Cardigone

If you want to destroy my sweater...  Cardigone is an art blog incorporating images of art, but also functioning as an art piece, itself, where images connect narratively; aesthetically by composition, color, mood, or depicted subject; or find meaning/meaningfulness by proximity or distance.  Cardigone does not own the images presented and does not know what is appropriate for your workplace... shouldn't you be working?

[japaneseaesthetics]

ITO Jakuchu (1716~1800), Japan

[artmialma]

Ronald Brooks Kitaj RA (1932–2007)

c1975

[grundoonmgnx]

Celeste Dupuy-Spencer

[vortexstreet]

Alice Neel, Hartley in Striped Shirt, 1984, Oil on canvas, 106.7 x 81.3 cm (42 x 32 inches), Xavier Hufkens Gallery

[thunderstruck9]

Alice Neel (American, 1900-1984)

[huariqueje]

Summer Night in the East Village - Hope Gangloff , 2019.

American , b. 1974 -

Acrylic and collage on wood panel . 20 x 30 in.

[darklingvd]

By the Water, oil on canvas, André Lagrange, circa 1930. Although often misdated to 1885, this work reflects the lyrical realism of Lagrange’s mature period.

Four boys by the river, their bodies sunlit and bare, lounging in a choreography of leisure and latent desire. One plays the accordion; another reclines like a fallen angel. The scene hums with summer and suggestion—Lagrange’s brush tracing the contours of youth, complicity, and quiet provocation.

[notpulpcovers]

Esquire, 1934

[arssuperomnia]

Jamie Adams

[thekimonogallery]

Torii Kotondo Morning Hair

This image was considered so wildly provocative in 1930s Japan, that it was banned from further publication, remaining prints being destroyed.

[dethpsun]

Cat with Snakes - Drawing by Deth P. Sun

[thunderstruck9]

Konrad Mägi (Estonian, 1878-1925), Landscape, 1915-16. Oil on cardboard, 49.5 × 65.5 cm.

[japaneseaesthetics]

Rabbits on Bicycles Artist Unknown 1904, Japan

Color lithograph; ink on card stock

Leonard A. Lauder Collection of Japanese Postcards

[pmamtraveller]

by Tatsuro Kiuchi.

[inflatoplane]

Hug

[cosmonautroger]

[thunderstruck9]

Raphael Adjetey Adjei Mayne (Ghanaian, 1983), JOLLY, 2021. Acrylic, fabric and African wax print on canvas, 205 x 149 cm.

[thekimonogallery]

Yokohama Station in the snow.  Tokyo, Japan