Tuesday, March 1, 2016

New Voices


Alice Neel, Andy Warhol, 1970
oil on canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, U.S.A.


Alice Neal, Self-Portrait, 1980
oil on canvas
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, U.S.A.


Keith Haring, Religion


Keith Haring


Keith Haring


Jean-Michel Basquiat
King Alphonso


Jean-Michel Basquiat
Leonardo Da Vinci's Greatest Hits


Jean-Michel Basquiat
Notary

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Pop Art


Andy Warhol, 'Marilyn Diptych, 1962
acrylic on canvas support
each 205 x 142 x 2 cm
Tate Gallery, London, UK


Andy Warhol, 'Campbell's Soup Cans, 1962
Synthetic polymer paint, 51 cm x 41 cm (each)
Museum of Modern Art


Richard Hamilton, 'What is it That Makes Todays Homes So Different, So Appealing?', 1956
Collage on Paper, 26 x 25 cm
Tate Gallery, London, UK


Robert Rauschenberg, 'Bed', 1955
Oil on pillow, quilt and sheet on wood supports,
191.1 x 80 x 20.3 cm
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Surrealism


Rene Magritte, 'The Treachery of Images', 1928 - 1929
Oil on Canvas, 63.5 x 93.98 cm
Los Angeles County of Art, Los Angeles, USA


Salvador Dali, 'The Metamorphosis of Narcissus', 1937
Oil on Canvas, 51.1 x 78.1 cm
Tate Modern, London


Salvador Dali, 'The Persistence of Memory', 1931
Oil on Canvas, 24 x 33cm
Museum of Modern Art, New York City

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Dada

Kurt Schwitters - Ursonate
1922-32
http://www.costis.org/x/schwitters/ursonate.htm



Man Ray - Cadeau (Gift)
1919


Hannah Höch - Da Dandy
1919, photomontage/collage, 30x23cm


Marcel Duchamp - L.H.O.O.Q.
1919 - pencil on postcard


Marcel Duchamp - Bicycle Wheel
1919


Hans Arp - Collage Arranged According To The Laws Of Chance
1917, collage, 49x35cm

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Fountain



Marcel Duchamp, 'Fountain', 1917, original lost, 2nd version
Galleria Schwarz, Milan, edition of 8 signed and numbered replicas
1964



"The Richard Mutt Case" in: The Blind Man No. 2
May, 1917

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Abstract Expressionism


Mark Rothko : No. 61 (Rust and Blue), 1951
Oil on Canvas, 1953, 115 cm × 92 cm
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, U.S.A.



Jackson Pollock : Blue Poles, 1952
Enamel and aluminium paint with glass on canvas, 212.1 cm × 488.9 cm
Australian National Gallery, Canberra



Hans Namuth (photographer) : Pollock Painting, 1950



Robert Motherwell : Beside the Sea No. 5, 1962
Oil on paper, 73.7 × 58.4 cm
Dedalus Foundation, New York, U.S.A.



Franz Kline : New York, N.Y. , 1953
Oil on canvas, 200.7 × 128.3 cm
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, U.S.A.

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Roots Of Expressionism


Wassily Kandinsky
Circles Post




Wassily Kandinsky
Black Lines 1 - 1913




Wassily Kandinsky
Study for Composition II - 1909/10
98cm x 131cm, oil on canvas




Gustav Klimt
The Three Ages Of Woman (Die drei Lebensalter der Frau) - 1905
180cm x 180cm, oil on canvas




Gustav Klimt
The Kiss (Der Kuss) - 1907/08
180cm x 180cm, oil and gold leaf on canvas




Henri Matisse
Portrait of Madame Matisse (Green Stripe) (La Raie Verte) - 1905
40.50cm × 32.5cm, oil on canvas




Edvard Münch
The Scream (Skrik) - 1893
91cm × 73.5cm, oil, tempera, and pastel on cardboard

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Mondrian - De Stijl



Piet Mondrian, Composition II in Red, Blue and Yellow, 1930
Oil on canvas, 45 x 45cm
Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy




Piet Mondrian, Composition No. VI, Composite 9 (Blue Facade), 1914
Oil on canvas, 95.5 x 68 cm
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland




Piet Mondrian, Composition Trees II, 1912
Oil on canvas, 98 x 65 cm
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands




Piet mondrian, The Grey Tree, 1912
Oil on canvas, 79.7 x 109.1 cm
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands




Piet Mondrian, Avond (evening), Red Tree, 1908
Oil on canvas, 70 x 99cm
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands




Suprematism



Kasimir Malevich, 'Red Square, Realism in paint of a peasant woman in two dimensions', 1915
Oil on canvas, 53 x 53 cm
St Petersburg, State Russian Museum




Kasemir Malevich, Suprematism (with eight rectangles), 1915
Oil on canvas, 57.5 x 48.5 cm
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum

Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Cubism



Marcel Duchamp
Nude Decending a Staircase, no.2, 1912
oil on canvas, 143 x 90 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York




Georges Braque - Woman with a Mandolin, 1910
oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm, Bayerische, Staatsgemaldesammlungen, Munich




Pablo Picasso - Portrait of Ambroise Vollard, 1910
Oil on canvas, 92 x 65 cm, Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow




Pablo Picasso, 1907, Les Demoiselles D'Avignon, Oil on canvas
243.9 x 233.7 cm, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Realism to Impressionism

Rouen Cathedral - Claude Monet - 1892-94




Claude Monet
Impression - Sunrise, 1872
48 x 63 cm, oil on canvas


Édouard Manet
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon in the Grass) - 1863
208 × 264 cm, oil on canvas



Édouard Manet
Olympia - 1863
130.5 × 190 cm, oil on canvas



Gustave Courbét
Burial At Ornans - 1849/50
315 × 660 cm, oil on canvas



Gustave Courbét
The Stone Breakers - 1850
165 × 257 cm, oil on canvas