#history of art
Wassily Kandinsky ‘Red Sun and Boat’ 1925
Rene Magritte ‘Moonlight Architecture’ 1956
Happy birthday to Man Ray, who produced works in a variety of artistic styles, including the production of photograms (which he called rayograms)—photographs created without the use of a camera by placing objects on light-sensitive material and then exposing the material to light.
“Man Ray,” 1934, by Carl Van Vechten
Always extraordinary.
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FALL OF MODERNISM: The Modernist Impulse
“Wonderful place. You must come. Am sending ticket. Bring me a cook.” Mabel Dodge Lujan’s telegram to artist Andrew Dasburg is a seminal moment in New Mexico art history. Lujan, a prominent arts champion from New York, had fallen in love with the Taos art colony and was determined to summon artists there from the East. The efforts of Lujan and her counterparts in Santa Fe and Albuquerque sparked…
Markhor, or screw horn goat, Jardin des Plantes, Paris, early 20th century
(source: Charles Victor Alexander Peel, The Zoological Gardens of Europe)
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Jean-Auguste Barre, Ulysse recognized by his dog, 1834, Compiègne Castle, source: RMN-Grand Palais
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The Fugitive, Study for Timon of Athens, Thomas Couture (French, 1815-1879), ca. 1857
Oil on canvas
65.7 x 84.8 cm
Statue of the Madonna in the Mountains, Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774-1840), 1804
Brush and black ink and gray wash, with graphite, on cream wove paper
244 × 382 mm
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Magnolias on Light Blue Velvet Cloth, Martin Johnson Heade (American, 1819–1904), ca. 1885-1895
Oil on canvas
38.6 × 61.8 cm
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