Tag: painting

And let me tell you, it was wonderful.

That saying is embroidered on a linen in the new Louise Bourgeois retrospective, that opened at the Hirshhorn Museum today.

I learned so much about this amazing artist. Did you know that she has been creating art for 70 plus years and is still going strong? She is currently 97 years old and has new works that were created in the past two years! I can not fathom having such a long and successful career.

It astounds me and makes me hope that we can all be just as successful in our careers and in life.

I also learned that her mother was a master tapestry restorer and was heavily influenced by this. Many of her more contemporary works were created from tapestries and fabrics. How wonderful that she has evolved once again and is very current with her material use.

The other quote that got me was written on an etching. It said something along the lines of “It’s not where my motivation comes from, it’s that it survives.”

I highly encourage you to go and see this exhibit with her spiders, phallus’s and memories. You can read more about the retrospective over at DCist.

Image by Peter Bellamy, courtesy Hirsshorn Museum

I recently traveled to Chile and found some really great street art in the port city of Valparaíso. Here are some of my favorites.

Over the holiday I had the opportunity to visit the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, while visiting friends. We arrived at the museum in the early afternoon, and quickly realized that we wouldn’t have nearly enough time to explore it in its entirety. So we split up and went our separate ways to explore as we saw fit.

I made it my goal to see everything. Crazy, yes, but not impossible. I knew that I wouldn’t be back for a very long time and I wanted to see as much as possible.

Starting on the top floor, the museum had a focus exhibit on Joan Miró. The name piqued something in my brain and the work there was somewhat familiar but nothing that slowed me down too much.

I proceeded to the next floor down. Here is where I started to slow, realizing what I was surrounded by. The first painting that stopped me in my tracks was The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon by Picasso came next. Work by Salvador Dali, Jasper Johns, Gustav Klimt, Robert Delaunay, Meret Oppenheim, Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Louise Nevelson, Eva Hesse, Egon Schiele….

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