#nouveau réalisme

[disease]

“WRAPPED BOUQUET OF ROSES” CHRISTO // 1969 [plastic flowers, plastic wrap, staples & twine | 26 x 33 x 11″]

#u #christo #nouveau réalisme #wrapped #flowers #roses #conceptual #surreal #60s #american-bulgarian #art #contemporary art

[jareckiworld]

Arman (1928-2005) — Jazzy Jaguar  (sliced saxophone in brass and bronze jaguar on wood base, 2004)

#Arman #french artist #nouveau réalisme #modern sculpture #Armand Pierre Fernandez

[pittipedia]

'ENCASED CAKES' by Wayne Thiebaud (2010/2011)

#pop art #arte pop #art noveau #Nouveau réalisme #modern art #cakes #cake #encased cakes #wayne thiebaud #2010 #2011 #arte moderno #art #arte #art figuratif #figurative art #bay area #bay area figurative art movement #figurative painting #arte figurativo #pintura #painting #scene

[daymarkist]

"Yes, I’m very interested in my images being seen or read. I don’t see myself as an avant-gardist or an élitist. People and love of people is a great part of my life. I’m very interested in the human condition, and that means we have to correct how we live with one other." [x]

— Wayne Thiebaud (1920-2021)

#wayne thiebaud #rest in peace #american art #pop art #Nouveau réalisme #Modern art #Bay Area Figurative Movement #the new yorker magazine #the new yorker #daymarkist

[letizia-stefanini]

#illustration #illustrator #numerique #artnumerique #drawing #draw #woman #women #passion

#french artist #artists on tumblr #nouveau réalisme #Instagram

[4eternal-life]

Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920)

Haystacks, 1966

pastel on paperboard,13.9 x 31.1 cm

© CHRISTIE'S

Haystacks is a delicate, jewel-like landscape in ethereal pastel, exemplifying Thiebaud’s remarkable ability to imbue everyday scenes with his distinct brand of gravitas. Haystacks exemplifies the artist’s movement away from the gestural, abstract expressionist influences of his 1940s-50s work towards a clarification of the picture frame and isolation of the object that would become the hallmark of his mature work. 

In Haystacks, a spring-green, meticulously rendered picture plane—dotted with precisely placed blocks of sun-bathed, butter yellow hay—stretches and dissolves into a distant cornflower sky. Thiebaud’s impeccably blended pastels evince the flickering play of light, his country landscape radiating with texture and energy. Thiebaud’s haystacks are brought to life with perfectly delineated lines, their rich, cool shadows evincing the placement of a beating sun. The haystacks are aligned at precisely at equal distance from each other, allowing Thiebaud to isolate his subjects, and formalize their shapes and forms into both a pattern and a grouping.

Within this rich and precisely executed scene, a prodigious range of aesthetic parallels can be explored- from Claude Monet’s iconic haystacks, which also joyfully explore the visual effects of light and shadow, to the geometric sculpture of American Minimalist Donald Judd, the luminous California light of Bay Area figurative painter David Park and the bright Fauve colors of Henri Matisse. The grid-like placement of the haystacks brings to mind Piet Mondrian, while the neat grouping of like objects on a neutral ground echoes the tranquility of a Giorgio Morandi still life. The distinctly figurative quality of each haystack, which occupies its own particular space, is evocative of the isolated diners in an Edward Hopper painting. As Thiebaud said himself, “I’m very interested in the tradition of painting and not at all self-conscious about identifying my sources…I actually just steal things from people that I can use.”

#wayne thiebaud #pop art #american art #bay area figurative movement #nouveau réalisme #art #artist info #pastel #Thiebaud info #mu art #mu

[crackedtheatre]

‘Leap into the Void’ - artistic action by Yves Klein, 1960. Photograph taken by Harry Shunk and Jean Kender.

#yves klein #harry shunk #jean kender #photography #french art #nouveau réalisme #performance art #leap into the void

[kodiakwalls]

Niki de Saint Phalle

Untitled from The New Realists (Les Nouveaux réalistes)

1973

Medium: photolithograph

#niki de saint phalle #feminist art #feminisim #feminist artist #french art #art nouveau #photolithograph #nouveau réalisme #art curator #content curator #curator

[wetreesinart]

Norbert Bisky (allemand, né en 1970), Lagerfreuden, 2002, huile sur toile, 140 x 200 cm.

#Norbert Bisky #Bisky #german artists #artistes allemands #arbres #trees #peinture #painting #huile sur toile #oil on canvas #art contemporain #contemporary art #artistes contemporains #contemporary artists #Nouveau Réalisme #Postmodernisme #Postmodernism

[scriabinomania]

Arman (1928-2005) — Je te porte en moi (2001)

#Arman #Armand Fernandez #French #European #Sculpture #Bocquel #Statues antiques #Découpées #Sliced #Bronze #Nouveau réalisme #Art moderne #Modern art #Art #Statue #Patine

[disease]

“MARIZIBILL: HOMMAGE À APOLLINAIRE” ARMAN [FERNANDEZ] // 1996 [bronze with brown patina | 57 1/2 x 26 3/4 x 35 1/2″]

#arman #arman fernandez #nouveau réalisme #ZERO #sculpture #bronze #mutilation #surreal #90s #french-american #art #u #contemporary art

[alaspoorwallace]

Alberto Burri (Italian, 1915-1995), Cretto bianco [White Crack], 1958. Mixed media, 38.5 x 52 cm

“The present work is a very early example of the series, and is only one of five Cretti produced in 1958, the same year that Burri first traveled to Death Valley. Each Cretto came into being through a delicate balance of chance and control. Using a palette knife or spatula, Burri layered a Celotex support with a mixture of kaolin, resin, zinc white pigment, and polyvinyl acetate, which cracks as it dries. Depending on the density of its application, the impasto admixture could take a week or more to settle. Over this period, Burri modeled the still pliant paint with his hands, scored it with sharp tools, and arrested its furrows with Vinavil glue. Loosely guided by the artist, the painting assumed a life of its own, enacting a temporal drama of fracture and decay through its visceral materiality. Confronted with a Cretto’s scarified surface, the viewer registers rupture as a tactile reality.” (source) 

#art #painting #cretto #arte povera #informal art #informalism #alberto burri #postminimalism #nouveau réalisme #albertoburri #burri #abstract art #italian art #cretto bianco #art history #modern art #impasto

[jareckiworld]

Daniel Spoerri — The Holy Family  (textile, plastic, celluloid, neon, wood, 1986)

#Daniel Spoerri #swiss art #nouveau réalisme #postmodern art #cats in art

[pittipedia]

'Le Pouce' by César Baldaccini (1965)

#art #arte #nouveau réalisme #french art movement #french art #french artist #1960s #60s #polyester resin #modern art #arte moderno #contemporary art #arte contemporáneo #escultura #escultura moderna #modern sculpture #pulgar #thumb #César Baldaccini #César #Baldaccini #escultura contemporánea #1965 #le pouce #the thumb #pouce #visual work #visual works #visual art #visual arts

[hands-off-my-log]

Niki de Saint Phalle’s HON — en katerdal (SHE — a cathedral; June 4th to September 4th, 1966) and accompanying sketches.

Saint Phalle was a prominent figure of the French Nouveau Réalisme art movement, and became a source of inspiration to numerous performance artists and filmmakers (she was a favorite of Agnès Varda).

Described by Saint Phalle as “the biggest whore in the world,” HON was a collaborative work between her and then-husband Jean Tinguely, as a celebration of the female form. The massive sculpture was entered and exited through the vagina, and featured a milk bar in the figure’s breasts, a small theatre, and a snack bar— amongst other installations.

#nikidesaintphalle #nouveau réalisme #she a cathedral #jean tinguely #hon en katedral #art #sculpture #art history #feminist art

[areejdf]

Yves Klein

Pinakothek der Moderne

#yves klein #Pinakothek der Moderne #art #blue #nouveau réalisme #modern art