Showing posts with label Voice from the Couch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Voice from the Couch. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Franz Kline ~ Reprised and with a Mind Open to all Kinds of Things

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Okay, this is just not a reprised piece from our archives. I've decided to include some additional content that I came across while trol...
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Thursday, December 31, 2009

The Top Ten

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Here's our list of the top ten artists at Fifty Two Pieces and the pages that made them so popular. Like most popularity lists this one...
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Claude Monet ~ Waterlilies and Mark Rothko

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Yesterday, Voice from the Couch couldn't put down the Monet and Modernism book. He had already read up on Andy Warhol and then found Ma...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Claude Monet ~ Waterlilies and Andy Warhol ~ Flowers

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These two images are part of one of Andy Warhol's very successful series using the flower motif. The Flowers series in 1964 was based on...
Monday, December 28, 2009

Claude Monet ~ Waterlilies and Ellsworth Kelly, Tableau Vert

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This Ellsworth Kelly painting, Tableau Vert , is the first one he painted after he returned from his trip to Giverny to see Claude Monet...
Sunday, December 27, 2009

Claude Monet ~ Waterlilies and Irises, Favorite Flower?

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Ah, two days after Christmas and it's Monet time here at Fifty Two Pieces. The piece of the week is Monet's Waterlilies . Meanderin...
Friday, December 25, 2009

Monet on Christmas Day

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Monet has been in my thoughts today. Primarily about light. Light from my window here in Astoria. Start with the light from the stars at 2 a...
Thursday, December 24, 2009

Claude Monet ~ Waterlilies

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Dateline: December 24, 2009 Today marks the first day of the last full week of Fifty Two Pieces. It's been a great year and we'll ha...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Dan Flavin ~ (to Donna) II Background Information

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Take a close look at the image of untitled (to Donna) II 1971 and then look at the original image used here at Fifty Two Pieces on December...
Saturday, December 19, 2009

Dan Flavin ~ (to Donna) II and Diagonal of Personal Ecstasy

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It's all about the light – that could be the subtitle of this post. With Dan Flavin (whether it's the Portland Art Museum's Unit...
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Albert Bierstadt ~ Mount Hood, Muybridge and Colescott

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This week of Albert Bierstadt started with Arcy Douglass' Artist Talk about Bierstadt's Mount Hood at the Portland Art Museum on D...
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Marcel Duchamp ~ Boite-en-valise (the red box), series F, 1960

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Voice from the couch, "I went down to the Portland Art Museum and saw the Duchamp." Me, "What did you think?" Voice from...
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Monday, December 7, 2009

Marcel Duchamp ~ Boite-en-valise (the red box), series F, Rrose Selavy but no Chess

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The image above is the expanded view of what I had seen yesterday of Marcel Duchamp's Boite-en-valise (the red box), series F, 1960 at...
Saturday, March 7, 2009

The Light Is Different

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Wherever you go, the light is different. It's different at any time of the year. Childe Hassam, and the other Impressionists knew that. ...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Rothko – No. 14 1960, Emotion and Myth

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"In essence, it is emotionality which replaced the myth. The common designation for emotionality is mood." ... Mark Rothko To stan...
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Friday, January 9, 2009

Fractured French and an Opportunity to Draw

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Knowing I'd have to tell people about the art work of the week "Nature's Fan" and who painted it, I decided to learn how t...