High-Quality Endeavor

[gregorygalloway]

Sam Gilliam (30 November 1933 - 25 June 2022)

[picard-schreckensberger]

Henri Matisse

Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence, France

1951

[hourgold]

Ron Gorchov

[piahabekost]

Urs Fischer Exhibition at Chapelle de L’Ecole Des Beaux-Arts, Paris. Via Purple Diary.

[theories-of]

Scott Anderson

[theegregore]

Scott Anderson

[systematisms]

[curatedbyaccident]

[moma-paintings]

Easter and the Totem, Jackson Pollock, 1953, MoMA: Painting and Sculpture

Gift of Lee Krasner in memory of Jackson Pollock Size: 6’ 10 1/8" x 58" (208.6 x 147.3 cm) Medium: Oil on canvas

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/79678

[acardinalisred]

picasso

[mia-paintings]

Seated Girl (Fränzi Fehrmann), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1910 (altered 1920), Minneapolis Institute of Art: Paintings

Seated girl. Franzi Fehrmann. German Expressionism. Figure shown nearly full length, filling almost all of the picture space, seated on vivid blue divan dressed in bright red dress with yellow trim and black polka dots on green sleeves. Small nude figure at left a frequent motif in Kirchner’s art. Strong color utilized, applied in broad areas with an eye to contrast and balance. Harsh contour lines add a decorative element to the composition. These strong contour lines reveal the influence of the woodcutting technique which Kirchner also practiced to great effect. Composition is simplified and economy of line and form reveal influence of Japanese art and primitive African sculpture. No signature - checked 8-21-96. In the early decades of twentieth-century Germany, a group of avant-garde artists known as Die Brücke (The Bridge, 1905-13), emerged. Hoping their work would serve as a bridge to the art of the future, they developed a radical new style of painting called Expressionism. This composition, with its deliberate brushstrokes and forceful use of outline, articulates both Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s and Die Brücke’s intent to reveal raw emotion without apologies. Lina Franziska “Franzi” Fehrmann (1900-1950), the adolescent model for Seated Girl, met Kirchner in 1910. She and her siblings regularly posed for artists in the Die Brücke group. Size: 31 ¾ x 35 7/8 in. (80.6 x 91.1 cm) (canvas) 40 ¾ x 45 x 2 3/16 in. (103.51 x 114.3 x 5.56 cm) (outer frame) Medium: Oil on canvas

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/1224/

[gagosiangallery]

Romuald Hazoume: Join us tonight, September 5, 6–8pm, for the opening reception of Romuald Hazoumè at Gagosian Park & 75, New York. Masks are perhaps the best-known aspect of Hazoumè’s art. Each mask achieves a vivid quality of illusion as Hazoumè imbues inanimate objects with qualities that allude to a life story or history: http://fal.cn/VUue __________ Romuald Hazoumè, Oiseau bleu, 2018, plastic and feathers, 15 × 15 × 6 3/8 inches (37.9 × 37.9 × 16 cm) Romuald Hazoumè © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Courtesy Galerie Magnin-A, Paris

[gagosiangallery]

The essential of painting is that ‘something’, that 'ethereal glue,’ that 'intermediary product’ which the artist exudes with all his creative being and which he has the power to place, to encrust, to impregnate into the pictorial matter of the painting. —Yves Klein 

French artist Yves Klein was born today, April 28, 1928 in Nice, France. 

Klein’s work is currently on view at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, London: In Search of the Absolute

__________ 

Image: Yves Klein realizing an Anthropométrie in his studio, 14, rue Campagne-Première, Paris, 1960 © Yves Klein, ADAGP, Paris / DACS, London, 2016, Photograph by Harry Shunk and Janos Kender © J.Paul Getty Trust. The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles

[desimonewayland]

Arturo Herrera, Venezuelan, born 1959  Untitled, 1998

Mixed media collage on paper

© Arturo Herrera / The Menil Collection    

[lushlight]

Henri Matisse 

via 

[moma-paintings]

Untitled, Claude Viallat, 1979, MoMA: Painting and Sculpture

Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund Size: 11’ 4 ¾" x 6’ (347.3 x 182.9 cm) Medium: Synthetic polymer paint on door flap of a canvas military tent with buckles, ropes, and dyed straps

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/78957

[aic-contemporary]

from the series I Strongly Believe in Our Right to Be Frivolous, Mounira Al Solh, 2012, Art Institute of Chicago: Contemporary Art

Claire and Gordon Prussian Fund for Contemporary Art Size: 28.6 x 21 cm (11 ¼ x 8 ¼ in.) Medium: Watercolor, ink, and collage on commercial legal paper

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/243626/