#art institute of chicago

[20thcenturypaintings]

Spanish Dancer

Artist: Natalia Goncharova, Born Tula (Russian, 1881-1962)

Date: 1920–1929

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

Description

Natalia Goncharova first painted the subject of the Spanish dancer in 1916, while touring Spain as a set and costume designer with Sergei Diaghilev’s traveling ballet company, the Ballets Russes. In this painting, the artist depicted a costume featuring delicate transparencies of lace and floral patterns. Inspired by the local flamenco tradition, Goncharova translated the fabric’s radial lines into the axes formed by the dancer’s hands, which fan outward in geometric vectors, building upon the abstract-cubist style she had developed in Moscow the decade before. After her time in Spain, the artist wrote, “It seems to me that out of all the countries I have visited, this is the only one where there is some hidden energy.”

[fashionsfromhistory]

Miniature English Bedchamber of the Jacobean or Stuart Era, 1603-1688

Narcissa Niblack Thorne & Unknown Artisans

c.1937

Art Institute of Chicago (Reference Number: 1941.1187)

[arthistoryanimalia]

#WatercolorWednesday:

Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat [Changthangi*]

India, Mughal dynasty, c.1601-25

Opaque watercolor, ink, gold on paper

37.9 × 25.6 cm (14 7/8 × 10 1/8 in.)

The Art Institute of Chicago 1919.944: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/76868/portrait-of-a-ladakhi-mountain-goat

🆔 “The Changthangi [aka Changpa, Ladakh Pashmina, Kashmiri] is a breed of cashmere goat native to the high plateaus of Ladakh in northern India. It is closely associated with the nomadic Changpa people of the Changthang plateau….The intense cold of the region causes the goats to grow a thick undercoat, which is harvested to produce the fine pashmina grade of cashmere.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changtha

#IndianArt #SouthAsianArt

[lionofchaeronea]

Nighthawks, Edward Hopper, 1942

[similarfruit]

"Chicago Has a Great Lake" 1966. John Massey American, born 1931

The Art Institute of Chicago

[burningvelvet]

Renaissance era ship jewlery: pendants and a set of earrings (from the British Museum's digital collection and "Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection," The Art Institute of Chicago, 2000, accessed via the Internet Archive)

[proofinggentlewoman]

The Banquet (1958) - René Magritte

[pinkblanc]

Roman Opalka, Adam and Eve, wove paper etching, 1968

[galleryofart]

Tight-Rope Walker

Artist: Jean Louis Forain (French, 1852–1931)

Date: c. 1885

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

[srednod]

William Turner Dannat (1853–1929) Study for "An Aragonese Smuggler" 1881

[20thcenturypaintings]

American Gothic

Artist: Grant Wood (American, 1891–1942)

Date: 1930

Medium: Oil on beaver board

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

Description

In American Gothic, Grant Wood directly evoked images of an earlier generation by featuring a farmer and his daughter posed stiffly and dressed as if they were, as the artist put it, “tintypes from my old family album.” They stand outside of their home, built in an 1880s style known as Carpenter Gothic. Wood had seen a similar farmhouse during a visit to Eldon, Iowa.

When it was exhibited at the Art Institute in 1930, the painting became an instant sensation, its ambiguity prompting viewers to speculate about the figures and their story. Many understood the work to be a satirical comment on midwesterners out of step with a modernizing world. Yet Wood intended it to convey a positive image of rural American values, offering a vision of reassurance at the beginning of the Great Depression.

[fashionsfromhistory]

Miniature English Great Room of the Late Tudor Period, 1550-1603

Narcissa Niblack Thorne & Unknown Artisans

c.1937

Art Institute of Chicago (Reference Number: 1941.1186)

[arsonbabe]

Daisies - Henri Matisse

1939

Image taken from the Art Institute of Chicago's website

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: The Fates Gathering In the Stars Artist: Elihu Vedder (American, 1836-1923) Date: 1887 Genre: fantasy; allegorical art; mythological painting Movement: Symbolism Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 113 cm (44.5 in) high x 82.6 cm (32.5 in) wide Location: Art Institute of Chicago

[didoofcarthage]

Pair of firedogs representing Venus and Mars, designed by Quentin-Claude Pitoin and modeled by Etienne-Maurice Falconnet

French, c. 1769

gilt bronze and iron supports

Art Institute of Chicago

[copperbadge]

Whoever is running the socials for the Art Institute, they aren't paying you enough.

[ID: An instagram post from the Art Institute of Chicago Museum; it shows a professional photograph of a tired-looking young man in a business suit, sitting in front of a holiday decoration in the form of giant Christmas lights. He is looking into the middle distance with headphones in, and seems unaware of the photographer. It is captioned "Christmas has come and gone, and we could all use a little quiet time to recuperate. New York street photographer Melanie Einzig finds a young man in a moment of exhaustion in this 1999 photograph, "Holiday Spirit, Avenue of the Americas."]