Why is the portrait Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga such a notable child painting?
– Birds, cats, and a lurking doom
– The saint – an involuntary dandy
– A string? … or the line between life and death
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
The plan was for this to be part of a series about the seasons. We can get a sense of summer in the work. But once complete, it was clear this painting’s all about The Mountain.
This painting, Young Woman Drawing by Marie-Denise Villers meditates on love versus art. Art wins the contest here. This piece works as a rumination on the self and identity too. That’s partly because of the subject matter. But the situation behind the work tells that story as well.
us that romanticism comes in many forms. This painting dwells in one of my lifelong pet peeves. The romanticisation of hard work, especially physical labor bugs me. This irritating practice shows up in all aspects of life – even art.