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Abstract, geometric representations of colorful flowers from the rose and carnation families exemplify an interest in floral and decorative patterns in Beatriz Milhazes’ painting, The Carnation and The Rose (2000). The large circular flower in the background is inspired by the delicate lacelike designs of crochet cloths she saw in her grandmother’s home as a child.
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Between 1959 and 1960 Gego (Gertrude Goldschmidt) and her partner Gerd Leufert spent a year in the United States. While in Iowa Gego created this three-dimensional work, titled Sphere (1959). The sculpture epitomizes her investigation of “Lineus Paraleles“ (parallel lines). Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Gego, Sphere
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When it comes to unique activities (especially on a rainy day like today), I don’t think you could plan better than to spend an hour inside Cascade: A Jen Stark Experience; an immersive, interactive, wildly psychedelic digital art experience presented across 6,000 square feet of exhibition space at the William Vale Hotel in Brooklyn. If you’re curious whether Cascade — which is currently competing with two immersive digital Van Gogh exhibits, and Banksy’s Genius or Vandal — is worth the trek from Manhattan to Brooklyn, let me assure you that it is all that and a bag of shrooms.
Come take a peek inside.
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An early practitioner of Op Art, a movement that emerged in the mid-1960s and prioritized optical illusionism, Edna Andrade (1917 – 2008) used geometry and color to create abstract interpretations of organic ratios, biological systems, and natural rhythms. Summer Game (1972) features a vibrant palette and an irregular grid that appears to expand and contract, project, and recede, creating a sense of playful, kinetic energy.
Photographed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC.
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In 1960, Toshinobu Onosato reevaluated his approach to the circle, a form that for much of the previous decade he had presented as monochromatic surfaces whose simplicity was emphasized by surrounding webs of intersecting lines. Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Toshinobu Onosato, Painting A