GEORGIA O’KEEFFE,
GEORGIA O’KEEFFE, Photographed at
her Ghost Ranch home in Abiquiu, New Mexico, USA (c.1970s). The house was built
in Adobe style, made out of straw and mud, which creates an unique soft and
uneven surface on the walls. The hanging metal mobile was a gift from
O’Keeffe´s friend, Alexander Calder (c.1940s). / The Red List
Jean Arp Les deux soeurs, 1927
Jean Arp or Hans Arp (16 September 1886 – 7 June 1966) was a German-French sculptor, painter, poet, and abstract artist in other media such as torn and pasted paper.
Cecily Brown The Girl Who Had Everything, 1998
Cecily Brown (born 1969) is a British painter. Her style displays the influence of a variety of painters, from Francisco de Goya, Willem de Kooning, Francis Bacon and Joan Mitchell, to Old Masters like Rubens and Poussin, yet her works also present a distinctly female viewpoint. Brown lives and works in New York City.
Alfred Leslie Untitled, 1960
Alfred Leslie (born October 29, 1927) is an American artist
and filmmaker. He first achieved success as an Abstract Expressionist painter
but changed course in the early 1960s and became a painter of realistic
figurative paintings.
Isn't this wonderful? unexpected....fresh
A rich Kyrgyz hunter with a falcon, 1871, Vasily Vereshchagin
Vasily Vereshchagin
face matches the resume
John Ridgely Carter was
born in Baltimore on November 28, 1862. He married Alice Morgan (1865–1933) in
1897. Carter, who was secretary of the U.S. Embassy in London between 1894 and
1909 and U.S. minister to the Balkan States (Bulgaria, Romania, and Serbia)
between 1909 and 1911, was painted by John Singer Sargent in 1901. In 1911, he
was offered the post of U.S. minister to Argentina, but he refused it on the
grounds that, without the government providing him a house, the post would be
too expensive for his annual salary of $12,000. It was estimated that Minister
Charles Hitchcock Sherrill (1867–1936), whom he would replace and under whom
Robert Woods Bliss served as secretary of the legation in Buenos Aires, spent
$100,000 yearly to maintain his position. Carter left the diplomatic service
and joined the Parisian bank of J. P. Morgan & Cie., where he became a
partner in 1914. He died on June 3, 1944.
Troy Simmons
Miami artist Troy Simmons first encountered Brutalist architecture when he discovered Rainer Disse’s Feldberg Church along his travels in the Black Forest of Germany. The structure’s rugged concrete against the forest’s natural backdrop captivated him, so much so that he now translates that vernacular to canvas, juxtaposing raw, unfinished concrete against colorful, sleek pigments .
Approaching each piece like a construction project—his heaviest to date weighs 300 pounds—the Bakehouse Art Complex resident artist creates three-dimensional renderings and detailed drawings before hammering and chiseling away at the cement. “The process and layers involved in creating one piece is a reflection of who we are as humans,” Simmons says. “We all carry heavy, complex yet beautiful experiences in our souls.” See his solo show in May at JanKossen Contemporary in New York.
Albert Oehlen Untitled, 1994
Albert Oehlen (born September 17 1954 in Krefeld, West Germany) is a contemporary German artist. Oehlen lives and works in Bühler and Segovia.
Oehlen moved to Berlin in 1977, where he worked as a waiter and decorator with his friend, the artist Werner Büttner. He graduated from the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, in 1978. Along with Martin Kippenberger and Georg Herold, Oehlen was a member of Berlin "bad boy" group.
Closely associated with the Cologne art scene, Oehlen was a member of the Lord Jim Lodge, along with Martin Kippenberger among others. His art is related to the Neue Wilde movement. He has more recently been described as a 'free radical'.
Influenced by other German painters such as Georg Baselitz, Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter, Oehlen focuses on the process of painting itself. During the 1980s he began combining abstract and figurative elements of painting in his works, as part of a reaction to the prevailing Neo-Expressionist aesthetic of the time.
In the following years, he worked within self-imposed, often absurd, parameters. He used only gray tones for his "Grey" paintings and limited himself to red, yellow, and blue for another series of what he calls "bad" paintings that included his infamous 1986 portrait of Adolf Hitler.
In his paintings of the late 1990s, each piece consists of smears and lines of paint Oehlen brushed and sprayed over collaged imagery that had been transferred to canvas by the type of gigantic inkjet printers used to manufacture billboards.
In 2002, Oehlen exhibited the "Self-Portraits" series which included eight self-portraits among them Frühstück Now (Self-Portrait)(1984), Self-Portrait With Open Mouth (2001) and Self-Portrait as a Dutch Woman (1983).
Agrippina the Elder.
Caligula’s Mom
Agrippina the Elder was a prominent member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. She was born in c. 14 BC the daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, a close supporter of Rome's first emperor Augustus, and Augustus' daughter Julia the Elder.
At the time of her birth, her brothers Lucius and Gaius were the adoptive sons of Augustus and were his heirs until their deaths in AD 2 and 4, respectively.
Following their deaths, her cousin Germanicus was made the adoptive son of Tiberius as part of Augustus' succession scheme in the adoptions of AD 4 in which Tiberius was adopted by Augustus. As a corollary to the adoption, Agrippina was wed to Germanicus in order to bring him closer to the Julian family.
She is known to have traveled with him throughout his career, taking her children everywhere they went.
In AD 14, Germanicus was deployed in Gaul as governor and general. While there, the late Augustus sent her son Gaius to her unspecified location. She liked to dress him in a little soldiers' outfit complete with boots for which Gaius earned the nickname "Caligula" ("little boots").
After three years in Gaul they returned to Rome and her husband was awarded a triumph on 26 May AD 17 to commemorate his victories. The following year, Germanicus was sent to govern over the eastern provinces. While Germanicus was active in his administration, the governor of Syria Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso began feuding with him. During the feud, her husband died of illness on 10 October AD 19.
Germanicus was cremated in Antioch and she transported his ashes to Rome where they were interred at the Mausoleum of Augustus. Agrippina was vocal in claiming her husband was murdered to promote Tiberius' son Drusus Julius Caesar ("Drusus the Younger") as heir. Following the model of her grandmother Livia, she spent the time following Germanicus' death supporting the cause of her sons Nero and Drusus Caesar. This put her and her sons at odds with the powerful Praetorian prefect Lucius Aelius Sejanus who would begin eliminating their supporters with accusations of treason and sexual misconduct in AD 26. Her family's rivalry with Sejanus would culminate with her and Nero's exile in AD 29. Nero was exiled to Pontia and she was exiled to the island of Pandateria, where she would remain until her death by starvation in AD 33.
Kazuo Shiraga Chiansei Kinhyoshi, 1962
Kazuo Shiraga, (August 12, 1924 –
April 8, 2008) A Japanese modern artist who belonged to the Gutai group of
avant-garde artists. He was acknowledged internationally only after his death.
Shiraga is said to have seen the
viscosity of tube-ready oil paint as "free." This is compared to the
paints he was forced to use in painting school, which were thin ink-based
paints. Shiraga would experiment by using his hands and fingers with oil paints
in his younger years.
In the 1940s he studied Nihonga
at the Kyoto City University of Arts. In 1953 he founded the group "Zero
Kai" with Akira Kanayama, Atsuko Tanaka and Saburo Murakami which merged
with Gutai in 1955. Shiraga created "mud paintings" by using his
whole body to leave impressions in wet mud. For over ten years, from 1956 to
1966, his Performance Paintings were largely painted with his feet. Later he
was influenced by Frenchman Jean-Jacques Lebel. 1971-72 he lived as a Buddhist
monk.
Compartment Car, 1938, Edward Hopper
Hopper also took an interest in cars and trains. It is a pity he didn't live long into the jet age, though we sense his shadow in many contemporary works. The artist was drawn to the introspective mood that traveling seems to put us into. He captured the atmosphere in half-empty carriages making their way across a landscape: the silence that reigns inside while the wheels beat in rhythm against the rails outside, the dreaminess fostered by the noise and the view from the windows - a dreaminess in which we seem to stand outside our normal selves and have access to thoughts and memories that may not emerge in more settled circumstances. The woman in Hopper's Compartment C Car 1938 seems in such a frame of mind, reading her book and shifting her gaze between the carriage and the view.
Street in Tangier, 1912, Henry Ossawa Tanner
I adore all the activity in this painting
The Pont Boieldieu, Rouen, Damp Weather, 1896, Camille Pissarro
Cuno Amiet
Cuno Amiet (March 1868 – July 1961) was a Swiss painter, illustrator, graphic artist and sculptor. As the first Swiss painter to give precedence to color in composition, he was a pioneer of modern art in Switzerland. Amiet created more than 4,000 paintings, of which more than 1,000 are self-portraits.
The great scope of his work of 70 years and Amiet's predilection for experimentation make his œuvre appear disparate at first – a constant, though, is the primacy of color. His numerous landscape paintings depict many winter scenes, gardens and fruit harvests. Ferdinand Hodler remained a constant point of reference, although Amiet's artistic intentions diverged ever further from those of Hodler, whom Amiet could and would not match in his mastery of monumental scale and form.
While Amiet took up themes of expressionism, his works retain a sense of harmony of colour grounded in the French tradition. He continued to pursue mainly decorative intentions at the beginning of the 20th century, but his late work of the 1940s and 50s is focused on more abstract concepts of space and light, characterized by dots of color and a pastel brilliance
Blue Nude IV, 1952, Henri Matisse
The Blue Nudes is a series of color lithographs by Henri Matisse made from cut-outs depicting nude figures in various positions. Restricted by his physical condition after his surgery for stomach cancer, Matisse began creating art by cutting and painting sheets of paper by hand and supervised the creation of the lithographs until his death in 1954.
Blue Nude IV, the first of the four nudes, took a notebook of studies and two weeks' work of cutting-and-arranging before the resulting artifact satisfied him. In the event, Matisse finally arrived at his favorite pose, for all four works—intertwining legs and an arm stretching behind the neck. The posture of the nude woman is like the posture of a number of seated nudes made in the first years of the 1920s, ultimately, the posture derives from the reposed figures of Le bonheur de vivre. The second in the series, Blue Nude II, was completed in 1952.
Despite the flatness of paper, the cut-outs reflect Matisse’s earlier sculptures in their tangible, relief-like quality, especially the sense of volume created by the overlapping of the cut-outs. Blue Nude I, in particular, can be compared with sculptures such as La Serpentine, from 1909.
The color blue signified distance and volume to Matisse. Frustrated in his attempts to successfully marry dominant and contrasting tones, the artist was moved to use solid slabs of single color early in his career, a technique that became known as Fauvism. The painted gouache cut-outs that compose the Blue Nudes were inspired by Matisse's collection of African sculpture and his visit to Tahiti, in 1930. He required another twenty years and a post-operative period of incapacity before Matisse synthesized those African and Polynesian influences into this seminal series.
After his death, the works were printed in a special 1956 issue of Verve, entitled "Les Derniers Oeuvres de Matisse", though only the ones finished before his death bear his signature. The series was later shown at the Museum of Modern Art from October 2014 to February 2015 as part of the exhibition Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs
Elizabeth Siddal Seated at an Easel, 1852, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall ( July 1829–February 1862) was an English artist, poet, and artists' model and an important and influential artist and poet. Siddall was painted and drawn extensively by artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, including Walter Deverell, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais (including his notable 1852 painting Ophelia), and her husband, Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
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