O SÉCULO PRODIGIOSO

A arte no século XX

Frankenthaler, Helen - Arte Abstracta Expressionista

Quarta-feira, Junho 24, 2009
Galeria em Construção




Playa, 1950
Oil on canvas
86,4 x 81,3 cm
Private collection



Painted on 21st Street, 1950-1951
Oil, sand, plaster of paris and coffee grounds on sized and primed canvas
69 1/8 X 97 in (175.6 X 246.4 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



Untitled, 1951
Oil on canvas
143,2 x 214,6 cm
Private collection



Mountains and Sea, 1952
Oil on canvas
7 ft 2 in x 9 ft 9 in
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.



Round Trip, 1957
Oil on canvas
178,5 x 178,5 cm
Private collection



Interior, 1957
Oil on canvas
177,8 x 218,4 cm
Private collection



Basque Beach, July 1958
Oil and charcoal on canvas
58 5/8 X 69 5/8 in (148.8 X 176.8 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



Acres, 1959
Oil on unprimed canvas
236,2 x 238,8 cm (93 x 94 inches)
Guggenheim Berlin



April IV, c. 1960
Oil on canvas
35.5cm x 42.4cm
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio



Summerscene, Provincetown, 1961
Acrylic on canvas mounted on paperboard
20 x 24 in. (50.9 x 61.0 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.



Moving Day, 1961
Oil on canvas
68 7/8 X 60 1/8 in (174.8 X 152.7 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



May 26, Backwards, 1961
Color lithograph on paper
31 1/8 x 22 1/2 in (79 x 57.1 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.



Untitled, 1963
Acrylic on paper
14” x 17”
Wake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina



Small's Paradise, 1964
Acrylic on canvas
100 x 93 5/8 in. (254.0 x 237.7 cm.)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.



Persian Garden, 1965-1966
Color lithograph on paper
25 7/8 x 20 1/8 in (65.8 x 51.0 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.



Mauve District, 1966
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas
261.5 x 241.2 cm.
The Museum of Modern Art. New York



Indian Summer, 1967
Acrylic on canvas
93 1/2 X 93 5/8 in (237.5 X 237.8 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



Variation II on Mauve Corner, 1969
Lithograph, 6/21
10 1/8 x 25 1/8”
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri



Blessing of the Fleet, 1969
Acrylic on canvas
126 x 103 3/8 in. (320.0 x 262.5 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.



Coral Wedge, 1972
Acrylic paint on canvas
81 1/2 x 46 1/2 inches
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri



Nepenthe, 1972
Color aquatint on paper
15 5/8 x 24 1/4 in. (39.8 x 61.7 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.



Robinson's Wrap, 1974
Acrylic on canvas
5' 10" x 7' 10"
Private collection



Desert Pass, 1976
Acrylic on canvas
39 x 54 in (99.1 x 137.2 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.



Viewpoint II, 1979
Acrylic on canvas
81 1/4 X 94 1/2" (206.38 X 240.03 cm)
Signed, lower right
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio



Cameo, 1980
relief
colour woodcut printed from five woodblocks
grey-pink, wove, handmade, TGL paper
comp 107.0 (h) x 81.6 (w) cm
sheet 107.0 (h) x 81.6 (w) cm
frame 114.0 (h) x 88.6 (w) x 4.2 (d) cm
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra



Untitled, 1982
Acrylic on canvasboard
5 x 7 in. (12.7 x 17.78 cm)
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma



Cedar Hill, 1983
Color woodcut on paper
Sheet: 20 3/8 x 25 1/8 in. (51.7 x 63.9 cm) irregular
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.



Captain's Watch, 1986
acrylic on canvas
76 3/4 x 58 3/4 in.
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina



Freefall, 1992
pressed TGL hand-made paper pulp, acrylic gel, and acrylic paint
sheet: 177.8 x 147.3 cm (70 x 58 in) framed: 209.6 x 163.8 cm (82 1/2 x 64 1/2 in)
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.



All about blue 1994
planographic, relief
colour lithograph and woodcut printed from six aluminium plates and one woodblock
natural, handmade, triple layer, Kozo fibre paper
comp and sheet 123.0 (h) x 73.2 (w) cm
National Gallery of Australia, Camberra



Tales of Genji VI, 1998
21-color woodcut on handmade TGL rose paper
47 x 42 in. (119.4 x 106.7 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Archipenko, Alexander - Escultura Cubista

Segunda-feira, Junho 15, 2009


Seated Woman, nd
Terra cotta.
20 x 8 x 4 1/2 in
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware



Sorrow, 1909
Painted wood
9 X 2 1/2 X 1 1/2 in (22.6 X 6.3 X 3.7 cm)
On artist's wood base: 1/4 X 5 1/2 X 4 1/2 in
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



Suzanne, 1909
Limestone
15-3/8 x 10 x 8-5/8 in (39.0 x 25.4 x 21.9 cm)
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California



Seated Female Nude (Black Torso), 1909-11, cast by 1926
Bronze
15 X 5 1/4 X 6 in (38.0 X 13.2 X 15.1 cm)
Wt: 11 lb (5.0 kg)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



Mask, ca. 1910-1911
Cement
16 1/4 X 7 3/8 X 3 7/8 in (41.3 X 18.7 X 9.8 cm)
On base: 1 3/4 X 11 3/8 X 8 in (4.5 X 28.9 X 20.3 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



Madonna of the Rocks, 1912
Bronze
52.1 cm
National Museums and Galleries of Wales



Carrousel Pierrot, 1913
Painted plaster
24 x 19 1/8 x 13 3/8 inches
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City



Head: Construction With Crossing Planes (Study For "Femme A La Toilette"), 1913/(reconstructed ca. 1950)/(cast 1957)
Bronze
17 X 10 X 12 5/8 in. (43.0 X 25.2 cm)
Wt. 27 3/4 lb (12.6 kg)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



Médrano II, 1913-1914
Painted tin, wood, glass, and painted oilcloth
49 7/8 x 20 1/4 x 12 1/2 inches
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City



Torso, 1914
Marble on alabaster base
18 3/4 X 4 1/2 X 4 1/2 in (47.4 X 11.5 X 11.3 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



Struggle (La Lutte); also called The Boxers, 1914
Bronze, cast 7/8
24 1/2 x 15 x 18 in.
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin



Standing Woman, Second Version, 1914 (probably cast 1950s)
Bronze
19 7/8 X 4 1/4 X 5 3/8 in (50.5 X 10.8 X 13.5 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



The Gondolier, 1914/reconstructed 1949-50/enlarged and cast 1957
Bronze
72 1/8 X 24 3/4 X 15 5/8 in (181.0 X 63.0 X 39.8 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



Woman Combing Her Hair (Femme debout), 1914 or 1915
Bronze
14 1/8 x 3 5/8 x 3 3/16 in (35.9 x 9.2 x 8.1 cm)
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas



In the Cafe (Woman with Cup), 1915
Painted canvas and painted wood
24 1/2 X 17 X 3 1/2 in (62.3 X 43.2 X 8.8 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



Woman with a Fan II, 1915
Painted fiberboard and painted wood
18 1/8 X 14 3/4 X 1 in (46.0 X 37.5 X 2.4 cm)
In artist's frame: 19 1/4 X 15 7/8 X 1 1/2 in
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



Woman Combing Her Hair, 1915
Bronze
13 3/4 x 3 1/4 x 3 1/8" (35 x 8.3 x 8 cm) including base
Museum of Modern Art, New York City



Badende, 1915
Gips, Papiermaché auf einem Innengerüst aus Draht
50 cm
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany



Female Torso (White Torso), 1916
Silver over plaster
18 X 9 X 8 3/4 in (45.7 X 22.7 X 22.3 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



Female Torso (White Torso), 1916
Painted plaster on artist's wood base
21 X 8 X 8 1/4 in (53.4 X 20.3 X 20.7 cm) incl. artist's base
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



Concave or Standing Woman, 1917
Bronze with green patina
H: 12 3/4 in.
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana



Vase Figure, 1918
Painted cast stone
18 3/4 x 3 1/4 x 3 3/8 in (47.6 x 8.4 x 8.7 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



Glass on a Table, 1920
Painted wood and plaster
16 1/8 x 13 x 1 1/4" (41 x 33 x 3.2 cm)
Museum of Modern Art, New York City



Head of a Woman, 1920-1921
Marble
16 1/8 X 5 1/4 X 6 3/8 in (40.9 X 13.3 X 16.2 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



Turning Torso, 1921
Bronze
28 inches (object)
San Diego Museum of Art, California



Standing Woman, c. 1921
Wood
H: 44,5 cm
Private collection



Statuette of a Woman, 1923
Bronze.
H: 18 in
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California



The Past, 1926
Gilded metal
13 3/4 X 7 3/8 X 2 1/ 2 in (34.8 X 18.7 X 6.4. cm)
On base: 3 3/4 X 6 1/4 X 3 1/8 in (9.5 X 15.7 X 7.8 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



Seated Female Nude, 1929
Bronze
Overall: 24.5cm x 11.8cm x 13.7cm, Base: 3.8cm
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio



La Boxe, 1935
Terracotta,
height 76,6 cm
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice



Seated Geometric Figure, 1950s/cast by 1967
Bronze
17 3/4 X 8 7/8 X 5 1/2 in (45.0 X 22.5 X 14.0 cm)
On artist's base: 1 3/4 X 7 1/4 X 6 1/2 in
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



King Solomon, 1963, cast 1966
Bronze
26 3/4 x 11 1/8 x 11 in. (67.8 x 28.4 x 28.0 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

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Em "Standing Woman, c. 1921", a forma estilizada de uma mulher emerge de um bloco de madeira quente e avermelhado. Esta obra combina elementos figurativos e abstractos. A face, o peito e as coxas da mulher são côncavos em ves ce convexos, reflectindo a abordagem revolucionária de Archipenko relativamente à escultura. Tendo abandonado as formas clássicas, Archipenko procurou sugerir curvas através de concavidades, reconstruindo o corpo da mulher em termos de volumes geométricos e justapondo linhas curvas e rectas para sugerir movimento. As ancas e a parte inferior do corpo da mulher estão viradas para um lado, ao passo que os seus ombros se inclinam na direcção oposta. Esta combinação de diferentes perspectivas deve muito ao Cubismo, um movimento que rejeitou as formas tradicionais de representação e de modelação. Archipenko nasceu na Ucrânia, mas mudou-se para Paris, onde conheceu picasso e os cubistas. Mais tarde foi para Berlim, onde fundou uma escola de arte, acabando por se fixar em Nova Iorque. Alexander Archipenko nasceu em Kiev (UCR) em 1887 e morreu em Nova Iorque (EUA) em 1964.
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Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian-American artist, born May 30, 1887, Kiev, Ukraine [then Russian Empire], died February 25, 1964, New York, New York, U.S.

After studying in Kiev, in 1908 Archipenko briefly attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, but he quickly abandoned formal studies to become part of more radical circles, especially the Cubist movement. He began to explore the interplay between interlocking voids and solids and between convex and concave surfaces, forming a sculptural equivalent to Cubist paintings’ overlapping planes and, in the process, revolutionizing modern sculpture. In his bronze sculpture Walking Woman (1912), for example, he pierced holes in the face and torso of the figure and substituted concavities for the convexities of the lower legs. The abstract shapes of his works have a monumentality and rhythmic movement that also reflect contemporary interest in the arts of Africa.

As he developed his style, Archipenko achieved an incredible sense of vitality out of minimal means: in works such as Boxing Match (1913), he conveyed the raw, brutal energy of the sport in nonrepresentational, machinelike cubic and ovoid forms. About 1912, inspired by the Cubist collages of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, Archipenko introduced the concept of collage in sculpture in his famous Medrano series, depictions of circus figures in multicoloured glass, wood, and metal that defy traditional use of materials and definitions of sculpture. During that same period he further defied tradition in his “sculpto-paintings,” works in which he introduced painted colour to the intersecting planes of his sculpture.

Archipenko taught art briefly in Berlin from 1921 to 1923. He worked as an art teacher for the rest of his life in New York City, except for a short time (1937–39) when he was connected with the New Bauhaus in Chicago. He continued to make sculptures, although he never again achieved the success and influence of his Cubist years.

in Encyclopedia Britannica
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Evergood, Philip - Social-Realismo

Sexta-feira, Junho 05, 2009


Girl with Dog, n.d.
Oil on board
16x12"
Private collection



Boy Eating Pears, n.d.
Oil on canvas
20 x 20-1/8 x in (50.8 x 51.1 x cm)
The Mary and Earle Ludgin Collection



Self-Portrait, 1919
Oil on fiberboard
6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in (16.5 x 21.6 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



Woodland Romance, ca. 1926-1931
Etching on paper
plate: 3 7/8 x 5 3/4 in. (9.8 x 14.6 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.



The New Lazarus, 1927
Oil on canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York



Scene in Babylon, 1928
Watercolor and pencil on paper
13 1/8 X 18 1/8 in (sight) (33.3 X 46.0 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



Madonna of the Mines, 1932
Oil on canvas
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California



North River Jungle, 1933
Pencil on paper
18 7/16 X 22 7/8 in (46.8 X 58.1 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



Nude By The El, 1933
Oil on canvas
37 3/8 X 42 7/8 in (94.9 X 108.9 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



Marathon of dance, 1934
Oil on canvas
152x101 cm
Austin University Art Gallery, Austin



Workers Houses, Flushing Bay, 1935-1945
Oil on canvas
18 x 28 in (45.7 x 71.1 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.



Early Youth of Babe Ruth (Old North Beach Amusement Park), ca. 1939
Oil on canvas
20 x 24 in (50.8 x 60.9 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



Half Asleep, 1939
Ink and pencil
13 3/4 x 17 in
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



Libby & the Sparrows, 1939
Oil on canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York



Through the Mill, 1940
Oil on canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York



Horizons, ca. 1940-1944
Oil on canvas
16 X 11 7/8 in (40.4 X 30.1 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



Turmoil, ca. 1941-1942
Oil on canvas mounted on fiberboard
24 1/4 x 20 3/8 in (61.5 x 51.6 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



Fascist Company, 1943
Oil on canvas
12.1 x 17.8 inches
Private collection



Australia, from the United Nations Series, 1945
Gouache on prepared paper
21 1/8 x 18 1/8 in (53.7 x 45.9 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.



Cup of Tea, 1946
Oil on canvas
33 x 25 1/2 inches
Private collection



Irate Rooster, 1948
Oil on canvas
Image: 25 1/4 x 18 1/4 in. (64.1 x 46.4 cm) Frame: 31 1/8 x 24 3/8 in. (79.1 x 61.9 cm)
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago



Girl and Soulful Cow, 1948
Oil on canvas
16 x 12 1/4 inches
Private collection



Passing Show, 1951
Oil on canvas mounted on masonite
Image: 65 1/2 x 48 in. (166.4 x 121.9 cm) Frame: 73 3/4 x 56 3/16 in. (187.3 x 142.7 cm)
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago



Dowager in a Wheelchair, 1952
Oil on fiberboard
47 7/8 x 36 in (121.5 x 91.4 cm.)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.



Put to Pasture, 1954
Brush & ink, brush & colored ink, gouache and charcoal on paper
37 3/4 X 25 in (95.9 X 63.5 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



The Dowager, 1955
Oil on fiberboard
18 1/8 X 12 in (45.9 X 30.5 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



Woman at the Piano, 1955
Oil on canvas
60 x 36 in (152.5 x 91.5 cm.)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.



Alone, 1955
Oil on canvas
107.95 x 80.01 cm (42 1/2 x 31 1/2 in.)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston



Self-Portrait ("We are Such Stuff as Dreams are Made on"), 1956
Oil on fiberboard
23 7/8 X 18 in (60.6 X 45.5 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



Self-Portrait, 1960
Oil on canvas mounted on Masonite
15 1/4 x 11 3/8”
University of Kentucky Art Museum



Conversation, 1961
Charcoal on paper
26 13/16 X 20 15/16 in (68.1 X 53.1 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



Self Portrait with Hat, 1961
Lithograph
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana



End of the Trail II, 1962
Charcoal, sepia ink and watercolor on paper
17 1/2 x 22 in (44.5 x 55.9 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.



Children and Very Giant Squash, c. 1962
Oil on canvas
24" x 20"
Private collection

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Em "Marathon of dance, 1934", casais exaustos a competir por um prémio de mil dólares numa maratona de dança - uma mania que varreu a América dos anos 30 do século passado - aguentam-se em pé , determinados a assim permanecerem durante mais tempo que os avdersários. Uma placa de fundo indica que a competição dura há 49 dias. No período da Grande Depressão, muitos desempregados eram levados a tentar a sua sorte nesses concursos, acabando muitas vezes no hospital devido à exaustão. Ao distorcer a fisionomia e os trajes dos concorrentes, Evergood evidencia o seu desprezo pelo tema e a compaixão pelas personagens. Evergood empenhou-se numa arte dirigida para as experiências das pessoas comuns. Tal como muitos outros americanos nos anos 30, rejeitou a bastracção em prol de quadros influenciados pelos ideais socialistas, encarando a arte como forma de protesto. A sua obra combina imagens fantásticas e bizarras com os temas realistas e quotidianos, oferecendo um retrato original da América nos anos 30. Philip Evergood nasceu em Nova Iorque (EUA) em 1901 e morreu em Bridgewater, CT (EUA) em 1973.
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The paintings of American artist Philip Evergood (1901-1973), especially those executed during the 1930s, reveal his concern for social causes; although realistic, they are also marked by elements of fantasy.
Philip Evergood, whose real name was Philip Blashki, was born in New York City on October 26, 1901. He was the son of an unsuccessful Polish painter who had come to America from Australia. After attending boarding schools in England, Blashki graduated from Eton in 1919. He changed his name to Evergood because British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had written that Anglo-Saxons were full of prejudice. When Evergood discovered that he wanted to be an artist, he left Cambridge University to study drawing under Henry Tonks, head of the Slade School of Fine Art, London. In 1923 Evergood returned to America, where he studied with George Luks at the Art Students League in New York City, and then went to Paris, where he attended the Académie Julian. He went back to New York in 1926. In 1927 he held his first one-man show in New York and exhibited frequently thereafter. In 1929 Evergood returned to France. In 1931, traveling through Spain, he was impressed by the work of El Greco. That year he also married the dancer Julia Cross. In America during the 1930s Evergood painted huge murals under the auspices of the Federal Arts Project, such as the Story of Richmond Hill (1936-1937). In 1936 he moved to Woodstock, NY, and that year he took part in the "219" strike protesting layoffs from the Federal Arts Project. In 1952 he moved to Southbury, CT. He died in Bridgewater, CT on March 11, 1973. Evergood has been classified as an expressionist, a social realist, and a surrealist. To some degree, all the labels are appropriate. His work, turning on social causes especially during the 1930s, is marked throughout by strong elements of fantasy and the bizarre. He acknowledged the influence of painters Mathias Grünewald, Pieter Bruegel, Hieronymus Bosch, and El Greco and the graphic work of Francisco Goya, Honoré Daumier, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. But his art is also closely tied to reality and often deals with actual events, as in the Burial of the Queen of Sheba (1933), which shows Evergood and his wife illegally burying their cat in a backyard. In My Forebears Were Pioneers (1940), Evergood pictures a staunch old woman sitting placidly in her rocking chair before huge, uprooted trees and her picturesque 19th century house. The scene was based on a woman he had encountered while driving in the countryside. In Enigma of the Collective American Soul (1959), Evergood combines the grotesque with social commentary by juxtaposing portraits of U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower and Churchill with an insipid beauty contest winner, while in a corner of the painting two small boys steal a smoke.
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Delaunay-Terk, Sonia - Arte Abstracta

Domingo, Maio 24, 2009


Portrait of Philomene, 1907
Oil on canvas
Height: 40.64 cm (16 in.), Width: 42.55 cm (16.75 in.)
Private collection



Platter, 1912
Earthenware with slip decoration
H: 2 1/4 x W: 15 13/16 x D: 12 5/16 in (H: 6 x W: 40 x D: 33 cm)
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania



Contrastes simultáneos, 1913
Oil on canvas
55 x 46 cm
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid



La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France, 1913
Huile sur cuir / Oil on leather
h: 22.8 x w: 19.6 cm / h: 9 x w: 7.7 in



Prismes électriques, 1914
Oil on canvas
2,50 m x 2,50 m
Pompidou Center, Paris



Flamenco dancer, 1916
Oil on canvas
448x600 mm
Private collection



Marché au Minho, 1916
Wax painting on canvas
2,16 m x 1,97 m
Pompidou Center, Paris



Portugese Still Life, 1916
Oil and wax on paper, laid down on canvas
Height: 66.04 cm (26 in.), Width: 92.08 cm (36.25 in.)
Private collection



Projet de couverture pour Vogue, 1916
Aquarelle, crayon, crayon de couleur, gouache
0.345 x 0.235 m.
Musée National d'Art Moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris



Projet de couverture pour Vogue, 1916
Aquarelle, crayon, crayon de couleur, gouache
0.345 x 0.235 m.
Musée National d'Art Moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris



Rythme sans fin, 1923
Aquarel en Oost-Indische inkt op papier
29 x 19 cm
Collection Charles Delaunay, Paris



Three women, 1925
Oil on canvas
146 x 114 cm
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid



"Robe-spirale", Kledingontwerp voor het Carnaval van Rio de Janeiro, 1928
Aquarel
27,5 x 13 cm
Collection Bibliothèque National, Paris



Les filles en maillot de bain, 1928
Aquarel on paper
20x27 cm
Private collection



Rythme, 1938
Oil on canvas
1,49 m x 1,82 m
Pompidou Center, Paris



Untitled, 1945
Gouache and collage on paper
61 x 50 cm
Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia



Composition, 1955
Oil on canvas
2,16 m x 1,60 m
Pompidou Center, Paris



Rythme couleur, 1958
Oil on canvas
143x100 cm
Musée National d'Art Moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris



Montjoie, July 25, 1968
Handmade book with oil on leather binding, and pages of pen & ink on paper
Book: 16 1/4 x 11 1/4 x 3/4 in (41.0 x 28.4 x 1.8 cm)
Box: 17 x 11 3/4 x 1 1/2 in (43.0 x 30.0 x 3.8 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



Les Robes Poèmes, 1969
Lithographs
h: 11.2 x w: 8 in / h: 28.4 x w: 20.3 cm



Composition, circa 1970
Lithography
55 x 43 cm



Composition, Circa 1970
Lithograph after a composition of 1933, signed in pencil
50 x 65 cm



Signal, circa 1970
Original lithograph, signed in pencil
50 x 65 cm



Geometric Composition with Blue & Red Circles, circa 1970
Etching
h: 54.5 x w: 40.5 cm / h: 21.5 x w: 15.9 in



Avec Moi-meme, 1970
Etching and aquatint
66,0 x 50,0 cm (26.0 x 19.7 in)



Untitled, 1970
Etching
45,0 x 31,0 cm (17.7 x 12.2 in)



Rhythmes-Couleurs, 1971
Lithograph in colours
Signed and numbered 32/75.
On wove paper by Arches (with watermark)
50,5 : 37,7 cm (19,8 : 14,8 in). Sheet: 64,7 x 49,6 cm (25,4 x 19,5 in)
Private collection




La Plage, 1973
Lithograph
83,0 x 65,0 cm (32.7 x 25.6 in)



Diagonale X, 1975
Original lithograph, signed in pencil
58,6 x 75,7 cm



Black snake, 1978
Silk scarf after a composition by Sonia Delaunay. Artcurial Ed., Paris.
88 x 185 cm

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na obra "Les filles en maillot de bain, 1928", por detrás de três raparigas, vestidas com fatos de banho com desenhos geométricos constratantes, encontra-se um fundo de cores radiantes plenas de luz. Estya obra caracteriza a abordagem de Sonia Delaunay relativamente ao Cubismo lírico que ela e o seu marido - Robert Delaunay - desenvolveram, no seu caso com ligação à moda. O Cubismo Órfico, como foi denominado pelo poeta Guillaume Apollinaire, foi fundado com o pressuposto de que a luz e cor eram idênticas e pretendia alcançar uma pureza de expressão equivalente è da música. Anteriormente, Gauguin e os fauves tinham impulsionado em Delaunay o gosto pela cor expressiva. A prtir destas influências, Delaunay desenhou figurinos e guarda-roupas com uma grande repercussão internacional. Chamou aos seus tecidos pintados à mão "contrastes simultâneos", uma expressão que reflectia o seu interesse pela relação entre as cores. Foi Sonia Delaunay quem criou o guarda-roupa para o bailado Cleópatra, produzido pelo bailarino e coreógrafo russo Sergei Diaghilev. Sonia Delaunay-Terk nasceu em Gradižsk (UCR) em 1885 e morreu em Paris (FR) em 1979.
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk, maiden name Stern, was born in Gradižsk in the Ukraine in 1885. She discovered her vocation for art at an early age and studied drawing at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe between 1903 and 1905. Then she moved to Paris. During her schooling there at the Académie de la Palette she made works which are clearly influenced by Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh and the Fauves . Her marriage with Robert Delaunay, an ambitious artist of the Parisian Avant-garde, was determined by a mutual inspiration to colourful compositions. Both artists intensively dealt with the depiction of light and movement and found a new artistic form of expression on the base of a simultaneous contrast. Sonia Delaunay's paintings were preceded by numerous colour studies, which dealt with the problem of light, colour and movement. Her painting 'Bal Bullier' from 1913 transferred the image of rhythmic dance moves into circling forms, which were mixed in the centre of the painting with pure colours. The transfer of this artistic aim to every-day life, from fashion design, interior decoration to book design made the artist one of the most important members of the Art-Déco movement. In 1913 the first so-called 'simultaneous dresses' were executed, which inspired the poet Blaise Cendrars to her poem 'Sur la robe elle a un corps'. After spending some time in Portugal in 1914 Delaunay and her family lived in Madrid. Here she met Sergei Diaghilew (1872-1929), for whose 'Ballets Russes' she designed the costumes and the stage sets. She returned to Paris after the end of World War I., where she made the sets for Dadaist plays and films. The decoration of a pavilion at the World Exhibition in 1937 was a joint highlight in the couple's artistic career. Sonia Delaunay received the gold medal for her fresco 'Portugal' at the 'Pavillon des Chemins de Fer'. After world war II. she attended increasingly to painting and painted during an intensive and powerful period of creativity the large series 'Rhythme', 'Rhythme coloré' and 'Rhythmes-couleurs'. Sonia Delauney died in Paris in 1979.
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Golup, Leon - Figurativismo

Domingo, Maio 17, 2009


Burnt Man, 1953-1954
Lacquer and oil on canvas
h: 46 x w: 32 in / h: 116.84 x w: 81.28 cm
Private collection



Siamese Sphinx, 1954
Lacquer and oil on canvas
h: 30 x w: 48 in / h: 76.2 x w: 121.92 cm
Private collection



Two Heads, 1954
Lacquer on canvas
h: 20 x w: 30 in / h: 50.8 x w: 76.2 cm
Private collection



Father and Son, 1955
Sanguine on paper
h: 24.24 x w: 39.5 in / h: 61.57 x w: 100.33 cm
Private collection



Parturition, 1955
Lacquer on canvas
h: 48 x w: 36 in / h: 121.92 x w: 91.44 cm
Private collection



The Boar Hunt, 1955
Sanguine on paper
h: 39.5 x w: 24.25 in / h: 100.33 x w: 61.6 cm
Private collection



Columnar Head, 1958
Lacquer and oil on canvas
45 1/8 x 48 1/2”
University of Kentucky Art Museum



Head XVIII, August 12, 1959
Oil and lacquer on canvas
25 x 23 1/16 in (63.5 x 58.5 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



Head IX, December 18, 1960
Oil and lacquer on canvas
34 1/8 x 31 1/8 in (86.7 x 79.3 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



Head I, 1961
Oil and lacquer on canvas
52 1/4 x 38 5/8 in. (132.7 x 98.1 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, , Washington D.C.



Head, 1962
Oil on canvas
31 x 31"
Guilford College Art Gallery, North Carolina




Orator II, 1965
Lithograph (stone) in pink-orange, red and gray-violet on white Arches paper
sheet: 50 x 75 cm (19 11/16 x 29 1/2 in)
The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.



Wounded Sphinx, August 16-20, 1965
Lithograph, composition 29 13/16 x 41 1/16" (75.8 x 104.3 cm); sheet 29 13/16 x 41 1/16" (75.8 x 104.3 cm)
Museum of Modern Art, New York City



Wounded Sphinx II, 1965
Lithograph (stone) in dark blue and red on white Arches paper
sheet: 75.5 x 57 cm (29 3/4 x 22 7/16 in)
The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.



Napalm Head, 1969
Oil on canvas
40 x 29 in. (101.6 x 73.7 cm.)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.



Napal II, 1969
Acrylic on linen
114x176 in
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica



Napalm V, 1969
Acrylic on canvas
59 5/8 x 43 in. (151.3 x 109.2 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.



The Burnt Man, 1969
Offset lithograph on paper
38 1/8 X 50 1/8 in (96.8 X 127.3 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



Combat (I), 1970
Offset lithograph on paper
50 1/8 X 35 1/4 in (127.3 X 89.6 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



Winged Sphinx (I), 1972
Offset lithograph on paper
50 1/8 X 38 1/8 in (127.3 X 96.8 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



Merceneries I, 1976
Acrylic on linen
116x186 1/2 in
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica



Francisco Franco (1975), 1976
Acrylic on linen
20x17 in
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica



Portait of Ho Chi Minh (1945), 1976
Acrylic on linen
35x26 in
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica



Portait of Ho Chi Minh (1950), 1976
Acrylic on linen
19x15 in
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica



Portait of Ho Chi Minh (1967), 1976
Acrylic on linen
21x15 in
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica



Portrait of Nelson Rockefeller, 1976
Acrylic on linen
18x17 in
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica



Portrait of Nelson Rockefeller (1941), 1976
Acrylic on linen
23x18 in
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica



Portrait of Nelson Rockefeller (1960), 1976
Acrylic on linen
14x14 in
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica



Castro 3 (1964), 1977
Acrylic on linen
24x16 in
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica



Mao Tse Tung (1968), 1978
Acrylic on linen
18x18 1/4 in
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica



Mao Tse Tung in Sarcophagus (1977) l, from Portraits of Power, 1978
Acrylic on canvas
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin



Mercenaries II, 1979
Acrylic on canvas
305x366 cm
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Québec



Mercenaries III, 1980
Acrylic on linen
120x198 in
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica



Interrogation I, 1980/81
Acrylic on linen
120x176 in
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica



Interrogation III, 1981
Acrylic on linen
120x169 in
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica



Horsing Around, 1983
Acrylic on linen
86x90 in
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica



White Squad V, 1984
Acrylic on linen
120x161 in
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica



Merc, 1984
Lithograph
Irreg. composition 24 5/16 x 22 5/16" (61.7 x 56.7 cm) sheet 30 1/8 x 22 5/16" (76 x 56.7 cm)
Museum of Modern Art, New York City



Four Blacks, 1985
Oil on linen
121x183 in
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica



Four Black Men, 1985
Oil on linen
121 3/8 x 190 1/4 in (308.2 x 483.2 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.



Threnody, 1986
Oil on linen
120x167 in
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica



White Squad, 1987
Lithograph
Composition: 29 5/8 x 40 5/8" (75.2 x 103.2 cm); sheet: 29 5/8 x 41 1/2" (75.2 x 105.4 cm)
Museum of Modern Art, New York City



Wounded Sphinx, 1988
Oil on linen
120x154 in
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica



Like Yeah, 1994
Acrylic on linen
244cm x 272cm.
Collection of The Leon Golub Family



Exhumed, 2002
Oil stick and ink on Bristol
10x8 inches
Private collection

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Na obra "Mercenaries II, 1979" o duro realismo reflete graficamente a natureza agressiva do mercenarismo e do mundo de assassinos, terrorismo e atrocidade a ele associado. O quadro apresenta uma superfície crua e porosa, oibtida través da dissolução de áreas de tinta, raspando-as - muitas vezes com um cutelo - e da sua posterior reconstrução. Nota-se uma grande tensão na composição. Instalados no espaço carregado de fundo abstracto, mercenários munidos da mesma artilharia num momento habitual de hostilidade. Golup recorre a imagens dos media para garantir o realismo do vestuário, armamento e gestualidade. O local, talvez em África ou América Latina, não é especificado, o que implica uma crítica à violência enquanto fenómeno social universal. A violência é o tema central de Golup e durante muitos anos ele foi visto como um autor marginal, cujo trabalho ia contra as tendências do mundo da arte. Contudo, nos finais dos anos 70, à medida que crescia o interesse por uma arte mais política e pela pintura figurativa, Golup foi reconhecido como um artista fundamental da sua época. Leon Golup nasceu em Chicago (EUA) em 1922 e morreu em 2004.
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Was born in 1922 in Chicago. After studying art history at the University of Chicago, and art at the Art Institute of Chicago, Golub made a name for himself with politically charged works leading the Windy City’s figurative movement of the era, contrasting with the Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art of the New York art scene. By the end of the 1950s, his paintings had been shown in New York at the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. The political content of Golub’s work became increasingly relevant throughout the Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam War movements, in which the artist was actively involved. He lived for a time in Europe, returning in 1964 to live in New York.— Died 2004.

"I have always dealt with stress and violence. This comes from my own state of mind. Now, what I have tried to do since I've always dealt with subjects like this, is try to understand what this means, and I have tried to make this an instrument for viewing...a probe into the nature of the world. In other words, if I find that I'm dealing with, let's say stress, vulnerability--actions of this kind--then I want to understand what this means in terms of events outside of myself, how this influences me, how this influences others and what I can say about the modern world through these meanings. Mercenaries, interrogations, the white squads: they all deal with this kind of thing brought up to date, brought into the immediate, into what I think of as our immediate, instantaneous, contemporary world.

Now, I do not claim, as an artist, that I represent the whole world. The world is too complex, too many things going on. I can only tell a bit of the factual situation about one aspect of the world. It is, I think, a relatively true aspect and an aspect that I have studied as extensively as I know how. So I deal with certain kinds of subject matter, which I try to do as intensely and extensively as I know how. I try to do it to emphasize a point, almost instantaneously, to make it a direct, perceptual thing, easily recognizable, something we are totally cognizant of, and something which operates immediately upon our lives. So it is an attempt to comment on the world in which we exist."

Excerpt: "Leon Golub Talks of Painting," Interview, Arts Insight Magazine,
Indianapolis, Part I, May and Part II, June 1982
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