April 21, 2022

Miró’s Studio and The Farm, painted in 1921-22

“The Farm was a résumé of my entire life in the country. I wanted to put everything I loved about the country into that canvas-from a huge tree to a tiny snail.”

3:21pm
Filed under: Miró JoanMiró 
June 14, 2021
Lovely plein air painting session and catch-up with Leslie yesterday 🤗 (at Humboldt Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQGbVD5D5ep/?utm_medium=tumblr

Lovely plein air painting session and catch-up with Leslie yesterday 🤗 (at Humboldt Park)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CQGbVD5D5ep/?utm_medium=tumblr

7:22am
January 22, 2021
“A work of Art is created for the pleasure of the artist and automatically for that of the audience. Where it requires indoctrination it is not Art.” 2/5/50 4 Stuart Davis Papers (Harvard) Via Stuart Davis: a catalog raisonné

“A work of Art is created for the pleasure of the artist and automatically for that of the audience. Where it requires indoctrination it is not Art.” 2/5/50 4 Stuart Davis Papers (Harvard)

Via Stuart Davis: a catalog raisonné

10:19pm
Filed under: stuartdavis 
January 8, 2021
Kurt Schwitters, Cherry Picture (1921) Via MoMA: Schwitters pasted and hammered objects onto what appears to be an earlier oil painting, its moody greens and blues still partly visible. The reworking testifies to a conceptual shift: from the work of...

Kurt Schwitters, Cherry Picture (1921)

Via MoMA: Schwitters pasted and hammered objects onto what appears to be an earlier oil painting, its moody greens and blues still partly visible. The reworking testifies to a conceptual shift: from the work of art as picture to the work of art as surface for the accumulation of matter.

11:43am
Filed under: KurtSchwitters Assemblage AssemblageArt Collage 
October 6, 2020
“I set up my easel in front of this piece of water which adorns my garden with its coolness; it is only 200 meters around and its image aroused in you the idea of the infinite…as in microcosm, the existence of the elements and the instability of the...

“I set up my easel in front of this piece of water which adorns my garden with its coolness; it is only 200 meters around and its image aroused in you the idea of the infinite…as in microcosm, the existence of the elements and the instability of the university which transforms itself, every moment, before our eyes.” –Claude Monet, who spent the last three decades of his career painting his garden at Giverny

8:06pm
Filed under: ClaudeMonet Giverny Nymphaeas ArtistsGarden