George Michielsen’s “Qu’y vit” project consisting of four Baobab Trees
George Michielsen, also known as Joris Michielsen, is a Dutch-born artist working in Antwerp. His “Qu’y vit” will be unveiled this Thursday. Its final destination is the Kievitplein in Antwerp. George will receive The Devil Tree from me.
Garbo in The Joyless Street
A scene from The Joyless Street (or The Street of Sorrows), a 1925 silent film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst and starring Greta Garbo before she came to Hollywood. Scored to Shostakovich‘s Violin Concerto no. 1 in A minor. Shostakovich scored many ‘silent’ films but I’m not sure he originally scored this Youtube clip. The very young Dmitri Shostakovich helped to make ends meet by playing the piano in movie houses and later went on to compose film scores for many silent films, including his debut The New Babylon.
Like many of Pabst’s contemporary films, The Joyless Street concerns the plight of women in German society.
Study by Antonio del Pollaiolo
Image sourced here. More lesbian erotica of this gallery below.
Previously we showed the work of Anders Zorn.
Correspondance amoureuse avec Antoinette de Watteville (1928-1937) (2001)
Balthus and Gin (a young Belgian diplomat) fight over the love of the lovely but fickle Antoinette de Watteville, who can’t make up her mind. After many adventures, the young Swiss noblewoman settles on the painter. Two hundred and forty letters make up this veritable epistolary novel of passion, fury and tears. But these pages are also a chance to discover Balthus in his own words (during these decisive years, he painted three of his masterpieces; “La Rue”, “La Leçon de guitare” and “La Montagne”). Writing to Antoinette, Balthus defends his choices, his conception of painting, his interest in the erotic… He talks of theatre and literature. He evokes his friends: Antonin Artaud, Pierre-Jean Jouve, Michel Leyris, Rainer Maria Rilke. He gets annoyed with the world, which is slowly tipping into a generalized and murdering madness. He suffers endless money worries, and faced with Antoinette’s hesitations, he attempts to take his own life… This correspondence was prepared by Balthus and Antoinette de Watteville’s children, Thadée and Stanislas. Sketches, photographs, notes, and a foreword written by the couple’s sons complete this edition of this moving correspondence — a darkly romantic love story that publicly bares the extraordinary painter’s heart for the first time.
The painting on the cover is La Toilette de Cathy.
Cypid and Psyche
Woman in front of Mirror (1841)
“Portrait of Anna Maria Magnani” (1814), I like her heavy gaze.
Work by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
The Fourth Estate, Il Quarto Stato (1901) – Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo
The second significant artwork of the 20th century is The Fourth Estate, a 1901 painting by Giuseppe Pellizza that depicts in – “MGM grandeur” – sepia-toned rows of handsome Italian workers marching toward a new dawn behind two men and a woman holding a baby.
This entry is part of a new series: “100 artworks that set the world on fire (while no one was watching)”, inspired by Wire’s 100 records that set the world on fire (while no one was listening).
See the previous entries here.
Happy birthday Robert Gober. Google gallery.
I have found 35 useful sources for the informe, the abject, and religious purity, which tend to be related in current discourse. These terms are often seen as variations on a theme but should be considered as quite separate according to Rosalind Krauss (see October Winter 1993 and Krauss, 1997).
Three theorists appear in this discourse: Georges Bataile, Julia Kristeva, and Judith Butler.
The artists that have been associated with the informe, the abject, and the grotesque include Fontana, Joel-Peter Witkin, Robert Gober, John Miller, David Hammons, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Paul McCarthy, Mike Kelley and David Lynch. [1]
The first significant artwork of the 20th century is The Road to Hell, a 1900 drawing by Alfred Kubin that depicts a tunnel, at the end of the tunnel is a woman, between this woman’s legs disappear rectangular boxes speeding towards her.
This entry is part of a new series: “100 artworks that set the world on fire (while no one was watching)”, inspired by Wire’s 100 records that set the world on fire (while no one was listening).
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There are a 1001 reasons not to like Jarosław Kukowski , the first one probably that his art is kitsch. But so is Odd Nerdrum‘s, John Currin‘s, Hajime Sorayama‘s and most other new figurative artists of the post-war era. There is only one reason not not to like Kukowski, and that is this Venus.
