Month: April 2022

• Titian paints lust with eloquence

  

  In works of art, the Roman goddess Venus is depicted nude because she represents the lofty ideals of love and beauty. Not Titian’s Venus. She represents something more carnal.

  Diane Tucker

  2022-04-17

  Art History, Giorgione, Italian Renaissance, Renaissance art, Titian

  Giorgione La Vecchia, Great paintings > great stories, Painting sexual desire, Titian paints lust, Venetian Renaissance, Venus with a Mirror

• Pissarro’s unforgettable conversation

  

  As the Prussian Army advanced on Paris, Camille Pissarro packed up his family’s belongings and shuttered their house in Louveciennes, a small town near the capital. It would be safer to move away than to stay. Here is the harrowing story behind his painting “The Conversation, Louveciennes.”

  Diane Tucker

  2022-04-11

  Art History, Camille Pissarro, Impressionism, Louveciennes

  Franco-Prussian War, Great paintings > great stories, Nazi art thefts, Pissarro, Portrait of Minette, The Conversation Louveciennes

• Decoding the mysterious art of Paul Klee

  

  Unlike Picasso, Paul Klee doesn’t suffer from being taken way too seriously. But maybe it’s time his compositions carried more weight. For openers, his Bauhaus lectures contain more than 1,200 pages of personal research on color, shape, and pattern that are among the most detailed in art — equalled only by the observations of Leonardo da Vinci.

  Diane Tucker

  2022-04-03

  Art History, Insula Dulcamara, Modern Art, Paul Klee

  Can art be more like music?, Great paintings > great stories, Klee and Kandinsky, Paul Klee large-scale works, Paul Klee late paintings