Need Mid-Centurn Modern Art Suggestions

[RSS]

EDIT: Damn ... read the directions.

On my walls (home or office) are pieces by artists as follows: Where I don't have the image on my computer ... I've found the closest piece possible.

Robert Motherwell: Brushstroke

Roy Lichtenstein: Brushstroke

Bob Rauschenberg: Artist's Rights

Jasper Johns:

Lee Krasner: Primary Blue Stone

Andy Warhol: Mao

Andy Warhol: Self Portait

 

[itsstillmatt]

Originally Posted by redcaimen

Paul Klee. Dont know the title. May be considered slightly earlier than mid-century.
I have one of his paintings from '41, which was just before he died. I'd consider him to be early modern rather than mid-century. The same for Mondrian.

 

[LabelKing]

I'd enjoy a Francis Bacon. I'm currently reading Paul Bowles's autobiography, Without Stopping, and it reads like a Who's Who of the midcentury artistic and intellectual elite, who at that time, were probably not so elite as we'd like to think now.

 

[RJman]

I like Balthus.

 

[Fuuma]

Originally Posted by RJman

I like Balthus.
Then you'll like Guy Bourdin photography, lots of his spacial compositions are inspired by Balthus. I can't offer suggestions as what seems to be considered mid-century modern in this thread varies so much I'm not even sure what we're talking about. Mondrian isn't mid-century modern to me but then the designation is better applied to design and architecture. If you mean any piece of art produced between 1930-1960 or something then I guess that's different.

 

[LabelKing]

Originally Posted by Fuuma

Then you'll like Guy Bourdin photography, lots of his spacial composition is inspired by Balthus.
I love his Exhibition A tome. They strangely had a big Bourdin exhibition in Beijing a few years back.

 

[Fuuma]

Originally Posted by LabelKing

I love his Exhibition A tome.

They strangely had a big Bourdin exhibition in Beijing a few years back.

They also had one in London this summer. I like all the Bourdin artbooks but he was against prints and artbooks himself, preferring that his work be apprehended in the magazines in which it was published and with a proper use of the two-page division.

 

[Gus]

Originally Posted by RSS

EDIT: Damn ... read the directions.


I knew you were a smart guy

 

[cimabue]

Originally Posted by Bhowie

This would look lovely in any home

Oh. Gustav Stickley?

 

[Jerome]

Originally Posted by LabelKing

I'd enjoy a Francis Bacon.

I'm currently reading Paul Bowles's autobiography, Without Stopping, and it reads like a Who's Who of the midcentury artistic and intellectual elite, who at that time, were probably not so elite as we'd like to think now.
I'd second Bacon; also Mondrian who is also very interesting in a theoretical context (his methods and theories)- Yve Alain Bois and Georges Didi Hubermann, I believe, have also written some interesting things on this topic (of modern art)...also Matisse is worth mentioning...

 

[Kent Wang]

I don't like any of those, except for Mondrian, but I'm a huge fan of his work.

My friend painted a parody of the Warhol Campbell's soup with a 7-Up Big Gulp instead. She was also a big consumer of Big Gulps.

 

[LabelKing]

Originally Posted by Fuuma

They also had one in London this summer. I like all the Bourdin artbooks but he was against prints and artbooks himself, preferring that his work be apprehended in the magazines in which it was published and with a proper use of the two-page division.

Ebay sometimes has the "Sighs & Whispers" lingerie catalog he did for Bergdorf Goodman although it was the Charles Jourdan stuff that was the best.

 

[spudnik99]

I like Roy L.'s Rouen Cathedral Set V, nice homage to Monet.

 

[redcaimen]

Originally Posted by iammatt

I have one of his paintings from '41, which was just before he died. I'd consider him to be early modern rather than mid-century. The same for Mondrian.

I wish I owned one. This thread has me looking at some Klee websites. Some of them can almost set a flashback in motion.

To be honest, I would probably still just sell it and spend the money elsewhere. Im not bigtimer enough to keep something like that around, although I once lived next door to a woman who had a Lichtenstein hanging in her house.

 

[mickey711]

Joan Miró's Bleu II is pretty nice: