Let's meet at the lab!: October 2023

Thursday 19 October 2023

This painting is an acrylic on canvas featuring a black rectangle and a grey rectangle, which is a reminder of the title. Rohko wanted to represent death on his piece of art. The stacked rectangles may be read vertically as an abstracted Virgin bisected by horizontal divisions that indicate the supine Christ.

Yellow Canyon, Helen Frankenthaler

In this painting, the artist uses pouring technic to create a point of depth in the center, here the yellow color. We can see the big brush's movements that create large lines and grandeur effect. We can think this artwork relate to the movement abstract expressionism due to the painting technics used but also to minimalism.

Sunday 15 October 2023

the hudson river school

"Niagara falls" by Louis Remy Mignot 1866 Oil on canvas

The Hudson River School movement was a 19th-century art movement in the United States. It was characterized by picturesque landscapes in and around the Hudson Valley. The artists of this movement wanted to depict nature as it was, without embellishment or idealization.

Hudson River School painters often used bright, luminous colors to represent the seasons and the natural light of the Hudson Valley. They also paid great attention to detail and precision in their depictions of nature.

Some of the most famous artists of the Hudson River School include Thomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church and Asher Durand. Their works were exhibited and admired not only in the United States, but also in Europe, where they helped popularize the movement.

Ultimately, the Hudson River School movement played a crucial role in establishing American artistic identity and influenced many later artists. The precision and beauty of their work continues to inspire artists today.

Pop art

Dog balloon:

Created by Jeff Koons in 1994

Material: stainless steel

Worth: 58,4 million $

Inspiration: everyday objects

Sculpture located in Los Angeles in the US

Very controversial before people think it’s too simplistic to be art.

Minimal Art

“Red Circle on Black”, Jiro Yoshihara, 1965

This amazing paint was created in 1965 by Jiro Yoshihara in Minimalism style. The artist is a pioneer of post-war Japanese art. He was inspired by Japanese calligraphy and Zen philosophy. He hand signed his artwork so it’s considered as extremely rare. Yoshihara used a technique for surface printing called Silkscreens. This artwork is the perfect representation of “less is more” a famous quote of minimalism art. In fact the colours used are monochromatic. The only motives are geometrical. I love this painting but I also really liked the mindset of the artist because while realising this artwork he said “Do what has never been done before”. “Red Circle on Black” definitely raised debates but I personally think that it deserves all of the fame it could possibly get.

Minimalism art

“Red Circle On Black”, Jiro Yoshihara, 1965

Diptych Marilyn

Diptych Marilyn (1962)

Diptych Marilyn, is an acrylic screen print on canvas by the American artist Andy Warhol produced in 1962 and is exhibited at the Tate Modern an art gallery in London. This screen print contains 50 images of American actress and model Marilyn Monroe , all based on the same publicity photograph for the film Niagara (1953). It is enrolled in the movement of the Pop art. The 25 representations on the left of the diptych are very colorful, it represents her life while the 25 representations on the right are black and white, it represents the end of her life, her death. Andy Warhol decided to paint the Marilyn Diptych a few weeks after Monroe's death. He found in her a fusion of two constant themes: death and the cult of celebrity. By copying the same image several times, he evokes his presence in the media.

Friday 13 October 2023

The titan's goblet

The titan's goblet is an artwork from the Hudson River School movement, which is nicknamed as a painting within a painting by the metropolitan museum of art, New York USA.

It was made by Thomas Cole, the founder of this movement in 1833 and it is described as his most mysterious work which défies full explanation of regular art. Allegorical and imaginary landscape.

"Untilted" Donald Judd 1967

The work "Untitled" by Donald Judd in 1967 is a minimalist sculpture consisting of six stainless steel boxes of different sizes, each identical in shape. Judd was a renowned artist of the minimalist movement, and this piece embodies his philosophy of reducing to the essential, exploring geometry and simplicity of forms. It has become iconic in minimalist art and Judd's approach to artistic creation.