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Saturday, January 8, 2011

Something in the Air

Arkady Rylov, In the Blue Expanse, 1918

Julius von Ehren, Möwen an der Alster, Hamburg, ca. 1905

Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904), Le Marabout in the Harem bath

Richard Müller, A Classic Beauty Courted by Dignified Ugliness, 1910

John Baldessari, Pelicans Staring at Woman with Nose Bleeding, 1984

Paula Rego, Brazil, c. 1995

Martin Eder, Night Watch, 2007

René Magritte, La nuit d'amour, 1947

Lucien Levy-Dhurmer, Swan Lake,c. 1900

Nicholas Kalmakoff, Leda and the Swan. c. 1920

Jan Asselijn, The Threatened Swan, before 1652

Jean Dupas, Les Perruches, 1925

Alberto Savinio, Niobe, c. 1930

Edward Burra, Bird Men and Pots, 1947

Jan Mankes, Haan (Cock), 1913

Richard Müller, Fox, 1926

Jozsef Rippl-Ronai, Woman With Birdcage, c. 1900

Atelier Manassé, 1920s

Untitled

The bird dispenser by Curro Claret

Ed Ruscha, Angry Because It’s Plaster, Not Milk, 1965

Karl Zerbe, Parrot and Decanter, 1934

Adolf Dietrich, Pfeffervogel (Pepper Bird), 1927

Gert Wollheim, Dame mit Kakadu, 1929

Stefan George

Meine weissen ara haben
safrangelbe kronen ·
Hinterm gitter wo sie wohnen
Nicken sie in schlanken ringen
Ohne ruf ohne sang ·
Schlummern lang ·
Breiten niemals ihre schwingen –
Meine weissen ara träumen
Von den fernen dattelbäumen.

Torsten Solin, Gustav & Paula, 2008

Ruth Marten, Abundance, 2008

John Delaney, Kazakh Eagle Nomad, 2008

Julio Larraz, For you, Anaxagoras, 2003

What is called "birds' milk" is the white of the egg. (Anaxagoras, Fragments, no. 22)

René Magritte, Self-Portrait, 1936

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Air, 1566

Melchior Hondecoeter, Die Menagerie, c. 1600

Martin Johnson Heade, Cattleya Orchid and Three Brazilian Hummingbirds, 1871

Albrecht Dürer, Wing of a Blue Roller, 1512

Martial Leiter (b. 1952), Untitled

George Frederick Watts, The Wounded Heron, 1837

Franz Dvorak, The Angel of the Birds, 1910

Rene Magritte, Pleasure, 1926

Picasso, Woman with a Crow,1904

Paula Rego, Crow, 1994

Félix Bracquemond, The Raven, 1854

Max Klinger, The Pest, c. 1900

Henri Rivière, Paris, c. 1900

Felix Jenewein, Judas, 1896

Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov, Return of the Crows, 1871

Marina Sailer, Ort der Zuflucht (Place of Shelter), 2005

Daniel Pitin, The Birds, 2004

Marguerite Burnat-Provins, Anthor et l'oiseau noir, 1922

Edward J. Detmold, Illustration from The Fables of Aesop, 1909

Max Ernst, The Barbarians, 1937

Isaac Brodsky, Fairy Tale, 1911

Léon Frédéric, The Lake, 1898

George de Forest Brush, Indian and the Lily, 1887

Vinogradov Alexander, Dubossarsky Vladimir, Oblomov, 1996

Jamie Wyeth, Pridefulness, 2008

Ruth Jacobi, Berlin, 1928

Victor Pivovarov , A Cockroach for Dinner, 2009

Viktor Vasnetsov, A Song of Joy and Sorrow, 1896

James Gleeson, Gondolier with Siren, 1951

Priscilla Roberts, Self-Portrait, 1946

Clovis Trouille (1889-1975), Untitled

Henry Stacy Marks, Science is Measurement, c. 1880

Monday, December 27, 2010

David Graham - Almost Paradise

Benson, Arizona, 2002

David Graham was born in 1952 in Abington, Pennsylvania. He received a BA from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia and his MFA in Photography from the Tyler School of Art. He has taught at Moore College of Art and is currently on the faculty at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Graham has published several books of his work including Taking Liberties, Ay, Cuba!, Alone Together, as well as American Beauty and Land of the Free, which were published by Aperture, and most recently Almost Paradise published by Pond Press. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s, The New Yorker, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. His work has been collected by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Biblioteque Nationale in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Tirelessly traveling the United States, Graham captures the colorful, sometimes surreal, and often bizarre, in the thoroughly American landscape. You can visit his personal website here.