a visible manifestation.

basquiat.

the pursuit of happiness.

yay! i've finally amassed 150 followers! a nice little present indeed.

{paintings by
maira kalman
via her wonderful
nyt blog}

storm tharp.

while i was in nyc last week i made a point to go check out the whitney biennial. overall there wasn't too much that i was excited about. that is, except for the series of paintings by storm tharp, which i really really like. a lot. unfortunately they were placed in a room with marianne vitale berating the art audience via video, which was both annoying and attention getting; so these paintings probably didn't get as much eye time as they should have.

the sublime.

"whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure, but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt"

p.s. this is my computer desktop!
p.p.s. i passed my review. thanks for the good viiiiiibes dudes.

{painting by c. d. friedrich
quote by i. kant}

tombstone.

{by tim wirth}

how much art can you take?

so i've returned from art basel miami with no money, lots of blisters and about 500 pictures! we went to 6 fairs {art basel, it ain't, pulse, nada, pool and aqua} and so, so many galleries/shows/openings. we saw gang gang dance play at a recreation of max fish and kid sister play poolside at a swanky hotel. i ate some pretty good food {where are all the fancy vegetarian restaurants?!} and stepped into the ocean. mostly i looked at art and thought about art and looked at art and wrote down notes about art and looked at art and talked about art and looked at a lot of art.

tips.

if it were only that simple.

{painting by john baldessari
seen at man made lakes}

stellar.

stills from the stan brakhage film stellar [1993] made into a gif, by me.

{images via the art of memory}

cool clutter.

the cave [86.5" x 114.5"]

i'm super into this awesome gouache painting by charlie roberts. i love all of the little hidden surprises. cat in a bucket!

{via booooooom}

a love letter.

i've been feeling homesick for my hometown.

look to the skies.

paintings by esther pearl watson and sarah mceneaney, respectively. i want, nay, yearn for these two paintings.

{via string}

mermaids, whales, hot air ballons & ships.

my sister was watching antiques roadshow and saw a painting by ralph cahoon and thought that i would like his work. boy was she right.

tactile construction of love.

josef and anni albers.

{albers foundation}

andy wyeth.

andy wyeth died today. the entire wyeth family's work has surrounded me throughout my life. my great grand uncle is howard pyle, teacher to andy's father n.c. and owner to the boots used in this painting. my mother grew up in chadds ford right down the street from n.c. wyeth's house and studio. jamie wyeth hung out with my uncle and his friend taught my mom how to swear. my grandmother used to work at the brandywine river museum and knows more about the paintings there than she was allowed to tell. i associate the wyeth's with my mother's side of the family and with my grandmother especially, this just reminds me that she's in her 90's as well. rest in peace, andrew newell wyeth. sigh.

{if i had to narrow it down
i would say that
garret room [above]
is my favorite
andy wyeth painting.
if you get a chance
to visit the brm
and see it
in person
i highly recommend
that you do.
it is stunning.}