Die Happy

"Paint as you like and die happy." -Henry Miller

I recently spend some quality time with my dear friend Piero, at the National Gallery in London. The colors of this painting are much more delicate than most reproductions would have you think. This one (from The Guardian) is the closest I found on the internet. Although it is said to be unfinished, this paintings exudes freshness and light. The fine edges, connecting figure to figure and the peek-a-boo negative shapes are delightful. It’s an uplifting experience to be in its presence.

I recently spend some quality time with my dear friend Piero, at the National Gallery in London. The colors of this painting are much more delicate than most reproductions would have you think. This one (from The Guardian) is the closest I found on the internet. Although it is said to be unfinished, this paintings exudes freshness and light. The fine edges, connecting figure to figure and the peek-a-boo negative shapes are delightful. It’s an uplifting experience to be in its presence.

(Source: Guardian)

Tiziano Vecelli, aka Titian Self Portrait, 1565-1570, oil on canvas, Prado

Tiziano Vecelli, aka Titian

Self Portrait, 1565-1570, oil on canvas, Prado

Landy’s large-scale sculptures consist of fragments of National Gallery paintings cast in three dimensions and assembled with one of his artistic hallmarks – refuse. He has scoured car boot sales and flea markets accumulating old machinery, cogs and wheels to construct the works. Visitors can crank the works into life with a foot pedal mechanism. Towering over you, the seven sculptures swivel and turn, in movements that evoke the drama of each saint’s life. Saints Apollonia, Catherine, Francis, Jerome, Thomas – and an additional sculpture that takes a number of saints as its inspiration – fill the Sunley Room alongside paper collages. The works by artists of the early Renaissance were particularly inspiring to Landy and you can see them, including Carlo Crivelli’s Saint Jerome (about 1476), Lucas Cranach the Elder’s Saints Genevieve and Apollonia (1506), Sassetta’sThe Stigmatisation of Saint Francis (1437–44 and Cosimo Tura’s Saint Jerome(probably about 1470), displayed in the Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing.

Landy’s large-scale sculptures consist of fragments of National Gallery paintings cast in three dimensions and assembled with one of his artistic hallmarks – refuse. He has scoured car boot sales and flea markets accumulating old machinery, cogs and wheels to construct the works. Visitors can crank the works into life with a foot pedal mechanism. 

Towering over you, the seven sculptures swivel and turn, in movements that evoke the drama of each saint’s life. Saints Apollonia, Catherine, Francis, Jerome, Thomas – and an additional sculpture that takes a number of saints as its inspiration – fill the Sunley Room alongside paper collages.

The works by artists of the early Renaissance were particularly inspiring to Landy and you can see them, including Carlo Crivelli’s Saint Jerome (about 1476), Lucas Cranach the Elder’s Saints Genevieve and Apollonia (1506), Sassetta’sThe Stigmatisation of Saint Francis (1437–44 and Cosimo Tura’s Saint Jerome(probably about 1470), displayed in the Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing.

arsvitaest: “Bream” Author: Bartolomé Montalvo (Spanish, 1769-1846) Medium: Oil on canvasLocation: Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid

arsvitaest:

“Bream”

Author: Bartolomé Montalvo (Spanish, 1769-1846)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid

froschfresser: Rouault - La Sainte Face, 1933. Huile et gouache sur papier marouflé sur toile, 91 x 65 cm.

froschfresser:

Rouault - La Sainte Face, 1933.

Huile et gouache sur papier marouflé sur toile, 91 x 65 cm.

artmastered: Chaim Soutine, c.1921, Still Life with Fish

artmastered:

Chaim Soutine, c.1921, Still Life with Fish

austinkleon: Catching The Big Ridiculous Fish “Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.” —David Lynch

austinkleon:

Catching The Big Ridiculous Fish

“Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.”
—David Lynch

mesbeauxarts: Andrei Rublev. Ascension. 1408. Tempera on wood. State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow, Russia.

mesbeauxarts:

Andrei Rublev. Ascension. 1408.

Tempera on wood.

State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow, Russia.

Valerie Hird War Protester - Woman 3-½ x 4 inches watercolor, gold leaf on BFK 2006
Valerie Hird

War Protester - Woman

3-½ x 4 inches

watercolor, gold leaf on BFK

2006

Valerie Hird Cycles of War I 11-½ x 16 inches mixed media, gilding on BFK 2005

Valerie Hird

Cycles of War I

11-½ x 16 inches

mixed media, gilding on BFK

2005

Spectacular marine life mosaic – 23 different species in all are shown – from the house of L. Aelius Magnus   Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum, The British Museum  Mar 28 - Sept 29, 2013

Spectacular marine life mosaic – 23 different species in all are shown – from the house of L. Aelius Magnus  

Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum, The British Museum  Mar 28 - Sept 29, 2013


(Source: exhibitionologist.wordpress.com)