New York School. A loose association of vanguard artists working in New York City during the 1940s and ’50s. At the center of the New York School were artists like Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko, who were associated with Abstract Expressionism and helped establish a uniquely American avant-garde and propel New York City to eclipse Paris as the center of the art world. These artists created stylistically diverse, often monumental paintings that introduced bold innovations in form and content and reflected a desire to embrace spontaneity and individual expression. The New York School also encompasses the poets, filmmakers, composers, and photographers such as Aaron Siskind who formed close relationships, collaborated, and shared inspiration with New York School painters. www.artsy.net/gene/new-york-school

A big collection of funny cat art and illustration for animal art lovers. I wish cats really walked around like this in real life.

I have admitted on more than one occasion that Pierre Bonnard may just be my favorite “Modern” painter. Having suggested as much, it should come as no surprise that among the other “modern” artists most beloved by be, I would include Édouard Vuillard. Édouard Vuillard (11 November 1868 – 21 June 1940) was a French painter and printmaker associated with the Nabis,the artistic movement that included Paul Sérusier, Maurice Denis, and Pierre Bonnard. On the advice of his closest friend, Xavier Roussel, Vuillard refused a military career and joined Roussel at the studio of painter Diogène Maillart. There, Roussel and Vuillard received the rudiments of artistic training. In 1887, after three unsuccessful attempts, Vuillard passed the entrance examination for the École des Beaux-Arts. In 1890, Vuillard met Pierre Bonnard and Paul Sérusier and joined the Nabis, a group of art students inspired by the paintings and theories of Paul Gauguin. Vuillard and the Nabis rejected the “naturalism” of Impressionism, and embraced an increased artifice or abstraction and flat two-dimensional planes of color and pattern. Vuillard first exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants of 1901 and at the Salon d'Automne in 1903. In the 1890s Vuillard met the brothers Alexandre and Thadée Natanson, the founders of La Revue Blanche, a cultural review. Vuillardʹs graphics appeared in the journal, together with Pierre Bonnard, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Félix Vallotton and others. In 1892, on the advice of the Natanson brothers, Vuillard painted his first decorations (“apartment frescoes”) for the house of Mme Desmarais. These paintings were greatly inspired by the flat patterns and unabashed decorative elements, as well as the formats of paintings by Botticelli… … medieval tapestries… … and Japanese screen paintings: A good majority of Vuillard’s decorative panels portrayed landscape images. The paint was often handled in such a manner as to suggest a tapestry: Vuillard also created a number of exquisite decorative cycles of interior subjects: Unlike his Nabi compatriot, Pierre Bonnard, the landscape never became a major theme of Vuillard’s work… although he did paint a number of these beyond the aforementioned decorative paintings: Among the finest of Vuillard’s landscapes are several that show the clear influence of Bonnard… Èdouard Vuillard wrote in his private journal in 1894: “I always see men as odious caricatures, and have the feeling they are just ridiculous objects.” More comfortable in a world of female subjects and patrons and in a world of ‘feminine’ textile arts and floral decoration, Vuillard carefully cultivated an aesthetic and psychological serenity in his domestic interiors, dedicated to quiet depictions of women sewing, dress-making, reading, playing piano, tending to small children, preparing or serving food, and, on rare occasion, interacting with male friends and family members. Taking such sensibilities into consideration, along with several personal facts of the artist’s life, has led some to question his sexuality. Vuillard, after all, never married. He continued to live with his mother until she died when the artist had reached age 60. Nudes were a rarity in his oeuvre… unlike the work of close friend, Bonnard. Nevertheless, we do know that Vuillard had one long-term lover: Lucy Hessel. -Vuillard and Lucy Lucy was his friend, his inspiration, his lover and the wife of his close friend Jos Hessel, a noted art dealer. She is the possible subject of a number of Vuillards few nudes: Vuillard was also close friends with the editor Thadee Natanson and his wife, Misia Natanson. The Natansons were prominent figures in French cultural life — especially Misia. In that corseted time, Misia was a free spirit,

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Sherree Valentine Daines is a contemporary British painter known for her impressionistic leisure scenes.

Franz Kline (1910-1962) is often pigeonholed as a "black and white" painter. Above is a selection of work by the Ab-Ex master in which color merges with gesture and at times takes center stage.

Nicolas de Staël (1914-1955) french painter, was born in Saint Petersburg

Born in Novara, Felice Casorati [1883-1963] spent his formative years in Padua, where he developed an interest in music and literature. He began to paint in 1902, and read law at the University of Padua, graduating in 1906, while frequenting the studio of Giovanni Viannello (1873-1926). Casorati's early paintings were in the symbolist mode of the Vienna Secession.

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Looking at František Kupka we see an intense channeling of occult vibrations and shimmering realities that asks viewers if they too have experienced their life this way.

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A Summer Ramble by Frank Herbert, American (b. 1920) I was looking for paintings of wheat, when I found this beautiful piece of art. What a lovely way the figure compliments the surrounding scene. Nature is the guide for much of my choice of fabrics and sewing styles, and wheat is something that I've always wanted to "match" with fabrics. I am looking for a soft cotton printed with wheat kernels, on a cream-colored background, but so far have found nothing like it. From my front window, this is the scene before me today: Click on the picture for a larger view. Though I have never thought of the wheat color as being particularly desireable as a color to wear, I've come to feel differently about it since great crops of it surrounds me. These photographs that I have taken do not show the vivid beauty of it in the sun. In the moonlight it shimmers like fine spun gold. Here's some wheat print fabric on ebay A wheat rubber stamp from the Kansas Heritage Center. Kansas is the "wheat state." A Summer Evening by Leopold-Francois Kowalsky, 1856-1931 (Russian) (The garments on the women appear to be peasant style and I would love to know about the pattern or sewing technique. The dresses look good with the flowers.) From the north window is a field of blossoms from another crop, and I did have some fabric to make a dress to go with it. The blue of that sky is amazing. Now I need to find some fabric to make a dress to go with it. The sleeves have a piece of white fabric in the middle because I did not have enough of the main fabric. I'll show you how to do that on a sewing tutorial on some future post. The neckline is trimmed in white eyelet, and there is a bias type ruffle on the hem:

Oil on canvas 57"x45" (146x114 cm) April 2009

The Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta (1948-85) is known for her performance art, ‘earth-body sculptures’, photographs and video work, much of which centred on her own body. She was bo…

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Solitary female figures command the canvas in oil paintings by artist Miho Hirano. The Japanese artist creates detailed portraits of her human protagonists, who avoid direct eye contact with the viewer. Hirano’s women stare off into the distance as fish and butterflies swarm and flower blossoms and vines seem to grow from the figures’ hair. In a statement on Gallery Sumire’s website, Hirano describes the mission of her work as “to express the changing situation of life’s ugliness and maturity.” Hirano draws inspiration from her upbringing, noting that her mother cared for plants and animals, and those motifs have continued in her work even though she does not currently reside in a nature-filled place. More

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Following on from the collages of Kurt Schwitters, I thought I’d take a look at some comparative work by the Italian artist Mimmo Rotella. The difference is that Rotella was an exponent of décollage. Décollage, in art terms, is the opposite of collage - instead of an image being built up of all or parts of existing images, it is created by cutting, tearing away or otherwise removing pieces of an original image. Examples include inimager, etrécissements and excavations. A similar technique is the lacerated poster, a poster in which one has been placed over another or others, and the top poster or posters have been ripped, revealing to a greater or lesser degree the poster or posters underneath. Domenico ‘Mimmo’ Rotella (1918 – 2006) was born in 1918 in Catanzaro, Italy. He studied art at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples, and moved to Rome in 1945. After his figurative beginnings, he developed an abstract and geometrical style. As an alternative form of expression, he invented “epistaltic” poetry in 1949, a combination of words (sometimes invented), sounds, and onomatopoeic reiteration. In 1951 he held his first solo exhibition at the Galleria Chiurazzi in Rome. In the same year he won a Fulbright Foundation scholarship and was therefore able to travel to America, where he studied at Kansas City University. During his time there he created a mural composition, showed at the Nelson Gallery of Kansas City, and held a performance of phonetic poetry at Harvard University in Boston. Rotella moved back to Rome in 1953, and after overcoming a crisis in his personal life, he produced his first Décollages. In these works he glued onto canvas parts of advertisements that he had ripped off city walls. With these initial pieces he pursued his investigation into abstract art. After 1958, however, he devoted himself to figurative décollage and created the Cinecittà series, using figures and faces from film posters. Marilyn Monroe became one of the icons of his work. 1963 Marylin In this first of two parts on Rotella, I am showing a cross-section of his work – part two will show some more of the many Marilyn pieces. My personal preference is for his earlier, more considered pieces with muted colours - the first few images shown below, and Marilyn above. In 1961 Rotella accepted the art critic Pierre Restany’s invitation to become part of the Noveau Réalisme movement, and three years later he moved to Paris. There he developed a process called “Mec-Art” in which by projecting negative images on an emulsion covered canvas, he created work which was shown for the first time in the Galerie J. in 1965. He then made the Artypo series, created by randomly gluing typographic proofs onto canvas, and in 1975 his first Plastiforme, where ripped posters were placed on a polyurethane support. Rotella moved to Milan and created, in the 1980s, his blanks, covering the ripped posters with monochrome sheets of paper. In 1984 he began painting and produced the series Cinecittà 2, followed by the Sovrapitture, painting directly onto advertisements. He exhibited at the Centre Pompidou of Paris and at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1990, and at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1994. In 2000 the Foundation Mimmo Rotella opened; its aim is to promote contemporary art and to preserve the artist’s work. Mimmo Rotella died in Milan in 2006. 1958 Una pelliccia di visione 1960 8 Sopra Minuit 1962 Cinemascope 1964 Marlene C'era una Volta Casablanca 1 Casablanca 2 Chisum Circo Orfei 1 Dangerous Liaisons Diabolik East of Eden Gilda Il Gigante La Dolce Vita To Catch a Thief 1

Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) tuvo una vida apasionante y llena de misterios. Su obra no fue descubierta hasta el año 1986, por cuestiones que explicaremos más adelante. Esta artista fue una gran desc…