the shore of the world

Harriet Tubman Series (Panel #4) by Jacob Lawrence 1939-40 Casein tempera on gessoed hardboard

Victoria Cozmolici (Moldova)

Gillian Ayres (1930-2018) Brood, 1962 oil and ripolin on canvas, 214 x 315 cm

Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis, The Hague

Oil on linen , 66 x 82 cm.

Yayoi Kusama - Infinity Nets, 2006. 

Beverly Semmes, Carwash, 2011

Dressed and posed as Manet’s Olympia, while Morris works with plywood sheets, Scheemann explored how history marginalized Manet’s model, Victorine Meurent, herself an artist; Schneemann was interested in how a woman, known in her own time as a painter, has come to be known in history as a face and a body. 

1994

“It also happens to have been Adolf Hitler’s favorite painting, a fact that rather tainted its reputation in the post-war 20th century, but did not prevent its proud display in Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, where, in 1976, German artist Ulay—partner of Marina Abramović from 1976 to 1988—walked in, took the painting and walked out again.“ (openculture.com) [video]

Felix Gonzalez Torres

oil on cardboard , 51 x 42 cm. (20.1 x 16.5 in.)