Geometry
Posted: January 29, 2015 Filed under: Art, Painting/Drawing, Photography, Sculpture | Tags: 20s, 40s, abstract art, constructivism, Enio Iommi, geometric abstraction, geometry, hats, J.D. Okhai Ojeikere, lines, Lyubov Popova, modern art, Nigeria, ojeikere, shapes Leave a comment
Untitled. J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere. 2004.
Direcciones. Enio Iommi. 1945.
Constructivist Composition. Lyubov Popova. 1921.
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Formas Continuas
Posted: August 28, 2014 Filed under: Art, Sculpture | Tags: 1948, 40s, Argentina, Enio Iommi, escultura, form, formas continuas, Latin American Art, sculptor, shapes Leave a comment
Formas Continuas, Enio Iommi. 1948.
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Mother and Child
Posted: May 11, 2014 Filed under: Art, Sculpture | Tags: 40s, American, Brancusi, bronze, cubist, daughter, French, Jacques Lipchitz, love, MOMA, mother, Mother and Child, mother's day, mutilation, proto-cubist, Russian, woman Leave a comment
Mother and Child II. Jacques Lipchitz. 1941-45
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The Dream
Posted: December 29, 2013 Filed under: Art, Painting/Drawing | Tags: 1940, 20th century, 40s, bed, death, dream, explosives, Frida, Frida Kahlo, Latin American Art, life, Mexico, mortality, Self Portrait, skeleton, Surrealism, surrealist Leave a comment
The Dream (The Bed). Frida Kahlo. 1940.
In this painting, as well as others, Frida’s preoccupation with death is revealed. In real life Frida did have a papier-mâché skeleton (Juda) on the canopy of her bed. Diego called it “Frida’s lover” but Frida said it was just an amusing reminder of mortality. Frida and the skeleton both lie on their side with two pillows under their head. While Frida sleeps the skeleton is awake and watching. The bed appears to ascend into the clouds and the embroidered vines on her bedspread seem to come to life and begin to entwine with her body. The roots at the foot of the bed appear to have been pulled out of the ground. The skeleton’s body is entwined with wires and explosives that at any moment could go off… making Frida’s dream of death a stark reality. In this painting and in others, Frida uses the “Life/Death” theme…the plants representing the rebirth of life and the skeleton representing death.
Text from FridaKahloFans
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Broadway Boogie Woogie
Posted: October 26, 2013 Filed under: Art, Painting/Drawing | Tags: 1942, 40s, abstract art, boogie, Broadway, colour blocks, De Stijl, jazz, labyrinth, Manhattan, maze, MOMA, Mondrian, neoplasticism, New York, non-representational, rhythm Leave a comment
Broadway Boogie Woogie. Piet Mondrian .1942-3
Mondrian, who had escaped to New York from Europe after the outbreak of World War II, delighted in the city’s architecture. He was also fascinated by American jazz, particularly boogie-woogie, finding its syncopated beat, irreverent approach to melody, and improvisational aesthetic akin to what he called, in his own work, the “destruction of natural appearance; and construction through continuous opposition of pure means—dynamic rhythm.” In this painting, his penultimate, Mondrian replaced the black grid that had long governed his canvases with predominantly yellow lines that intersect at points marked by squares of blue and red. These atomized bands of stuttering chromatic pulses, interrupted by light gray, create paths across the canvas suggesting the city’s grid, the movement of traffic, and blinking electric lights, as well as the rhythms of jazz.
(Text from MoMA)
