Art

Learn the following about the White Flag painting by Jasper Johns:

• Is White Flag even white?
• What’s lacking and better for it.
• Johns and Rauschenberg – inspirations

LadyKflo’s Art Blog post about The 110 Express Painting covers:

• Robert Rauschenberg stops thoughts
• Red stripe unity
• Where de Kooning meets Warhol

This blog post about La Tour’s The Cheat with the Ace of Clubs includes:

• A fancy pants sucker
• Finger pointing
• Fraud on many levels
• Mastery in 17th century details

Learn about the symbolic expressions in Girls on a Pier including:

• Pink and feminine youth
• Abyss of the unknown – trees in Girls on a Pier
• A puppy surrounded with Munchian dread

Table of Contents for Ada and Alex by Alex Katz includes:

• Reduced to spare parts
• Cutthroat culture by Alex Katz
• Abstract Expressionism versus Ada and Alex – a competition

This blog investigates several aspects of The Lackawanna Valley painting such as:

• Why the train?
• George Inness’s rejection
• Opposites in harmony

What’s the story with Renoir’s Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando?

• Truth about his real acrobat models
• What oranges represent
• Darkness lurking nearby

What makes Whistler’s portrait Harmony in Gray and Green Miss Cicely Alexander special? Many things… including:

• Butterflies and muted tones = bros
• Disappearing into the woodwork
• Whose jacket brings the green to Harmony in Gray and Green?

Why is Stag at Sharkey’s much more than a boxing painting? Here are a few reasons:

• Stag night & wild stags
• A thrilled, expectant arena
• George Wesley Bellows – Ashcan art star

What’s the story behind this Count’s smug mug?

• Son of a revolutionary lady
• The challenge of Amédée David the Comte de Pastoret
• Bad reputation and Legion of Honor
• Symbols vs. substance

Table of Contents for art blog on Madame de Pastoret and Her Son:

• Aristocrats vs. revolutionaries
• Symbols in Madame de Pastoret and Her Son
• Working mothers of the French Revolution
• Prison, exile, and a missing needle

Fascinating insights about the Gray and Gold Painting lie ahead, including:

• John Rogers Cox: Bank Teller-Painter-Soldier-Painter
• Fences and distance in Gray and Gold
• Magic mixed with Realism
• A meticulous method

This art blog on Rousseau’s The Fight of a Tiger and a Buffalo includes:

• Bottoms up bananas – reality is overrated
• Fight? What Fight?
• Rousseau’s self esteem
• Flowers and animals paired in The Fight of a Tiger and Buffalo
• Jungle mystery

Contents for The Parasol painting by Goya include:

• Trapped lady and free servant
• Greenery versus greys
• Color and the duty in the Spanish royal court
• Six tiny, hopeful, leaves

My blog piece about the painting Portrait of a Young Man in his Study explores:

• Details as personae in the Young Man in his Study painting.
• Lorenzo Lotto’s secretive, telling lizard.
• This Young Man’s dating profile.

In this evaluation of the painting Primavera by Botticelli I cover the following concepts:

• Why Primavera is such a popular painting
• Mythical characters featured in Primavera
• Love stories in the Primavera painting
• My Primavera YouTube video
  

In this piece on Lady With a Unicorn by Raphael you’ll find answers to:

• Frequently Asked Questions including, “Who is the woman portrayed in the Lady With a Unicorn painting?”
• What do Unicorns represent?
• Why does Lady With a Unicorn have such a smudgy looking example?
• What’s the story behind Lady With a Unicorn?

In this analysis for the painting Calling of St. Matthew by Caravaggio I include:

• Caravaggio’s everyday perspective.
• The biblical story behind Calling of St. Matthew.
• Which guy in Calling of St. Matthew is the future saint?
• A selection of Frequently Asked Questions including, “Why did Caravaggio paint Calling of St. Matthew?”

In this piece on Portrait of a Lady by Correggio I answer these questions:

• What’s the symbolism in Correggio’s Portrait of a Lady?
• Why is Portrait of a Lady a significant painting?
• Who did Correggio paint in Portrait of a Lady?

Why Black Sea by Philip Guston is an important painting:

• The inspiration behind Black Sea by Philip Guston.
• What’s controversial about the painting Black Sea?
• Wait a second, this is just a badly painted boot heel…

Today’s discussion of Wayne Thiebaud’s 1963 Pop Art masterpiece Display Cakes includes:

• The precarious balance on display in Display Cakes.
• Why Display Cakes is better than actual cake.
• Frequently Asked Questions, like “Why did Wayne Thiebaud paint Display Cakes?”