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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.
Been a bit fashion obsessed lately. Today building a lecture on propaganda of absolute monarchy & Louis XIV (age 14) declaring himself the sun in a 13-hr long, overnight ballet (Le ballet de la nuit, 1653) seems to be a good example. Louis's costumes by Henri de Gissey.
Käthe Kollwitz, Bread! (1924), lithograph. Part of the print portfolio entitled 'Starvation' made to raise money for Workers International Relief, an organisation created 'neutralise the agitation caused by international capitalism'.
Me trying to sleep in January 2021.
Also, me attempting a meme.
(perhaps better know as Meret Oppenheim's Portrait de femme, les yeux, 1965, ink on paper)