Friday, February 3, 2012

Remedios Varo, Embroidering the Earth's Mantle, 1961

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Remedios Varo's triptych Embroidering the Earth’s Mantle  of 1961 uses both narrative and fantastic modes of transportation to convey h...
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Friday, January 27, 2012

Leonora Carrington, Grandmother Moorhead's Aromatic Kitchen, 1975

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     Leonora Carrington's work teems with references to escape and freedom, alchemy and transformation. These themes are often closely...
Sunday, January 15, 2012

The Limbourg Brothers, Tres Riches Heures du Jean, Duc de Berry, 1410-16

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Jean de Berry was the third son of King John the Good (of France).  His position as third son made his asscension to the thrown highly unl...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Beheading Holofernes, c. 1615

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Artemisia Gentileschi is an artist whose biography, namely one specific event in her biography, has cast a long shadow over interpretation ...
Sunday, January 8, 2012

Umberto Boccioni, The Charge of the Lancers, 1915

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Umberto Boccioni was one of the lead artists in the Italian Futurist movement of the early 1900s.  His most famous works are in bronze, wh...
Saturday, January 7, 2012

Gustave Courbet, A Burial at Ornans, 1849-50

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Gustave Courbet was at the forefront of the Realist movement in 19th century France.  Two of his major influences were the Dutch Masters (...
Thursday, January 5, 2012

Joaquín Torres-García, América Invertida, 1943

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In 1943, Joaquín Torres-García created the "School of the South," with the ambition of aiding Uruguay's artistic isolation.  ...