Aug
15
The Temptation of St. Anthony, Hieronymous Bosch
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Posts tagged Painting
The Seven Deadly Sins (1480) by Hieronymous Bosch
Jul
20
Detail of Hell from Garden of Earthly Delights: Blue Bird Man on a Stool - Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1500
Speaking of cosmic horror: 500 years and still the king.
Hieronymus Bosch is one of the painters (along with Peter Paul Rubens and Rembrandt) that motivated me to visit so many art museums in Europe last summer.
Detail from The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment - Jan van Eyck, 1425-30
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Jul
5
Cy Twombly, 1928-2011
Unlike many other twentieth century painters, Cy Twombly’s paintings were never successfully photographed. So his work is called idiosyncratic and distant, he’s called reclusive. But it means you have to go and sit in front of the actual paintings to start to understand them.
One of the best rooms of art in the United States is in Philadelphia; the Twombly installation “Fifty Days at Iliam.” It’s the rare bridge between our contemporary time and ancient mythology, communicating without any “abstraction” what we can and can not know about the Vengeance of Achilles.
May
28
Fecal Face: Double Punch Gallery Announces "Almost Always"
Double Punch Gallery in San Francisco has announced a show titled “Almost Always” featuring works by Michael Sieben, Nas Chompas, Stacey Rozich, and Sidney Pink. Interestingly enough, I could make this show if I really wanted to. Here is “Spring Shake” by Stacey Rozich.
Apr
29
Anton Webern - Six Bagatelles for String Quartet, Op. 9 (1911-1913)
Lately I’ve changed my usual paper-writing inspiration mix. A standard combination of sports, Guided by Voices and skateboarding has developed, but it has become part and parcel of the broader monotony of finishing out my undergraduate college career. Therefore I’ve replaced or at least augmented it with works from German Expressionism, focusing on music by Anton Webern and Arnold Schoenberg and the paintings of Wassily Kandinsky.
