#art_encounters

In celebration of tonight's Grammys, let's look at Caravaggio's "The Musicians," (ca. 1595, Met Museum, gallery 621.) Today's music industry didn't invent provocativeness. Caravaggio was doing it in the 16th century with his sensual, young musicians looking directly at the viewer, loosely dressed in classical togas revealing their creamy skin. It was painted for Caravaggio's first patron, Cardinal Francesco del Monte, who may have been gay, and may explain the homoerotic quality of the paintings he commissioned. It's thought that perhaps Caravaggio was homosexual as well, placing himself in this painting, second boy from the right. #Caravaggio #MetMuseum #MetropolitanMuseumOfArt #CardinalFrancescodelMonte #music #musicians #BaroqueArt #Chiaroscuro #ItalianBaroque #ArtHistory #HistoryOfArt #art_encounters (at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Monet was out of favor? His iconic water lily paintings were once under-appreciated? It wasn’t until after WWII that American artists rediscovered his later works and were inspired by their large size, loose, spontaneous paint application, and all-over effect—reaching the edges of the canvas without a center focus. The Musée d’Orangerie in Paris beautifully curated an exhibition, now on view, demonstrating Monet’s influence on the American Abstract Expressionists, and later the second-generation, referred here as Abstract Impressionists. Claude Monet, “Le Saule Pleureur,” 1920-22 #Monet #ClaudeMonet #FrenchImpressionist Willem de Kooning, “Villa Borghese,” 1960, Bilbao #Bilbao #WillemDeKooning #DeKooning #AbEx #AbstractExpressionist Jackson Pollock, Untitled, 1949, BeyelerCollection. #JacksonPollock #Pollock Mark Rothko, “No. 42,” 1948, National Gallery Of Art, #NationalGalleryOfArt #MarkRothko #Rothko Barnett Newman, “The Beginning,” 1946, Art Institute of Chicago #BarnettNewman #ArtInstituteOfChicago Helen Frankenthaler, “Riverhead,” 1963, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, NY. #HelenFrankenthaler, #Frankenthaler Joan Mitchell, “The Goodbye Door,” 1980, Dépôt du Musée National d’Art Moderne/Centre de Création Industrielle. #JoanMitchell Sam Francis, “Blue,” 1958, The Phillips Collection. #SamFrancis #PhillipsCollection #OilOnCanvas #ArtHistory #HistoryOfArt #ModernArt #art_encounters

Very cool #DanFlavin installation at the #UndergroundMuseum in LA as part of the "Artists of Color" exhibition, open through Feb 2018, and curated by museum co-founder, the late #NoahDavis. Other artists featured include Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Jo Baer and LA Artist EJ Hill. "Untitled (to Charles Cowles," 1963, #MoCALosAngeles #art_encounters #arthistory #historyofart #ContemporaryArt #MinimalistArt #MinimalistArtist #FluorescentLightArt (at The Underground Museum)

When Marcel Duchamp's painting, "Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2)," 1912, (Philadelphia Museum of Art), was ridiculed at the first seminal Armory Show in 1913 by both art critiques and the public, Duchamp was delighted! In fact, it encouraged him to move from Paris to New York two years later. Although the New York Times renamed it "Explosion in a Shingle Factory," and American Art News held a "fine the nude" contest, the scandalous painting helped draw 87,000 visitors to the Armory Show that year. #MarcelDuchamp #ArmoryShow #Duchamp #Cubism #Modernism #ModernArt #ModernArtist #Cubist #PhiladelphiaMuseumOfArt #ArtHistory #HistoryOfArt #art_encounters (at Philadelphia Museum of Art)

Just like everything near Trump, this painting is in the center of a small controversy involving today's inaugural luncheon. "The Verdict of the People (DETAIL)," (1885, St Louis Museum of Art) by Missouri artist #GeorgeCalebBingham will hang behind the new President while he lunches at the traditional Congressional luncheon. The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies chose the painting as a celebration of democracy depicting the results of a small town Missouri election. But art historian Ivy Cooper and artist Ilene Berman protest the loan, say that it suggests that "Trump’s election was truly the ‘verdict of the people,’ when in fact the majority of votes...were cast for Trump’s opponent.” The painting is one of a three part Election Series by Bingham. This painting was done right after Congress passed the racist Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 which asked for a vote in support of slavery. Bingham, a staunch abolitionist, with this series may have been anticipating the events that started the Civil War. #StLouisMuseumOfArt #Missouri #Inauguration #PresidentialInauguration #art_encounters #art #arte #kunst #artist #painting #oiloncanvas #Artwork #ArtOfTheDay #FineArt #ArtHistory #HistoryOfArt #ArtPic #ArtGallery #Masterpiece (at United States Capitol)

#BertheMorisot—born today, 14 January 1841— told her mother that she would "rather be at the bottom of the sea" than for this picture to appear at the Salon. In a letter to her sister, Edma, she wrote about #Manet... "He took the brushes and put in a few accents that looked very well. ... That is where my misfortunes began. Once started, nothing could stop him; from the skirt he went to the bust, from the bust to the head, from the head to the background. He cracked a thousand jokes, laughed like a madman, handed me the palette, took it back; finally by five o'clock in the afternoon we had made the prettiest caricature that was ever seen. The carter was waiting to take it away; he made me put it on the hand-cart. ... And now I am left confounded. My only hope is that I shall be rejected. My mother thinks this episode funny, but I find it agonizing." This painting, || The Mother and Sister of the Artist || (1869/70, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC), #Morisot's largest work. #frenchImpressionism #FrenchImpressionism #Impressionist #Impressionism #WomanArtist #ArtHistory #HistoryOfArt #BornOnThisDay #ArtOfTheDay #ArtistOfTheDay #DailyArt #DailyArtist #art_encounters