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ARTmonday: 37 Portraits In Celebration of Women

With the elections tomorrow, and so much of the talk centering around the rights of women, I thought I thought it would be nice to post a medley of portraits that showcase women’s strength, beauty, and femininity over the last century or so.

Amedeo Modigliani Young Red Head in an Evening Dress, 1918

Salvador Dalí Woman at the Window at Figueres, 1926

unidentified

Terry Richardson for Purple Magazine

Stephen Poling No Shoes, 2008

Ray Cesear Mourning Glory, 2008

Richard Diebenkorn Sleeping Woman, 1961

Ramon Casas i Carbó (1866-1932) Preparing the Bath

Tony Vevers

John Currin Rachel in Fur, 2002

Ogura Yuki Bathing Women, 1938

Jared Katz Untitled, 2009

Michael Carson

Sidney Simon (1917-1997) The Red Bathrobe

Frida Kahlo Portrait of a Woman in White, ca. 1929

Eugenia Bazarovaw Liza Kotova, 2012

Jan Sluijters Rob and Liesje in the Bathroom, 1949

Jordan Sullivan

Hope Gangloff

Mary Ellen Strom Nude No. 4, Andrea-Hendrickson, ca. 2010

Alessandro Gottardo

Milton Avery Sunday Morning, 1962

Henri Matisse The French Window at Nice, 1919

Elizabeth Peyton, L.A. (E.P.), 2004

Elizabeth Mayville Top Knot

Elisa Johns Marie at Tea, ca. 2006

Olef Hajek

Edward Hopper Morning Sun, 1952

Joyce Tenneson

Balthasar Klossowski (Balthus) Alice dans le miroir, 1933

Annie Leibovitz, Gwyneth Paltrow and Mother Blythe Danner

Derek Lam 10 Crosby Street

Inslee Haynes

Billy Nava Ming Xi for Glass Magazine, 2012

Claire Elsaesser Three

Andres Marroquin

unidentified

Sunday Bouquet: Jon Shireman’s Broken Flowers

Jon Shireman
“Broken Flowers”

Shireman soaked flowers in liquid nitrogen, then used a spring-loaded device he made himself to catapult the flowers onto a white surface to break and shatter the petals.

ARTmonday: Zander Olsen’s Tree, Line

This eries of photographs by Zander Olsen, taken between 2004 and 2010 involves “site specific intervention of the landscape” in the forests of Surrey, Hampshire, and Wales. Olsen wraps trees with white material “to construct a visual relationship between tree, not-tree and the line of horizon according to the camera’s viewpoint.” I searched for more information about Olsen, and additional works, but while these images have been blogged about numerous times, nobody else seems to have interviewed him or turned up any further information or photos. Zander Olsen, are you out there? In any case, these seemed fitting as it’s fall here in Boston, and the leaves are turning color, swirling down, opening up views of new horizons.

Duncan Wood • 2004

Beeches • 2004

Jhutti • 2004

Two • 2005

Untitled (Corbi) • 2005

Untitled (Cader) • 2008

Cadair, Oak • 2010

Flat Line • 2005

Sunday Bouquet: Cherry Blossoms in Glass

ARTmonday: Photographer Motoyuki Daifu

I came across these images by Japanese photographer Motoyuki Daifu earlier this year through a review in the New Yorker of his show, “Lovesody” at Lombard Freid Projects. There’s nothing pretty about them, rather, they’re messy, tiring, and I was drawn in.

They document the days of a young Japanese mother of two, with whom Daifu fell in love. He said the photographs were, “originally meant just for the two of us,” and the magazine points out “that’s precisely what draws the viewer in.”

They’re honest. Almost mundane, but not dull. They’re imbued with a raw sense of everyday life. Slightly gritty. A bit peeping Tom-ish, but not titillating. They really portray the drudgery of motherhood, but not in an ironic or self-conscious way. I had put off posting them all this time because I wasn’t sure if people would relate or respond to them. I’m curious to know what they evoke for you.