Rosy Fingered Dawn at Louse Point by Willem de Kooning
What does Willem de Kooning evoke in the painting Rosy Fingered Dawn at Louse Point?
• Homeric phrases and Long Island
• De Kooning’s gestural impact
• Landscape ladies
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Arctic Tern by John James Audubon
What’s so special about Arctic Tern, the Audubon bird painting?
• Audubon – hunter turned lover
• Blue moves the Arctic Tern
• Feet make the bird
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
Why is the painting A Sunday on La Grande Jatte an emblem of Impressionist zeitgeist?
• Georges Seurat – obsessed and bullied misanthrope
• A passionate painting with dispassionate subjects
• How is A Sunday on La Grande Jatte like a mullet?
Nighthawks by Edward Hopper
You know it. You might even love it. But why is Nighthawks by Edward Hopper so cool?
• Isolated details
• Smoking as distraction in Nighthawks
• Light patches create composition
• Lonely, anonymous birds
Woman Descending the Staircase by Gerhard Richter
Here’s a few tidbits of introduction to the painting Woman Descending the Staircase:
• Abstract Expressionist and/or Photo Realistic
• Woman Descending the Staircase – pure movement
• What’s Duchamp got to do with it?
White Flag by Jasper Johns
Learn the following about the White Flag painting by Jasper Johns:
• Is White Flag even white?
• What’s lacking and better for it.
• Johns and Rauschenberg – inspirations