Zinaida Serebriakova and the Soviet Nude
Tags/ Posted by Stephen PainWe all kept grinding our respective pestles into the assigned mortars, despite the lack of intrinsic beauty.continue reading this poem
Does Serebriakova deserve her reputation? Can we criticize her art after the Silver Period as being anachronistic, and racist at times? Can a female nude painting by a woman of a different ethnic background be excused because the painting is by a woman?
Waking from the American Dream
Tags/ Posted by Tony ThomasI am a garden of earthly delights. I am the apple you would fall for a thousand times. I am the apricot you would die for.continue reading this poem
The “low dishonest decade” Auden refers to was the 1930s, which was the high point of the American art movement known as Precisionism, or sometimes cubist realism. The phrase “clever hopes” sums up nicely the state of optimism that had preceded the Great Depression of 1929 but must surely have been dissipated by the time Auden’s pessimistic poem and Hopper’s alienated painting had appeared.
Picasso and Braque Creating Cubism
Tags/ Posted by Teia PearsonMy parents are still here due to the snow That's falling fatly on us in Cheyennecontinue reading this poem
In 1907 Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque shocked the art community with their abstract way of painting. Film maker Arne Glimcher created a remarkable documentary capturing the story of how cubism changed the world.
The Beauty of Jugs, Water and Fruit
Tags/ Posted by Linnea WestI went through there once on the train. It was shimmering palace and palm and bright and jutting and I wanted to stop; why didn't I? Why don't we stop?continue reading this poem
Our ability to appreciate life can be mediated by art, we can understand through art pieces of life that would otherwise seem senseless, and by extension aesthetic experience is a way of creating meaning in our lives.
