Some musings on unfinished works and the theme of incompletion, inspired by seeing Klimt’s “Portrait of Amalie Zuckerkandl” at the Belvedere in Vienna.
Category Archive: Art
Full article in Modern Painters magazine (September 2019).
In the mid-20th century, poets and artists started taking existing texts and images and then redacting and erasing them to form new ones.
The idea was to create a project that would depict the way these ethnic minority groups live, what their daily lives look like, as well as how the government watches them 24/7.
This question of space — of how something takes up space, deconstructs it or contains it — preoccupied both artists throughout their careers.
In contrast to a long history of erotic representations of female nudes, Pearlstein’s models are not sexualized. Their bodies are not offered up to the viewer’s gaze, but are positioned with a strange sort of nonchalant agency.
An interview with Catherine Pégard, President of the Château de Versailles.
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