Migrant Mother, Nipomo Valley
Why’s the Migrant Mother photograph by Dorothea Lange so iconic?
– Defining the Great Depression
– Strength, vulnerability, and shame in Migrant Mother
– Assistance …and then regret
Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale
Why is the painting Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale a masterpiece?
– Framing an unreality
– Threat? That bird’s tiny
– Disruption and a dance
Hartley on the Rocking Horse by Alice Neel
Table of contents for Hartley on the Rocking Horse by Alice Neel.
– Home is where the work is
– Time portrayed in Hartley on the Rocking Horse
– Feminism and the many penises of Joe Gould
Imaginary Numbers by Yves Tanguy
What’s so special about Yves Tanguy’s painting Imaginary Numbers?
– Surrealist love bites
– Sponsored by Peggy Guggenheim
– Hopeful blobs in Imaginary Numbers
– Mother Dada and then baby Dali
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher by Johannes Vermeer
Why’s Vermeer’s painting Young Woman with a Water Pitcher such a big deal?
– Light elevates everyday tasks
– Young Woman with a Water Pitcher – the inner sanctum
– A more iconic shield than Captain America’s
The Three Youngest Daughters of George III by John Singleton Copley
Table of contents for this post on The Three Youngest Daughters of George III.
– Whoah. King George had how many kids?
– The Three Youngest Daughters of George III – anything but posers
– Copley’s red connections