Art Encounters

Finding Art Everywhere Schools Tour Guide for Metropolitan Museum of Art Instagram @Art_Encounters Blogger for ArtfulObserver.com

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We have Lucio Fontana to thank for the Instagram trend of immersive art experiences. In 1946, Fontana founded Spatialism, a manifesto where art embraces science and technology. He experimented with three-dimensionality, which makes sense since he trained as a sculptor. In fact, Fontana hadn’t touched a canvas before the age of 51! He’s best known for his slashed painted canvases, an innovation that turns a flat painting into a three-dimensional object, creating real depth instead of perceived depth. In 1961, inspired by the shiny skyscrapers of New York City, Lucio Fontana started using metals like copper, brass and aluminum. Always interested in how his art interacts with the space around it, the reflective qualities of the metal created works that envelope their environments creating an interactive experience for the viewer. Head over to the Met Breuer and take your next selfie with these works, || Spatial Concept, Nee York 10 || 1962. And then head upstairs for || Spatial Environment in Red Light || 1967/2019. No filter needed. #MetBreuer #MetLucioFontana #LucioFontana #Spatialism #ModernArt #ImmersiveArt #MetMuseum #ArtHistory #HistoryOfArt #MetropolitanMuseumOfArt #ArtOfInstagram #art_encounters (at The Met Breuer) https://www.instagram.com/art_encounters/p/Bvmc-T1FaCz/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ffkzhxf561yg

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Wait... something is familiar about this... isn’t that...? Yes, it’s an appropriation of Manet’s “A Bar at the Folies-Bergère!” Russian artist Aleksei Alekseevich Morgunov painted an homage to French artist Manet AND Russian avante garde artists in this “Portrait of Nathalija Gontcharova and Mihajl Larionov” in 1913 after his visit to Europe. Morgunov was a member of Russia’s first radical artist’s group, Jack of Diamonds and later Donkey’s Tail, both founded by Gontcharova and Larionov. Where Morgunov celebrated European modernism, Gontcharova and Larionov moved from Primitivism to join Russian Futurism. Of the three painters, Gontcharova was the most interesting, stirring up controversy in her day, joining The Blue Rider (Dee Blaue Reiter) group, designing sets and costumes for ballets, participating in the Salon des Indepéndents in Paris, and designing fashion. In 2007, Gontcharova’s painting, “Picking Apples”- 1909, set an auction record for a female artist at $9.8 million. #Manet #ÉdouardManet #FoliesBergère #AlekseiAlekseevichMorgunov #NathalijaGontcharova #NataliaGontcharova #MihajlLarionov #mikhaillarionov #ArtInstituteOfChicago #AIC #MuséedOrsay #RussianModerism #RussianArt #TheBlueRider #DerBlaueReiter ##20thCenturyArt #Portrait #DoublePortrait #Impressionism #ArtOfInstagram #ArtHistory #HistoryOfArt #ArtOfTheDay #art_encounters (at The Art Institute of Chicago)

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Sometimes it’s the less-known works that surprise! At the Art Institute of Chicago, I immediately recognized the under image of this painting as the Met’s “Aristotle with a Bust of Home,” a celebrated Rembrandt. But this painting is done by Otis Kaye. Who? Kaye, a German engineer who settled in Chicago and was unknown as a painter until after his death in 1974, was inspired by Rembrandt’s Aristotle. Rembrandt’s painting is already steeped in meaning: fame, immortality, artistic achievement. Kaye layered on top trompe l’oeil images of money, stock certificates and letters creating biographical visual puns and moral statements. Kaye, himself, suffered major losses during the 1929 stock market crash and money became a common theme in all his work. Worth noting, two years prior to Kaye painting this work, “Heart of the Matter” in 1963, the Met had purchased the Rembrandt for a record-breaking price, making it a perfect appropriation for Kaye’s visual comments about art and commerce. #OtisKaye #Trompeloeil #Rembrandt #Aristotle #HeartOfTheMatter #MetMuseum #ArtInstituteOfChicago #DutchMaster #MoneyInArt #ArtAndCommerce #ArtHistory #HistoryOfArt #ArtOfTheDay #DailyArt #art_encounters (at The Art Institute of Chicago)

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RIP Aretha Franklin! In honor of her passing this week at age 76, the National Portrait Gallery will hang this Milton Glaser-illustrated poster in the “In Memoriam” space through Aug 22. The lithograph poster was a free insert for Eye Magazine, published by Hearst, in 1968. Glaser successfully captured the essence and energy of Franklin by using her profile, with her head thrown back and mouth open in mid note, surrounded by a kaleidoscope of swirling geometric shapes. Does it even need her name written across the bottom? Like Franklin, Glaser is an iconic figure in his field of illustration and graphic arts, probably most well known for designing the I❤️NY logo. #RIPArethaFranklin #ArethaFranklin #QueenOfSoul #MiltonGlaser #Lithograph #Illustration #VintagePoster #NationalPortraitGallery #EyeMagazine #Smithsonian #DC #WashingtonDC #GraphicDesign #GraphicArt #InMemoriam #ArtHistory #HistoryOfArt #ArtOfTheDay #art_encounters (at National Portrait Gallery)

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#EmptyMet vs #CrowdedMet. European Painting galleries being refurbished with new skylights. Heavenly Bodies exhibition still drawing in crowds. #MetHeavenlyBodies #MetMuseum #BlankWalls #MetCostumeInstitute #MuseumMile #NewYorkCity #UES #SummerInTheCity (at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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In 1939, the Hawaiian Pineapple Company (later to become Dole) commissioned Georgia O’Keeffe to produce images for an magazine ad campaign. At the time, Hawaii was still a remote, little known US territory. The landscapes, and expectedly, the exotic flowers so inspired O’Keeffe, she stayed for 9 weeks. NY Botanical Gardens exhibits the paintings and the ads they appeared in, as well as some other beautiful paintings done during her Hawaiian sojourn. || Heliconia, Crab’s Claw Ginger || 1939, private collection || Pineapple Bud || 1939, Private collection || Hibisicus with Plumeria || 1939, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum || Waterfall, No 3, ‘Īao Valley, Maui || 1939, Honolulu Museum of Art #GeorgiaOKeeffe #Okeeffe #NYBG #NewYorkBotanicalGarden #NYBotanicalGarden #Hawaii #VisionsOfHawaii #Heliconia #PineappleBud #Hibisicus #ArtHistory #HistoryOfArt #ModernArt #AmericanArtist #WomanArtist #art_encounters (at The New York Botanical Garden)

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When Peter Paul Rubens turned 53 on June 28, 1630, he may have been preparing for his wedding to the 16-year old, Helena Fourment, the youngest daughter of his good friend, Daniël Fourment, a wealthy carpet merchant. Helena‘s brother happened to be married to Ruben’s first wife’s (Isabella Brant) sister. And later, Helena’s niece will marry Ruben & Isabella’s son Albert. Got that? Anyway, this painting depicts the happy marriage of Rubens and Helena in their Garden of Eden, leading their son Frans by the leash. We can thank Helena for the expression “Rubenesque.” Peter definitely had a thing for voluptuous women. || Rubens, His Wife Helena Fourment, and their son Frans ||, ca. 1635, Gallery 628, #MetMuseum. #MetropolitanMuseumOfArt #PeterPaulRubens #Rubens #Rubenesque #HelenaFourment #FlemishBaroqueArt #BaroqueArt #FlemishArt #ArtHistory #ArtOfTheDay #HistoryOfArt #art_encounters #OTD #BOTD #BornOnThisDay (at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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Selfie? Or Self-portrait? Unlike today where the selfie is a opportunity to project a curated image of oneself, for an artist, it’s a free model. Van Gogh painted himself about 40 times. This one, on view at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, is believed to be his last self-portrait done in 1889, right before he left Saint-Remy-de-Provence. The swirls in the sky resemble the same swirling sky in one of Van Gogh’s most famous image’s, “Starry Night,” painted just four months before this one. #SelfieDay #Selfie #NationalSelfieDay #SelfPortrait #VanGogh #VincentVanGogh #MuseedOrsay #Paris #ArtHistory #HistoryOfArt #art_encounters (at Musée d'Orsay)

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Did you know the popular French street artist “Invader” is a graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris? You’ve probably seen his work. Starting in Paris in the 1990s, his 2,600+ tile works of pixelated images can be seen in 77 cities. Inspired by the 8-bit graphics of old video games of the 80s-90s, finding an “invasion” has come full circle with the “FlashInvaders” app. Find a work, photograph it, and rack up points. See what other users are finding all over the world. #Invader #SpaceInvader #Invasion #Paris #StreetArt #StreetArtist #Paris #SaintGermain #Marais #pixels #art_encounters #CeramicTile (at Paris, France)

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Monet was out of favor? His iconic water lily paintings were once under-appreciated? It wasn’t until after WWII that American artists rediscovered his later works and were inspired by their large size, loose, spontaneous paint application, and all-over effect—reaching the edges of the canvas without a center focus. The Musée d’Orangerie in Paris beautifully curated an exhibition, now on view, demonstrating Monet’s influence on the American Abstract Expressionists, and later the second-generation, referred here as Abstract Impressionists. Claude Monet, “Le Saule Pleureur,” 1920-22 #Monet #ClaudeMonet #FrenchImpressionist Willem de Kooning, “Villa Borghese,” 1960, Bilbao #Bilbao #WillemDeKooning #DeKooning #AbEx #AbstractExpressionist Jackson Pollock, Untitled, 1949, BeyelerCollection. #JacksonPollock #Pollock Mark Rothko, “No. 42,” 1948, National Gallery Of Art, #NationalGalleryOfArt #MarkRothko #Rothko Barnett Newman, “The Beginning,” 1946, Art Institute of Chicago #BarnettNewman #ArtInstituteOfChicago Helen Frankenthaler, “Riverhead,” 1963, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, NY. #HelenFrankenthaler, #Frankenthaler Joan Mitchell, “The Goodbye Door,” 1980, Dépôt du Musée National d’Art Moderne/Centre de Création Industrielle. #JoanMitchell Sam Francis, “Blue,” 1958, The Phillips Collection. #SamFrancis #PhillipsCollection #OilOnCanvas #ArtHistory #HistoryOfArt #ModernArt #art_encounters

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Not surprisingly, I found some pretty boys at #LACMA. 1. "Portrait of Monsieur Gest" (1819) by Alexandre Dubois-Drahonet, beautifully illustrates the period's Romantic style with Mr Gest's bedhead hair and pallid complexion. 2. "Portrait of Arthur Atherley as an Etonian" (detail, c. 1791) by Sir Thomas Lawrence, flamboyantly depicts the young Atherley in a uniform as captain of Eton's Ad Montem Club. Atherley went on to serve three terms in Parliament. 3. "Portrait of Second Lieutenant Charles Legrand" (detail, c. 1810) was painted posthumously by Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, after the young Lieutenant perished in Madrid in 1808. #portraits #RomanticStyle #FrenchRomanticPeriod #OilOnCanvas #ArtHistory #HistoryOfArt #SirThomasLawrence #BaronAntoineJeanGros #ArthurAtherley #MonsieurGest #CharlesLegrand #art_encounters (at LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

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The multi-media, large scale installation, The 14th Factory finally closed after a five month run in Lincoln Heights, LA. Conceived, executed, and produced by British artist Simon Birch, this collaborative effort involved 20 different artists, creating a futuristic journey through several large warehouse-size rooms of video, music, paintings and sculpture. #14thFactory #SimonBirch #InstallationArt #LargeScaleArt #ContemporaryArt #LincolnHeights #DTLA #LosAngeles #ArtHistory #HistoryOfArt #art_encounters (at The 14th Factory)

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Land Artist, Lita Albuquerque, is featured in the Underground Museum's exhibition "Artists of Color" with one of the elements from her seminal work, "Stellar Axis: Antarctica," (2006). Originally installed on Antarctica—the first artwork ever featured on the continent—"Sirius" was one of 99 blue spheres placed to correspond to the 99 stars above it. In this installation for the museum, viewed from the doorway opening and naturally lit from above, the blue sphere takes on 2-dimensionality, flattening against the whitewashed walls—appearing to be taken out of its element. <— pun intended. 🔵🙂 #LitaAlbuquerque #LandArtist #Earthwork #ContemporaryArtist #FemaleArtist #UndergroundMuseum #MoCALA #LosAngeles #ArtHistory #HistoryOfArt #art_encounters (at The Underground Museum)

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Very cool #DanFlavin installation at the #UndergroundMuseum in LA as part of the "Artists of Color" exhibition, open through Feb 2018, and curated by museum co-founder, the late #NoahDavis. Other artists featured include Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Jo Baer and LA Artist EJ Hill. "Untitled (to Charles Cowles," 1963, #MoCALosAngeles #art_encounters #arthistory #historyofart #ContemporaryArt #MinimalistArt #MinimalistArtist #FluorescentLightArt (at The Underground Museum)

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"The right half of my brain likes tradition and history, the left wants to break the rules." — Rei Kawakubo (b 1942) "Not Making Clothing" Spring/Summer 2014. Dress of pink polyester paper, cage of padded white duck. "Rei Kawakubo/Commes sea Garçons: Art of the In-between" through Sept 4, 2017. #MetKawakubo #MetMuseum #ReiKawakubo #CommesDesGarçons #Fashion #AnnaWintourCostumeInstitute #MetGala2017 #HauteCouture #art_encounters (at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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When Marcel Duchamp's painting, "Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2)," 1912, (Philadelphia Museum of Art), was ridiculed at the first seminal Armory Show in 1913 by both art critiques and the public, Duchamp was delighted! In fact, it encouraged him to move from Paris to New York two years later. Although the New York Times renamed it "Explosion in a Shingle Factory," and American Art News held a "fine the nude" contest, the scandalous painting helped draw 87,000 visitors to the Armory Show that year. #MarcelDuchamp #ArmoryShow #Duchamp #Cubism #Modernism #ModernArt #ModernArtist #Cubist #PhiladelphiaMuseumOfArt #ArtHistory #HistoryOfArt #art_encounters (at Philadelphia Museum of Art)

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#CurrentMood! Young, strong, and invincible! Happy birthday to me! One of my favorite paintings in #MetMuseum, #GustavKlimt's "Mäda Primaversi," (1912-1913, Gallery 829). Mäda was the only child that #Klimt painted. He did several studies and decided this pose most reflected her vibrant personality. #Klimt #madaprimavesi #ArtHistory #historyofart #happybirthday #Birthday #purple #art_encounters (at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)