Category: Art
View of Rome — Joseph Jeffers Dodge
Riding Death in My Sleep — Wangechi Mutu
“Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality” (Dmitry Samarov’s Portrait of Richard Wright)
Mandrill — Oskar Kokoschka
Miss Ingram (Detail) — Childe Hassam
Forest Fire in Moonlight — Charles Burchfield
Eleanor — Harry Callahan
Paul Willoughby’s Twin Peaks Postcards
Spring in Zimme — Emil Nolde
Silver Surfer — Dan Adkins
Americana — Charles Scheeler
To paint a rag-picker (Van Gogh)
Apparently nothing is more simple than to paint a rag-picker, a beggar or any other kind of workman; but there are no subjects which are so difficult to paint as these everyday figures. I do not think there is a single academy where one can learn to draw or paint a man digging or sowing seed, a woman hanging a pot over the fire or doing needlework. But in every city, however insignificant it may be, there is an academy with a whole selection of models for historical, Arabian, and in short, all kinds of figures, which do not exist in the real everyday world of Europe.
From a letter Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother.
Interior, John’s Cafe, Sandy, Bedfordshire — Paul Graham
Water — Charles Sheeler
Snoopy — Moebius
Three Girls — Egon Schiele
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