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 |
...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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