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Helen Frankenthaler at work
via museumuesum
It’s easy to forget how radical it was for an artist to let go of structure, forsake known geometries, stop using the sides of the painting to define the image, move away from enclosed forms, and meld background and image, all while enthralling the eye, enticing the mind, and allowing others to use the work as a passage to a not-quite-known imaginary place. Jerry Saltz Vulture, 2011
Portrait in Chair
Akio Hayakawa, 2012
“Manipulating the axis affects not only the visual but simultaneously frees the body to move and change behaviour with the chair.”
Harry MocoLoco
Ray Eames with an early prototype version of “The Toy”, 1951
Meredith Carruthers, Paper Alchemy Source: Eames design, John Neuhart, Marilyn Neuhart, Ray Eames, 1989
Photo: Scott Schuman The Sartorialist
Serena Williams of the U.S. adjusts her necklace during a break in play against Victoria Azarenka of Belarus in their women’s singles finals match at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York September 9, 2012. REUTERS/Mike Segar
“I kind of just started playing for history,” Williams said. “I hope I see it now.” Liz Clarke The Washington Post
Serena Williams and Roger Federer were born a month apart; between them they have collected thirty-two Grand Slam titles, seventeen for him, fifteen for her. Reeves Wiedeman The New Yorker
Yayoi Kusama in Yellow Tree furniture room at Aich triennale, Nagoya, Japan, 2010 (detail). © Yayoi Kusama. Image courtesy Yayoi Kusama Studio Inc.; Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo; Victoria Miro Gallery, London; and Gagosian Gallery New York
Juan Gris, Portrait of Josette, 1916
Photo Milton Greene
Somebody should make an animated GIF with these two images.
Update: I had Marilyn on my mind when I posted Happy Birthday Mister President and then I learned that today August 5th is the 50th anniversary of her death: she would be 86. (!)
Wherever I travel in the world, I run across the luminous image of the heartbreaking and breathtaking sex symbol who was smart enough to become the most famous “dumb blonde” of the 20th century.
Maureen Dowd The Love Goddess Who Keeps Right on Seducing nytimes
