial, for Kupka believed that it is only through the senses, through physical experience, that we can reach an extrasensory, metaphysical dimension and thereafter achieve an intuitive understanding of the universal scheme underlying existence.

themainloop: David Levine (American, 1926-2009) “High Breasted...

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 02:34:07 -0500

themainloop:

David Levine (American, 1926-2009) “High Breasted Nude”

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Sat, 03 Mar 2012 11:52:23 -0500

dirtyturps: Alphonse Mucha - Slav Epic I’m going to go see...

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 11:52:13 -0500

dirtyturps:

Alphonse Mucha - Slav Epic
I’m going to go see these again in May!

cavetocanvas: Frantisek Kupka, Epona-Ballade, The Joys,...

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 11:52:01 -0500

cavetocanvas:

Frantisek Kupka, Epona-Ballade, The Joys, 1901-02

flyingodiva: After the Ball, 1895, Ramon Cases i Carbo.

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:22:47 -0500

flyingodiva:

After the Ball, 1895, Ramon Cases i Carbo.

themainloop: Anders Zorn One of my all time favorite paintings

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:40:11 -0500

themainloop:

Anders Zorn One of my all time favorite paintings

iheartmyart: Edward Kay, The Losers, 2008, oil on canvas on...

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:28:41 -0500

iheartmyart:

Edward Kay, The Losers, 2008, oil on canvas on panel, 110 x 140 cms

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Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:48:21 -0500

masterpiecedaily: Paul Raud Seminude 1893

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:13:45 -0500

masterpiecedaily:

Paul Raud

Seminude

1893

Winston Chmielinski

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:52:59 -0500

Winston Chmielinski

artemisdreaming: Self-portrait with Cloak, Paris, late,...

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:49:14 -0500

artemisdreaming:

Self-portrait with Cloak, Paris, late, 1901

Pablo Picasso

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The Blue Period (1901-1904) has long been considered Picasso’s first true evolution as an artist in creating a manner of his own. Beginning with several paintings that memorialized the recent suicide of his friend Casagemas, the artist’s themes grew somber and dark, and he implemented a palette consisting almost exclusively of shades of blue. The monochromatic use of blue was fairly standard in symbolist painting in Western Europe, often related to representations of melancholy or hopelessness. The figures in his works were often depicted as Bohemian-type outcasts, which happened to be the life that Picasso was leading himself, poor and far away from his family. Some examples of his subjects included beggars, prostitutes, the disabled, circus performers as well as some of his penniless friends. The Blue Period dramatizes the artist as an outcast from society and the theme of this era in Picasso’s career owes much to the eighteen-nineties when the idea of the artist as l’homme maudit, happy and dissociated from ordinary life but superior to it, was created in Western Europe. via: artchive

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Artemis: When you see the blue period paintings separately you get a sense of what he was feeling but to see them as a group really gives a glimpse into the depth of his depression.

angrywhistler: Nicolas de Largillière (1656-1746)

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:26:11 -0500

angrywhistler:

Nicolas de Largillière (1656-1746)

themainloop: Johann Baptist Reiter

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:12:43 -0500

themainloop:

Johann Baptist Reiter

cavetocanvas: James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Milly Finch, c....

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:04:03 -0500

cavetocanvas:

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Milly Finch, c. 1884

artemisdreaming: Above: Panel - La légende De Saint-Hubert,...

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:48:06 -0500

artemisdreaming:

Above: Panel - La légende De Saint-Hubert, Maurice Denis, 1897, Sept panneaux, huile sur toile © ADAGP, Paris 2010 - large image: HERE

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In 1895 scholar and politician Baron Denys Cochin commissioned Maurice Denis to paint a mural for his office. The theme: the legend of St. Hubert, in which the cross of Christ has appeared between the antlers of a stag during a hunt.

This allows symbolist and mystic Maurice Denis in 1897 to make his first major mural. The work is a summary and means of expression for the Nabi period: harmony of form and color, motion, visual and decorative sensations …

The setting consists of seven panels that follow one another on three walls, following the course of hunting and along a path Manichean. Four themes interweave them: the hunt, the conversion of St. Hubert and the evidence of the sacred and the misfortune of hunters driven by their passions, and finally the fate of the family Cochin, a symbol of the human family united in peace and prayer. (musee-mauricedenis.fr)

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Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 01:37:12 -0500

Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline