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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Jim Dine's 'The Woodcut Bathrobe' (1975)

 

Dine's self-assured self-portrait
Posted by Gabriella Perez at Tuesday, November 30, 2010
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Labels: Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York

Monday, November 29, 2010

Various artists' 'Interior of St. Peter's Basilica' (1506-1626)

Theatre of faith
Posted by Gabriella Perez at Monday, November 29, 2010
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Labels: In situ: Holy See

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Barnett Newman's 'Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III?' (1960)

 

'To be experienced'
Posted by Gabriella Perez at Sunday, November 28, 2010
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Labels: Amsterdam, Collection of the Stedelijk Museum

Friday, November 26, 2010

Charles Allan Gilbert's 'All is Vanity' (1892)


Remember your mortality
Posted by Gabriella Perez at Friday, November 26, 2010
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Labels: Courtesy of the Menil Collection, Houston

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Salvador DalĂ­'s 'The Sacrament Last Supper' (1955)


'Love one another'
Posted by Gabriella Perez at Thursday, November 25, 2010
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Labels: Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

George Post's 'Pulitzer Building' (1890)

 

Archetypal American skyscraper  
Posted by Gabriella Perez at Wednesday, November 24, 2010
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Edward Steichen's 'Isadora Duncan at the Portal of the Parthenon' (1920)

 

Uncanny, dreamlike pictorialism 
Posted by Gabriella Perez at Tuesday, November 23, 2010
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Labels: Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Vassilii Vassilievich Vereshchagin's 'The Apotheosis of War' (1871)


'To all conquerors'
Posted by Gabriella Perez at Wednesday, November 17, 2010
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Labels: Collection of the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Hans Hofmann's 'To Miz - Pax Vobiscum' (1964)

 

Master of color
Posted by Gabriella Perez at Tuesday, November 16, 2010
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Labels: Collection of the Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth

Monday, November 15, 2010

Gustave Caillebotte's 'The Floorscrapers' (1875)


Ennobling monotonous moil
Posted by Gabriella Perez at Monday, November 15, 2010
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Labels: Collection of the Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Olafur Eliasson's 'Beauty' (1993)


Your personal rainbow
Posted by Gabriella Perez at Sunday, November 14, 2010
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Labels: Courtesy of the artist

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Jan Van Eyck's 'Ghent Altarpiece' (1432)


Ghent's irresistible masterpiece
Posted by Gabriella Perez at Saturday, November 13, 2010
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Labels: In situ: Ghent

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Edward Hopper's 'Nighthawks' (1942)


Vision of isolation
Posted by Gabriella Perez at Thursday, November 11, 2010
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Labels: Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Andy Warhol's 'Coca-Cola (4) Large Coca-Cola' (1962)


Sold for $35,300,000
Posted by Gabriella Perez at Wednesday, November 10, 2010
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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Wassily Kandinsky's 'Composition VII' (1913)

  

Toward supreme subjectivity
Posted by Gabriella Perez at Tuesday, November 09, 2010
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Labels: Collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Monday, November 8, 2010

Aaron Koblin's 'Flight Patterns' (2009)



Reminds me of...
Posted by Gabriella Perez at Monday, November 08, 2010
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Labels: Courtesy of the artist

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Franz Kline's 'Turin' (1960)


Symmetry through asymmetry
Posted by Gabriella Perez at Sunday, November 07, 2010
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Labels: Collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Raphael's 'Aeneas Carrying Anchises Out of Troy' (1514)


Paternal love epitomized
Posted by Gabriella Perez at Saturday, November 06, 2010
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Labels: In situ: Stanze di Raffaello, Vatican City

Friday, November 5, 2010

Mike Kelley's 'Eviscerated Corpse' (1989)

 

Pleasure vs. perversion
Posted by Gabriella Perez at Friday, November 05, 2010
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Labels: Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Louis Daguerre's 'Boulevard du Temple' (1838)


First photographed human
Posted by Gabriella Perez at Thursday, November 04, 2010
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Jean Arp's 'Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance' (1917)


Anarchy of chance
Posted by Gabriella Perez at Wednesday, November 03, 2010
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Labels: Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Ed Kienholz's 'Portable War Memorial' (1968)

 

Happy Voting Day!
Posted by Gabriella Perez at Tuesday, November 02, 2010
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Labels: Collection of Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Monday, November 1, 2010

Edvard Munch's 'Love and Pain' (1894)

 

Desolation meets consolation
Posted by Gabriella Perez at Monday, November 01, 2010
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Labels: Collection of the Munch Museum, Oslo
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