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Reclining Man(Study for Bathing Place, Asniéres)(1883) George Seurat
Looking at Seurat's drawing work, I feel very close ...
Looking at Seurat's drawing work, I feel very close ...
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Angelus Novus (1920) Paul Klee
A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing in from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such a violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.
-Walter BenjaminAre you afraid of women, Doctor?
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That will forever be one of my favorite Benjamin pieces and one of my favorite paintings.
And I was just thinking about it yesterday after seeing all the debris
on the McQueen runway (although the show falls lamentably short
of the beautiful expression here)....
thanks for posting.
...I mean the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable.Comment
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Sigrid Hjerten, swedish modernism at its prime :)Comment
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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Ecstasy of St. Theresa(1652) Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini
And when folds of clothing spill out of the painting, it is
Bernini who endows them with sublime form in sculpture,
when marble seizes and bears to infinity folds that cannot
be explained by the body, but by a spiritual adventure that
can set the body ablaze. His is not an art of structures but
of textures, as seen in the twenty marble forms he fashions.
-The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque Gilles Deleuze
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^ that's beautiful, B-I. a chill just went down my spine.Originally posted by merzComment
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^yes, if you are ever in Rome, it should be experienced.
Its in a "small" church named Santa Maria della VittoriaAre you afraid of women, Doctor?
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fantastic choice! i've not seen it in person, but that image ran in the intro pages to my first 'history of art' book, obtained as a teenager. i was just getting into modern art but the Bernini is like no other.Originally posted by BECOMING-INTENSE View PostComment
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what does that mean, fuuma?Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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That I like those two pieces? Rodin can sorta be said to be the father of modern sculpture and Judd is one of my fav minimalist artists and I like a lot of minimalist pieces.Originally posted by Faust View PostSelling CCP, Harnden, Raf, Rick etc.
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Sorry, I meant the Judd piece.Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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