the dead can dance: art

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June 3, 2011

Nicola Samorì

"The term Baroque, which in contemporary art, is closely connected to the term Neo-Baroque, which concerns itself with the reappearing of baroque tendencies. The neo-baroque sensibility that has flourished since the beginning of the new century. After decades that have often been labelled Post-modernism and were dominated primarily by minimalistic and conceptual aesthetics, the neo-baroque sensibility has infiltrated different artistic practices ever since.

Its decorated imagery is aggressively overwhelming and beautiful."

J.V.
2009, olio su tavola, 55 x 52 cm

La Storia
2009, olio su rame, 100 x 100 cm

Simonia (J.R.S.R.)
2009, oil on linen, 200 x 150 cm

Buen Retiro
2010, olio su lino, 200 x 150 cm

GMC
2010, oil on wood, 27 x 19 cm

Larvatorum
2010, oil on copper, 70 x 50 x 5 cm

Hans Holbein – écorché (estasi)
2010, oil on copper, 100 x 100 cm

XIII
2010, olio su carta, 54 x 36 cm

Nicola Samori

May 30, 2011

La Tarente

Editions De La Tarente; 1950's French pulp fiction book covers

December 13, 2010

"Reclining Beauties"

"Portrait of Madame Gely No. 1 (On the Couch)" by Frederick Carl Frieske, (1907).

"The Green Cushion" by Irving Ramsey Wiles, (1895).

"Nudo con le Calze Rosse" by Giuseppe de Nittis

"Reclining Nude" by Giovanni Boldini, (1842-1931).

October 4, 2010

Dora Maar

Pablo Picasso's muse and lover...

Dora Maar by Man Ray. (1936).

"Before meeting Picasso, Maar was already famous as a photographer. She also painted. She met Picasso in January 1936 on the terrace of the Café les Deux Magots in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris, when she was 29 years old and he 54. The famous poet Paul Éluard, who was with Picasso, had to introduce them. Picasso was attracted by her beauty and self-mutilation (she cut her fingers and the table playing "the knife game"; he got her bloody gloves and exhibited them on a shelf in his apartment). She spoke Spanish fluently, so Picasso was even more fascinated. Their relationship lasted nearly nine years.

Maar became the rival of Picasso's blonde mistress, Marie-Thérèse Walter, who had a newborn daughter with Picasso, named Maya. Picasso often painted beautiful, sad Dora, who suffered because she was sterile, and called her his "private muse." For him she was the "woman in tears" in many aspects. During their love affair, she suffered from his moods, and hated that in 1943 he had found a new lover, Françoise Gilot. Picasso and Paul Éluard sent Dora to their friend, the psychiatrist Jacques Lacan, who treated her with psychoanalysis.

She made herself better known in the art world with her photographs of the successive stages of the completion of Guernica, which Picasso painted in his workshop on the rue des Grands Augustins, and other photographic portraits of Picasso. Together, she and Picasso studied printing with Man Ray."