Friday, February 24, 2017

Art in New Haven Blog 2

This is a representation of the Yale University Art Museum's contemporary permanent collection.  Just a sample, but some of my favorites.
Robert Motherwell  1915-1991
Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 78  (1962)

Jackson Pollock  1912-1956
Number 13A: Arabesque  1948

detail of above

Willem de Kooning  1904-1997
Untitled XIII  1975

Fernand Leger  1881-1955
Masque negre (The Black Mask)  1942

Kasimir Malevich  1878-1935
Tochilo'schik Printsip Mel'Kaniia
The Knife Grinder or Principle of Glittering  1912

Alberto Giacometti  1901-1966
Buste de Diego  1958


Pablo Picasso   1881-1973
First Steps  1943
What an unbelievable sense of humor. 
The child reminds me of Barbara's eaglets in her Batique

Pablo Picasso
Shells on a Piano  1912

Maurice de Vlaminck  1876-1958
Still Live with Flowers  (detail)

Piet Mondrian  1872-1944
By the Sea  1909
What a find!  This is so unlike the Mondrians we are used to seeing, it could almost be miss-labeled.
I wonder where he would have gone, artistically, if he hadn't discovered the straight line, and the monochrome palette.

Wassily Kandinsky  1866-1944
Abstrakte Deutung (Abstract Interpretation)  1925

Paul Klee  1879-1940
Heitere Gebirgslandschaft (Joyful Mountain Landscape)  1929
Why just the one tree, I wonder?

George Grosz  1893-1959
Drinnen und Draussen (Inside and Outside)  1926
A wonderful (!) example of the art Hitler called decadent.

Felix Del Marle  1889-1952
Les six jours ou la patineuse (The Six Days or the Ice Skater)  1913
An artist I am unfamiliar with, but I really admire this.

Salvador Dali  1904-1989
La Libre inclinacion del deseo (The Free Inclination of Desire)  1930

detail of above

Paul Delvaux  18978-1994
The Forest  1935

detail of above (bwah ha ha ha ha....
Sometimes I just can't help myself....

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