Posts tagged: art
some art I found while I was going through my things. I’m getting ready to move soon so a bunch of old stuff is appearing.
it’s around 10 x 15, $45 with shipping included. message if you’re interested.
Arthur Hacker - Portrait of the Artist’s Brother
Francis Bacon, Figure Study I, 1945-46
From the National Galleries of Scotland:
This is an important early painting by Bacon, as he destroyed much of his work from the period of 1935 to 1944. Despite the title, it is a figure study only by implication. It is one of the few works in Bacon’s oeuvre that does not feature a figure, though the trilby hat and tweed overcoat suggest a human presence. The painting was followed by a similar work, ‘Figure Study II’ (Huddersfield Art Gallery), which shows the same coat motif, from which a deformed, screaming figure - perhaps lurking under the coat in this painting - emerges.
Egon Schiele - Standing Woman In Red
smiles all around!
I believe that every person on earth has innate worth, talent, and unique things to offer the world. And that’s the thing about living is people combining their different strengths to make great things or change things and so on.
But I used to base all my self-esteem on how…
the source is mysterious. i appreciate this