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Gustav Klimt : The complete paintings
An amazing cover for this new book published by the great Taschen publishing company : “Klimt : the complete paintings”, 676 pages, only 150€ for this exhaustive monography of the Viennese artist… This year, we are celebrating the 150th anniversary of his birth, so this book is a also a celebration of Klimt, who died in 1918. Klimt painted 230 art work, among them 54 landscapes. His golden paintings were inspired by the mosaics in Ravenne (Italy).
Tobias G. Natter is the author of this big book. He studied art history and history at the universities of Innsbruck, Munich, and Vienna. Since October 2011 he has been the director of the Leopold Museum in Vienna. His extensive publications and his conception and organization of exhibitions on the theme of “Vienna around 1900” have made him an internationally acknowledged expert on Viennese art at the turn of the century.
Quiero ese libro YA :)
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Becoming Warhol
I’ve been carying around this image for about 10 years now so I thought I’d scan and share it.
It’s my favorite picture of Warhol. It’s a younger Andy who is about to fully understand and embrace his character as an artist. He wasn’t the “famed” Andy Warhol at this point, it was 2 years after his debut as a “pop” artist, but he knew this path would change his life forever.
What’s interesting about Andy is he went from making art to being Art. Here he is in the studio (shopping mart) buying Coke, Brillo and Campbell’s soup. All of these items were household names and in just a few years after this photo so was Andy Warhol.
Why so serious Andy?
What a great photo.
Emily Carr, a Canadian painter. She’s not exactly my history ‘crush’, but she’s beautiful and rather badass. She was kicked out of ‘Ladies Art Club’ for cursing and smoking and was associated with the Group of Seven, not only that but she also kept multiple pets, including a monkey. She painted the Canadian landscape and First Nations traditions, because she feared they would soon disappear.