People really love a good Throwback Thursday, but I didn’t expect the Art Institute of Chicago to take part. This makes me happy.
They posted the above photo on their Instagram account. The photo is of the US Military Police enforcements that were used to protect the 1948 exhibition “Saved from the Salt Mines,” showcasing works that were stolen and recovered by the Nazis.
#tbt
Buckle up because I’m about to connect Gustav Klimt to Brandon Boyd of Incubus. Let it be known that I loved Incubus in high school. I mean, gauged my ears, wore Chuck Taylors, dreamt of koi tattoos, loved Incubus. Therefore, I willingly accept my own challenge.
Gustav Klimt painted this portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, the only model he painted more than once. She died in 1925 and left the paintings to her husband. He fled Switzerland during the Nazi occupation, and the paintings were confiscated. In 2004, his niece got involved and sued Austria (the paintings were in the country’s care). It was purchased for $135 million by Ronald Lauder, who owns the Neue Gallery in New York.
Lauder’s the grandson of Estée Lauder. Model Carolyn Murphy has been with the cosmetics company since 2001. She dated Brandon Boyd and was in that righteous “Are You In?” video.
Boom. I’m about to get that tattoo celebrate.
Also, impress your friends when you tell them this when the work sold, it became the world’s most expensive painting in 2006.
Sometimes art is a beautiful woman who can school Humphrey Bogart with a line about whistling. And you know how I feel about a seductive eyebrow and polka dots.
Wondering how you’ll get to Friday?! I hear you! While I practice making this Rembrandt curl thing happen, you can read up on some of art’s most famous southpaws to celebrate National Left Handers’ Day!
(I’d use the waving emoji here, but it’s a right hand.)
I need this whole look like, yesterday. The laurel crown, dismissive look, that eyebrow?! Hand ’em over, War and Peace.
Painted and exhibited at the Salon in 1882, Manet’s work examines a popular nightclub. While I could talk your ear off about the mirror, I’m more interested in that bowl of oranges.
The Folies-Bergère was a cabaret music hall and known to entertain men in a myriad of ways. Manet lets us know the bartender Suzon is…erm, on the menu…in that he presents her with a bowl of oranges.
Art historian Larry L. Ligo says Manet does this on the reg. Another scholar writes,
The barmaid is “intended to represent one of the prostitutes for which the Folies-Bergère was well-known”, who is represented “as both a salesperson and a commodity—something to be purchased along with a drink.”
Talk about a full-service bar, amiright?!
Sometimes art is the genius of a true comedian and a wonderfully-talented actor. I’ll miss you, Robin Williams, and will forever greet people with a large, “Helloooo!” before encouraging imaginary food fights with kids in mohawks.
I organized a ton of old photos for my family this weekend, and found multiple Walgreen’s sleeves just filled with my crappy attempts to be a moving photographer. They’re gems, truly, everything you’re imagining. I’ll unveil them later this week.
With that said, I wanted to show off some real photography by Hugo Cifuentes. Notice his slick elimination of fruit stands and abandoned road signs. I hope you know foreshadowing when you see it…
Welcome to something I’m gonna call Monday’s Muse. Ha, not really. But Josephine Baker’s a major fox, so go with it.
“She’s the Nefertiti of now.” – Pablo Picasso, comparing Josephine Baker to a glamorous queen of Egypt
“The most sensational woman anybody ever saw, or ever will.” – Ernest Hemingway
Sometimes art is being in the backseat with a sleeping beauty and No Doubt’s Tragic Kingdom.
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