Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008at MOMA New York
at MOMA New York
A little teaser outside the museum.
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Blog action day against poverty.
Alfred Sisley – Meadow (1875, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.)
Gustav Klimt. Oil painting. 1892. 55×128 inches.
For those that were in awe when seeing this post: I didn’t really mean this post but promise I will keep at least some quality standards in the future.

From Stefan Sagmeister, an inspiring designer. View a video on designs that made him happy, and him explaining some of his life lessons.
Unable to complete their game of chess because they cannot move their arms from within their sleeveless robes, Death and his adversary slouch dejectedly near a mountain precipice. The striking juxtaposition of bright diagonal blue sky and somber thematic content accentuates the piece’s eccentric mix of poignancy and Dada. By wrapping the figures in hooded robes, the artist neatly avoided the challenges of depicting the human form.
The anonymous painter of this work firmly shut the door on all normative painterly decisions about composition, color, texture, symbolism, metaphor and most other preoccupations that attend the conventional modernist role of the artist as the privileged purveyor of an intuitive creativity shepherded by a genius recourse to tact and taste.
From the competition for writing an inspired title and analysis for an awful painting from the Museum of Bad Art. Here’s the painting.
Sculpture by Daniel Firman. It shows an elephant 18 000 km from earths gravity.