Posted by >unbearable lightness on 2006-04-09 16:49:21
Tag: Art Institute of Chicago
Paul Gauguin (French, 1848-1903) Why Are You Angry? (No Te Aha Oe Riri), 1896 – Detail
From www.artic.edu/artexplorer/search.php?tab=2&resource=207: An introduction to Gauguin’s intriguing painting of Tahitian women in front of a thatched house. Just like its title, the painting leaves the viewer with questions. Why Are You Angry? (No Te Aha Oe Riri) is one of six large canvases of identical dimensions that Paul Gauguin painted during the first months of…
There Are Some Things That Can Never Be Forgiven
Posted by >Thomas Hawk on 2011-01-04 02:09:51
Thursday Colours – More Still Life Paintings
Paul Cezanne – The Basket of Apples Le Panier aux Pommes … Posted by >Pushapoze (NMP) on 2017-02-23 22:03:50
Tsugoharu Foujita (1886-1968) – Nuns in a Convent Yard (Art Institute of Chicago, USA)
Léonard Tsugouharu Foujita was a painter and printmaker born in Tokyo, Japan who applied Japanese ink techniques to Western style paintings. Immediately after graduating secondary school, Foujita wished to study in France, but on the advice of Mori Ogai (his father’s senpai military physician) he decided to study western art in Japan first. In 1910…
enjoying the dancers
Posted by >UnprobableView on 2016-02-26 08:19:15
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec At the Moulin Rouge Art Institute Chicago_MG_5152
Posted by >kmg1635 on 2016-09-29 01:02:40
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Circus: The Bareback Rider (Au cirque: Écuyère), 1888
Posted by >Sharon Mollerus on 2016-09-22 11:48:01
Mother and Child, 1921
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) oil on canvas at the Art Institute of Chicago. Written near the painting: In 1917 Picasso traveled to Rome to design sets and costumes for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. Impressed by the ancient and Renaissance art of the city, he began painting monumental figures inspired by antiquity. His new classical style was…
Paul Cézanne (French, 1839-1906) The Basket of Apples, c. 1893
From www.artic.edu/artexplorer/search.php?tab=2&resource=65: Will the apples fall off the table? Explore the tension between stability and imbalance in this late still life by Cezanne. Many of Paul Cézanne’s late still lifes depict complex arrangements whose artificial character underscores the artist’s role as contriver. They are, however, very different from the seventeenth-century Dutch prototypes to which they…