smells like your arm hairs singed from over dousing the briquettes with aromatic lighter fluid, & lobbying for radio control, & the kids cranky & spilling in the back seat— Because so little is delectably dangerous anymore, because women don't fold small notes into our hands, he'd like. ...
In the final part of the comics exhibition, we saw information about the modern manga industry, contemporary artists and trends, the history of censorship in several countries, the role of women artists and their struggle for equality, and media adaptations of comic art. There was a table where...
Using elements of German Expressionism, Art Deco and Futurism, Scheiber liked to paint cafés and cabarets when many people were out on the town, as shown in Vurstli Fun Fair; he also liked painting women puffing ciggies or dancing the cancan. Eventually, Scheiber’s artworks became popular...
A pleasant sense of ease and harmony pervades this landscape of almost photographic clarity. The large areas of brilliant sunshine and cool shade, the rambling line of the fence, and the beautiful balance of trees, meadow, and river are evidence of the artist’s creative synthesis of the actua...
women in dresses surrounded by a greenish fog as one of them plays the lute. For Foster, taking in the painting 120 years after its creation, the scene reminds him that the human toll on the environment “is often dissonant and exploitative, a ...
The women being depicted are actually prostitutes in a brothel in the artist's native Barcelona. Where you can find the painting? At NYC's Modern Museum of Art.How much is the painting worth? $1.2 billion, according to artsy.net. Advertising 11. Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Harvesters, ...
Gauguin’s first tour to the island of Tahiti in 1891 inspired this vision, and the trip was just the start of his passion for Tahiti and its native women. Nafea Faa Ipoipo? translates to ‘When Will You Marry?’. Afterward, he created more paintings of Tahitian women in the island se...
Now through May 15, I’m writing about the who, what and why of some living women artists. Why? Well thank you for asking! A couple of weeks ago, I asked if you, gentle reader might be interested in this. And the […] Read More...
In April 1806 in Northampton, more than 1,500 men, women, and children ringed the scaffold upon which Dominic Daley and James Halligan were dispatched by their nooses in "a fearful dance of death." The site of the hanging was on the future grounds of Northampton State Hospital. Many ...
Les Femmes d’ Alger (“Version O”) was part of the 1954-55 series from Picasso called “Les Femmes d’Alger” (“Women of Algiers”). It was the last of 15 versions in the series, which was considered to be a tribute to his friend Henri Matisse. Until Salvator Mundi broke the re...