October 2017 in "Visuals"
Spotted: "History of Art" on Twitter, 25 October 2017
Detail of "Interior with a Woman Seen from the Back" by Vilhelm Hammershoi
More information about Vilhelm Hammershoi in Wikipedia
Generous supply of calm and somber imagery in Twitter in the last few days. For this update I chose the most subdued palette.
This detail left out the interesting early 20th century furniture that foregrounded the female figure. See the full work in this Artnet page. The female figure turned away was likely the artist's wife Ida, sister to one of Hammershoi's close artist-friends. The interior was likely one of the artist's former residences in Copenhagen.
Spotted: "Art Pics Channel" on Twitter, 20 October 2017
Vogue magazine cover by Salvador Dali, April 1944
Weekend beckons: "I know a place where you can get away, it's called a dance floor, and here's what it's for, so come on...!"
More information about Salvador Dali in Wikipedia
More information about this magazine cover illustration in Lomography.com
Spotted: Google Arts and Culture's extension for Chrome, 18 October 2017
"The Upper Nepean" by W.C. Piguenit
More information about William Charles "W.C." Piguenit in Wikipedia
From the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Could be mistaken for a Hudson River School at first glance. You could stare at this for hours at its Google Arts and Culture page, and you won't ever get tired.
Spotted: From "Art Pics Channel" on Twitter, 16 October 2017
"Night in St. Cloud" by Edvard Munch (probably)
A bit of cyber sleuthing to get my blood running. This work pictured and captioned as "Moonlight (1895)" seemed all wrong after a Google image search. At least two works by Munch titled "Moonlight" - one dated 1893, another dated 1895 - were neither this.
A chance search on "Expressionism" on Pinterest hinted at the nearest legitimate match, "Night in St. Cloud" from the collection of Norway's National Museum in Oslo (or Nasjonalmuseet) with very obvious differences (horizontally flipped, for one).
Far from puzzle solved, some mystery remains, one that has been liked and reblogged many times per this Tumblr post.
More information about Edvard Munch on Wikipedia
Spotted: From "Art History Women" on Twitter, 14 October 2017
"Rhythm Colour No. 1076," by Sonia Delaunay
More information about Sonia Delaunay on Wikipedia
From the collection of Centre National des Arts Plastiques/Fonds National d'Art Contemporain in Paris, and loaned to the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, according to this entry in Artsy.net. Sonia Delaunay is the co-founder of the art movement orphism, and wife to an equally renowned artist Robert Delaunay.
Spotted: Google Arts and Culture's extension for Chrome, 13 October 2017
"The Kutenai Duck Hunter" by Edward Sheriff Curtis
More information on Edward S. Curtis on Wikipedia
A photogravure from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Page on this work from Google Arts and Culture HERE.
Heal your eyes with some art: get the Google Arts and Culture extension for Chrome HERE.
Spotted: From "Art Pics Channel" on Twitter, 10 October 2017
"Sorrowing Old Man (At Eternity's Gate)" by Vincent Van Gogh
More information on Vincent Van Gogh in Wikipedia
Spotted tweet included a Van Gogh quote: "I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process." It's World Mental Health Day today; not sure if this was intended for the occasion.
Part of the collection of Kroller-Muller Museum in the Netherlands. In some other website, this was titled "Old Man in Sorrow (On the Threshold of Eternity)."
Wikipedia article on the painting also states "The painting was completed in early May at a time when he was convalescing from a severe relapse in his health and some two months before his death, which is generally accepted as a suicide." Oh, Vincent.
Spotted: From "History of Painting" on Twitter, 04 October 2017
"A Hermit Praying in the Ruins of a Roman Temple" by Hubert Robert
More information about Hubert Robert in Wikipedia.
From the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum. This image was cropped from the artwork's actual proportions - check this feature from Google Arts and Culture.