Greg's Back!!

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What a JOY to be back! Thank you to the wonderful Jerry for hosting our shows while Greg was ill! And to Beth for her input & help with selections! We continued Jerry's Bernie in Fine Art selections today with more Bernie Memes. 

Using the Google Art "Pop Up!" we saw Gino Severini's modernist North-South from 1913. This vision of the Pigalle Train Station in Paris gave us lots of bold angles & shapes and lead to a great deal of interpretation. Some saw an underground scene, others a combo of street & subway. Great artist to discover! 

Ernest Lawson's Upper Harlem River delighted with the bucolic view of the East Harlem River in 1915. This wonderful artist was a student of John Henry Twachtman as one of our group unearthed! Lawson's mentor is a favorite landscape artist of our gaggle, and this piece is a real treat. Many of us felt comforted by the soft pastels, delicate shapes & faded city (perhaps) or background across the river. Imagine the bustling city of New York once teemed with pastoral farms! 

Next up: Rekisentai Eiri's woodblock print, the Mitate of a Daimyo's Procession from the late 18th century. Lots of discussion about how woodblocks are created & how the colors may have looked in the original piece having faded over time. A lively piece that one of our detectives discovered is four-feet long! 

Mademoiselle Boissière Knitting by Gustave Caillebotte, however, was almost unanimously our Top of the Day -- and two of the three above got almost as many votes! So the competition was tough! This 1877 work reminded some of us of our Grannies, Nanas, Mawmaws, Abuelitas and Bubbies. Mademoiselle Boissière's rosy cheeks & colorful hands delicately craft lace; she's so lovingly rendered. Her knitting box to the side, we loved the rich way Caillebotte painted the gilted furniture & the busy wallpaper woke us UP! 

Can't wait for mañana! 

  • Bernie & Marina Abramovich, Performance Art -- link --
  • Joseph Kosuth's One and Three Chairs -- link --
  • Bernie in Joseph Kosuth's One and Three Chairs! -- link --
  • Byzantine Bernie! -- link --
  • Bernie in Renoir's Le déjeuner des canotiers! -- link --
  • Bernie in Wolfgang Laib’s Wax Room! -- link --
  • Rothko Room -- link --
  • Bernie in the Rothko Room! -- link --
  • Day of the Dead Bernie! -- link --
  • Tattoo Bernie! -- link --
  • Various other fun Bernie / art pieces -- link --
  • North-South by Gino Severini -- 1913 -- link --
  • Upper Harlem River by Ernest Lawson -- ca. 1915 -- link --
  • Mitate of a Daimyo's Procession Artist: Rekisentei Eiri -- late 18th century -- link --
  • Mademoiselle Boissière Knitting by Gustave Caillebotte -- 1877 -- link --

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