Louise Bourgeois French-American artist Louise Bourgeois died on May 31st at age 98. Her work is haunting, eerily beautiful, brave, fragile, fierce, sexually explicit and autobiographical. Arch of Hysteria, 1993 – polished bronze Cell (Glass, spheres and hands) 1990-1993 Janis Fleuri, 1968 – bronze Untitled, Guggenheim, 2004. Untitled, 1996 [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Art’
July 18, 2010
ARTmonday: MOMA In A Minute
Artwork on display at MOMA on April 10, 2010. Picasso, Pollack, Matisse, Mondrian, Monet, Modigliani, Braque, Rauschenberg, Dubuffet, Jasper Johns, Franz Kline, Gaugin, Cezanne, Chagall, Klee, Magritte, Dali, Rothko, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Stella, Kahlo, Rousseau, Wyeth, Klimt . . . Delectable.
July 11, 2010
ARTmonday: Hadley Holliday
Photo: Style Section L.A. This morning, while reading through clips from L.A. style writers, I came across a post about Los Angeles artist Hadley Holliday by Sierra Feldner-Shaw on Style Section L.A., a site I’ve now bookmarked. I was immediately taken by Holliday’s work, especially the ones that give off a sort of really loose [...]
June 28, 2010
ARTmonday: Puntoos
Looking at various fashion illustration sites tonight I found myself at Traffic Creative Management, where I came across a graphic illustrator from Valencia, Spain (I think, his site’s in Spanish) called Puntoos.
June 20, 2010
ARTmonday: Elephants
The elephant is the season’s “it” animal in interiors and the arts. I’m seeing them everywhere, from the stage to indie films, in shelter mags and in the shops. The elephant is not new to the style scene. Iconic examples of the beast have been around a while. Here’s a quick look at select elephants [...]
June 16, 2010
ARTmonday: Joe Bagley
I meant to post this on Monday. But no matter, the event isn’t until tomorrow. Papercut artist Joe Bagley will be at ACQUIRE in Boston’s North End on Thursday evening. If you can’t make it, Joe’s work is available at his Etsy shop.
June 1, 2010
Montage: Wall Installations
I’ve been really interested in the idea of wall installations lately; a natural progression after last year’s obsession with wall sculptures. While you can use pretty much anything to create pattern and texture to blank walls, the ones I’m most attracted to are the art works. ( I have an ‘everyday objects as wall art’ [...]
May 24, 2010
ARTmonday: Susanna Maing
Got an email this morning from Specific, a new design store in L.A. (probably worth its own post) about an exhibitof new works by artist Susanna Maing, who shows Angles Gallery, which also represents Polly Apfelbaum. Peek 2006. Acrylic and flashe on panel. 60 x 52 inches Snakes and Ladders 2006. Acrylic and flashe on [...]
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