Cy Twombly
Untitled 2001
Acrylic, wax crayon, pencil, and collage 48.75 x 39 in
Collection of the artist
Images like this of Twombly are tricksters! They make you feel as if you too can make bright, fluid, economic drawings that will inspire but in the end you usually have a muddy piece of paper on your hands that laughs at your degree in painting.
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Here’s the history behind the photos Carrie Mae Weems appropriated.
J. T. Zealy
Jack (driver), Guinea 1850
Daguerreotype
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Cambridge, MassachusettsIn 1850, the Harvard professor Louis Agassiz, perhaps the most famous geologist and scientist in America, commissioned J. T. Zealy, a daguerreotypist in Columbia, South Carolina, to take a series of photographs of slaves from nearby plantations. The goal of the series was to provide evidence for the theory that Africans were not direct descendants of Adam and Eve but products of a separate, “second” creation. The doctrine of “separate creation” was intended to justify white racism and slavery. Zealy photographed African-born slaves whom he regarded as specimens or “types.” The portraits he sent to Agassiz stand today as perhaps the most haunting and painful images to emerge from the era of the daguerreotype. They show naked or partially clothed figures facing the camera head-on. They also reveal whip-marks, scars, and other disfigurations from slavery. What rage, pain, humiliation, or resistance the making of the daguerreotypes provoked among the sitters goes unrecorded. We are left instead with their stares, stoic and impassive, masking worlds of feeling that the viewer can only imagine.
—Angela L. Miller, et al., American Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural Identity (2008)
Sculpture isn’t my favorite. I’m sorry. Isamu Noguchi definitely makes me reconsider when I see such minimal thoughtful works. This work isn’t about ego and pride, it’s much more quite and sensitive.
I’m a monochromatic enthusiast to the core but something this summer changed me. I began to embrace neon color and prints. Helen Frankenthaler has always been on my “Top 5 Favorite Artists” list and then I found this wood cut. YES YES YES!!!! I can just imagine my beautiful home in all of its lovely greys and pops of print and neon warmly welcoming this little Frankenthaler print. ”Come on in, you’re right at home Ms. Frankenthaler!”
Holy guacamole! Don’t those brush strokes Mr. deKooning slaps down make you want to isolate yourself in a studio for a week straight? If anything that is what Abstract Expressionism does for me, it makes me want to paint. I want to paint and not care what anyone thinks of it. It took a lot of guts and confidence for these people to do what they wanted with a canvas and stand by it. I’m working on that. It’s not as easy as it looks.
oh yes…
(Source: justbesplendid)
