Art History
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Exploring the bizarre and beautiful legacy of Art.
This is actually good summary
I am reading diaries of Paul Klee and it is fascinating,…. To get into his worlds through words with which he was also very skilled.
Varieties and possibilities,… I wrote about him some years ago https://musebuz.com/klees-perception-of-the-world-as-some-kind-of-a-model-an-illusion-of-something-behind-it/
Varieties and possibilities,… I wrote about him some years ago https://musebuz.com/klees-perception-of-the-world-as-some-kind-of-a-model-an-illusion-of-something-behind-it/
Remedios Varo, one of my fav surrealist artist
was a Spanish painter known for her surrealist artworks; she was based in Spain and later France but moved to Mexico due to the Spanish Civil War and tensions in France due to Nazi occupation. She spent the last thirteen years of her life in Mexico and passed away at the age of 54, during the zenith of her career. The claustrophobic space and the caged moon create a sense of entrapment and isolation, a sense which Varo experienced during her time in Mexico when European artists were not particularly welcomed in Mexican art circles. Feeding the stardust to the caged moon might give us a hint of transforming hope into opportunity.
was a Spanish painter known for her surrealist artworks; she was based in Spain and later France but moved to Mexico due to the Spanish Civil War and tensions in France due to Nazi occupation. She spent the last thirteen years of her life in Mexico and passed away at the age of 54, during the zenith of her career. The claustrophobic space and the caged moon create a sense of entrapment and isolation, a sense which Varo experienced during her time in Mexico when European artists were not particularly welcomed in Mexican art circles. Feeding the stardust to the caged moon might give us a hint of transforming hope into opportunity.
Cave painting
im in a museum and they dont know where these pots are from
so i just deep searched them on grok
i will email it to them later
i hope this is right and they build a statue of me outside
so i just deep searched them on grok
i will email it to them later
i hope this is right and they build a statue of me outside
Leonora Carrington by Max Ernst
Despite his growing fame, Giacometti often found himself dissatisfied with his sculptures, especially their scale. He famously recounted how, after World War II, he tried sculpting from memory but found that every time he worked on a figure, it became smaller and thinner. At one point, his figures were so tiny—some just a few centimeters tall—that he could carry an entire collection in a matchbox. This was not a deliberate artistic choice at first; he simply felt that the closer he got to reality, the smaller his sculptures became.
This crisis of perception lasted for years, and Giacometti even claimed that his most acclaimed works were merely incomplete attempts at capturing what he truly saw. Yet, his elongated, fragile figures became some of the most iconic sculptures of the 20th century, precisely because they embodied the existential themes of isolation, resilience, and the struggle to represent the human form.
This crisis of perception lasted for years, and Giacometti even claimed that his most acclaimed works were merely incomplete attempts at capturing what he truly saw. Yet, his elongated, fragile figures became some of the most iconic sculptures of the 20th century, precisely because they embodied the existential themes of isolation, resilience, and the struggle to represent the human form.
Florian Yuriev, Color Requiem, 1968
What museums are onchain or doing fun new stuff online? MET with art link, MoMa has a wallet, Belvedere on Roblox, Finnish National Gallery on Fortnite and Zora based platform. Who else?
FIGHT THE REAL ENEMY
I attended a Van Gogh immersive experience exhibition and learned that he sold only one painting during his lifetime 🥹 Titled “The Red Vineyard,” it was purchased in early 1890 by Anna Boch, a Belgian artist and collector, for 400 francs. Despite his remarkable talent, Van Gogh’s work only achieved widespread recognition after his death.
Ann Weaver Norton (1905 -1982) at her studio in west palm beach, Florida. Norton was known for her massive sculptures (vertical constructions of brick, stone or wood), many of which are displayed at the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens on the grounds of her former home in Florida. .
Joe Davis
"Microvenus" 1986
The first time someone used genetic engineering to insert art into living organisms.
"Microvenus" 1986
The first time someone used genetic engineering to insert art into living organisms.
Marina Abramović
Freeing the Voice, 1976
A performance in which the artist screamed for three hours, until her voice ran out.
Freeing the Voice, 1976
A performance in which the artist screamed for three hours, until her voice ran out.
Yves Klein making fire paintings In the spring of 1961 at the Centre d’Essais du Gaz de France, the test centre of France’s national gas company, in Plaine-Saint-Denis.
Nam June Paik - Game Byter (1994)
Protrait de madame Dyer, 1933
by Max Ernst (1891-1976)
by Max Ernst (1891-1976)
Freischwimmer 99 by Wolfgang Tillmans
GN world from Gustav Klimt The Park painted in 1910
In later stages of his life turning his artistic atomic eye towards the landscape. While pointillism was infiltrating, he didn’t follow the codex but created his own tapestry of colors morphing into form and back. Dense world of meaning
In later stages of his life turning his artistic atomic eye towards the landscape. While pointillism was infiltrating, he didn’t follow the codex but created his own tapestry of colors morphing into form and back. Dense world of meaning
Full fathom five, 1947 by Jackson Pollock
Probably one of the first paintings that detached from his previous easel stand paintings and diving into drip canvases technique. Detaching from surrealist or cubist lines of thoughts and entering the wide and dark space of the unconscious, universal, limitless
Probably one of the first paintings that detached from his previous easel stand paintings and diving into drip canvases technique. Detaching from surrealist or cubist lines of thoughts and entering the wide and dark space of the unconscious, universal, limitless
I probably spent half an hour analyzing this piece and additional reading about it and still staring.
William Blake 1921
The Sea of Time and Space from the vision in which he saw the representation of humanity and counterpart in Heavens (upper left) and nymphs cave passage (right side of piece) where mortals are prepared to enter the time and space-Earth again. Pinkish shade of body suggests existence of blood in those of Earthly nature. Ocean and Odyssey in the middle
William Blake 1921
The Sea of Time and Space from the vision in which he saw the representation of humanity and counterpart in Heavens (upper left) and nymphs cave passage (right side of piece) where mortals are prepared to enter the time and space-Earth again. Pinkish shade of body suggests existence of blood in those of Earthly nature. Ocean and Odyssey in the middle
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just found out about 책거리 ('chaekgeori', 'books and things') paintings from the late Joseon period (18th-20th c. Korea) and now i'm gonna think about them all day.
just found out about 책거리 ('chaekgeori', 'books and things') paintings from the late Joseon period (18th-20th c. Korea) and now i'm gonna think about them all day.