Sunday, December 27, 2020

good morning justin

  







E N S L A V E M E N T   by   P R E D A T O R S


Stanislaw Szukalski     1975






S E L F    P O R T R A I T


Philippe Halsman 







O S I P    B R I K


Alexander Rodchenko     1924







M A X    E R N S T

Frederick Sommer     1946







N E W S P A P E R    B O Y S


Lewis Hine     1908







W A N D E R E R


Heinrich Kuhn     1915







W O M A N    a t    H E R    M I R R O R


Heinrich Kuhn     1906 







G R A D U A T I N G    C L A S S


Eugene Frank     1913







D A N C E    S C H O O L


Elliot Erwitt     1977






 
C O U P L E


Maurice Tabard 








R I C H A R D    N I X O N


Philippe Halsman     1959









F A S H I O N


Richard Prince     1984







Y O U N G     M A N     i n     C U R L E R S


Diane Arbus     1966







U N T I T L E D    3 5 3


Cindy Sherman     2000







S E L F     P O R T R A I T


Chuck Close     2007



love

   dad


 



©  Tom Taylor



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Sunday, December 20, 2020

good morning jacob

  





A N X I O U S     C O R R I D O R

Kansuke Yamamoto     1940






UNTITLED

Zdzislaw Beksinski     1956 







UNTITLED

Saul Steinberg     1974 







L I F E     M A S K

Francis Bacon     1955 







A C T R E S S

Diego Rivera     1948 







S E L F     P O R T R A I T

Gustave Courbet     1845 







S T A G     a t     S H A R K E Y' S

George Bellows     1909 







B L A C K     B E L T 

Archibald Motley     1934 







I R E L A N D

Kent Rockwell     1927 







S U M M E R     E V E N I N G

Edward Hopper     1947 



love

   dad





©  Tom Taylor


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Sunday, December 13, 2020

good morning jessica

  




STUDY of GOD the FATHER
Raphael  1515




 
CREATION of the SUN and MOON
Michelangelo  1512







ADAM and EVE
Rembrandt  1638






 
SACRIFICE of ISAAC
Titian  1544







DAVID with the HEAD of GOLIATH
Caravaggio  1610







STORM of the SEA of GALILEE
Rembrandt  1633







BEHEADING of SAINT JOHN the BAPTIST
Caravaggio  1608







CHRIST DRIVING the MONEYCHANGERS from the TEMPLE
Rembrandt  1626







TAKING of CHRIST
Caravaggio  1602







RAISING of the CROSS
Rubens  1610







CHRIST
Dali  1951







DESCENT from the CROSS
Rembrandt  1633







LAMENTATION
Rubens  1618







ENTOMBMENT
Rubens  1612







INCREDULOUS SAINT THOMAS
Caravaggio  1602







LAST JUDGEMENT
Michelangelo  1541


love

   dad






©  Tom Taylor


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Sunday, December 6, 2020

good morning jack

  






UNTITLED

Bontecou     1961




born:  1931

abstract sculpture 







Bibemus Quarry 

Cezanne     1900




1839 - 1906

Post-Impressionist


Cezanne's simplified forms gave rise to cubism

 and abstraction. 

 






Les Demoiselles

Picasso     1907 




1881 - 1973

cubist, surreal


He eventually became his own school of thought

by determining aesthetics too big for beauty alone. 

  

 





Three Women

Leger     1921




1881 - 1955

    cubist


Turn Renoir into an architect whose eye is on 

casual women at leisure.    In place of a summer's 

 breeze we have the steady rhythms of machinery.

 






Composition with Large Red

Mondrian     1921




1872 - 1944

abstract


Flat squares, rectangles and basic colors, mostly.

 White and thick, black lines.  Simply find the harmony

amidst a rubric's cube of not quite right possibilities. 

   






Number 8

Pollock     1949




1912 - 1956

abstract  expressionist 


Imagine an idea without image,

a thought without words.

 Or someone just marveling over dribbles 

 and splashes of color.  Imagine both together.

  

 

 






Five Deaths

Warhol     1963




1928 - 1987

 pop art


What would induce you to place a blowup of

a coroner's snapshot of an automobile accident

above your sofa?  Maybe if it's a screen print.

 






Black, Red and Black

Rothko     1968 




1903 - 1970

 abstract  expressionist 


While Pollock is about spontaneous gesture,

Rothko plants a singular thought trapped by a color.

The thought is one of your choosing.  Off the wall.

 







Glenn

Basquait     1985 




1960 - 1988

 street  art


No need to dress-up when you've got the goods.

 






Sunbather

Hanson     1989 

 



1925 - 1996
superrealism  sculpture


Being happy is draining.

   





Portrait of I. M. Pei

Estes     1996 




born:   1932

photorealism 


 Vast, silent, deserted.  Urban.  Precise.  Illusion.

 

 

love

   dad 







©  Tom Taylor


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