Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear, 1989
Vincent van Gogh, (1853-1890)
Myth: Van Gogh was a manic, possibly slightly deranged man who just spontaneously threw paint at the canvas.
Truth: He was a very experienced […]
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Image: Joy of Life, Henri Matisse
Film by Kirby Kendrick
Animation by Simon Christopher, Light-Matter Media
The Red Room, 1908
Henri Matisse
The Hermitage Museum, Paris
You may feel a surge of joy when you see the ORIGINAL Matisse “The Red Room.” You may be brought to […]
Flag, 1967
Jasper Johns
The Broad Museum, Los Angeles
Jasper Johns was an acclaimed artist known for his paintings of flags, targets, and other ordinary objects in […]
Watercolor, Evening Star No. IV, 1917
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
Surprise! Georgia O’Keeffe didn’t just make large iconic oil paintings of flowers, skyscrapers and bones against a desert landscape!
The Kiss of Betrayal
“Kiss of Judas” Fresco (detail), 1304-06
Giotto di Bondone
This magnificent fresco portraying the betrayal of Jesus, was painted by Giotto over 700 years ago in the […]
AHHH-MAZINGG’!
Hottest new museum to hit USA is the Broad Museum in downtown Los Angeles! The architecture alone is worth the trip…a honeycombed boxy building tilted on its side filled with natural light.
Broad Museum
Los […]
Spielbergian Climax, Hebru Brantley, 2014
Hebru Brantley
33 years old and 6’8″ tall, Hebru Brantley is Chicago’s fastest-rising visual artist. A street painter turned fine artist making comic-book style pop-art paintings, his figures reflect his growing up on the south side of […]
Magnificent oil painter, megalomaniac, devoted husband, exquisite jeweler, bizarre film creator, sculptor, narcissist, multi-millionaire…
SALVADOR DALÍ
1904-1989
Dalí: “I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images I see appear upon my canvas.”
The surreal art world exploded with the arrival […]
Andy Warhol painted icons. He painted Marilyn Monroe only after she took her own life. These images deliver a big punch. Mortality stares us in the face…Marilyn’s mortality and our own.
Andy Warhol painted history […]
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