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High ResolutionJean-Honoré Fragonard, The Swing, 1766. Oil on canvas, 2’ 8 5/8” x 2’ 2”.
Fragonard’s Swing epitomizes Rococo style. Pastel colors and soft light complement a scene in which a young lady flirtatiously kicks off her shoe at a statue of Cupid while her lover watches.
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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: Kay Sage, 1898-1963
Le Passage (1956), In the Third Sleep (1944), I Saw Three Cities (1944)
Kay Sage was an American painter. She studied at the Corcoron Art School in Washington D. C., but also spent long periods of time travelling across Europe. In around 1923, whilst in Rome, Sage fell in love with and subsequently married a young Italian prince, Ranieri di San Faustino. They divorced in 1935, and Sage went on to meet her second husband, Surrealist artist Yves Tanguy, in Paris.
After Tanguy’s passed away in 1955, Sage painted very little. Le Passage was completed the year after Tanguy death, and shows the emotional and physical breakdown of Sage after the loss of her husband.
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“flying houses” by french photographer Laurent Chéhère
(via thesoulselects)
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High ResolutionEric Leon Freeman, The Year of the Fox, 2012. oil on canvas, 30” x 24”
(via jesuisperdu)
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High ResolutionJean-Baptiste Greuze, La Paressense Italenne, 1757
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High ResolutionStumped as to what to say about the art, she would usually go with something like, “It’s contemporary… yet timeless.” Or, “Can’t you just feel the energy?” Or just, “Wow. Colors.”
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NYC by Zachary Johnson
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FLORA & FAUNA
Illustrated set by Jacob van Loon (facebook / tumblr + coalblack)
Initially stemmed from linework samples created for a previous client, “Flora” was the platform and basis for “Fauna” (see more), a set of ink illustrations inspired by a synthesis of organic material. Some areas of each panel more clearly express the form of chard, tobacco, and rhubarb, where as other areas were influenced by muscle tissue (living and dead), gristle, and bone. Each panel was given the respective title, however that distribution may be subject to some interchangeability.
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Henry Moore, 1941, Tube Shelter Perspective
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"People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it’s simply necessary to love."
A White Blank Page
a life, curated.
