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Frederick Childe Hassam

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‘Avenue of the Allies, Great Britain’ (1918) by Childe Hassam

By mh | Posted in Composition | Also tagged Abstraction, action, allies, America, architecture, avenue, buildings, busy, cars, colors, flags, frederick childe hassam, fuckem, great britain, impressionism, nations, painter, painting, people, politics, public space, sky, street, the wild, traffic, unknown, USA | Comments (0)

Barbara Rossi

Barbara Rossi, Parlor Picture, 1983

Barbara Rossi, ‘Parlor Picture’ (1983)

By mh | Posted in Composition | Also tagged architecture, Barbara Rossi, blue, body, collection, decorative, design, domestic, domesticity, drawing, fuckem, furniture, graphic, green, house, internal, organs, ornament, painting, parlor, red, romance, room, rug, sexuality, sofa, space, unknown, visitors | Comments (0)

Saul Steinberg

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‘View of the world from 9th Ave.’, the March 29, 1976 cover for The New Yorker, by Saul Steinberg.

By mh | Posted in Composition | Also tagged 9th avenue, architecture, cartoon, central, city, collection, comic, cover, desert, drawing, far east, found, illustration, jersey city, jewish, manhattan, New York, plan, public space, romance, romanian, saul steinberg, street, street view, text, unknown | Comments (0)

Julian Hoeber

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Julian Hoeber, ‘Living Room’ (2014)

By mh | Posted in Composition | Also tagged action, architecture, broken, cartoon, chairs, chaos, couch, destroyed, destruction, dirt, DIY, domestic, drawing, dust, fuckem, fun, furniture, interior, joke, Julian Hoeber, living, romance, room, sofa, space, the wild, trash, trashed, unknown, wall, window | Comments (0)

Alfred Joseph Frueh

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Letter from cartoonist Alfred Joseph Frueh to his wife Giuliette Fanciulli, sent on Jan. 10th, 1913.
The letter opens up to form a model of a gallery hung with paintings. Frueh made this model to inform his wife about the details of a specific art gallery before her visit.

Collection of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.

By mh | Posted in Composition | Also tagged Alfred Joseph Frueh, architecture, Art, cartoon, collection, cut out, design, drawing, folk, gallery, giuliette franciulli, history, illustration, instruction, model, painting, pop-up, romance, sculpture, smithsonian, space, text, the wild, unknown, wall, wife | Comments (0)

Avery Singer

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Avery Singer, ‘The Studio Visit’ (2012)

By mh | Posted in Abstraction | Also tagged 3d, action, architecture, artist, Avery Singer, black, craft, digital, DIY, flat, fuckem, fun, model, painting, romance, rudimentary, SketchUp, studio, the wild, transference, translation, unknown, virtual, visit, volume, white | Comments (0)

The New York Five

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The New York Five, in 1972, dressed as their own favourite buildings, a nod to this famous picture from 1931.

By mh | Posted in Composition | Also tagged architects, architecture, black, buildings, Charles Gwathmey, collection, costumes, dressing up, e photograph, famous, five, form, fuckem, fun, group, history, John Hejduk, joke, light, marketing, Michael Graves, modernist, New York, performanc, performance, Peter Eisenman, postmodernism, pretending, programme, pure, Richard Meier, sculpture, wall, white | Comments (0)

Byron Company

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Snapped in New York on the roof of the Marceau Studio on Fifth Avenue, by a group of photographers working for the Byron Company, this picture is one of the first selfies in history, made in 1920. (via)

By mh | Posted in Composition | Also tagged 20th century, action, black, byron company, DIY, found, fuckem, fun, group, history, men, New York, older, photograph, photography, public space, romance, roof, self-portrait, selfie, unknown, white | Comments (0)

Barbara Bloom

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Barbara Bloom, ‘Best of Vermeer’ (1991)

By mh | Posted in Abstraction | Also tagged Barbara Bloom, best, collection, combinations, details, eyes, faces, fragments, gestures, hands, highlights, installation, johannes vermeer, light, memory, necks, New York, painting, people, photography, protagonists, remake, romance, split, stories, zoom | Comments (0)

Louis Kahn

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Louis Kahn, ‘Study for a Mural’ (ca. 1951-53)

By mh | Posted in Composition | Also tagged architecture, black, design, DIY, drawing, geometric, geometry, illusion, light, Louis Kahn, mural, optical, painting, perspective, public art, pyramid, romance, sculpture, shapes, space, study, the wild, unknown, wall, white | Comments (0)

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