“Reflecting the peak of Synthetic Cubism at that time, the city appears deconstructed into geometric planes, shifting between two and three dimensions…The composition unfolds across multiple planes, which themselves subdivide further: the shape of the canvas—like a window onto the landscape—mirrors the shape of the building windows, which in turn repeat the city’s architectural forms…Here,…
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Vincente Manansala: Pounding Rice
“A prolific member of the pre-war Thirteen Moderns and of the post-war Neo-Realists, Vicente Manansala is respected as one of the most influential artists in the Filipino modern arts sphere, seizing the nation and its characters to shape a vision of Philippine modernism that is strongly anchored on social and folk themes…It is within this…
Marc Chagall and His Masterpieces
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Vicente Manansala: Birds of Paradise
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Dutch National Ballet: Swan Lake
“Love and deception are the keywords in Swan Lake. Siegfried, a young prince with the soul of a poet, meets a white swan, Odette, at the lakeside one night. He promises to be faithful to her and thus also to his ideals. Back in the palace, however, Siegfried allows himself to be seduced by the…
Gino Severini: Danse de l’ours
“Abandoning any trace of figuration, the artist depicts the dancing couple in a highly abstract manner, fracturing their bodies in to a series of vibrantly coloured fragments that radiate outwards from the centre of the canvas. Through this dematerialization of form, Severini aimed to create a visual representation of the energy of the performance, moving…
Evgeny Kissin Plays Beethoven
“According to Severini, the environment is optically determined and hence fluid, and the human figure is merely a part, albeit an inseparable part, of that metamorphic reality. In this canvas and others the cadences of the swirling motion of the dance and the dancer’s costume are compared with those of the sea’s movement. The large…
Hauser and Campbell: Torna A Surriento
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Diego Rivera: Paisaje (1919)
. “…my Cubist paintings are my most Mexican. Inside them there are plastic qualities—certain specific ways of expressing proportion and space, certain special and personal theories and practices and use of color—that are my own invention and belong to me.” (4) Rivera’s paintings stand on their own; they synthesize European artistic convention with issues of…
Georges Braque: L’église de Carrières-Saint-Denis (1909)
The Birth of Cubism Painted in 1909, L’église de Carrières-Saint-Denis dates from the early moments of Cubism. It is in the late landscapes of Braque’s transitional period that the bare bones of the movement truly consolidated. Now, he had advanced on Cézanne in rendering form in two dimensions, and he needed only his return to…
Diego Rivera: Two Women (1914)
“The secret of my best work is that it is Mexican.” Diego Rivera “I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is like a tree, which grows in a particular place and has a trunk, leaves, blossoms, boughs, fruit, and roots of…
Kathleen Munn: Horses (c.1927)
Kathleen Munn: Pioneer of Modern Art Kathleen Jean Munn (1887– October 19, 1974) is recognized today as a pioneer of modern art in Canada, though she remained on the periphery of the Canadian art scene during her lifetime. She imagined conventional subjects in a radically new visual vocabulary as she combined the traditions of European…
Marc Chagall: Art and Revolution
New Exhibit at The Jewish Museum Diane Cole, in her article “Chagall The Revolutionary – Exhibit on his short-lived People’s Art School in Vitebsk suggests a rethinking of his work”, says the following: “The Russian Jewish artist Marc Chagall (1887-1985) made famous the steeples and rooftops of his native Vitebsk, along with the ebullient lovers,…
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