#modern art
Crucifixion, seen from the Cross, by French painter Jacques Tissot (1836-1902)
Chu Teh-Chun (朱德群) (1920–2014, China/France)
Abstract expressionist paintings3
Chu Teh-Chun was a Chinese-Frenchabstract painter. Chu and his schoolmates Wu GuanzhongandZao Wou-ki were dubbed the ‘Three Musketeers’ of modernist Chinese artists trained in China and France, and were pivotal in creating a modern style of painting that synthesized both European and Chinese art traditions.
Chu’s style in particular combines brush strokes inspired by Chinese calligraphy and strong elements of European expressionism and tachism movements.
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Fly TWA Jets / Paris. 1962. David Klein.
24 7/8 x 40 ¼ in./63.2 x 102.4 cm
One of David Klein’s most celebrated posters. In this exultation of the City of Light, Klein’s stylized fireworks mimic the illustrated showgirls of the Folies-Bèrgere in posters of the period.
Available at auction February 25, 2018.
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Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón
6 July 1907-13 July 1954 (aged 47)
Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico
Periods: Naive art, Modern art, Surrealism, Magical realism, Symbolism, Primitivism, Naturalism, Social realism, Cubism
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portrait and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country popular culture, she employed a naive folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society.
Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. In addition to belonging to the post-revolutionary Mexicayotl movement, which sought to define a Mexican identity, Kahlo has been described as a surrealist or magical realist. She is known for painting about her experience chronic pain.
Sound of Two Hand Angel (detail) by Bruce Conner, 1974. Published in Vision, issue 1, 1975.
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“I Will Never Let You Down” - @bkcollage
“In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul.”
Lisa T. Shepherd
Art credit: unknown
“You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you, in your own way can illuminate the world”
-anonymous
Photo credit: ashvinharrisonart
