Thursday, May 9, 2013

The Art Institute of Chicago

AAAmaaazzziiingggg.....Oh my-what a lucky person I am to be able to see these amazing pieces of art!!

Edward Hopper
Nighthawks
(OMG it is the original!!!)


Grant Wood
American Gothic
Holy cow I have seen many versions of this painting but NEVER the real one until now!!

           Joseph Stella
              A Vision
Futurist painter best known for his Industrial America-Like Picasso he assimilated elements of Cubism

 Always the silly one

John Singer Sargent
The Fountain
American artist and one of the best portrait painters of his time. 

John Singer Sargeent
Study from Life or Egyptian Girl

John Singer Sargent
Mrs. George Swinton

John Singer-Sargent
Madame Paul Escudier

Mary Cassatt
The Child's Bath
She was one of the leading artist in the Impressionist movement

Joaquin Sorrolla y Bastida
The Two Sisters
He was a Valencian Spanish painter-his common work showed people and landscapes with sunlight.

Paul Cezanne
Montagne Sainte-Victoire
Post-Impressionist painter whose work led the way from the 19th century to the very different world of art in the 20th century. Picasso and Matisse have said "Cezanne is the father of us all"

Paul Cezanne
Madame Cesune in a Yellow Chair

Harald Sohlberg
Fisherman's Cottage
He was known as a Neo-Romantic painter-depicting mountains.
This painting was used as the cover of a book by John Burnside, "A Summer of Drowning"


Claude Monet
Stacks of Wheat
Founder of French Impressionist paintitng
 Claude Monet
Water Lily Pond/Water Lilies (Blue)

House of Parliment




Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Ballet Dancers
He was fascinated with dancers, singers, prostitutes, cabarets, and cafes. After meeting Edgar Degas and Vincent van Gough Toulouse-Lautrec changed his way of painting. He was a painter and lithographer.


Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
At the Moulin Rouge-



Vincent VanGough
A Peasant Woman Digging in Front of Her Cottage
 Vincent van Gough
Self-Portrait

Vincent van Gough
Madame Roulin Rocking the Cradle

Vincent van Gough
The Bedroom

George Seuret
A Sunday on the Le'Grande Jatte

Pablo Picasso

Picasso was a co-founder of Cubist movement, collage, and so much more. However, his early years he painted beautiful realistic pieces of art-He changed form in is early 20 years which made him a fortune and one of the renown painters.

While in Chicago Ed and I were able to visit The Art Institute of Chicago....OMG what pieces of art/history they exhibit. Luckily there was a Picasso exhibit going on and I am still in awe of everything I was able to see-LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!


Untitled Monumental Sculpture 
This is a replica of the statue that Picasso created, which was dedicated in 1967 to the Daley Plaza, downtown Chicago-where it sits today.

 The Old Guitarist


 Old Woman or Woman Gloves


 Crazy Woman with Cats


 Nude with Pitcher


 Hair Length Female Nude


 Harlequen


 Head of a Woman


 Seated Female Nude



 David Henry Kohnweiler


 Mother and Child


 Fernande Olivier


 Still Life


Abstract Background with Blue Cloudy Sky


The Armchair



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Help Me figure out the name of this painting


Head


Head of a Woman                                                      Portrait of Sylvette

  

Bust of a Woman

Figure







As you can see by the titles of the artwork they are common sense-that is because Picasso rarely titled his work-so his work became titled after his death.