Prominent artworks can make a mystical image and leave a lasting impression on your memory lanes.
The famous jungle themed painting by Frida Kahlo de Rivera has been a rage among art collectors. From her Mexican jungle-themed art pieces to merchandise like handbags are a major demand.
Brave and poignant
When we look at Surrealistic master Salvador Dali’s masterpiece ‘The Swallow’s Tail’, our mind perceives it as some mathematic formulae. But it is more appropriately related to psychoanalysis and Freud.
Yet in an attempt to predict the occurrence of abrupt phenomena, master Salvador got inspired by the ‘catastrophe theory’ and created his last painting, ‘The Swallow’s Tail’. Rene Thom, the French mathematician was one of the influences for such an art piece.
Psychoanalysis and Freud
When looked at Marcel Duchamp’s ‘The Waterfall’ and ‘The Illuminating Gas’, a feeling of a 3d V-Box movie is felt. Such visual impact was created by Duchamp when rest of the world believed that he had given up on art-making. Such is the story of the ‘Dada’ pioneer of the readymade.
Artist Jasper Johns mentioned it as ‘the strangest work of art in any museum’; one of the reasons it is moved to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Dada pioneer of the readymade
Agnes Martin’s ink-on-paper works became a part of modern art which depict her calm and serene mind even at the age of 92. Her painting depicts her vintage in a surreal way. For a layman, the painting may be just another version of scribbled or childish work, but it actually depicts a potted planted.
10*10 square inch ink-on- paper
Large and rectangular swaths of colour describe Rothko’s free expression of emotions and thoughts. Such pieces are provocative in a way to ignite awe and empathise with the creator’s thoughts. All the bold shades of browns and reds depict some events in the artist’s life.
This painting also relates to the Russian-American artist’s suicidal death in the same year.
Decoding death
When one hears the word, ‘Bullfight’, it is related to Paso dable (the famous bullfight dance form).
Francis Bacon although brings ‘Bullfight’ through his sketches of ‘A study of a Bull’. Though bacon relates to pork, here Bacon is related to Modern Art and a sketch of a Bull!
Paso Dable
Looking at Herring’s doodle sketches, it reminds one of a modern-day comic art. Keith Heiring may be perceived as a blueprint artist but he may have been pioneering into doodles or comic artists.
He addressed lovemaking, sex and AIDS in an era when all of these were a taboo in the society.
Taboo in society
The last but not the least in modern art is Jackson Pollock. His colour droplets of black, silver and red in the shape of a cocoon reflects his inclination towards Abstract Expressions.
The painting is a mix of Pollock’s own hair strands, his memoir of sand granules of his last visit to the beach and some fur of a Polar Bear.
Memoir of life
What do you think?