“Precious jewels by the sea” by Amy Sherald
Artist: Amy Sherald (USA) Title: Precious jewels by the sea Year: 2019 All images © Amy Sherald USEFUL LINKS: Amy Sherald in this blog | Hauser & Wirth | Wikipedia
“Barry Humphries” by David Hockney
Artist: David Hockney (UK) Title: Barry Humphries Year: 2015 USEFUL LINKS: David Hockney in this blog | Website | Wikipedia
“Close Rotation (Left)” by Jana Euler
Artist: Jana Euler (Germany) Title: Close Rotation (Left) Year: 2019 USEFUL LINKS: Jana Euler in this blog | Artsy
“Hudson Burk and Benedita Furacao” by Amoako Boafo
Artist: Amoako Boafo (Ghana) Title: Hudson Burk and Benedita Furacao Year: 2018 Courtesy of: Private Collection and Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Chicago and Paris USEFUL LINKS: Amoako Boafo in this blog | Website | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook fan page
Tate Modern – Artworks by Fernand Léger
Artist: Fernand Léger (France) Title: “Two Women Holding Flowers” (left, 1954), “The Acrobat and his Partner” (right, 1948) Year: 2011 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Two Women Holding Flowers is a large oil on canvas painting by French artist Fernand Léger, made in […]
Tate Modern – “Réquiem NN” by Juan Manuel Echavarría with Fernando Grisalez
Artist: Manuel Echavarría (Colombia), with Fernando Grisalez Title: Réquiem NN Year: 2006–2013 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Each of these prints captures two moments, months or years apart. They show graves in the cemetery of Puerto Berrío, a town on the banks of the […]
Tate Modern – “Otaïti” by Francis Picabia
Artist: Francis Picabia (France) Title: Otaïti Year: 1930 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Picabia’s so-called ‘transparency’ paintings – of which Otaïti is a prime example – have not been the subject of much technical analysis, until now. Otaïti appears to be unique in […]
Tate Modern – Artworks by Wilhelm Sasnal
Artist: Wilhelm Sasnal (Poland) Title: “Gaddafi 2” (left, 2011), “Gaddafi 3” (right, 2011) Year: 2011 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Gaddafi 2 depicts a group of rebel fighters looking at, and taking images of, the body of the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who […]
Tate Modern – “Autumnal Cannibalism” by Salvador Dalí
Artist: Salvador Dalí (Spain) Title: Autumnal Cannibalism Year: 1936 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Two faceless figures are devouring each other. As their heads and bodies merge, they dig knives and spoons into each other’s flesh. The surrounding landscape is Empordà, in Catalonia, […]
Tate Modern – “Sleeping Venus” by Paul Delvaux
Artist: Paul Delvaux (Belgium) Title: Sleeping Venus Year: 1944 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Delvaux’s painting combines classical elements with a troubling atmosphere. Set against a night sky, the town, with its temples lined with horses’ heads, is populated with female nudes, a […]
Tate Modern – “Birth” by Jackson Pollock
Artist: Jackson Pollock (USA) Title: Birth Year: 1963-4 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Pollock explored mythic themes in his early paintings, having undergone Jungian analysis. He was among a group of New York artists open to the Surrealist ideas of repressed unconscious impulses. […]
Tate Modern – “Fire! Fire!” by Enrico Baj
Artist: Enrico Baj (Italy) Title: Fire! Fire! Year: 1963–4 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Baj’s works were influenced by the absurd humour and unconventional techniques of surrealism and dada. He was also associated with CoBrA, a group of European artists who adopted a […]
Tate Modern – “The Handsome Pork-Butcher” by Francis Picabia
Artist: Francis Picabia (France) Title: The Handsome Pork-Butcher Year: c.1924–6, c.1929–35 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “This sardonic collage portrait of Raymond Poincaré, President and Prime Minister of the French Republic, was made with everyday objects such as combs, needles, curtain rings and […]
Tate Modern – “Whaam!” by Roy Lichtenstein
Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (USA) Title: Whaam! Year: 1963 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Whaam! 1963 is a large, two-canvas painting by the American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein that takes its composition from a comic book strip. The left-hand canvas features an American fighter […]
Tate Modern – “Still Life” by Giorgio Morandi
Artist: Giorgio Morandi (Italy) Title: Still Life Year: 1946 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Still Life is an oil painting on canvas by the Italian painter Giorgio MorandiIn this work, Morandi uses a muted colour palette that ranges from light and medium grey […]
Tate Modern – “Atlantic Civilisation” by André Fougeron
Artist: André Fougeron (France) Title: Atlantic Civilisation Year: 1953 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Atlantic Civilisation is Fougeron’s key work of social criticism and an extraordinary example of Cold War rhetoric. Fougeron caricatures the Americanisation of Europe, then a major target of Communist […]
Tate Modern – “Black Phase” by Carol Rama
Artist: Carol Rama (Italy) Title: Fase del Nero (Black Phase) Year: 1974 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Fase del Nero (Black Phase) 1974 is a work on black fabric made by the Italian artist Carol Rama using several rubber inner tubes that have […]
Tate Modern – “White Painting” by Michael Buthe
Artist: Michael Buthe (Germany) Title: White Painting Year: 1969 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “It might look like the artist has randomly slashed this canvas. In fact, Buthe carefully composed it. He wanted to create a powerful relationship between the grid of the […]
Tate Modern – “Cage (1) – (6)” by Gerhard Richter
Artist: Gerhard Richter (Germany) Title: Cage (1) – (6) Year: 2006 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Cage (1) – (6) 2006 is a group of six large, square abstract paintings by the German artist Gerhard Richter. Three of the canvases measure 2900 x […]
Tate Modern – Artworks by Christian Schad
Artist: Christian Schad (Germany) Title: Agosta, the Pigeon-Chested Man, and Rasha, the Black Dove (left, 1929) | Self-Portrait (right, 1927) Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Agosta, the Pigeon-Chested Man, and Rasha, the Black Dove 1929 is a large portrait-orientated oil painting of two […]
Tate Modern – “White Plane White” by Bram Bogart
Artist: Bram Bogart (Belgium) Title: White Plane White Year: 1974 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “White Plane White 1974 is a large monochrome white painting by Bram Bogart in which a thick layer of paint has been applied to the surface of the support and […]
Venice Art Biennale 2022 – Artwork by Louise Bonnet
Artist: Louise Bonnet (Switzerland) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Louise Bonnet began her creative career working in illustration and graphic design. She shifted into the realm of painting in 2008, making acrylic paintings of people such as Yoko Ono or characters from […]
Venice Art Biennale 2022 – Artwork by Firelei Báez
Artist: Firelei Báez (Dominican Republic) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “The visual references in Firelei Báez paintings, drawings, and installations range from mythology and science fiction to histories of the African diaspora. By re-examining ancient folk tales, Báez reflects on the theme […]
Venice Art Biennale 2022 – Artworks by Ficre Ghebreyesus
Artist: Ficre Ghebreyesus (Eritrea-USA) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “At once pensive and exuberant, Ficre Ghebreyesus’ paintings capture the complexity of his East African childhood and life in diaspora, presenting fantastical landscapes drawn from longing for a time and place interrupted by […]
Venice Art Biennale 2022 – Artworks by Charline von Heyl
Artist: Charline von Heyl (Germany) Year: 2020/2021 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Working in the vibrant Cologne art world of the 1980s only led painter Charline von Heyl to more firmly believe in the importance of her chosen medium: painting. The eight […]
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