Sunday, May 7, 2023

Moving Outside The Canvas

Paul Nash moved from being an army officer to being a war artist during the First World War. This 1918 painting is titled Void.


Coming back out into the main space, this area has at its heart a mobile sculpture hanging from the ceiling. Jacaranda is by Alexander Calder, dating to 1949.


The Small Table is a 1919 canvas by Picasso.


The Pianist is a 1915 painting by Liubov Popova.


And we finish today with Red Nude, by Marcel Duchamp, a 1910 work. Tomorrow we wrap up this visit.

40 comments:

  1. The very powerful abstract arts!

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  2. 'The pianist' is a wonderful artwork.

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  3. I am not sure if I love abstract art but I do like it. William your comments are no longer publishing on my blog and I don't know why. I can see them under comments on blogger but they are not appearing under my blog posts. I just noticed this today, it has been like this for a few weeks. I just wanted to let you know since you might think I am deleting or not approving your comments and this is not the case. Other people's comments are appearing as normal.

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    1. What's been happening for several months is that blogger is shunting real comments into spam. You'd have to go into the spam folder and that's where they can be found.

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  4. I like "The Pianist" - a work I'd never seen before. I would have thought it would have been "stolen" for the cover of a jazz album before now!

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  5. The pianist looks quite wonderful, but I can barely imagine having the kind of mind that would come up with it!

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  6. The Pianist sure speaks to me. I gave up playing cause with a metronome it got confusing...

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  7. ...I love the Calder mobile.

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  8. i enjoy the art ...that ceiling is way cool. makes the space feel so super large. ( ;

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  9. The Calder mobile is right there where curious hands can touch it...a risky thing for the museum to have done.

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    1. What the pictures don't show is the security guard always in proximity to it.

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  10. The title Void is so apt for war. A veteran's honest perspective.

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  11. I love Calder's work. Wish I had one. ;-)

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  12. 'Void' says so much about war ~ other great artworks too ~

    Wishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
    A ShutterBug Explores,
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

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  13. I like the mobile sculpture, it's unique.

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  14. The mobile sculptures are pretty cool.

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  15. I really like Picasso's ones, they always make me think and look really hard.

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  16. Funny how Picasso is so recognizable!

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  17. The heart mobile is wonderful:)

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  18. I like Red more than I thought I would.

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  19. More stunning views of the gallery.

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  20. I'm not a big fan of Picasso but I rather like this one.

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    1. The Gallery has a series by Picasso that I've seen once. Essentially a series of images on panels with a mythology basis, as I recall. Some are very Picasso, others are more realistic.

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