The real original sin is that mustache, Gauguin.
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Monthly Archives: June 2014
Sometimes art has crappy fake flowers inserted in it. #patriotism #usa (at US Navy Memorial)
girl in a blue armchair
I am on board with everything about this girl’s look. I hope Cassatt gave the same dissatisfied look to AMERICA when they rejected the work in 1878. No wonder she moved to Paris and never returned.
Degas once said, “They are all jealous of us, and wish to steal our art.” Uh, duh.
Come see this bored beauty at the National Gallery (thanks, Mellon family!)
hidden picasso
It surfaced (resurfaced?) in the news earlier this week that the Phillips Collection performed some infrared scans on Picasso’s “The Blue Room” and found another painting of a man underneath it.
People are so excited about finding this work. I feel like all of the art world is like, “Picasso repeating a canvas?! No WAY.”
Please, you know who the real hero is for repeating a look? KATE MIDDLETON. That girl can rock a Zara or McQueen frock like no one I know.
“Be in Love, You Will Be Happy” is a work by the grotesque Paul Gauguin. You can go walk past it while you roll your eyes, scoff, etc., at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
In a letter to van Gogh, he writes,
It’s difficult to give you the feel of it with a drawing. For despite the inscription, the people look sad, in contradiction to the title…I’m going to send it to Paris in a few days. Perhaps it will please people more than my painting.”
Oh Gauguin, you’re TOO MUCH.
field of dreams turns 25
“People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it’s a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh… people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.”
Be real, James Earl Jones. The one constant I think you mean is a young Ray Liotta…
In related news, Norman Rockwell’s “The Rookie” sold last month for $22 million dollars. If you build auction it, they will come.
franklyn swantek
More than 400 photographs of Franklyn Swantek are on display at the Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick. Swantek was the owner of Swantek Photo Service in Michigan. He was unidentified in the photos until his nephew recognized his portraits in the series.
Of course, when I heard this art news, I immediately jumped to Amelie.
Sometimes art is movies imitating life. The show Striking Resemblance is on display through July.
Sorry, Emma Allen, but I think we all know the real works of art in World Cup are Kyle Beckerman’s beautiful dreads.
the great american city
Chicago kicks off LIFE magazine’s “LIFE in a Great City.”
The campaign, which includes “extraordinary pictures” by LIFE photographers from the 1930s to the 1970s, spotlights Chicago, the “Great American City.”
Can I still call myself a Chicagoan if I use ketchup on hot dogs and grew up in the suburbs? I’m going to go ahead and say, “Absolutely!”
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