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Wednesday, 15 November 2023
Thursday, 9 November 2023
Buste de Marie-Thérèse
For this sculpture called « buste de Marie-Thérèse » made in 1931, Picasso is using plaster.
The sculpture represents a bust, with an elongated neck and a head with unsual proportions. It’s part of the cubism movement to create destructured figures and faces, here we can see that the face has différents aspects according to your point of view. She has a prominent nose and uneven eyes.
However Picasso succeeded to creat harmony by assembling these elements and the plaster seated a soft and smooth texture.
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Monday, 6 November 2023
Campbells soup cans pop art
Campbells soup cans is a painting made by Andy Warhol. The purpose of making this piece is because of friend of his told Andy to make something anyone could recognize. He took this offer with something he often used which was tomato soup.(photo doesn’t upload)
Tableau Coeur, Keith Haring
Pop Art
The Keith Haring « Tableau Coeur » is an inspiring and vibrant piece of contemporary art that captures the essence of legendary artist Keith Haring. Haring is a popular artist who began his career in New York in the 1980s, with his unique and bold drawing style that quickly became famous the world over.
The titan's goblet is an artwork from the Hudson River School movement, which is nicknamed as a painting within a painting by the metropolitan museum of art, New York USA.
It was made by Thomas Cole, the founder of this movement in 1833 and it is described as his most mysterious work which défies full explanation of regular art. Allegorical andimaginary landscape
Yellow Canyon, Helen Frankenthaler
In this painting, the artist uses pouring technic to create a point of depth in the center, here the yellow color. We can see the big brush's movements that create large lines and grandeur effect. We can think this artwork relate to the movement abstract expressionism due to the painting technics used but also to minimalism.
Diptych Marilyn
I have chosen Diptych Marilyn, is an acrylic screen print on canvas by the American artist Andy Warhol produced in 1962 and is exhibited at the Tate Modern an art gallery in London. This screen print contains 50 images of American actress and model Marilyn Monroe , all based on the same publicity photograph for the film Niagara (1953). It is enrolled in the movement of the Pop art. The 25 representations on the left of the diptych are very colorful, it represents her life while the 25 representations on the right are black and white, it represents the end of her life, her death. Andy Warhol decided to paint the Marilyn Diptych a few weeks after Monroe's death. He found in her a fusion of two constant themes: death and the cult of celebrity. By copying the same image several times, he evokes his presence in the media.
“Red circle on Black”
“Red Circle on Black”, Jiro Yoshihara, 1965
This amazing paint was created in 1965 by Jiro Yoshihara in Minimalism style. The artist is a pioneer of post-war Japanese art. He was inspired by Japanese calligraphy and Zen philosophy. He hand signed his artwork so it’s considered as extremely rare. Yoshihara used a technique for surface printing called Silkscreens. This artwork is the perfect representation of “less is more” a famous quote of minimalism art. In fact the colours used are monochromatic. The only motives are geometrical. I love this painting but I also really liked the mindset of the artist because while realising this artwork he said “Do what has never been done before”. “Red Circle on Black” definitely raised debates but I personally think that it deserves all of the fame it could possibly get.
Untitled- Richard poussette D’art
Richard poussette-dart
Working in New York in the 1940s, Richard Pousette-Dart (1916–1992) created beautiful, colourful, layered paintings, characterised by his formal explorations of textural handling and built-up surfaces, as well as experimenting with drawing, photography and sculpture.
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Spoonbridge and cherry
This sculputure represents a small spoon containing a red cherry. It is located outdoors, in the sculpture garden of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. It was designed by claes Oldenburg and Coosjen van bruggen It was funded by a $500,000 donation from art collector weisman and is permanently. The piece was completed and installed in 1988 for the Sculpture Garden's opening and consists of a large cherry resting atop a large spoon partially straddling a small pond.