severely underwhelmed

I cannot explain what's going down

[palewanker]

[palewanker]

[nudeydude]

[andreii-tarkovsky]

[tamper]

[sturbock]

[glamorus]

p r a i h s e

[expensivetastexox]

[technicallity]

[zoheua]

[arcthic]

glow

[bettinanelson]

Painting on panel (in a state)

[lacarpa]

Aykut Aydoğdu

[lacma]

New Objectivity—The City and the Nature of Landscape 

“The City and the Nature of Landscape” section of our New Objectivity exhibition explores the tensions between the rural and the urban. The connection between the rapid encroachment of twentieth-century industrialization and nostalgia for the supposedly simpler, bucolic life of the nineteenth century is present in the landscapes of artists such as Georg Schrimpf and Erich Wegner. Other works focus on the twentieth-century city, including its modern architecture (concrete, steel, and glass), mass advertising, and modes of transportation, but the mood is predominantly one of stillness and displacement rather than dynamism. In his paintings of urban settings, Anton Räderscheidt created a sense of eerie tranquility that manages to be simultaneously hyperreal and unreal. In his House No. 9, for example, two figures (the artist and his wife) depicted with formal simplicity appear unconnected, even isolated, in front of their own home.

This series examines the exhibition’s five thematic sections that address competing and at times conflicting approaches that these artists applied to the tumultuous Weimar years. Follow #NewObjectivity on Tumblr for upcoming posts, or check out an overview of the exhibition on Unframed.  

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San Francisco based artist John Wentz plays with texture and abstraction in what he calls his “fractured” oil paintings of figures. Previously featured on our blog, the figures in Went’z work have been described as hazy, dreamy, and stripped away, broken down to a combination of nondescript washes and bold areas of pigment that evoke the feeling of remembering a distant memory that comes back to us as distorted. In his artist statement, he explains that “working within the classical idiom of the human figure, his goal is to reduce and simplify the image to it’s core fundamentals: composition, color, and paint application.” 

See more on Hi-Fructose.

[beesandbombs]

[garff]

nitrqin:

[timothydelaghetto-deactivated20]

Sometimes when taking a shower, you find your girlfriend’s hairs stuck to the tiles, and you get a little creative.

[ihatepicasso-deactivated2018092]

Évolution inversée

“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.” ― Pablo Picasso

[enginkid88modern]

RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967) - L’ÉTAT DE VEILLE