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Ru Ware Project, 2007-2012
Brice Marden (American, b.1938)
Oil on linen
Nine canvases, each 61 x 46 cm (24 x 18 in)
Overall, 61 x 411 cm (24 x 162 in)

Lovely.

Yes!

Rue de Banlieue, c. 1914
Maurice Utrillo (French, 1883–1955)
Oil on card, laid on panel
h: 44.8 x w: 58.5 cm / h: 17.6 x w: 23 in

I didn't find the blue rectangles particularly interesting. But this is lovely.

Women's Voices, 2005
John Chamberlain (1927-2011)
Painted and chromium-plated steel
299 x 248 x 245 cm
Private collection

http://web.guggenheim.org/exhibitions...#

Italian Envoy Kalvuchchi Draws Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich's Falcon, 1889
Alexander Dmitrievich Litovchenko (1835-1890)
Oil on canvas
Kharkov Art Museum, Kharkov, Ukraine

Ooo, this is wonderful! And I just recently read a biography of this Tsar's son Nicholas, the last Tsar...
Lobstergirl wrote: "Italian Envoy Kalvuchchi Draws Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich's Falcon, 1889
Alexander Dmitrievich Litovchenko (1835-1890)
Oil on canvas
Kharkov Art Museum, Kharkov, Ukraine"

Abstract Painting, 1914
Vanessa Bell (1879‑1961)
Oil on canvas
441 x 387 mm
Tate (currently on loan to MOMA)

L'Oustachi (DUPIN 1000), 1978
Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893–1983)
Aquatint printed in colours on wove paper, with cut-out copperplates
54 1/8 x 37 3/4 in.

Untitled 697
Françoise Nielly
oil
47.2X47.2 inches

http://www.francoise-nielly.com/

I don't care for much contemporary stuff, especially abstractions, but this one is cool.
Lobstergirl wrote: "Untitled 697
Françoise Nielly
oil
47.2X47.2 inches

http://www.francoise-nielly.com/"

I do like abstract, contemporary...not so much. But I agree, Dvora, I really like that one.

I believe she begins with a photograph...but I couldn't find a description of her work process after that. Does she paint directly onto the photograph? Or copy it? She uses a palette knife to get thick swaths of paint on, and clearly above she's using some kind of paper as well. I don't find it hugely compelling, but it is interesting.

Thank you Lobstergirl for sharing the Nielly work. I went to her site on FB and love what she is doing. There is even a short video of her and a man painting. There are several photos that let you know that she paints from photo images, she draws in the outline on large canvases and then paints with palette knives. Amazing use of color as tones on planes. There are several paintings that I like better than this one, but it is hard to see them all at once.

Great news, Dottie! I will look for her on FB. I'm really interested in her work.

Figure Head, 2010
Mike Francis (British, b.1938)
Acrylic on canvas
h: 24 x w: 48 cm / h: 9.4 x w: 18.9 in

Interesting how small it is.

Lobstergirl wrote: "Ru Ware Project, 2007-2012
Brice Marden (American, b.1938)
Oil on linen
Nine canvases, each 61 x 46 cm (24 x 18 in)
Overall, 61 x 411 cm (24 x 162 in)"

I've always liked Marden's subtlety with color. He's less brash than many of the other minimalists, there's a sense of quiet that I like with the style.

Cordy Ryman, “Case Study” (2013). Acrylic, shellac, and pencil on wood, 116 x 178 x 26.5 inches.

...When I came upon this two-part, open-frame work, resting in a corner opposite “Rafterweb Scrapwall V2,” I was certain that there was a pink mesh scrim stretched across the reverse side of its vertically slanted intervals of 2x4s. Then I looked again, and thought I was looking at a large sheet of Plexiglas — the negative space behind the wood studs seemed that solid.

When I was finally convinced I was looking at nothing but air, I figured the wall was spray-painted pink, but that also turned out to be an illusion. The color was in fact the ambient reflection of the fluorescent pink paint on the backsides of the wooden supports. In its current configuration (it is not necessarily a corner piece) “Case Study” is more about what is not there than what is there. Somewhere else, it will be entirely different, perhaps repressing its light-induced aura in favor of its skeletal material presence...

http://hyperallergic.com/68715/the-ob...

Young Women Looking at Japanese Objects, 1869
James Tissot (French 1836-1902)
Oil on canvas
28 x 20 in.
Cincinnati Art Museum

I'm reading a book on fashion, and it mentions Tissot as an artist who was so current on women's fashions (and presumably men's too) that historians look to him for the most accurate depictions.

Very nice. I love the paintings from that period. And yes, look at the clothes! I am so lazy, I just throw on jeans and a t-shirt, most days. I can't imagine putting all the effort that women did in those days. True, some make more of an effort than I do now, but in those days getting dressed was real work. And they looked beautiful.

Portrait of the Painter Ivan Shishkin, 1880
Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi (1837–1887)
Oil on canvas
Height: 116 cm (45.7 in). Width: 84 cm (33.1 in).
State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

I love this rockin' portrait.

Wow. Beautiful portrait.
Lobstergirl wrote: "Portrait of the Painter Ivan Shishkin, 1880
Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi (1837–1887)
Oil on canvas
Height: 116 cm (45.7 in). Width: 84 cm (33.1 in).
State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

I love this r..."

Dvora wrote: "Wow. Beautiful portrait.
Lobstergirl wrote: "Portrait of the Painter Ivan Shishkin, 1880
Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi (1837–1887)
Oil on canvas
Height: 116 cm (45.7 in). Width: 84 cm (33.1 in).
State..."

Agree!

Sale Neige (Dirty Snow), 1980
Joan Mitchell
Oil on canvas
86 1/4 x 70 7/8 in.
National Museum of Women in the Arts

Joan Mitchell is quickly becoming one of my favorite artists. I'm finding that, like with Rothko, her paintings make my heart jump.

Heather wrote: "Great news, Dottie! I will look for her on FB. I'm really interested in her work."

Heather wrote: "Great news, Dottie! I will look for her on FB. I'm really interested in her work."

You may also like to take a look at Katherine Kehole. Her paintings are all about shapes that become images. Her work is not a 3D as ths Nielly, but it is very powerful. She has a FB page and a website.

Lobstergirl wrote: "Young Women Looking at Japanese Objects, 1869
James Tissot (French 1836-1902)
Oil on canvas
28 x 20 in.
Cincinnati Art Museum

I'm reading a book on fashion, and it mentions Tissot as an artist who..."

Tissot was an outstanding painter/etcher - I don't think he's given enough credit.