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“I want to be the painter of my country,“ artist Tarsila do Amaral (1886 – 1973) declared in 1923, at a moment when Brazilian artists and writers were actively developing a new, homegrown modernism. With his undulating planes, suggesting land, water, and sky, and a human-like cactus, The Moon (1928) offers the artist’s vision of a Brazilian landscape. Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Tarsila do Amaral, The Moon
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Little Ghost Eating Bread (1934) depicts a mysterious scene within an other worldlylandscape. Animated by Oppenheim‘s dark sense of humor, it portrays a cartoon-like figure about to step off a ledge while merrily nibbling on a loaf of bread. A cloaked form is partially visible on the right. Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Merit Oppenheim, Little Ghost Eating Bread
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Ukrainian-born artist Peter Krasnow (1886 – 1979) worked mostly in Southern California from 1922 onward, becoming an important advocate of modernism in Los Angeles. During the final years of World War II, he began a series of abstract paintings featuring interlocking rectilinear forms in candy-colored hues.
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When Heath Richardson came home from his trip to South America, he began having difficulty falling asleep. As he lay in his bed in his Kensington Garden flat, he would close his eyes and try to imagine sheep, leaping over a fence like when he was a small boy.
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In Two Candles (1982), Gerhard Richter plays with the ambiguities of the painted image. Two lit candles seem to stand beside each other, framed by the dark shadow and white backdrop of their surroundings. Or perhaps only a single candle is shown, reflected back to itself in a mirror.
Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Gerhard Richter, Two Candles