the thickness of white

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

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Romanticism vs Realism

Francisco Goya
3rd of May, 1808 - painted 1814
268 x 347 cm, oil on canvas

Francisco Goya
2nd of May, 1808 - painted 1814
266 x 345 cm, oil on canvas

Liberty Leading The People
Eugene Delacroix - 1830
325 x 260 cm, oil on canvas

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

The Rennaisance

David
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, Italy, 1501-04
Marble, 517cm

The Creation of Adam from The Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, Italy, 1512
Fresco, 480x230cm

Mona Lisa (La Gioconda or La Joconde, or Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo)
Leonardo Da Vinci, Italy, c.1503–1519 (probably finished by 1506)
Oil on poplar, 77x53cm