Friday, November 16, 2018

The Met, NYC

Turn of the 19th/20th century stained glass, Hudson School landscapes, John Steuart Curry's "John Brown" (1939), a scattering of Klees, "Reimagining Modernism" (1900 - 1950), a bit of contemporary, 19th century European painting, some Old Masters.

Martin Johnson Heade - "Newburyport Meadows" (1876-81)

Georgia O'Keeffe - "Corn, Dark, No. 1" (1924) ... struck anew by how great she is, which is quite something given how much of her work I've seen over the last few weeks

Edward Hopper - "Tables for Ladies" (1930) ... the composition of this one is remarkable - the diagonal lines, the whites and blacks

Edward Hopper - "From Williamsburg Bridge" (1928) ... as I now know, the view today from this spot isn't so different

Kay Sage - "Tomorrow is Never" (1955)

Anselm Kiefer - "Bohemia Lies by the Sea" (1996) ... this image completely doesn't do justice to the monumentality of the work - size, texture, colour

Vincent Van Gogh - "Wheat Field with Cypresses" (1889)

Giuliano di Piero di Simone Bugiardini - "Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints Mary Magdalen and John the Baptist" (ca 1523)

Fra Filippo Lippi - "Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement" (ca 1440)