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Jasper Johns, Target with Four Faces (1955) (via MoMA)

Jasper Johns, Target with Four Faces (1955)

(via MoMA)

Happy 82nd birthday to Jasper Johns! From our website: In the 1950s Jasper Johns developed a distinctive painting style that would help lead American art away from the then-dominant movement of Abstract Expressionism. The exact correspondence of figure and ground in his work challenged the traditional distinction between an object and its depiction. At the same time, variations on each theme dissolved the “natural” link between the symbol and its meaning. Johns thus questioned the basic underpinnings of our representational system, and specifically the mechanisms of fine art. Pictured: Jasper Johns, Flag (1960-1969) 

Happy 82nd birthday to Jasper Johns!

From our website: In the 1950s Jasper Johns developed a distinctive painting style that would help lead American art away from the then-dominant movement of Abstract Expressionism. The exact correspondence of figure and ground in his work challenged the traditional distinction between an object and its depiction. At the same time, variations on each theme dissolved the “natural” link between the symbol and its meaning. Johns thus questioned the basic underpinnings of our representational system, and specifically the mechanisms of fine art.

Pictured: Jasper Johns, Flag (1960-1969) 

Happy 80th birthday Robert Bechtle!  Pictured: Bechtle’s Alameda Gran Torino (1974) From our website: For more than 40 years Robert Bechtle has pursued a quiet realism, working from photographs of familiar subjects to depict precise moments in time. Despite their photographic origins, however, his canvases are resolutely and finally about painting. Underneath the smooth sheen of their surfaces lies a textured web of strokes and dabs, where abstract shapes meet edges to form an intricate, layered view of our environment. Learn more here.

Happy 80th birthday Robert Bechtle! 

Pictured: Bechtle’s Alameda Gran Torino (1974)

From our website: For more than 40 years Robert Bechtle has pursued a quiet realism, working from photographs of familiar subjects to depict precise moments in time. Despite their photographic origins, however, his canvases are resolutely and finally about painting. Underneath the smooth sheen of their surfaces lies a textured web of strokes and dabs, where abstract shapes meet edges to form an intricate, layered view of our environment.

Learn more here.

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Philip Guston talking about painting

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Influenced by the Northern European painting tradition as well as by photography, television, and cinema, Luc Tuymans blends filmic techniques with a mastery of painting to explore issues of history, memory, and the mass media. (via LUC TUYMANS AT SFMOMA)

Influenced by the Northern European painting tradition as well as by photography, television, and cinema, Luc Tuymans blends filmic techniques with a mastery of painting to explore issues of history, memory, and the mass media.

(via LUC TUYMANS AT SFMOMA)

The art market entered a new phase on Wednesday evening when “The Scream,” a pastel drawn in 1895 by Edvard Munch, was sold for $119.92 million at Sotheby’s auction of Impressionist and modern art. (via NYTimes) :-o sums this up pretty well!

The art market entered a new phase on Wednesday evening when “The Scream,” a pastel drawn in 1895 by Edvard Munch, was sold for $119.92 million at Sotheby’s auction of Impressionist and modern art.

(via NYTimes)

:-o sums this up pretty well!

New gallery rotation on our 2nd floor features love three ways :) Photo by @OkayOkay.

New gallery rotation on our 2nd floor features love three ways :)

Photo by @OkayOkay.

Robert Motherwell, Elegy to the Spanish Republic, No. 57

Robert Motherwell, Elegy to the Spanish Republic, No. 57

(via unravelingsanity)

Jess, The Mouse’s Tail, 1951/1954. Collage | gelatin silver prints, magazine reproductions, and gouache on paper. (via SFMOMA | OPEN SPACE)

Jess, The Mouse’s Tail, 1951/1954. Collage | gelatin silver prints, magazine reproductions, and gouache on paper.

(via SFMOMA | OPEN SPACE)

Andy Warhol’s childhood sketch sold at a garage sale for $5 via Huffington Post

Andy Warhol’s childhood sketch sold at a garage sale for $5 via Huffington Post

Agnes Martin, Falling Blue, 1963; oil and graphite on canvas; 71 7/8 in. x 72 in. (182.56 cm x 182.88 cm) (via SFMOMA | OPEN SPACE)

Agnes Martin, Falling Blue, 1963; oil and graphite on canvas; 71 7/8 in. x 72 in. (182.56 cm x 182.88 cm)

(via SFMOMA | OPEN SPACE)

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