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likeafieldmouse:

Jay DeFeo - The Rose (1958-69)

“The story of Jay DeFeo and The Rose is both a cautionary tale of obsession and an inspiring tale of determination and belief. She began working on The Rose in 1958. She was 29 years old and for the next eight years, she did little else but sit on a stool in her studio, smoking cigarettes, drinking brandy while she painted and scraped away at her vision.

First titled The Deathrose, then The White Rose and finally just The Rose, DeFeo only stopped working on the painting when an increase in rent forced her from her studio. By then it was 1966, her marriage was ending, she was in fragile physical and mental health, and The Rose had become too large to fit out the door. 

At nearly 12 feet high and in places eight inches thick, The Rose was constructed from layer upon layer of built up and scraped away black and white paint. DeFeo added mica chips to the paint and so The Rose has its own interior light.”

tdylan:

tdylanart:

New Prints! Woo-hoo! Yay! Excitement!

I updated my store to include some of these drawings I have been doing recently. Check it out HERE, and maybe even buy something… maybe. I will love you forever if you do.

If you would like a print of something that you don’t see up there, or if you are interested in an original or a commission (or even if you just want to say hi), feel free to message me on here or send me an email. Those kinds of messages always brighten my day!

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Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn’t meant to be reasonable.

—Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions (via femme-ex-machina)

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philamuseum:

More Art Monday: Collection Travelogue

Some of the works in our collection have accrued impressive mileage while traveling to exhibitions in other museums. Check them out in this travelogue. Brought to you by ART 24/7

Image 1: “Lute Player”, c. 1620, Theodor Rombouts, Flemish
Now on view at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Distance: 214 miles

Image 2: “Face Vessel”, c. 1860-70, Attributed to Thomas J. Davies Pottery
Now on view at The Georgia Museum of Art
Distance: 728 miles

Image 3: “Christ Healing a Lunatic and Judas Receiving Thirty Pieces of Silver”, c. 1425-26, Francesco d’Antonio, Italian
Now on view at Palazzo Strozzi
Distance: 4,246 miles

Image 4: “Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War)”, 1936, Salvador Dalí, Spanish
Now on view at Museo Reina Sofía
Distance: 3,665 miles

Image 5: “Fountain”, 1950 (replica of 1917 original), Marcel Duchamp, American (born France), © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / Estate of Marcel Duchamp
Now on view at Barbican Centre
Distance: 3,546 miles

Image 6: “Wounded Soldier”, 1914, Marc Chagall, French, © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Now on view at Musée du Luxembourg Paris (official)
Distance: 3,711 miles

Image 7: “Ewer: Scene from the Triumph of Scipio”, 1875, Decoration designed and executed by Thomas John Bott, Jr., English
Now on view at The New Orleans Museum of Art
Distance: 1,089 miles

Image 8: “Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge”, 1879, Mary Stevenson Cassatt, American
Now on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Distance: 104 miles

Image 9: “Man with a Lamb”, 1943-44, Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, Spanish
© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Now on view at Museo Guggenheim Bilbao

Distance: 3,624 miles

Image 10: “Tomb in Three Parts”, 1923, Paul Klee, Swiss
Now on view at Fundación Juan March
Distance: 3,665 miles