Antoine Watteau, A Seated Woman, n.d.
Edward Hopper, Solitary Figure in a Theater
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J.M.W. Turner. Fort Vimieux, 1835.
J.M.W. Turner. The Slave Ship, 1840.
One of Turner’s most celebrated works, Slave Ship is a striking example of the artist’s fascination with violence, both human and elemental. The painting was based on a poem that described a slave ship caught in a typhoon, and on the true story of the slave ship Zong whose captain, in 1781, had thrown overboard sick and dying slaves so that he could collect insurance money available only for slaves “lost at sea.” Turner captures the horror of the event and terrifying grandeur of nature through hot, churning color and light that merge sea and sky. The critic John Ruskin, the first owner of Slave Ship, wrote, “If I were reduced to rest Turner’s immortality upon any single work, I should choose this.” (via MFA Boston)
3 weeks ago on May 05, 2012 at 12:41am
Number 207 (Red over Dark Blue on Dark Gray), 1961, Mark Rothko
“There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend… One day the black will swallow the red.”