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Showing posts with label models. Show all posts

Thursday, July 30, 2026

Windbreak

Robert Adams
Remains of a Eucalyptus Windbreak - Redlands, California
1982
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC


Henri Matisse
La Coiffure
1901
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Roman Empire
Castor or Pollux
AD 150
marble
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Kasimir Malevich
Dynamic Suprematism
ca. 1915-16
oil on canvas
Tate Modern, London

Robert Adams
East Highlands, California
1983
gelatin silver print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Henri Matisse
Painter in the Studio
1916-17
oil on canvas
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris

Roman Empire
Isis
2nd century AD
marble
Museo Nacionale de Arte Romano, Mérida

Kasimir Malevich
Painterly Realism of Boy with Knapsack:
Color Masses in the Fourth Dimension

1915
oil on canvas
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Robert Adams
The River's Edge
2015
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Henri Matisse
Odalisque with Tambourine
1925-26
oil on canvas
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Roman Empire
Minerva (Palladium Form)
AD 100-150
marble
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Kasimir Malevich
Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying
1915
oil on canvas
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Robert Adams
Manzanita, Oregon
2004
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Henri Matisse
Seated Woman with Vase of Amaryllis
1941
oil on canvas
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Roman Empire
Hero
1st-2nd century AD
marble
Harvard Art Museums

Kasimir Malevich
Suprematist Composition
1915
drawing
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Robert Adams
Westminster, California
1983
gelatin silver print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

from In Time of War

They died and entered the closed life like nuns:
Even the very poor lost something; oppression
Was no more a fact; and the self-centered ones
Took up an even more extreme position.

And the kingly and the saintly also were
Distributed among the woods and oceans,
And touch our open sorrow everywhere,
Airs, waters, places, round our sex and reasons;

Are what we feed on as we make our choice.
We bring them back with promises to free them,
But as ourselves continually betray them:

They hear their deaths lamented in our voice,
But in our knowledge know we could restore them;
They could return to freedom; they would rejoice.

– W.H. Auden (1938)

Monday, July 20, 2026

Linked

Clarence H. White
Maud Alan
1910
platinum print
Princeton University Art Museum


Clarence H. White
Man and Three Children on Hillside
ca. 1910
platinum print
Princeton University Art Museum

Jeff Wall
In the Public Garden
1993
C-print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Jeff Wall
A Villager from Aricaköyü arriving in Mahmutbey, Istanbul
1997
C-print
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Arthur Tress
Window - Third & Market, San Francisco
1964
gelatin silver print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation)

Arthur Tress
Window of Drycleaner, San Francisco
1964
gelatin silver print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation)

Wolfgang Tillmans
Swimming Pool
1999
C-print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Wolfgang Tillmans
Socks on Radiator
1998
C-print
Museum of Modern Art, New York

August Sander
Unemployed Man
1920
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

August Sander
Confectioner
1928
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Lucas Samaras
Panorama
1986
dye diffusion transfer print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Lucas Samaras
Cindy Sherman
2010
inkjet print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Thomas Ruff
Portrait (I. Graw)
1989
C-print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Thomas Ruff
nudes bc15
2002
C-print
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Leo Rubinfien
Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires
2006
inkjet print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Leo Rubinfien
Canal Street and Broadway, New York
2006
inkjet print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Judith Joy Ross
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
1988
gelatin silver print
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Judith Joy Ross
Untitled
1984
gelatin silver print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Here too on our little reef display your power,
This fortress perched on the edge of the Atlantic scarp,
The mole between all Europe and the exile-crowded sea;

And make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching
The apple falling towards England, became aware
Between himself and her of an eternal tie.

– W.H. Auden (1932)

Friday, July 3, 2026

Solid

Ancient Greek Culture in South Italy
Ganymede, with Zeus as Eagle
3rd century BC
terracotta
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

Etruscan Culture
Draped Young Woman
3rd century BC
terracotta
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

attributed to Luca della Robbia
Virgin and Child with Angels
ca. 1430-40
terracotta relief
Bode Museum, Berlin

Donatello
Madonna and Child with Cherubs
ca. 1440-50
terracotta relief
Bode Museum, Berlin

attributed to Donatello
Madonna and Child with Cherubs
ca. 1445-50
terracotta relief
Bode Museum, Berlin

Andrea della Robbia
Tondo with Portrait of a Youth
ca. 1470-80
glazed terracotta
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

workshop of Antonio Benintendi
Posthumous Portrait of Lorenzo de' Medici
ca. 1515-20
terracotta
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Giovanni della Robbia
David with the Head of Goliath
ca. 1510-20
partly-glazed terracotta
Bode Museum, Berlin

Benedetto da Rovezzano
David with the Head of Goliath
ca. 1525
terracotta
Bode Museum, Berlin

Jacopo Sansovino
St John the Evangelist
ca. 1550
terracotta
Bode Museum, Berlin

Pieter Xavery
The Sheriff
1673
terracotta
(element in sculpture group)
Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden

Giovanni Giuliani
Venus Anadyomene
1705
terracotta
(modello for sculpture)
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Massimiliano Soldani
Descent from the Cross
ca. 1710-20
terracotta relief
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Joseph Chinard
Perseus and Andromeda
ca. 1785
terracotta
Detroit Institute of Arts

Gustave Deloye
Portrait of Therese, Countess Kinsky
garlanded by Putti

1871
terracotta
Belvedere Museum, Vienna

Moissey Kogan
Seated Woman
ca. 1933
terracotta
Clemens-Sels Museum, Neuss, Germany

About the time that this fleet was out, they [the Athenians] had surely the most galleys (besides the beauty of them) together in action in these employments; yet in the beginning of the war they had both as good and more in number.  For a hundred attended the guard of Attica, Euboea, and Salamis; and another hundred were about Peloponnesus, besides those that were at Potidaea and other places, so that in one summer they had in all two hundred and fifty sail.  And this, together with Potidaea, was it that most exhausted their treasure.  For the men of arms that besieged the city had each of them two drachmes a day, one for himself and another for his man, and were three thousand in number that were sent thither at first and remained to the end of the siege, besides sixteen hundred more that went with Phormio and came away before the town was won.  And the galleys had all the same pay.  In this manner was their money consumed and so many galleys employed, the most indeed that ever they had manned at once.

– from The Peloponnesian War as written by Thucydides (5th century BC) and translated by Thomas Hobbes (1628) and edited by David Grene (1959)