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Post It Note Portrait of Marilyn Monroe
Image Source This large scale 8-bit portrait of Marilyn Monroe is made up of thousands of individual, strategically placed Post It Notes! I bet it looks even better the farther away from it you get....
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Limited-Edition Freddie Mercury Lego Character to Raise Funds in HIV Fight
Image Source November 24th, 2012 marks the 21st anniversary of the passing of Queen vocalist Freddie Mercury. An interesting way to honor Freddie’s enduring status as a Rock legend and Gay icon might...
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Alice Cooper Ironing Board
Image Source Artist Scott Stevens uses recycled/reclaimed ironing boards and exterior satin latex paint to create fun and unusual paintings like this portrait of singer / character Alice Cooper....
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Modern Art Monday Presents: James Rosenquist, Marilyn Monroe, I
Photo By Gail James Rosenquist (born November 29, 1933) is among my favorite living American artists. Rosenquist’s large-scale paintings reflect the flat, uniform, and graphic style of the commercial...
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Modern Art Monday Presents: Portrait of Jamie Wyeth by Andy Warhol
Photo By Gail This 1976 oil on canvas portrait of artist Jamie Wyeth is one half of a “Portrait Exchange,” which includes a portrait of Warhol done by Wyeth. Warhol’s half of the portrait exchange...
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Darth Vader Jelly Belly Portrait
Photos By Gail This fantastic portrait of Darth Vader holding a Light Saber was created entirely from Jelly Belly candies! Yummy! I wonder how long it took to create. Photographed by me at the Jelly...
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Modern Art Monday Presents: Willem de Kooning, Woman
In the 1940s, Willem de Kooning (1904 – 1997), with his artist friend Arshile Gorky, frequented the Metropolitan Museum to study portraits by 19th-century French artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres....
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Modern Art Monday Presents: Gustav Klimt, Adele Bloch-Bauer II
Photo By Gail This painting is one of two formal portraits that Klimt made of Adele Bloch-Bauer, one of the artists most important patrons. The wife of the successful industrialist, Bloch-Bauer was...
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David Bowie By Mr. Brainwash
Photos By Gail These two pieces of art featuring the likeness of the late, great David Bowie (it feels so weird to type that) were originally featured in This Post from last summer, but I decided to...
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Modern Art Monday Presents: Alex Katz, Red Coat
Photo By Gail The best of Alex Katz’s portraits create a palpable tension between specific and abstract, intimate and remote, near and far. This tension animates Katz’s depiction of both people and...
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Modern Art Monday Presents: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney By Robert Henri
Photo By Gail Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, an heiress to the Vanderbilt family fortune, was born into tremendous wealth and privilege. She defied social expectations however, by becoming a sculptor...
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Modern Art Monday Presents: Allan D’Arcangelo, Madonna and Child
Photo By Gail Allan D’Arcangelo’s portrait of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and her young daughter Caroline adopts the bold style of modern advertising, epitomized by the broad areas of bright,...
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Modern Art Monday Presents: John Wilde’s Work Reconsidered #1
Photo By Gail The “Work Reconsidered” in the title is John Wilde’s own drawing. This painting from 1950 is based on a “bridal” portrait that Wilde had made of his wife, Helen, in 1943. Its exacting...
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Modern Art Monday Presents: Charles Demuth, My Egypt
Photo By Gail In the 1920s, Charles Demuth (1883 – 1935) painted a remarkable series of “Poster Portraits” depicting friends and fellow artists. Rather than capturing a physical likeness, these works...
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Modern Art Monday Presents: Amedeo Modigliani, Jeanne Hébuterne with Yellow...
Photo By Gail Amedeo Modigliani (1884 – 1920) met Jeanne Hébuterne in 1917, when she was 19 and a student in Paris. That same year, they moved into a studio and remained together until their deaths in...
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Modern Art Monday Presents: Amedeo Modigliani, Portrait of Manuel Humbert
Photo By Gail Amedeo Modigliani (1884 – 1920) immortalized the Spanish landscape painter Manuel Humbert Esteve, a struggling artist whom he met in the ethnically diverse environment of Mantparnasse,...
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Modern Art Monday Present: Arshile Gorky, The Artist and His Mother
Photo By Gail Arshile Gorky (1904 – 1948) based this portrait of himself and his mother on a photograph taken in his native Armenia in 1912, when he was eight years old. Three years later, during the...
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Modern Art Monday Presents: Amedeo Modigliani, The Jewess
Photo By Gail In titling this painting The Jewess (1908), one of the first that Modigliani exhibited, the artist declared that the sitter’s cultural identity was more important than her name. The...
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Modern Art Monday Presents: Lee Krasner, Self Portrait
Photo By Gail A powerful rendering by the artist in her twenties, this picture was made with a practical purpose; it was painted as a reception piece for admission to the life-drawing course at the...
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Modern Art Monday Presents: The Businessman Max Roesberg, Dresden By Otto Dix
Photo By Gail German painter Otto Dix portrayed his subjects with a hard-edged, detached realism, accentuating unattractive features and signs of age. Since this portarit, The Businessman Max...
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