In this, I see a waterfall in a jungle. Don’t ask me. I don’t even know.
Tag: American art
Monday
This is reminiscent of a candle flame in tones of grey to me. I enjoy the fluid lines and imagery suggestive of a dancer’s delicate form in the abstract crumpling and shaping.
Sunday
In many ways, this painting screams grief and despair. It is all angles and desolation and emotional distance, stark contrast of colors and furious slashes of highlights that don’t quite fit where they’re meant to. It’s wrong and painful and yet… you can tell it’s meant to be therapy. It is a benediction, a begging for life to feel normal again, a tiny glimmer of hope in the darkness of deepest depression.
Saturday
A few simple lines, a simple form, and yet… it’s so evocative that our minds are tricked into seeing things that aren’t there.
Friday
This is straight up one of my favorite pieces. It has a richness of tone, color, composition and yet a simplicity about it. I enjoy the way it invokes a sense of dreamy, almost surreal wonder.
Thursday
Whenever we talk about some of my favorite pieces of art, I have to stomp on my urge to just drag people straight to this painting and go, “THIS IS EVERYTHING I LOVE ABOUT ART AFTER IMPRESSIONISM ENDS.” It is slashes of color; it is expressionism and indistinct, yet it is coherent. It is bold and succinct. It is poignant and direct and to the point. It has no problem telling you exactly what it is and why it’s here and that you are just a fly on the wall. This is a particular kind of unapologetic art for art’s sake, and I love it so much it makes my little heart burst.
Wednesday
This is simple, beautiful, and pure. There is no ulterior motive or sentiment: it just is.
Tuesday
I just want to put my hand in the spray of the water. Is that weird? I think it’s weird. Maybe I should go put myself in the corner?
Monday
Shining example of Art Nouveau here! In many ways, the whole movement was about the feminine ideal: flowing, feminine lines and ethereal idealizations. This bronze sculpture encapsulates both ideas in a very classical but (for the times) modernized way.
Sunday
This, in and of itself, is a very simple image – both stylistically and color-wise. There is nothing complex or challenging about it. However, in a room full of paintings, it is the one that draws you in and tugs you across the way to look at it. It radiates peaceful serenity and the gentle harmony of a world that is at rest before the oncoming storm of a new day.