Archive
Category: Art
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Insula Dulcamara
Paul Klee, oil on newsprint, mounted on burlap, 1938 Now exhibited at the Klee Foundation, Bern, Switzerland. Read more →
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Remembrance of a Garden
Paul Klee, watercolor on linen paper mounted on cardboard, 1914 Read more →
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Ad Parnassum
Paul Klee, oil on canvas, 1932 This is an interesting work. It represents the culmination of a series of experiments by Klee, who sought to redefine the traditional system of colour representation in a radial pattern around an axis consisting of red, yellow and blue (the three primary colours). Klee draw inspiration from nature and… Read more →
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New York Movie
Edward Hopper, oil on canvas, 1939 This painting has an interesting balance, with two distinct regions that contrast with one another in theme, tone and light. The woman appears isolated from the rest of the audience — waiting for someone, perhaps — or is she merely the usher waiting for the film’s end? Read more →
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Chop Suey
Edward Hopper, oil on canvas, 1929 I like the conversational quality of this painting; one can readily imagine the atmosphere within the second story of this Asian café, with its grimy windows and sunlit tables. The half-cropped woman at the left, and the vacant expression of the facing woman, lend an unresolved feeling to the… Read more →
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Nighthawks
Edward Hopper, oil on canvas, 1942 Edward Hopper (1882–1967) was an American painter who lived in New York. Nighthawks has often been described as conveying loneliness and desolation through its emptiness and isolated, anonymous actors. Hopper denied any conscious intention: ‘I didn’t see it as particularly lonely … Unconsciously, probably, I was painting the loneliness… Read more →