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This sculpture is in SLAMâs permanent collection and they recently put it on display after a long time in storage
Sheâs my favorite artist, and you can look at this piece for an hour and it keeps feeling fresh, like you never get to the bottom of understanding it.
I like her work (and this piece in particular) because itâs emotionally rich. To me it embodies paradoxes like being both playful and somber, lively and elegiac, busy but unified, individual but collective, primal but contemporary, geometric and organic, abstract yet figurative, dissonant and harmonious, pattern and noise, cheeky and serious, quiet and commanding.
Go spend some time with her.
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my current favorite sculpture.
i like that I have to go see it in person and a photo never captures what draws me to it. this is the Harvard art museumâs version which has free admission so I can pop in for a few minutes and see them any time.
on the sculpture Rainer Maria Rilke wrote: âa mysterious greatness emanates from this group. . . . One doesnât dare assign a meaning to it. . . . A heaven is near, but is not yet attained; a hell is near, and not yet forgotten.â
Feb 4, 2024
- Eugène Delacroix, Apollo Slaying the Serpent Python: I could stay in this gallery for hours and just stare at the ceiling if that was socially acceptable
- Michaelangelo, Sistine Chapel: You know her, you love her! Especially when itâs summer and youâre absolutely in need of fresh are and so you round the corner to see this diva!! la vita è bella
- Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus: I love the pastels in this so much and the way the hair flows and the shell and just đ¤đťđ¤đťđ¤đť I will laugh every time this is emulated in media!!!
- Kehinde Wiley, Philip the Fair: I saw this at a museum when I was a mess emotionally and it was so beautiful and vast and gorgeous that I teared up!
- Pierre Auguste Cot, The Storm: This is for the yearning and when I see it Iâll year again every time without fail
- Hans Holbein the Younger, The Ambassadors: I love these two freaks and the fun little sneaky third guy!! I learned about this in a history class that I ended up despising bc my brain doesnât work to memorize dates are u kidding me!! I remember all the paintings and this one was always such a fixture for me
- Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith and Her Maidservant: itâs definitely the theater adult in me that lives and loves Baroque but with that in mind - the lighting in this is so powerful
Feb 17, 2024
for overall artists, i really enjoy the body of work by photographer renĂŠe cox. i love her takes on representation and her unapologetic nature. i wasnât much of a photography girl before her, but i get it now. i also really enjoy the paintings of oda iselin sønderland and the mood sheâs able to capture with them. and i canât forget the works of aya takano! i love the world sheâs crafted and the figures that come out of it. she reminds me that iâm a woman but also still a girl if that makes sense.
for favorite contemporary works of art in general, thatâs even harder as i have so many! for now, iâll choose kiki smithâs 1996 piece âconstellationâ (pictured here). but i could go on forever.
May 18, 2024
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I have a big head and ball caps rarely fit right. As a bald guy, hats are your hairstyle. The newsboy cap is just unique enough without standing out too much like with a fedora or cowboy hat.
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