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ARTmonday: Architecture in Art

Last night I pulled together 20 examples of architecture in art for today’s post. As I scrolled through Pinterest pinning hundreds of images that appeal, I realized that one of the categories that make my heart flutter most is architecture. (You can look at my Architecture I and Architecture II Pinterest boards and see if you feel similarly.)

Artwork sucks me in, street style compels me to lose weight and dress with more verve, and food photos makes me wish I had more time and energy to really cook, but the architectural images draw me in more profoundly. Sure, it’s the design aspects in part—the corrugated metal, black stained siding, expanses of glass, pointy rooftops, and placement in the surrounding landscape transport me to another place, another time, another life I could have. Or maybe, just a house I might someday build.

So just for that reason, the realization that looking at sublime examples of contemporary dwellings elicits a response deeper than browsing well-designed living rooms and adorable, furry animals, here are occurrences of architecture in art, including photographs, paintings, illustration, sculpture, and collage.

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Classic Bowling Architecture • Vorona Photography
Prints starting at $16 at Society6

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Banco • Luciana Levinton
Prints starting at $124 • Original $10,000 • Saatchi Art

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Universal Space • Cécile Van Hanja
Prints starting at $60 at Saatchi Art

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Farewell • Rosalind Davis
$170 at Rise Art

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Architecture • Sannngat
Prints starting at $17.67 at Society6

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Yellow Surfer’s House • Ieva Baklane
Prints starting at $104 • Original $1,278 • Saatchi Art

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False Memory • Ricky Allman
Starting at $60 at 20×200

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Look Down • Gail Schechter
Starting at $20 at Minted

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Dreamed Bungalow • Carola Schapals
$8,000 at Saatchi Art

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Icons *2 (Trevi Fountain, Rome) • Nicolas Vionnet
$985 at Saatchi Art

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Woodshed • Andrew McClintock
Starting at $22 at Minted

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At the Sea II • Igor Vitomirov
Prints starting at $67 • Original $1,200 • Saatchi Art

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Painting Edifico Chrysler y Empire State • Claudia Hernández
Saatchi Art

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Modern Architecture • Lemonee on the Hills
Prints starting at $17 at Society6

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Untitled00373 • Peter Matyasi
Prints starting at $125 / Original $1500 • Saatchi Art

ARTmonday: 16 Pieces of Sports Artwork

Ok, so first #PatsNation #WeWon #Phew. I watched the Patriots/Seahawks Superbowl game last night, obviously. Or at least the half time show. (Dancing sharks?) Actually, I watched the second half of the game (half watched as I sourced these sports artworks). I was a little bit worried about my son, who takes all things Patriots very seriously. Even the phone call canceling school didn’t get a cheer. But the Patriots pulled it off again. So, yay. But boo to the snow day.

Here are 16 sports artworks, covering one angle or another of skiing, fishing, swimming, sailing, ice hockey, volleyball, ostrich racing (huh?), surfing, tennis, cycling, cheerleading, football, golf, and boxing. Now bundle up and go sledding.

Maria Plotnikova, Double Flip
$150 at UGallery

Nonna Originals, Racing
$14.56 at Society6

Patricia Freeman, Fishing Creates Serenity of Mind
$775 at UGallery

Zena Holloway, Schön!
$2,000 at Saatchi Art

Anthony Dunphy, Reach For It
$340 at Saatchi Art

Alexander JE Bradley, Course d’Autruches // Ostrich Racing
$75 at Society6

Jackie Weisberg, Ski Tracks and Bare Trees
$300 at SaatchiArt

Kammy Nature Prints, Ball
$17.99 at Society6

Stephanie Sherman, Wipeout
$375 at Serena & Lily

Leo Wijnhoven, home sweet home
$6,500 at Saatchi Art

Lucille Pack, If You See Somebody without a Smile, Give Them Yours!
$2,625 at UGallery

Yuji Yamada, Le Tour
$60 at 20×200

Ray Lego, Yellow Football Helmet
$2,500 at Saatchi Art

Silvia Krupinska, Organic Growth Balls
$200 at SaatchiArt

Igor Ondruš, Sharapova
$4,800 at Saatchi Art

Kelly Puissegur, Muhammad Ali
$450 at Saatchi Art

Happy Thanksgiving

Kelly Pussegur • ‘I’m Going to Eat You”
Ink, gouache, and watercolor on paper
$300 at Saatchi Art

H A P P Y T U R K E Y D A Y

ARTmonday: 36 Obscured Portraits of Women

If you follow the ARTmonday posts, you’ll know that as much as I love abstract art, I am especially drawn to artwork featuring female figures. Among my many posts highlighting specific female painters or more frequently, photographers, who create quirky or elusive images of women (Cig Harvey, Viviane Sassen, Natsumi Hayashi), I’ve also curated a number of roundups, including Women Thinking, Women In the Kitchen, Figures in the Landscape, Women In Water, and Girls At Play. (For more, you can also peruse my Pinterest boards Female Figures in Art, Portraits, Nudes.)

I have so many images of women turning their backs on the camera, that I thought for sure I did a post of those, but I can’t find it, so maybe not. Today’s post features 36 portraits of women whose faces are obscured in some way. The overall image might be blurry, her head could be wrapped in twigs (or a shower curtain!), perhaps her hair is in her face, or she’s wearing a blindfold. Or, the image might show what could have been a perfectly straightforward rendering, but then he or she dripped paint over the visage, or whited out all traces of personality.

Some of these obscured portraits of women are cloaked in mystery, others are silly, and still others, a tad subversive. I find them all appealing. (I left out the more disturbing of the finds this time around.)