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Just released online, a few of Anthony Discenza’s older video works.

Discenza is part of our Descriptive Acts exhibition.

Ready for a dose of virtual art? Explore Mark Bradford’s large-scale (yet incredibly detailed) works with this great interactive website.

Ready for a dose of virtual art? Explore Mark Bradford’s large-scale (yet incredibly detailed) works with this great interactive website.

From our conservation department’s artist materials archive: color swatches with paint descriptions for David Cannon Dashiell’s monumental mural, “Queer Mysteries.” 

From our conservation department’s artist materials archive: color swatches with paint descriptions for David Cannon Dashiell’s monumental mural, “Queer Mysteries.” 

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.

nyartstudies:

Philip Guston talking about painting

See this video on our website here.

yumuseum: MOTHER’S DAY IS SUNDAY! DON’T FORGET! Images of a mother and child are some of the most familiar scenes in western art. Though often associated with Christian iconography, this image comes out of one of most universal human experiences: a mother holding her child.  Mother and Child, Isaac Soyer (1907-1981), New York Oil on canvas, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Gabriel Vogelson (1973.008)  Moms rule. Mom-themed artwork is great, too.

yumuseum:

MOTHER’S DAY IS SUNDAY! DON’T FORGET!

Images of a mother and child are some of the most familiar scenes in western art. Though often associated with Christian iconography, this image comes out of one of most universal human experiences: a mother holding her child. 

Mother and Child, Isaac Soyer (1907-1981), New York Oil on canvas, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Gabriel Vogelson (1973.008) 

Moms rule. Mom-themed artwork is great, too.

Tomorrow is Bike to Work Day in San Francisco, so ditch your car (or bus, BART train, moped, etc), grab a helmet, and get some fresh air! Oh, and to those of you who bike to work every day: YOU’RE AWESOME! Keep up the good work. Picture here: Michaux sur son vélocipède (Michaux on His Bicycle), André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1867)

Tomorrow is Bike to Work Day in San Francisco, so ditch your car (or bus, BART train, moped, etc), grab a helmet, and get some fresh air! Oh, and to those of you who bike to work every day: YOU’RE AWESOME! Keep up the good work.

Picture here: Michaux sur son vélocipède (Michaux on His Bicycle), André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1867)


christinacatherine: SFMOMA #3 April 2012 Nice photo taken in our Rooftop Garden.

christinacatherine:

SFMOMA #3

April 2012

Nice photo taken in our Rooftop Garden.

(via SFMOMA | OPEN SPACE)

(via SFMOMA | OPEN SPACE)

We just published our new Story of a Year iPad app! It includes a ton of SFMOMA facts, photos, and highlights from last year’s exhibitions and public programs (plus you can see a complete list of every artwork we acquired!). Download it here.

We just published our new Story of a Year iPad app! It includes a ton of SFMOMA facts, photos, and highlights from last year’s exhibitions and public programs (plus you can see a complete list of every artwork we acquired!).

Download it here.

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