Weimar

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Curvaceous

Karl Blossfeldt, Bryonia alba White bryony, tendrils 8x, c. 1900

Erwin Blumenfeld, Nude on Coca Cola Chair, 1944

Josef Maria Eder, Aesculap-Snake, 1896

Klavdij Sluban, Finland, 2001

Robert Doisneau, La Tour Eiffel Tordue, 1965

David Moore, Pole vault, Commonwealth Games, Perth, 1962

Frantisek Drtikol, The Soul, 1930

Barbara Morgan, Pure Energy and Neurotic Man, 1941

Andreas Feininger, Navy Helicopter, 1949

Unknown British Air Ministry Photographer
R.A.F. Raid on Hamburg, 1943

Andre Kertesz, Nude Distortion, 1930s

Bill Brandt, Belgravia, 1953

Imogen Cunningham, Two sisters, c 1935

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
Blaise Pascal, Pensées. 1670.

Rudolf Koppitz, Motion Study, 1926

Nick Brandt, Giraffe Fan, Aberdares, 2001

Henry Horenstein, Greater Kudu

Man Ray, Tears, 1930

To save appearances; how gird the Sphere
With Centric and Eccentric scribbled o'er,
Cycle and Epicycle, Orb in Orb.

John Milton, Paradise Lost

Peter Keetman, Spiegelnde Tropfen (Reflecting Drops), 1950

Martin Miller, "The Gadget" (Trinity Atomic Bomb), 1945

Hiromu Kira, The Thinker, c. 1930

Aleksander Rodchenko, Shukhov tower, 1926

Hiroshi Sugimoto, Mathematical Form: Surface 0002, 2004

Paul Strand, Wire Wheel, 1917

Peter Keetman, Rear Fenders, [Volkswagen Factory, Wolfsburg], 1953

Margaret Bourke-White, Coiled Aluminum Rods, 1930

Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Instrumental, 1931

Edward Weston, Two Shells, 1927

Andrew Kudless, P-Wall, 2006

Nickolas Muray, 1922

IG Metall Haus (Metall Trade Union House) in Berlin by
Erich Mendelsohn, 1929

Hannes Kilian, Tower of Light, World Exposition Paris 1937

1940: Men unloading a streamlined Mercedes Benz automobile down the ramp of a truck for a race at Avus, Berlin

Tatra T-87 saloon car by Hans Ledwinka (1878-1967)
Manufactured by Tatra Werke, Czechoslovakia, 1937

Man Ray, Compass, 1920

Monday, January 10, 2011

Clowns

Fernand Pelez, Grimaces et misères, Les saltimbanques (Detail), 1888

Armand Henrion, Self Portrait, Clown with Monocle, c. 1920

Pablo Picasso, Harlequin's Family With an Ape, 1905

Ulrich Leman, Der Gaukler, 1913

Robert Green, Palinello II, 1934

Gino Severini, Pulcinella, 1920s

Guillaume Seignac (1870-1924)

Heinz Hajek-Halke, In Love, 1936

Andres Serrano, A History of Sex (Head), 1996

Banksy, Insane Clown, 2001

Adolphe Mossa, Pierrot s'en va, 1906

Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904), Duel After a Masquerade Ball, n.d.

Erich Heckel, Dead Pierrot, 1914

Edward Hopper, Soir Bleu, 1914

Walter Sickert, Brighton Pierrots, 1915

Sickert painted this work during the early part of the first world war, and it has a pervasive atmosphere of strangeness and melancholy. A party of Vaudeville entertainers perform on the Brighton seafront under the setting sun and artificial stage lights. Many of the deckchairs are empty, perhaps hinting at the absence of so many men in the war. The gunfire of the Western Front could sometimes be heard along the south coast of England. Against that and the deep pink of the sky, the performers seem a bit ridiculous, if not pathetic.