GOOSE ART TUESDAYS!!!

Honk honk.

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Paul Gauguin

Geese and Goslings, before 1903

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Gentile da Fabriano

Adoration of the Magi, 1423

Studies after an Figures from an Antique Sarcophagus, n.d.

This sketch was created by Van Dyck when he saw Titian’s work on his trip to Genoa. Its an interesting insight into how artists learned from one another and foreshadows the heavy Titian influence that shows up in Van Dyck’s finished pieces from this point on. 

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Titian, Sacred and Profane Love, 1513-1514

Anthony Van Dyck, Sketch of Figures in Titian’s Sacred and Profane Love, c. 1620s

free-parking:

Picasso’s bulls

The shrinking bull wiener is more mesmerizing to me than it should be. 

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Géricault kept a private collection of his own erotic drawings. These works tend to charged with violence, athleticism, energy and frustration. Interestingly, they coincided with a difficult time in the artist’s life; a forbidden and intense love affair he had with Alexandrine-Modeste Caruel, his uncle’s wife who was Géricault’s senior by six years. The scandal came to a head in 1818 when Caruel gave birth to the artist’s son.

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Théodore Géricault

Man Embracing a Woman, c.1815-1818