Pablo Picasso - Minotaur crouching over sleeping woman, 18 June 1933
(reworked at the end of 1934)
Plate 93 of The Vollard Suite (VS 93) | Drypoint
Picasso’s collection of 100 etchings, The Vollard Suite, is now on show at The British Museum. The exhibition is free and open until 2 September 2012
More information HERE
Alexander Calder - Small Feathers, 1931
via Art Blart
Taken from R.R. Tomlinson’s Picture Making by Children, 1934
Mark Leckey – Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, 2012
Turner Prize winning artist Mark Leckey has released the audio from his 1999 video work Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, available on vinyl in a limited edition of 500
It’s a mesmerising piece, a collage of sound and video footage encapsulating UK club and youth culture over the past 40 years
The artwork can be seen HERE > Watch on full screen and turn up the volume
Once Upon a Time, 1989
LGBT Community Center, Greenwich Village, NYC
Keith Haring’s mural, completed 9 months before his death, has recently been restored
via In The Air
RIP Maurice Sendak, who died today aged 83
Illustrations are taken from the Maurice Sendak Collection at The Rosenbach
Taken from Paper: Folded, Cut, Sculpted by Florence Temko, 1974
Andy Warhol
Female Fashion Figure (with 1959 Plymouth Sport Fury Convertible)
c. 1959
Ink and Dr. Martin’s Aniline dye on Strathmore paper
via Art Blart
Ray Morimura - Yamadera Tengu Iwa, 1998
Mark Morrisroe’s Dirt, Issues 1-5, 1975-77
In the Boston scene of the early 1980s, Mark Morrisroe was a charismatic figure widely known under the name “Mark Dirt”. In 1975 and 1976, even before he studied art, he produced five editions of the collaged, and xeroxed magazine Dirt, together with Lynelle White. Mixing fact with fiction, the editors relayed the juicy details of underground life - We Find Wilderness
Andy Warhol - Male Genitals, c. 1955
via Mounds & Circles
I’ve always had a soft-spot for the art of Alphonse Mucha, so it’s been a treat that Golden Age Comic Book Stories have been posting his work all week
And if that wasn’t enough, BBC4’s new 3-part series Sex and Sensibility: The Allure of Art Nouveau is well worth a watch
