Category Archives: Art

Apr 16 2016
Art

jaws

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Easily the most iconic movie poster around, this work was originally on the book cover. Artist Roger Kastel painted the work, and used stuffed sharks from the NMNH and a model named Allison Stern (who now has part of the damn Central Park Zoo named after her).

No one knows where the original 20×30 inch work has ended up; it disappeared in the 70s. I’m more surprised that Kastel let the movie use the image FOR FREE. Yeesh! I don’t know anything about royalties, but darn!, seems like a good one gone, if you ask me.

Now, one thing I might like more than a skinnydipper featured on a movie poster, is a minimalist one.

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Or a Lego one…

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More poster designs here.

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Apr 15 2016
Art

le bon bock

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Le Bon Bock, painted by Edouard Manet in 1873, was exhibited in the Salon the same year. Bock is a springtime lager, and is known for celebrating better times and the move from winter.

How lovely! You’re telling me that one of the works behind the shift in Impressionism also features something brewed for patio drinking?!

You can cheers this jolly fellow at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It’s part of the Carroll S. Tyson, Jr. Collection. Fun fact: Tyson married the granddaughter of John A. Roebling, who designed the Brooklyn Bridge. You’ll sound so smart at happy hour today!

 

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Apr 14 2016
Art

Th/Friday 

  
THREEEEEE DAYYY WEEKEND! 

The harpsichord is really just a lead-in to the mayhem. 

Apr 14 2016
Art

oh my egon.

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Sweet Jesus, HOW HOT is Egon Scheile?!

Schiele once documented 180 women visiting his studio in just 8 months. Schiele was faithful to his wife, Edith Harms, for the first few months…

…till she got fat, and Schiele started using her sister Adele as a model instead.

Whatever, still hot.

Apr 13 2016
Art

pont des arts

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Manet’s Pont des Arts was sold in a prominent 1875 auction at Hôtel Drouot, a famous Parisian auction house. It was purchased for about $800 in today’s cash money.

Cool.

Apr 13 2016
Art

rainy day

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There are some sensational moments in this work, but I really think my favorite is how Caillebotte paints “PHARAMACIE” in the corner building, painted in two-point perspective. That and the ho hum boredom this girl clearly demonstrates walking arm-in-arm with this guy.

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Apr 13 2016
Art, Person

where the wild things are

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“I would tell them to go to hell. That’s a question I will not tolerate.” – Maurice Sendak, on parents who think the Wild Things movie is too scary for children.

Reason no. 3,428,386 I love Maurice Sendak.

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Apr 13 2016
Art

around the cake.

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Wayne Thiebaud’s Around the Cake is probably my dream come true: Immediate access to dessert (the most beautiful promenade of individual slices) AND no evidence (like the ever-widening Pacmac mouth that that hints at yes, I had another slice).

Breakfast of champions, really.

 

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Apr 12 2016
Art

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When you hear people talking about plans from last night. Trust me, ladies, this book is riveting.

Apr 11 2016
Art

martin’s lines

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The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimize themselves in favor of the ideal… But I just can’t. You see, my paintings are not cool. – Agnes Martin

Agnes Martin is easily one of my favorite artists. I think it’s rad as hell that girlfriend is just chillin’, painting grids, and not giving a damn what anyone thinks about it. Known most for her repetitive grids, Martin’s work presents a measurable, calculable tool and makes “geometry replace nature.”

Yas, Queen. I love this. It’s so brilliant to me that she presents one of the most logical forms and makes it abstract. The rigidity of a grid becomes graceful when you see the slight imperfection of the pencil marks. I mean, really, I should write some goddamn poetry about the girl:

grids on a flat plane
rectangles drawn with pencil
math tools for the win

 

I KNOW WHAT YOU’RE THINKING. WHERE’S THE BOOK DEAL, RIGHT?!

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