Tag: Urbanization

• Henri Matisse and that cursed armchair

  

  Henri Matisse liked to paint quiet moments of repose in order to catch his breath before returning to the turmoils of life. Peace of mind is what he craved and what he wanted to bestow on us. Does it mean he wasn’t quite serious enough as an artist?

  Diane Tucker

  2022-11-06

  Art History, Diane Tucker, Fauvism, Henri Matisse, Henri Matisse Paintings, like a good armchair, Modernism

  Diane Tucker, Great stories about great paintings, Henri Matisse, Interior at Nice, Modern Art, Open Window Collioure, The Sorrows of the King, Urbanization

• Sheeler, Rivera, and machine-age anxiety

  

  Charles Sheeler and Diego Rivera jumped at the chance to portray Henry Ford’s unprecedented manufacturing complex. Do their pictures celebrate the potential of machines to liberate us from drudgery? Or do they warn us about the dangers of living in a technology-driven society?

  Diane Tucker

  2022-08-09

  American Landscape, Art History, Charles Sheeler, Detroit Industry Murals, Diane Tucker, Diego Rivera Murals, Ford Rouge Plant, Henry Ford

  American Landscape, Charles Sheeler, Detroit Industry Murals, Diane Tucker, Diego Rivera, Great stories about great paintings, Modern Art, Urbanization

• George Bellows: Last stop, 59th Street

  

  The scale of the lone tenement building under the new Queensboro Bridge seems odd. Is it real? Or is it a ghost, urging us to remember all the homes that were bulldozed in the name of urban expansion and the human interactions that once took place inside them?

  Diane Tucker

  2022-06-19

  Art History, Ashcan School, Diane Tucker, Edouard Manet, George Bellows, Impressionism, The Lone Tenement, The Old Musician

  Diane Tucker, Edouard Manet, George Bellows, Great stories about great paintings, Modern Art, The Lone Tenement, The Old Musician, Urbanization