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

Op Art

Bridget Riley


Victor Vasarely

Mondrian



Piet Mondrian, Composition II in Red, Blue and Yellow, 1930
Oil on canvas
Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy




Piet Mondrian, Composition No. VI, Composite 9 (Blue Facade)
Oil on canvas, 95.5 x 68 cm
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland




Piet Mondrian, Composition Trees II, 1912
Oil on canvas, 98 x 65 cm
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands




Piet mondrian, The Grey Tree, 1912
Oil on canvas, 79.7 x 109.1 cm
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands




Piet Mondrian, Avond (evening), Red Tree, 1908
Oil on canvas, 70 x 99cm
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands

Suprematism



Kasimir Malevich, 'Red Square, Realism in paint of a peasant woman in two dimensions', 1915
Oil on canvas, 53 x 53 cm
St Petersburg, State Russian Museum




Kasemir Malevich, Suprematism (with eight rectangles), 1915
Oil on canvas, 57.5 x 48.5 cm
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum

Thursday 25 July 2013

Cubism



Marcel Duchamp
Nude Decending a Staircase, no.2, 1912
oil on canvas, 143 x 90 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York




Georges Braque - Woman with a Mandolin, 1910
oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm, Bayerische, Staatsgemaldesammlungen, Munich




Pablo Picasso - Portrait of Ambroise Vollard, 1910
Oil on canvas, 92 x 65 cm, Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow




Pablo Picasso, 1907, Les Demoiselles D'Avignon, Oil on canvas
243.9 x 233.7 cm, The Museum of Modern Art, New York