Melting Building Optical Illusion: Believe it or not, this isn’t a Photoshop job. This surreal building actually exists at 39 Avenue George V, Paris
Check out this optical illusion, the shapes and colors give a startling impression of movement, even though this is actually a still image! The movement always seems to be occurring where your eyes aren’t focusing.
Celebration on Wall Street upon the news of Germany’s surrender in World War I.
November 1918 (W.L. Drummond)
Giorgio de Chirico. L’Angoisse du départ. 1914
pre-Surrealism, Metaphysical art
“Psychologically speaking, to discover something mysterious in objects is a symptom of cerebral abnormality related to certain kinds of insanity.” Giorgio de Chirico quote
What I like most about De Chirico is the essence of silence envoked in each of his early empty city street paintings. Silence and Emptiness….
Sharon
Giorgio de Chirico Delights of the Poet, 1913
“Mystery” is the most familiar word of De Chirico. He wrote the following: “there is much more mystery in the shadow of a man walking on a sunny day, than in all religions of the world”.
Giorgio de Chirico. The Enigma of the Hour. 1911
Metaphysical art sprang from the urge to explore the imagined inner life of familiar objects when represented out of their explanatory contexts: their solidity, their separateness in the space allotted to them, the secret dialogue that may take place between them.
Giorgio de Chirico. Mystery and Melancholy of a Street 1914.
De Chirico was a pre-Surrealist painter who started a movement called Metaphysical art
His dream-like paintings of squares typical of idealized Italian cities, as well as apparently casual juxtapositions of objects, represented a visionary world which engaged most immediately with the unconscious mind, beyond physical reality, hence the name. The metaphysical movement provided significant impetus for the development of Dada and Surrealism.
Nevisian Underground
(digital print)
Artist: James Casebere
My new favorite photographer. I stumbled upon him while researching empty rooms (I’m thinking of doing a series of empty/close to empty rooms).
John William Waterhouse (1849 -1917) was an English painter known for working in the Pre-Raphaelite style. He worked several decades after the breakup of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which had seen its heydey in the mid-nineteenth century, leading him to have gained the moniker of “the modern Pre-Raphaelite”. Borrowing stylistic influences not only from the earlier Pre-Raphaelites but also from his contemporaries, the Impressionists, his artworks were known for their depictions of women from both ancient Greek mythology and Arthurian legend.
One of Waterhouse’s most famous paintings is The Lady of Shalott, a study of Elaine of Astolat, who dies of grief when Lancelot will not love her.
“Art in the Streets” (MOCA) L.A.- I think Art in the Streets Is the most comprehensive show on graffiti art to date with giant installations of city blocks, cars, & murals it goes beyond the stereotypes and into regional cultures it represents. From Venice Dogtown to Brooklyn Heights it’s an education into itself on how graffiti art has redefining art in a way not done since Marcel Duchamp’s Dada masterpiece “The Urinal” of 1917 in begging the question, What is Art? Th exhibiiton runs through Aug in downtown Los Angeles.
“Art in the Streets” (MOCA) L.A.- Is the most comprehensive show on graffiti art to date with giant installations of city blocks, cars, & murals it goes beyond the stereotypes and into regional cultures it represents. From Venice Dogtown to Brooklyn Heights it’s an education into itself on how graffiti art has redefining art in a way not done since Marcel Duchamp’s Dada masterpiece “The Urinal” of 1917 in begging the question, What is Art?
Sharon Fitzgerald
Los Angeles
Pictured: Banky
Best part about my lecture at the Huntington Library today: a visit to the Medieval stained glass by William Morris, image designed by Edward Burne-Jones. Love Burne-Jones!Sharon Fitzgerald, MA
(monthly lecture series in Los Angeles)
Art in the Streets
Best Exhibition on Gaffiti Art
Los Angeles- MOCA
Art in the Streets is the first major U.S. museum survey of graffiti and street art. Curated by MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch and Associate Curators Roger Gastman and Aaron Rose, the exhibition will trace the development of graffiti and street art from the 1970s to the global movement it has become today, concentrating on key cities such as New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, and Sao Paulo, where a unique visual language or attitude has evolved.
The exhibition will feature paintings, mixed media sculptures, and interactive installations by 50 of the most dynamic artists and will emphasize Los Angeles’s role in the evolution of graffiti and street art, with special sections dedicated to seminal local movements such as cholo graffiti and Dogtown skateboard culture. A comprehensive timeline illustrated with artwork, photos, video, and ephemera will provide a historical context for the work.
For more details on this show, check out:http://www.moca.org/museum/exhibitiondetail.php?id=443
Great show, look out for - Raymond Pettibon (Black Flag artist) Craig Stecyk (Dogtown) Shepard Fairey, Esteban O.
Sharon
Come spend the day at LACMA with the Los Angeles Art History Meetup Group. Next meetup and lecture is at LACMA April 2nd at 2:30pm. Free and open to the public, click pic for deets. Sharon Fitzgerald, MA
or visit:
http://www.meetup.com/Art-History-LA/events/16241883/#initialized
