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

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


The Last Supper
Leonardo Da Vinci, Italy, 1495-1498
Tempera, mastic, pitch on plaster - fresco, 4.6x8.8m