What's the meaning behind Hieronymus Bosch's triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights ? Christianity, the Middle Ages, and terror Proud cherries God's glorious shutter Read LadyKflo’s collected works and learn about more masterpieces with a click through to LadyKflo's site. https://www.ladykflo.com/category/masterpieces/ Checkout her socials too: https://www.instagram.com/ladykflo/ https://twitter.com/ladykflo...
What is the meaning behind the painting Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich? Rumination and romance Exultation in one man's insignificance A mysterious mist sets a sublime scene Read LadyKflo’s collected works and learn about more masterpieces with a click through to LadyKflo's site. https://www.ladykflo.com/category/masterpieces/ Checkout her socials too: https://www.instagram.com/ladykflo/ https://twitter.com/ladykflo...
What’s the story behind the painting Oath of the Horatii by Jacques Louis David? – Roman soldiers and a concocted salute – Loyalty and love at war – Strident brothers and their despairing sister Read LadyKflo’s collected works and learn about more masterpieces with a click through to LadyKflo's site. https://www.ladykflo.com/category/masterpieces/ Checkout her socials too: https://www.instagram.com/ladykflo/ https://twitter.com/ladykflo...
What’s the symbolism in New York Office by Edward Hopper? – Three figures, light fixtures, and frames – Starring Hitchcock’s cool blonde – A minor character disappears into the office building Read LadyKflo’s collected works and learn about more masterpieces with a click through to LadyKflo's site. https://www.ladykflo.com/category/masterpieces/ Checkout her socials too: https://www.instagram.com/ladykflo/ https://twitter.com/ladykflo...
What’s the story behind masterpiece The Bolt (The Lock) by Jean-Honoré Fragonard? – Velvet lady parts – Push and pull of love – Rococo’s exclamation point Read LadyKflo’s collected works and learn about more masterpieces with a click through to LadyKflo's site. https://www.ladykflo.com/category/masterpieces/ Checkout her socials too: https://www.instagram.com/ladykflo/ https://twitter.com/ladykflo...
Why is Lord Frederic Leighton’s masterpiece Mother and Child still so popular? – Symbolism in lilies, shoes, birds, and a grape – When a mother frames your whole world – The Baron painter Leighton: rich, famous and still relevant Read LadyKflo’s collected works and learn about more masterpieces with a click through to LadyKflo's site. https://www.ladykflo.com/category/masterpieces/ Checkout her socials too: https://www.instagram.com/ladykflo/ https://twitter.com/ladykflo...
Egon Schiele paintings, like The Embrace, grip us in raw emotions. That’s thanks to the jutting bones and Expressionist renderings of nude figures. We can feel the raw pangs of their hunger for love. Egon Schiele paintings, like The Embrace, grip us in raw emotions. That’s thanks to the jutting bones and Expressionist renderings of nude figures. We can feel the raw pangs of their hunger for love. Read LadyKflo’s collected works and learn about more masterpieces with a click through to LadyKflo's...
What’s the story behind the Portrait of Kate Perugini – Daughter of Charles Dickens? – In mourning? Stunning sophisticate? Both. – Portrait painter influences her own portrayal – Losing it all and looking back while starting over Read LadyKflo’s collected works and learn about more masterpieces with a click through to LadyKflo's site. https://www.ladykflo.com/category/masterpieces/ Checkout her socials too: https://www.instagram.com/ladykflo/ https://twitter.com/ladykflo...
What’s the meaning of In the Chapel by Alice Bailly? – Wimples with wings – Nuns, Angels, Mary, Jesus… and a golden brushstroke – Christianity’s mystery of faith Read LadyKflo’s collected works and learn about more masterpieces with a click through to LadyKflo's site. https://www.ladykflo.com/category/masterpieces/ Checkout her socials too: https://www.instagram.com/ladykflo/ https://twitter.com/ladykflo...
How does Self Portrait in Tuxedo by Max Beckmann stand out among his many self portraits? James Bond in a mask The rebellious New Objectivity movement An avant garde art world figure Read LadyKflo’s collected works and learn about more masterpieces with a click through to LadyKflo's site. https://www.ladykflo.com/category/masterpieces/ Checkout her socials too: https://www.instagram.com/ladykflo/ https://twitter.com/ladykflo...
What is different about the Saint George that Albrecht Altdorfer portrays in his masterpiece? – Teutonic tales vs. Roman stories – Loneliness, relief, and looming trees – Humility and a fresh take on victory Read LadyKflo’s collected works and learn about more masterpieces with a click through to LadyKflo's site. https://www.ladykflo.com/category/masterpieces/ Checkout her socials too: https://www.instagram.com/ladykflo/ https://twitter.com/ladykflo Read LadyKflo’s collected works and learn abou...
Why is Robett Delaunay’s painting Carousel of Pigs a masterpiece? Riding a carousel = visiting a museum A lyrical kaleidoscope of colorful contrasts The bridge of Orphism Read LadyKflo’s collected works and learn about more masterpieces with a click through to LadyKflo's site. https://www.ladykflo.com/category/masterpieces/ Checkout her socials too: https://www.instagram.com/ladykflo/ https://twitter.com/ladykflo...
Franz Marc was a German Expressionist master. He cemented the importance of essence over subject matter with this colorful portrait - Yellow Cow . Check out my link in bio to find out who he’s portraying with this blissful bovine. Read LadyKflo’s collected works and learn about more masterpieces with a click through to LadyKflo's site. https://www.ladykflo.com/category/masterpieces/ Checkout her socials too: https://www.instagram.com/ladykflo/ https://twitter.com/ladykflo...
What's so special about Antonello Da Messina's Virgin Annunciate (Palermo)? - Who and where is the Annunciate angel? - Oil paint's glorious glow - Mary transitions from human to saint Read LadyKflo’s collected works and learn about more masterpieces with a click through to LadyKflo's site. https://www.ladykflo.com/category/masterpieces/ Checkout her socials too: https://www.instagram.com/ladykflo/ https://twitter.com/ladykflo...
Patriotic Demonstration marks the moment just before WWI when Italian Futurists rallied to support war. Check out LadyKflo's piece about this critical inflection point of a painting. Read LadyKflo’s collected works and learn about more masterpieces with a click through to LadyKflo's site. https://www.ladykflo.com/category/masterpieces/ Click below for her socials: https://www.instagram.com/ladykflo/ https://twitter.com/ladykflo...
What is happening in Cristofano Allori’s painting Judith With the Head of Holofernes? The Power of Women topos Heroism and subversion Two shiny droplets – jewels on a golden robe Read LadyKflo’s collected works and learn about more masterpieces with a click through to LadyKflo's site. https://www.ladykflo.com/category/masterpieces/ Checkout her socials too: https://www.instagram.com/ladykflo/ https://twitter.com/ladykflo...
What’s so special about the sculpture Woman Combing Her Hair 1915 by Aleksander Archipenko? A moving figural map The void within Futurist fundamentals in 3D Read LadyKflo’s collected works and learn about more masterpieces with a click through to LadyKflo's site. https://www.ladykflo.com/category/masterpieces/ Checkout her socials too: https://www.instagram.com/ladykflo/ https://twitter.com/ladykflo...
How did Duchamp’s painting Nude Descending a Staircase No 2 set the art world ablaze? – Abhorred and adored all at once – Nudity without critical comprehension – Changing a turn of the century outlook Read LadyKflo’s collected works and learn about more masterpieces with a click through to LadyKflo's site. https://www.ladykflo.com/category/masterpieces/ Checkout her socials too: https://www.instagram.com/ladykflo/ https://twitter.com/ladykflo...
How does Woman Combing Her Hair 1936 stand out as an abstract sculpture? Wild gestures in iron Welded with Picasso’s friendship Ruminations on a pelvic curve Read LadyKflo’s collected works and learn about more masterpieces with a click through to LadyKflo's site. https://www.ladykflo.com/category/masterpieces/ Checkout her socials too: https://www.instagram.com/ladykflo/ https://twitter.com/ladykflo...
What is Fernando Botero saying with his painting Abu Ghraib 46? – Botero bodies: beaten, naked, and bloody – The Geneva Convention is key – Green blindfolds = hope Read LadyKflo’s collected works and learn about more masterpieces with a click through to LadyKflo's site. https://www.ladykflo.com/category/masterpieces/ Checkout her socials too: https://www.instagram.com/ladykflo/ https://twitter.com/ladykflo...
What makes Man Ray’s sculpture Cadeau (The Gift) so special? Mass production, war, and Dada Poking at prevalent perspective Multiple copies of a stolen masterpiece make its point Read LadyKflo’s collected works and learn about more masterpieces with a click through to LadyKflo's site. https://www.ladykflo.com/category/masterpieces/ Checkout her socials too: https://www.instagram.com/ladykflo/ https://twitter.com/ladykflo...
Why is The Jungle by Wifredo Lam considered a Cubist masterpiece? Hybrid creatures – animal, human & plant A totem-tall woman with shears takes the blame Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism in the back seat Read LadyKflo’s collected works and learn about more masterpieces with a click through to LadyKflo's site. https://www.ladykflo.com/category/masterpieces/ Checkout her socials too: https://www.instagram.com/ladykflo/ https://twitter.com/ladykflo...
What’s the meaning of Robert Rauschenberg’s Canyon painting? – A bird, a pillow, a god and a boy’s bottom – An excuse for trauma built into Greek myth – Canyon’s three dimensions create depth Read LadyKflo’s collected works and learn about more masterpieces with a click through to LadyKflo's site. https://www.ladykflo.com/category/masterpieces/ Checkout her socials too: https://www.instagram.com/ladykflo/ https://www.pinterest.com/Ladykflo https://twitter.com/ladykflo...
What makes New York Night by Georgia O’Keeffe such a special painting? Glimmering window panes The machine age and Precisionism An avant-garde squad Read LadyKflo’s collected works and learn about more masterpieces with a click through to LadyKflo's site. https://www.ladykflo.com/category/masterpieces/ Checkout her socials too: https://www.instagram.com/ladykflo/ https://www.pinterest.com/Ladykflo https://twitter.com/ladykflo...
PS: To the descendents of Giacomo Balla, please forgive my Americanization of your artist ancestor's name. What kind of painting is Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash by Giacomo Balla? Futurism, Cubism, and critical rejection An avant garde, dog’s perspective Stasis and motion = comedy Read LadyKflo’s collected works and learn about more masterpieces with a click through to LadyKflo's site. https://www.ladykflo.com/category/masterpieces/ Checkout her socials too: https://www.instagram.com/ladykflo/ ht...
What makes Duane Hanson’s sculpture Supermarket Shopper a masterpiece? Desolation of spirit and a TV dinner to match A typical American moment stands apart Destroying a controversial past Read LadyKflo’s collected works and learn about more masterpieces with a click through to LadyKflo's site. https://www.ladykflo.com/category/masterpieces/ Checkout her socials too: https://www.instagram.com/ladykflo/ https://www.pinterest.com/Ladykflo https://twitter.com/ladykflo...
What’s the story behind El Greco’s painting Laocoon? A Spanish Trojan War The vengeance of Laocoon’s broken vow 300 years ahead of his time https://www.ladykflo.com/category/masterpieces/ Checkout her socials too: https://www.instagram.com/ladykflo/ https://www.pinterest.com/Ladykflo https://twitter.com/ladykflo...
Why is Kerry James Marshall’s painting De Style so perfect for this moment? Where South Central LA meets the 1917 Netherlands Barbershop as cultural oasis Whimsy and gravity unite on canvas Read the rest of this LadyKflo essay and learn about more masterpieces with a click through to LadyKflo's site. . https://www.ladykflo.com/category/masterpieces/ Listen to the LadyKflo podcast wherever you get your podcasts. Checkout her socials too: https://www.instagram.com/ladykflo/ https://www.pinterest.c...
What makes Untitled ( Man Smoking/Malcolm X ) by Carrie Mae Weems a masterpiece? Malcolm X in a supporting role Where Black America meets the globe Arm wrestling, poker, and booze Read the rest of this LadyKflo essay and learn about more masterpieces with a click through to LadyKflo's site. https://www.ladykflo.com/category/masterpieces/ Listen to the LadyKflo podcast wherever you get your podcasts. Checkout her socials too: https://www.instagram.com/ladykflo/ https://www.pinterest.com/Ladykflo ...
Why does Cindy Sherman’s photograph Untitled Film Still 35 looks so familiar? – Soft core porn set the rules – Stereotypes beware Cindy Sherman’s face – Setting the stage for ankles in Untitled Film Still 35 Learn about more masterpieces with a click through to LadyKflo's site. https://www.ladykflo.com/category/masterpieces/ Checkout her socials too: https://www.instagram.com/ladykflo/ https://www.pinterest.com/Ladykflo https://twitter.com/ladykflo...
