April 2010
4 posts
Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot, and Griselda Pollock.
Cassatt, Little girl in a blue arm chair, c. 1878
This is one of my favorite pieces by Mary Cassatt. A moment that is caught only by a mother. A moment reflective of both childhood and womanhood. A child stuck in a grown-ups world, swallowed by the ocean of blue chairs, awkwardly plopped trying to filled the space. The little girl is slouched...
Van Gogh and Gauguin
Before Van Gogh and Gauguin color was translated literally on the canvas. How dare you use yellow for the grass and red for the sky.
Van Gogh talks about color as means of expression, as a power, “I am know going to be the arbitrary colorist. I exaggerate the fairness of the hair, I even to orange tones, chromes and pale citron-yellow. Behind the head, instead of...
Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes (and Photography)
Photography, in my opinion, is one of the most challenging art forms we have today.
It is so simple, so accessible, easy to learn and even automatically have technical precision, but it is capturing emotion, feeling, an atmosphere, that makes one see the “truth” differently.
The First Photograph c. 1826, Joseph Niepce
First...
Constructivism
“The optimistic, non-representational relief construction, sculpture, kinetics and painting. The artists did not believe in abstract ideas, rather they tried to link art with concrete and tangible ideas.”
Dedicated for social purposes, “art for art’s sake.”
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Artipop Poster by Mayakovsky
Poetry
“The rain sobbed all over...
