Monday 19 June 2017

Playing With Gods III: At Night - Yasumasa Morimura

Yasumasa Morimura
Playing With Gods III: At Night
1991
Photomontage

Crucifixion - Lucas Cranach The Elder


Lucas Cranach The Elder - Crucifixion (1503)
oil on panel (138 × 99 cm)

Monday 12 May 2014

The Road To Clovelly - Mombassa


Reg Mombassa (New Zealand - lives and works in Australia)
The Road To Clovelly - 1997
Pencil on paper/T-shirt, poster, postcard

The Carrying Of The Cross - Bosch


Heironymous Bosch (Dutch)
The Carrying Of The Cross - 1515-16
Oil on panel - 74x81cm

Monday 5 May 2014

Art, Life & The Other Thing - Whiteley



Brett Whitely
"Art, Life and the Other Thing" - 1978
triptych -
90 x 77 cm
230 x 122 cm
31 x 31 cm
oil, glass eye, hair, pen and ink on cardboard, plaster, photography, oil, pva, cigarette butts, hypodermic syringe on board

Vincent - Whiteley



Brett Whiteley
"Vincent" - 1968
221 x 164 cm, oil, ink, mirror and razor on board

Monday 24 March 2014

Isenheim Altarpiece - Grünewald


Matthias Grünewald
"Isenheim Altarpiece (detail)" - 1512-1516
336 x 589 (entire altarpiece), oil on panel

The Mond Crucifixion - Raffaello


Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino
"The Mond Crucufixion" - 1502-03
283 x 167 cm, oil on poplar

Wednesday 30 October 2013

Pop Art


Andy Warhol, 'Marilyn Diptych, 1962
acrylic on canvas support
each 205 x 142 x 2 cm
Tate Gallery, London, UK


Andy Warhol, 'Campbell's Soup Cans, 1962
Synthetic polymer paint, 51 cm x 41 cm (each)
Museum of Modern Art

Richard Hamilton, 'What is it That Makes Todays Homes So Different, So Appealing?', 1956
Collage on Paper, 26 x 25 cm
Tate Gallery, London, UK

Robert Rauschenberg, 'Bed', 1955
Oil on pillow, quilt and sheet on wood supports,
191.1 x 80 x 20.3 cm
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Thursday 24 October 2013

Surrealism


Rene Magritte, 'The Treachery of Images', 1928 - 1929
Oil on Canvas, 63.5 x 93.98 cm
Los Angeles County of Art, Los Angeles, USA


Salvador Dali, 'The Metamorphosis of Narcissus', 1937
Oil on Canvas, 51.1 x 78.1 cm
Tate Modern, London


Salvador Dali, 'The Persistence of Memory', 1931
Oil on Canvas, 24 x 33cm
Museum of Modern Art, New York City

Wednesday 16 October 2013

Dada

Kurt Schwitters - Ursonate
1922-32
http://www.costis.org/x/schwitters/ursonate.htm



Man Ray - Cadeau (Gift)
1919


Hannah Höch - Da Dandy
1919, photomontage/collage, 30x23cm


Marcel Duchamp - L.H.O.O.Q.
1919 - pencil on postcard


Marcel Duchamp - Bicycle Wheel
1919


Hans Arp - Collage Arranged According To The Laws Of Chance
1917, collage, 49x35cm

Monday 14 October 2013



Marcel Duchamp, 'Fountain', 1917, original lost, 2nd version
Galleria Schwarz, Milan, edition of 8 signed and numbered replicas
1964



"The Richard Mutt Case" in: The Blind Man No. 2
May, 1917

Wednesday 28 August 2013

Abstract Expressionism


Mark Rothko : No. 61 (Rust and Blue), 1951
Oil on Canvas, 1953, 115 cm × 92 cm
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, U.S.A.



Jackson Pollock : Blue Poles, 1952
Enamel and aluminium paint with glass on canvas, 212.1 cm × 488.9 cm
Australian National Gallery, Canberra



Hans Namuth (photographer) : Pollock Painting, 1950



Robert Motherwell : Beside the Sea No. 5, 1962
Oil on paper, 73.7 × 58.4 cm
Dedalus Foundation, New York, U.S.A.



Franz Kline : New York, N.Y. , 1953
Oil on canvas, 200.7 × 128.3 cm
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, U.S.A.

Expressionism


Albert Tucker : Victory Girls - 1943
Oil on cardboard 64.6 h x 58.7 w cm
National Gallery Of Australia, Canberra



Franz Marc : Gelbe Kuh (Yellow Cow), 1911
Oil on canvas, 140.5 × 189.2 cm
Guggenheim Museum, New York, U.S.A.



Ernst Ludwig Kirchner : Selbstbildnis Als Soldat (Self-Portrait As A Soldier), 1915
Oil on canvas, 69 x 61 cm
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Ohio, USA


Thursday 8 August 2013

Roots of Expressionism


Wassily Kandinsky
Circles Post




Wassily Kandinsky
Black Lines 1 - 1913






Gustav Klimt
The Three Ages Of Woman (Die drei Lebensalter der Frau) - 1905
180cm x 180cm, oil on canvas




Gustav Klimt
The Kiss (Der Kuss) - 1907/08
180cm x 180cm, oil and gold leaf on canvas




Henri Matisse
Portrait of Madame Matisse (Green Stripe) (La Raie Verte) - 1905
40.50cm × 32.5cm, oil on canvas




Edvard Münch
The Scream (Skrik) - 1893
91cm × 73.5cm, oil, tempera, and pastel on cardboard

Tuesday 6 August 2013