Images: Watch Picasso’s “Guernica” Emerge
Scroll through this selection of preliminary studies & photos of the canvas as it was worked on & completed. Pretty astonishing, & all done in about five weeks. Advertisements
Images: Out on the Street in Delft
Images: Picasso Mostly in Pencil
Taken from John Richardson’s biographies of Picasso:
Images: Egon Shiele Predicts the 20th Century
The Austrian artist Egon Schiele’s bizarre and brutal self-portraits, many dating from before World War One, seem to presage all the carnage and atrocity and alienation that were to come. And even as the more famous artists from the period, and their perhaps “better” work still feels dated and rooted to the time they were created. Shiele seems like he […]
Images: The Act of Writing
Images: Mother & Child
Images: The Painting Salvador Dali Couldn’t Get Away From
The way I heard it, Salvador Dali saw a reproduction of Millet’s The Angelus in his classroom during childhood, and it became one of his great personal images:
Images: All the Lonely Edward Hopper People
Images: 2 Paintings of Work
Images: Absinthe & the Café
