National Gallery of Artさんのイラストまとめ

🔎Take a close look at the myriad details in each—from the soaring trees to the towering skies...

Dear 2021, please embody the tranquil mood of these two classics ✨🙏

The monumental canvases of “The Swing” and “Blindman's Buff” by Jean Honoré Fragonard are counted among the greatest achievements in 18th-century French landscape painting.🖌

Cheers to new adventures, a new future, and new lessons to learn along the way. It will be a slow sail, and we may be met with changing winds and choppy waters, but nonetheless, it will be a move toward the horizon.

Edward Hopper, “Ground Swell,” 1939, oil on canvas

In his 1917 painting of Russian expressionist Chaim Soutine, Amedeo Modigliani depicted Soutine’s half-closed eyes, one slightly higher than the other, reflecting his despair and hopelessness. 🔍 Learn more about this painting and take a deeper dive 👉 https://t.co/3j1rqcx7Ma

In her 1966 painting, “Hartley,” Alice Neel’s youngest son is seated in a red chair in his white T-shirt and khakis. His expression is a look all too familiar in the unprecedented social landscape of 2020: exhaustion. Take a deeper dive 👉 https://t.co/OCMOoIqRxN

“George Jules Taylor” was painted by #BarkleyHendricks in 1972 and encapsulates 70s fashion, pop culture, & the assertion of Black identity. The painting’s main subject, Jules, was Hendricks’ lifelong friend and muse who he met while the two were enrolled at Yale 🎨

Many Italian Renaissance paintings have markings made by people who engaged with the works during the period.

In this year's Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art, Megan Holmes considers how markings reveal a more complex history of Renaissance art: https://t.co/QxOjTLge2g

Archibald Motley Jr. was born in New Orleans #onthisday in 1891.

Motley was one of the first Black students to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A few years after graduating, the artist painted this portrait of his grandmother, Emily Sims Motley.

“I challenge you to shift your own lens. Despite the uncertainties that may be surrounding us...let’s be hopeful. Imagine your next vacation, or imagine yourself getting dressed up for a night out with friends.

Find your window.”

@joelvincii

Marisol’s 1975 print “Womens Equality” features suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. Marisol— a Latinx naturalized US citizen—inserted herself into the narrative by including her own hands surrounding, touching, and pointing at the two women.