The college days...

Akhenaten is one of my all time favorites. I saw tons of him in London and Paris - but oddly enough, he was barely represented in Cairo.

This was the painting that made me
transition from Klimt to Egon Schiele...

...his work was racy, and sometimes
made me uncomfortable, but it was
so ridiculously beautiful, I
couldn't pull myself away...
...his drawings especially got me. He could create mass with just a line.
I surveyed an architecture history class my freshman year and started to really see architecture as sculpture
for the first time. I fell in love with it, but it is one of the few artforms I've never wanted to dabble in.
This is a painting of Wright's famous Falling Water.
My love of Klimt that brought me to Schiele also led me to Art Nouveau. I was especially fond of the decorative arts and Alphonse Mucha.
His commercial work is crazy beautiful.
I got a job at the Metropolitan Museum of Art my senior year and it kind of ruined me for all other museums. It has the most
amazing collection! I liked to visit this painting, King Lear Act I, Scene I by Edwin Austin Abbey, in the American Wing
on my lunch break.
I'd also swing by Jungle Tales by James J. Shannon. And if I had
enough time, I'd run to the other side of the building to visit
Klimt, Schiele and...
...this Whistler. I don't
know why she was in
19th-20th Cent. European
Art, but she was.
Whistler is often swept out of thought when contemplating great modern
artists. Perhaps it is because of the painting the Artist's Mother, but
Whistler's Mother is the least of his works. I really love his
moody landscapes.
Tadao Ando's Church of Light. I need to go to Japan just to sit in a
pew in this space. I wouldn't object to visiting his Cross on the Water
either. One day...
I discovered Steichen when i got him confused with Steiglitz (he had
an affair with Georgia O'Keefe and the gorgeous portraits he did of
her made me go looking for more of his work). This is a hand tinted
photograph - it is so painterly, I can't get over it!
A Steichen portrait of Rodin with one of his scuptures in the background. Again, so painterly it is mind boggling!
Speaking of Rodin, *sigh* it is just love. To this day, his work gives me chills.
I can't believe that bronze and marble can be so fluid even when still.
This tiny sculpture is a study he did of
Nijinsky. It very well may be my favorite
work of art on the planet, for all time. You have to see it in person!
(This one lives at the Met)
One of Rodin's watercolors.
The Thinker is so ubiquitous, iconic, that most people never really look at him. He is extraordinary.
Another ubiquitous art icon. If you
forget what you think you know about
her and really look, Mona Lisa is
absolutely lovely, especially
her hands.
Michelangelo was king of musculature. I have a strong desire to run my hands over his sculptures. As yet, I have managed to restrain myself.
Bernini, recently brought back into the limelite by Dan Brown,
was an amazing sculptor. His pieces capture human passion in a way
that was rather novel in his time.
(That pun was purely accidental)
I am not a huge fan of abstract
art, but Brancusi makes me
shiver with delight!
While shelving books in the Pratt Library I came across a collection of Julia Margaret Cameron. It was love at first sight, and an enduring one at that.
A Horst P. Horst beauty.
I placed Martha Graham in with fine art
because her pieces, while technically dance,
are so graphic that the imagery stays with
me in frames rather than movement.
One very late night, walking across the bridge to get home, I saw one of the gates open. Walked all the way to the top. Stole a nut that wasn't bolted down.
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