Dora Maar, Nusch Éluard, Pablo Picasso and Paul Éluard on the beach by Eileen Agar, September 1937 via
Dora Maar, Nusch Éluard, Pablo Picasso and Paul Éluard on the beach by Eileen Agar, September 1937 via
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Category Archives: Artists
Portraits of Surrealist Xenia Kashevaroff by Edward Weston (1931)
Xenia Kashevaroff (1913 – 1995) was an American painter, sculptor, bookbinder, conservator, and musician notable for her surrealist mobiles and artistic collaborations.
Her work has been described as on the “cutting edge of surrealism in sculpture” for her time. From 1935 to 1945, she was married to the musician and composer John Cage and performed in his percussion ensemble throughout their marriage.
Xenia Kashevaroff by Edward Weston (1931) via
Xenia Kashevaroff by Edward Weston (1931) via
Xenia Kashevaroff by Edward Weston (1931) via
Xenia Kashevaroff by Edward Weston (1931) via
Xenia Kashevaroff by Edward Weston (1931) via
Horseplay with Yayoi Kusama in Woodstock (1967)
Yayoi Kusama (born 1929) is a Japanese artist and writer. Throughout her career she has worked in a wide variety of media, including painting, collage, soft sculpture, performance art, and environmental installations, most of which exhibit her thematic interest in psychedelic colors, repetition, and pattern. A precursor of the pop art, minimalist and feminist artmovements, Kusama influenced her contemporaries such as Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, and George Segal and exhibited works alongside the likes of them.
In 1957, she moved to the United States, settling down in New York City where she produced a series of paintings influenced by the abstract expressionist movement. Switching to sculpture and installation as her primary media, Kusama became a fixture of the New York avant-garde during the early 1960s where she became associated with the pop art movement. Embracing the rise of the hippiecounterculture of the late 1960s,
Kusama came to public attention when she organized a series of happenings in which naked participants were painted with brightly colored polka dots.
Although largely forgotten after departing the New York art scene in the early 1970s, Kusama is now acknowledged as one of the most important living artists to come out of Japan, and an important voice of the avant-garde.
Yayoi Kusama, Horse Play in Woodstock, 1967 via
Yayoi Kusama, Horse Play in Woodstock, 1967 via
Yayoi Kusama, Horse Play in Woodstock, 1967 via
Pegeen Vail Guggenheim
Swiss-born American painter Pegeen Vail Guggenheim (1925 – 1967) via
Vintage Photos of Jeanne Hébuterne
Jeanne Hébuterne (1898 – 1920) was a French artist, best known as the frequent subject and common-law wife of the artist Amedeo Modigliani. Born in Paris, she aspired to be an artist and was introduced to the vibrant Montparnasse artist community through her brother Andre, who was himself an artist.
She modeled for several painters and sculptors, but soon enrolled in the Academie Colarossi for her own artistic training. There, in the spring of 1917, she met the charismatic artist Amedeo Modigliani. Jeanne began an affair with the charismatic artist, and the two fell deeply in love. She soon moved in with him, despite strong objection from her parents
Modigliani, suffering from tuberculous meningitis, died in January 1920. Jeanne Hébuterne’s family brought her to their home but Jeanne, totally distraught, threw herself out of the fifth-floor apartment window the day after Modigliani’s death, killing herself and her unborn child. Her family, who blamed her demise on Modigliani, interred her in the Cimetière de Bagneux. Nearly ten years later, the Hébuterne family finally relented and allowed her remains to be transferred to Père Lachaise Cemetery to rest beside Modigliani. Her epitaph reads:
“Devoted companion to the extreme sacrifice”.
Jeanne Hébuterne (1914) via
Jeanne Hébuterne (1914) via
Jeanne Hébuterne via
Jeanne Hébuterne at Amedeo Modigliani atelier in Montparnasse Paris (1919) from iulia achimescu via
Paul & Nusch Eluard by Man Ray (1936)
Man Ray, Portrait de Paul Eluard, avec Nusch, à Montlignon. 1936 via theredlist.com
Karin van Leyden by Man Ray (1929)
Artist Karin van Leyden (Karin Elisabeth Kluth b. 1906-1971) by Man Ray.
Paris, circa 1929 via blogspot.dk
