Another enjoyable pass-through, though the exhibition didn't feel like it especially deepened for me from the first time - I basically again liked the same ones, which in addition to those I already singled out, included:
Paul Cezanne - "Still life with apples" (1895-98), clearly figurative, but interestingly heading towards abstraction on at least a couple of dimensions, the kind of thing I like, and well chosen for inclusion in the first room of an exhibition like this one.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - "Street, Dresden" (1908, reworked 1919), luridly expressionistic, and maybe with more of an air of horror than intended by the artist, who can say.
Fernand Leger - "Propellers" (1918). Futurist Cubism!
Also in there from that earlyish-mid 20th century period: good pieces by both Delaunays (Robert and Sonia), Mondrian, Picasso, Wifredo Lam, etc.
Jasper Johns - "Map" (1961), simple while also visually appealing and sort of obviously iconic like so many of his.
Three Raymond Pettibon illustrations of his character Vavoom, "a little Inuit who can move mountains by shouting his own name" (if only). 1987.
This time I found Rineke Dijkstra's series of photos of Almerisa, a Bosnian child of refugees, from 1994 through to 2008, more moving too.
(w/ Yee Fui)
Paul Cezanne - "Still life with apples" (1895-98), clearly figurative, but interestingly heading towards abstraction on at least a couple of dimensions, the kind of thing I like, and well chosen for inclusion in the first room of an exhibition like this one.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - "Street, Dresden" (1908, reworked 1919), luridly expressionistic, and maybe with more of an air of horror than intended by the artist, who can say.
Fernand Leger - "Propellers" (1918). Futurist Cubism!
Also in there from that earlyish-mid 20th century period: good pieces by both Delaunays (Robert and Sonia), Mondrian, Picasso, Wifredo Lam, etc.
Jasper Johns - "Map" (1961), simple while also visually appealing and sort of obviously iconic like so many of his.
Three Raymond Pettibon illustrations of his character Vavoom, "a little Inuit who can move mountains by shouting his own name" (if only). 1987.
This time I found Rineke Dijkstra's series of photos of Almerisa, a Bosnian child of refugees, from 1994 through to 2008, more moving too.
(w/ Yee Fui)
