#Painted in Moderna Italy

[reasoningdaily]

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 'Untitled, 1982' – The Devil

Executed in Modena, Italy, in the prime year of Basquiat’s short and brilliant career, Untitled is an epic painting, its monumental size and visceral energy marking it as one of the artist’s seminal works. Jean-Michel Basquiat’s explosive tour de force Untitled, 1982, led Christie’s Evening Sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art on 10 May 2016 in New York.

It was estimated to realise in excess of $40 million and eventually sold for $57,285,000. As well as having been chosen for the cover of the artist’s catalogue raisonné, 

Untitled  has been included in every major Basquiat retrospective. It contains Basquiat’s heroic portrait of himself as a fiery black devil rising amidst an explosion of paint that has been thrown onto the canvas in the manner of Jackson Pollock.

#Jean Michel Basquiat #Basquiat #Black Art #Black Artists #Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 'Untitled 1982' – The Devil #the Devil #Painted in Moderna Italy

[animula-vagula-blandula]

Marine Paintings 🩵

#marine painting #monet #claude monet #impressionism #sealandscape #sea aesthetic #white and blue #blue wallpaper #aesthetic wallpaper #summer in italy #summer #beautiful paintings #history of art #amazing art #art history #arte moderna #dipinti #storia dell'arte

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Venus Playing Lively with Two Doves (Portrait of the dancer Carlotta Chabert) (1830), by Francesco Hayez (1791–1882), oil on canvas, 137 × 183 cm Museo D'arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy

#venus playing lively with two doves #venus playing with two doves #venus joking with two doves #portrait of the dancer carlotta chabert #venere che scherza con due colombe #ritratto della ballerina carlotta chabert #painting #mythological painting #dipinto #pittura mitologica #venus #venere #aphrodite #afrodite #carlotta chabert #francesco hayez #oil on canvas #olio su tela #Museo D'arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto #Italy #italia

[art3mus]

Study of L'ovale delle apparizioni by Carlo Carrà 3/27/24

#art #my art #drawing #sketch #study #drawing study #carlo carrà #Italian art #futurism #L'ovale delle apparizioni #Galleria d'Arte Moderna #Roma #Rome #Italy #italia #pencil #pencil Sketch #pencil drawing #painting study #fish #metaphysical painting

[fergeleo]

Joaquín Sorolla 1863 - 1923) - Repair of (Sewing) the sail, (1896). Oil on canvas, 222 x 302 cm. Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna di Ca' Pesaro, Venice. Italy.

It is a very original work in terms of composition, the candle occupies most of the canvas and its whiteness blends with the green of the exuberant nature. The light filters through the leaves and flowers, great magnetic power of light. Long and vigorous brushstroke. Several young women, a man in a straw hat, a woman sitting in the back, and an old man examining the work sew the sail so that everything is ready for the sailors. At first, the public did not accept this painting since it was a great daring that the protagonist of the work was the candle. The topic discussed is not of great importance, it simply reflects the work of humble people on a Levantine beach.

#joaquin sorolla #joaquín sorolla y bastida #sorolla #galleria internazionale d'arte moderna di ca' pesaro #ca' pesaro

[i12bent]

Gunnar Allvar (April 22, 1922 - 2003) was a Swedish artist, who trained privately in the 1940s and through travels abroad to France and Italy. He mainly did landscape painting and also some public decorative work. He is well represented at Moderna Museet and Nationalmuseum Stockholm.

Above: Älven, 1973 - oil on canvas (Moderna)

#art #swedish artist #gunnar allvar #1970s #moderna museet #stockholm nationalmuseum #neo impressionism #landscape painting

[t-jfh]

Philip Taaffe (American, b. 1955)

Untitled V, 1980

Paper collage, 24½" × 16¼"

Philip Taaffe (American, b. 1955)

Snake Eyes, 1993

Mixed media on linen, 73" x 88"

Philip Taaffe (American, b. 1955)

Eros and Psyche, 1994

Mixed media on canvas, 132" x 100½"

Philip Taaffe (American, b. 1955)

The Red Desert, 1997

Mixed media on canvas, 82½" x 112¼"

Philip Taaffe (American, b. 1955)

Calligraphic Study II, 1997

Mixed media on linen, 43¾" × 38"

Philip Taaffe (American, b. 1955)

Painting with Carved Figures, 1998

Mixed media on canvas, 55¾" x 39⅜"

Philip Taaffe (American, b. 1955)

Black Venus, 1999

Mixed media on canvas, 85" x 113"

Philip Taaffe (American, b. 1955)

Composition with Gemstones, 2001

Mixed media on canvas, 85" x 61¼"

Philip Taaffe (American, b. 1955)

Magic Lantern with Rugosa, 2005

Mixed media on canvas, 70" x 139"

Philip Taaffe (American, b. 1955)

Bardo Triangle, 2009

Mixed media on canvas - Triangle: 64½"

Artwork by Philip Taaffe - Gallery 1

See Gallery 2 (containing ten paintings) of this two-part series at next post, below.

A selection of paintings by Philip Taaffe

All artworks ©️ Philip Taaffe

Philip Taaffe artist biography

Philip Taaffe was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1955 and studied at the Cooper Union in New York. His first solo exhibition was in New York in 1982.

He has traveled widely in the Middle East, India, South America and Morocco, where he collaborated with Mohammed Mrabet on the book Chocolate Creams and Dollars, translated by Paul Bowles (Inanout Press, New York: 1993).

Taaffe lived and worked in Naples from 1988-91. He has been included in numerous museum exhibitions, including the Carnegie International, two Sydney Biennials and three Whitney Biennials.

In 1990 his work was the subject of an extensive critical study in Parkett no. 26 (Zurich & New York). His work is in numerous public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art; and the Reina Sofia, Madrid.

In the year 2000, the IVAM museum in Valencia organized a retrospective survey of his work, with contributions by Enrique Juncosa, Robert Rosenblum and Robert Creeley.

In 2001 an extensive survey of his work was presented by the Galleria Civica of Trento, Italy (with texts by Vittoria Coen and Francesco Pellizzi).

In 2004 the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in San Marino (Italy) presented a survey of paintings and drawings based on the artist’s explorations with floating pigments and the paper marbling process, accompanied by the Skira publication, Carte Annuvolate (Cloud Papers) with esssays by Peter Lamborn Wilson and John Yau.

In 2008 the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg organized a retrospective survey, The Life of Forms in Art: Paintings 1980-2008, with a publication by Hatje Cantz, featuring contributions by Markus Brüderlin, Holger Broeker, Kay Heymer and Brooks Adams. Philip Taaffe presently works and lives in New York City, and West Cornwall, Connecticut.

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#Art #Fine art painting #Artworks by Philip Taaffe #Wikipedia

[robster2016]

Waves of Fortune

My name is Antonella Rossi, and I am the director of the Museo d’Arte Moderna del Mare in Venicia, Italy. As I examine the painting before us, it is with a curator’s keen eye that I offer my critique. The artwork presents an evocative maritime scene that is steeped in the historical resonance of the Vikings. The vibrancy of the Longship or more likely, a Knarr’s striped sail immediately draws…

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#aurora #borealis #knarr #longship #ship #sky #stars #Viking

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[ross-nekochan]

Anche se c'ero già qui non l'ho mai scritto: al quinto anno di Liceo, mi innamorai follemente di Klimt. E indovinate per quale quadro?

Giuditta e Oloferne.

#Klimt #Museo Arte Moderna #Ca' Pesaro #Venice #Venezia #Modern Art Museum #Gustav Klimt #Giuditta II #in verità amo molto di più Giuditta I #ma sta a Vienna quello e quindi mi accontento più che volentieri #Giuditta e Oloferne #stavo per impazzire #museum #art #painting #modern art #modern painters #italy #Judith II #e così iniziò la mia fissa per Giuditta

[asepticvoid]

Aseptic Void - Confirmation Bias (2021)

#aseptic void #asepticvoid #davide terreni #paint #painting #art #artist #italian #italy #confinement #social distancing #contemporary art #arte contemporanea #arte moderna #surrealism #surrealismo #psychology #corona #coronavirus #bedroom #isolationist #psyche #travel #subconscious #psychological #mind #psychodrama

[neapolis-neapolis]

Giovanni Balducci, Adorazione dei pastori (1621-22), soffitto navata centrale, Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta, Napoli.

#giovanni balducci #napoli #duomo di napoli #art history #naples italy #storia dell'arte #naplesart #naples #arte #seicento #mannerism #manierismo #maniera moderna #masterpiece #painting #adoration of the shepherds #adorazione dei pastori #ceiling #golden #religiousart #religious #madonna #virgin mary

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

Giovanni Fattori. Stirrup. Oil on canvas, 1870s. Galleria d'Arte Moderna.

#failure #face down in the mud #life #giovanni fattori #stirrup #horseback riding #horseback rider #rider #fallen from the saddle #italian art #oil painting #realist painter #plein-airists #macchiaioli #barbizon school #rural italy #landscape art #galleria d'arte moderna

[7pleiades7]

Venus Playing Lively with Two Doves (Portrait of the dancer Carlotta Chabert) (1830), by Francesco Hayez (1791–1882), oil on canvas, 137 × 183 cm Museo D'arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy

#venus playing lively with two doves #venus playing with two doves #venus joking with two doves #venere che scherza con due colombe #ritratto della ballerina carlotta chabert #francesco hayez #painting #oil on canvas #mythology #mythological painting #pittura mitologica #venus #venere #aphrodite #afrodite #carlotta chabert #portrait #neoclassical #Museo D'arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto #italy

[art3mus]

Study of Ghepard by Davide Rivalta 3/27/24

#art #my art #drawing #sketch #study #art study #davide rivalta #ghepard #cheetah #Galleria d'Arte Moderna #roma #rome #italy #italian art #italia #marker sketch #marker drawing #marker #arrtx paint markers #zebra midliners

[uwmspeccoll]

Fashion Friday:  Adopt a Pompeiian Dog

For my fashion inspiration this week, I turned to ancient Pompeii, an urban land that succumbed to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, located on the western coast of Italy, southeast of Naples. The ruins of the city laid buried under ash and earth until 1748 when murals and bodies posed as action figures frozen in time were revealed. While much has been excavatied, today, there are still over 50 acres of land yet to be explored, with growing access to the public as the archeology dig expands.

The allure of Pompeii lies in the catastrophic and immediate deaths of so many who failed to escape, becoming concrete mummies in situ.  Recent discoveries in a nearby villa have shown scholars that life in Pompeii was not to be envied, with slavery paramount and social welfare nonexistent.

In spite of the tough Pompeii society, the urban streets were very multi-cultural where theatre was performed in Greek. Street vendors and food stalls provided Roman urbanites with stews of sheep, snail, and fish. Graffiti was found everywhere. Inside one food stall is the mural of a chained dog, with graffiti scrawled on the mural’s painted frame, blaspheming a snack bar owner.

Carnal proclivities were not uncommon in ancient Pompeii. For instance, an excavated fresco of the Spartan queen Leda hints at the everyday homage to the eroticism of mythology. In this story, Leda is seduced and raped by Zeus in swan-form bearing heirs whose power continued the deity tradition of wickedness.

Fortunately, today's leaders of the Great Pompeii Project are using $137 million of EU funds to reach a vast audience, including Instagram and Twitter followers. Prior to this joint effort, the ruins of Pompeii suffered from environmental overexposure, looting, and Italian red-tape while being nestled in a region of organized crime. In fact, packs of stray Pompeiian dogs are now available for adoption as the archeological site leads modern conservationism efforts by abating tourism blight and corruption traps.

My first fashion plate is titled "Dog Paws Dress," highlighting the round velvet foot-pads of our furry friends. The remaining designs are similarly inspired; can you spot these single inspirations?

Here is a listing of sources from the UWM Special Collections and the New York Times, which I have augmented with digital color and outline to emphasize particular details of my inspiration: 

1, 3, 4, 8). Photographs of ancient Pompeii frescoes and two Roman bodies, published by The New York Times, written by Elisabetta Povoledo, 2018 - 2020. Images 3 an 4 inspired my own designs for the Swan Wrap Dress and the Curly Rooster Dress.

2, 8). My interpretation and contemporary design of the Dog Paws Dress inspired by David Hawcock's pop-up book, The Pompeii Pop-Up, published by Universe Publishing in 2007.

5) Costume illustration of Roman warriors with animal predator as hooded cloak, in Geschichte des Kostums, published by E. Weyhe in 1923.

6) Woodcut prints by the illustrator Kurt Craemer as published in The Last Days of Pompeii by the Limited Editions Club in 1956.

7) Works Projects Administration illustration of Roman warriors as published in the Costumes of the World, 100 Hand Colored Plates from Ancient Egypt to the Gay Nineties in 1940.

9) Jewelry of the Roman civilization with several animal motifs in Alexander Speltz's plate collection, The Coloured Ornament of All Historical Styles, Part I: Antiquity, published by Baumgärtner in 1915.

10) Ornamentation of Roman aesthetic as seen in Giulio Ferrari's Volume 1: Gli Stili Nella Forma e nel Colore, Rassegna dell' arte antica e Moderna di Tutti i Paesi, published by C. Crudo & Co. in 1925.

View my other posts on historical fashion research in Special Collections.

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—Christine Westrich, MFA Graduate Student in Intermedia Arts

#Fashion Friday #graduate research #Christine Westrich #Roman costumes #Roman fashion #Pompeii #Pompeiian archaeology #fashion #costumes #fashion design #fashion plates #costume design #The Pompeii Pop-Up #Geschichte des Kostums #Costumes of the World #The Coloured Ornament of All Historical Styles #The Last Days of Pompeii