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May the soft, subtle flame subsume this abysmal day.
Helen Frankenthaler, Center Break, 1963.
I think about this Kara Walker New Yorker cover often. Made for the 2 year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, appropriating Géricault as a way to show the consistent and persistent violence government corruption. Nothing fixed, nothing changed. (Post Katrina, Adrift, 2007)
This morning feels right for Gwen Raverat trees (The Fen, 1935, wood-engraving)
@museumhour As a 19yo in the Louvre for the first time, alone in a room with this painting. So fascinated by the tiny details I got so close I set off the alarm & then ran scared out of the building. Made me want to be an art historian - I wanted to belong. #MuseumHour #CelebrateMuseums
James McNeill Whistler, Connie Gilchrist skipping rope, c. 1879 (pen & ink with brown wash) @britishmuseum
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