5 October 2018

Flora Yukhnovich. Boucher’s Flesh, 2017 (artist’s portfolio).


Oil on linen: 215 x 180 cm. Flora Yukhnovich (2018): “My current body of work grew out my awareness of my own prejudices towards aesthetics deemed to be feminine. I realised that this was because the aesthetic attributes which we understand to be feminine were not at all true to my lived experience of being female”.

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Visit > Flora Yukhnovich at: Brocket Gallery, Leeds Arts University, Parafin.

3 October 2018

Juan Gris. Guitar and Newspaper (‘Guitare et journal’), 1925 (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid).



Oil on canvas: 65 x 81 cm.

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Hans Memling. Portrait of Tommaso di Folco Portinari and Maria Portinari, ca. 1470 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).



Oil on wood. Overall measurements: 44.1 x 67.7 cm. Painted surface with trompe-l’oeil frames: ca. 42.2 x 32 cm each. Husband and wife, dressed in the height of fashion. Originally a triptych with a central devotional image of the Virgin and Child (the centerpiece has been assumed lost). Interesting read at Metropolitan Technical Notes. Researchers chose to not further interpret the XRF Calcium distribution map.

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More > Hans Memling at Wikipedia.

2 October 2018

Peter Paul Rubens. The four Rivers of Paradise (‘Die vier Flüsse des Paradieses’), ca. 1615 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).



Oil on canvas: 208 x 283 cm(!). Also interpreted as depicting female personifications of the four continents sitting with their respective major rivers. Clockwise starting at the front: Africa and the Nile, Europe and the Danube, America and the Río de la Plata, and Asia and the Ganges.

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23 September 2018

Claude Monet. Woman with Parasol turned to the Left (‘Essai de figure en plein-air: Femme à l'ombrelle tournée vers la gauche’), 1886 (Musée d'Orsay, Paris).



Oil on canvas: 131 x 88.7 cm. Plein-air study with Suzanne Hoschedé as the model. Pendant with ‘Woman with Parasol turned to the Right’: here. Photo credit: Jean Louis Mazieres. 

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More > Claude Monet at Wikipedia.