The greatest benefit we owe the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies… Art is the nearest thing to life, it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow-men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.
Art
Picasso: I am always doing what I cannot do
I am always doing what I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso (via)
Lartigue again
Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986)
“Etretat” (1907)
Silver gelatine, print around 1965
Via Galerie Berinson
Lartigue
Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986)
“The ZYX takes off… Piroux, Zissou, Georges Louis and Dédé try to fly, too, Rouzat, September 1910”
Silver gelatine, print around 1965, 60,1 x 74 cm
Via Galerie Berinson
Whale and Calf
“Whale and Calf,” artist unknown, ca. 1830.
“What it shows is a whale calf in the mouth of its mother. She is not, of course, eating it. (Those teeth are useless.) She is trying to rescue it. And that, my friends, was all part of the whalers’ fiendish plan. If whalers — big drivers of the economy in early industrial America — could get their harpoons into a whale calf they never missed their chance, because harpooning the baby was a perfect way to lure in the adult. The bigger the whale, the more oil.” More on this painting here.
Still lifes by Christopher Stott, cont’d
Christopher Stott
“Inner Conflicts”
24” x 48” Oil on canvas, 2012
Iconic images colorized
Harlem, 1946
Mr. Perkins Pierce Arrow, Harlem, New York
1946
Todd Webb