Sometimes art is a celebratory fountain with cymbals.
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l’absinthe
According to this coloring book, you’re not really coloring like Degas until you color miserable people drinking absinthe. Your dreams of painting ballerinas are OVER, CHILDREN.
Degas’s L’Absinthe, 1876, oil on canvas, Musee d’Orsay, Paris.
women listening to men
ahhhahahhaha
that is so good
that is so funny
that is so funny and good
no I’ve never heard that before from you
ahh sorry i just
i really need to look at this matchbook right now
sorrryyyy
Found this gem of an article today. I like everything about this. Mallory Ortberg, you are ON IT, GIRL.
Sometimes art is an astronaut mural.
picasso, dale, mccallister
Picasso’s Madame Picasso was bequeathed to the National Gallery in 1983 as a part of the Chester Dale Collection.
Dale purchased the painting from Paul Rosenberg in 1930, a prominent art dealer who worked closely with Picasso and Georges Braque. Dale lived in the Plaza Hotel. Here’s hoping that every transaction ended with, “Credit Card? You’ve got it,” and that he spent $967 on room service on THE REG.
Who’s living the life better — Chester Dale or Kevin McCallister? Tough call. Really tough call.
tom wesselmann
So, Tom Wesselmann‘s retrospective opened last week at the Denver Art Museum. Wesselmann’s considered a part of the Pop Art movement, but when collectors talked to him about Lichtenstein’s work in the 60s, he saw no similarities (insert loud laugh-crying emoji here…)
I mean, SURE, Tom, I appreciate your use of everyday objects as a part of the composition > critique on consumerism, but sheesh…you see no overlapping qualities?!
From top: Wesselmann, Warhol’s soup can, Lichtenstein’s still life.
Never mind, Wesselmann, you’re right. Totally separate thing going on…
mary cassatt at the louvre
This work is currently on display at the Degas / Cassatt exhibition at the National Gallery (I’m giving it one of those “Must Go!” Fandango ratings).
He studied the heck out of Cassatt’s pose for a variety of prints and sketches. Degas made 20 known versions, the second largest number of studies by the artist for a work.
Degas wrote, “Her slender…figure, neatly tailored, and her crisply furled umbrella all convey to us something of Mary Cassatt’s tense, energetic character.” In other words, 19th-century ice queen. Love it, Mary!
Henry P. McIlhenny owned and donated the sketch to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Andy Warhol once said McIlhenny was “the only person in Philadelphia with glamour.”
U – S – A
Jasper Johns. As American as baseball, Moms, and apple pie.
I believe that we will win.
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