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For the 190th birthday of Édouard Manet (#botd) my most favourite pastel:
Portrait of Irma Brunner, 1880 @MuseeOrsay
Good morning to other people's sketchbooks.
Joan Mitchell. (page from) Sketchbook, c. 1967
Whole sketchbook: https://t.co/sQGXctQ34q
Incredible Laurencin painting @Tate 'In the Studio' gallery rn: Portraits, 1915 (Laurencin w/ Cecilia de Madrazo & Coco the dog). Painted while she was in exile in Spain during WWI (because she married a German). So much is done with just tones pink & grey. https://t.co/EpXUtkTVzL
Exciting Hepworth show alert! Here is my favourite #drawing of hers from @britishmuseum. Nude on yellow background (1949), graphite and oil on gesso-prepared board. Details show the variety of line from soft & surface graphite to deeply scored hatching in the gesso & board. https://t.co/I61xZyULBO
On this 200th anniversary of Napoleon's death let us give pause & contemplation to the elegant af uniforms he made his soldiers wear. Velvet trousers? Red lined cape matching under-armour, different polishes of metal - the fashion detail!
Géricault, Wounded Cuirassier, 1814
Working on French Revolution, getting mesmerised by the variety of marks & subtle volumes created in this Vigée Le Brun drawing (det.) of Marie Antoinette in theatrical dress @metmuseum The artist used stumping to diffuse the ruffled dress sleeve & tree leaves in the background.
Late night work, fully immersed in 18th c Venice & my fave GB Tiepolo drawing (c.1760). The wash is so perfectly controlled, the ink marks are both blurred and precise. It is both silly and beautiful. @britishmuseum
This morning's content Ida Applebroog & her series 'Mercy Hospital' (1969-70): 5 notebooks filled with #drawings from the artist's time in psychiatric care. Applebroog shares this work as a way to demystify illness & empower exploration of inner realities through making.