#art nerds

[bloodofjuno]

Does anyone know the artist or context of this? I found it on Pinterest while looking through Sappho content but there wasn’t a description.

[meisterdrucke]

That ultramarine - not cerulean, not Prussian, but deep cobalt-adjacent blue - swallows the upper half of the canvas like Parisian dusk made solid. Juan Gris ground his palette down to declarations. Blue. Black. A dusty rose that feels like chalk between your fingers. What makes "Still Life before an Open Window, Place Ravignan" a technical manifesto: Gris didn't chase light - he constructed it. No single source illuminates this canvas. The exterior bleeds blue inward while the still life objects - that fractured wine glass, the MEDOC label, the severed headline of LE JOURNAL - generate their own warmth. Pink and vermilion against absolute black. He laid oil on canvas in flat, deliberate planes, each color field bounded by hard edges. No blending. No sfumato. The transitions happen in your eye, not on the surface. And the black - study it. It isn't shadow. It's architecture. Load-bearing darkness holding the rose and blue apart. The wrought-iron balcony scrollwork and the foliage spilling across the top are the only organic lines permitted. Everything else submits to the grid. I come back to this painting because it's the coldest thing that ever made me feel warm. Quelle: meisterdrucke.com

[pencil-urchin]

Doodled a dumb scene from a fic I'm working on with my Mirialan OC, Iria. The three in the back are Eli, Faro, and Hammerly, playing Mariokart.

I slapped Ralph McQuarrie's illustrations in the frames because I was too tired to do anything else.

I like imagining Karyn Faro is the level-headed friend of the gang right up until her competitive side comes out, at which point she becomes an absolute monster.

Also Eli had to dress Thrawn because my favorite dumb blue bitch was going to wear his uniform because he always wears it and Eli had to be like "No you idiot this is a casual occasion meant to make her feel comfortable, you cannot look pristine and imposing."

Anyway, I'm still dying but I have antibiotics and a prescription cough suppressant now, so I'm going to go back to sleep.

🤘 later y'all

[arthistorybabes]

Cube Your Enthusiasm Part One

In the first of two episodes on Cubism, the Babes talk music festivals, Picasso, "primitivism", and take a trip into the fourth dimension *cue twilight zone theme*.

Artists discussed: Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Georges Braque, Diego Rivera

[sartle-blog]

On this day in Art History:

August 21, 1911, the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre.

The New York Times headline three days later shows the shock felt around the world.⠀ 

New York Times headline from August 24, 1911.⠀

⠀ It was a Monday morning, before the museum was even open, and three handymen from Italy, who had sneakily spent the night in a supply closet of the Louvre, emerged from their hiding place, ripped the painting from its frame, and hurried out of the museum to the nearest train station with it hidden in a blanket.⠀ ⠀ But the Mona Lisa wasn't the Louvre's most iconic painting at the time, and no one even noticed it was missing for over 28 hours! The person who first noticed it was gone was an artist who enjoyed painting in the gallery under the Mona Lisa's gaze. He figured it had just been taken to the roof to be photographed (as the museum was cataloging their objects at the time, and the best light to be had in those days was outdoor sunlight). That turned out not to be the case, and suddenly, the Mona Lisa became famous overnight beyond just the French intelligentsia as her image became reproduced in newspapers around the world.⠀ ⠀ During the course of the investigation, Pablo Picasso was implicated in the crime by the poet Apollinaire. During interrogation, Picasso reportedly cried, and was determined not to be a suspect. The real mastermind, Vincent Peruggia, had taken the Mona Lisa because he mistakenly, if patriotically, believed it had been stolen from Italy by French forces during the Napoleonic wars. After two years, the painting was too famous to sell, and he eventually agreed to return it to France for a reward. A wily art dealer was able to rescue the painting, and Peruggia was arrested, but not before he changed the course of art history by making the Mona Lisa an icon it may never have been before.⠀

A gathering around the Mona Lisa in Paris on the day of its return, January 4, 1914.

Leonardo da Vinci

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@happyshoujoartist

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[arthistorybabes]

Cube Your Enthusiasm Part Two

In the second half of our discussion of Cubism, the Babes shine a spotlight on the lovely lady cubist, Blanche Lazzell and explore the relationship between Cubism & Italian Futurism. Plus book recommendations!