#museum Peggy Guggenheim

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Consciousness of Shock

Victor Brauner

1951

64x80 cm.

Wax encaustic on hardboard

Guggenheim Museum

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 1976

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Jackson Pollock

Mural, 1943

In Black and White

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Let’s go

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Jackson Pollock, The Moon Woman, 1942

Oil on canvas, 175.2×109.3cm.

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice.

Like other members of the New York School, Jackson Pollock was influenced in his early work by Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso, and seized on the Surrealists’ concept of the unconscious as the source of art. In the late 1930s Pollock introduced imagery based on totemic or mythic figures, ideographic signs, and ritualistic events. The Moon Woman recalls Picasso, particularly in its palette and composition. The subject of the moon woman, which Pollock treated in several drawings and paintings of the early 1940s, could have been available to him from various sources. At this time many artists, among them Pollock’s friends William Baziotes and Robert Motherwell, were influenced by the fugitive, hallucinatory imagery of Charles Baudelaire and the French Symbolists. In his prose poem “Favors of the Moon” Baudelaire addresses the “image of the fearful goddess, the fateful godmother, the poisonous nurse of all the moonstruck of the world.” Although it is possible that Pollock knew the poem, it is likelier that he was affected in a more general way by the interest in Baudelaire and the Symbolists that was pervasive during the period. (x)

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Peggy Guggenheim by Man Ray

 

BY ELIZABETH ATANASSOVA

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Peggy Guggenheim adjusting her Calder at her museum in Venice.

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"I read an article on the artist Alexander Calder yesterday. I liked this quote:

"Of the times they spent together, playwright Arthur Miller recalled, 'The sun shone on his life. What he seemed to want most was to see or hear something delightful...His hands were so deft and unhesitatingly sure. He seemed more like someone at play than an artist.'"

Calder's Playful Genuis by Phyllis Tuchman Smithsonian Magazine: May 2001

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Wataru and Elowen at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum gardens

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THE MARCHESA CASATI

Marchesa Luisa Casati: An inspiringly decadent true tale of a bizarre Italian aristocrat. Pet cheetahs, séances and dresses made from lightbulbs, the heiress, socialite and artist's muse Marchesa Luisa Casati led a life every bit as unusual as her outfits.

Luisa, Marchesa Casati Stampa di Soncino (born Luisa Adele Rosa Maria Amman; 23 January 1881 – 1 June 1957), was an Italian heiress, muse, and patroness of the arts in early 20th-century Europe.

Casati was known for her eccentricities that delighted European society for nearly three decades. The beautiful and extravagant hostess to the Ballets Russes was something of a legend among her contemporaries. She astonished society by parading with a pair of leashed cheetahs and wearing live snakes as jewellery.

She captivated artists and literary figures such as Robert de Montesquiou, Romain de Tirtoff (Erté), Jean Cocteau, and Cecil Beaton.[citation needed] She had a long-term affair with the author Gabriele d'Annunzio, who is said to have based on her the character of Isabella Inghirami in Forse che si forse che no (Maybe yes, maybe no) (1910).[citation needed] The character of La Casinelle, who appeared in two novels by Michel Georges-Michel, Dans la fete de Venise (1922) and Nouvelle Riviera (1924), was also inspired by her.

In 1910, Casati took up residence at the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, on Grand Canal in Venice, owning it until circa 1924. In 1949, Peggy Guggenheim purchased the Palazzo from the heirs of Viscountess Castlerosse and made it her home for the following thirty years. Today it is the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, a modern art museum on the Grand Canal in the Dorsoduro sestiere of Venice, Italy.

Casati's soirées there would become legendary. Casati collected a menagerie of exotic animals, and patronized fashion designers such as Fortuny and Poiret. From 1919 to 1920 she lived at Villa San Michele in Capri, the tenant of the unwilling Axel Munthe. Her time on the Italian island, tolerant home to a wide collection of artists, gay men, and lesbians in exile, was described by British author Compton Mackenzie in his diaries.

Numerous portraits were painted and sculpted by artists as various as Giovanni Boldini, Paolo Troubetzkoy, Adolph de Meyer, Romaine Brooks (with whom she had an affair), Kees van Dongen, and Man Ray; many of them she paid for, as a wish to "commission her own immortality".[citation needed][citation needed] She was muse to Italian Futurists such as F. T. Marinetti (who regarded her as a Futurist) Fortunato Depero, Giacomo Balla (who created the portrait-sculpture Marchesa Casati with Moving Eyes), and Umberto Boccioni. Augustus John's portrait of her is one of the most popular paintings at the Art Gallery of Ontario; Jack Kerouac wrote poems about it and Robert Fulford was impressed by it as a schoolboy.

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Peggy Guggenheim, sitting on a gondola travelling on the Venice canal across from her museum. Photo by Tony Vaccaro, 1968

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The courtyard at Guggenheim's Venice palazzo, her one-time home, final resting place, and now museum.  Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice/David Head

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the Peggy Guggenheim museum is probably one of the best I’ve ever seen. She paid tribute to all her artistic friends, everyone was there, all the surrealists, Cocteau, Picasso, Ernst, Magritte, Dali, Kadinsky, Brauner, Miró and many more

also saw some Man Ray, really loved it

[tayloralison]

people always recommend things for when you're in venice like "oh go to this restaurant" "oh you have to visit xyz", but can i give you an anti-rec? do NOT go to the peggy guggenheim museum. it's SHIT. the only good thing about it was the toilets.

but DO go to a little corner shop and buy a can of lemon soda for €1 because it's delish. and get yourself an amaretto cannoli too. treat yo'self!

hahaha don't worry, the museum isn't on our itinerary 🥲 I'll check out the other things, thank you!!!

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Claire Falkenstein

Abstract sculptor Claire Falkenstein was born in 1908 in Coos Bay, Oregon. Falkenstein worked with a variety of materials including metal, ceramics, glass, and wood. An artistic innovator, she perfected a new technique for inserting colored glass into a webbed metal structure. She also created some of the earliest examples of nonobjective American sculpture. Falkenstein completed several large commissions in both America and Europe, including the gates to the Venice palace that now houses the Peggy Guggenheim collection. Her art can be found in several museum collections, including the Centre Pompidou, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Claire Falkenstein died in 1997 at the age of 89.

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Stonewall Prep is excited to bring you this year's summer trip: Venice Italy! There will be plenty of excursions and things to do, as well as down time to explore everything Venice has to offer. We will be leaving August 1, and returning to the school on August 11.

This trip is not optional. All students and staff will attend, as well as townspeople coming along to assist with supervision.

RULES.

Everyone must be in their assigned rooms between the hours of 11pm and 6am.

No student is allowed to leave the hotel alone - they must have another student or staff person with them at all times.

Excursions and scheduled events are not optional.

Remember you will be in the 'real world' so be mindful of appropriate attitudes and respect with higher marks

ROOM ASSIGNMENTS.

Everyone will be staying at an all inclusive hotel in the City Center with the following amenities: bars, restaurants, pools, hot tubs, sauna, spa (with massage, skin care, nail care), and game room with video game set up, pool tables, dart boards, etc. Rooms are suites with two bedrooms each containing a king bed, kitchenette, pullout couch and private bathroom.

ROOM 1: Hiram Lodge FP Jones

ROOM 2: Sam Evans Diego Torres Kurt Hummel Owen Evans Violet Evans

ROOM 3: Robin Gardner Dallas Evans-Gardner Kat Sullivan Gunner Rose Beau Rose Alejandro Lodge

ROOM 4: Max Roarke-Wood Sebastian Smythe Rebecca Roarke-Wood Elliot Smythe (NPC)

ROOM 5: Madeline Beiste Dexter Wells-Beiste

ROOM 6: Roman Lodge JB Jones Ross Berry Delilah Jones Evan Wilde

ROOM 7: Oz Chang Annabeth Blossom Michael Chang Sawyer Evans Stacey Evans Kyle Keller

ROOM 8: Hunter Clarington Veronica Lodge Archer Clarington Amelia Davidson Sky Evans Jamie Prescott

ROOM 9: Ivan Carvalho Noah Andrews Charlie Fabray Archie Andrews Buck Wilde

ROOM 10: Parker St. James Jughead Jones Teddy Cohen-Chang Matt Fabray Reggie Mantle

ROOM 11: Danny Andrews Nate Mantle Daisy Blossom Ollie Smythe Marcia Fogarty

ROOM 12: Gwen Morgan-Daniels Javi Fogarty Kyla Clarington Austin Fabray Joe Berry

ITINERARY. Reminder, excursions are mandatory. Any time not mentioned in this itinerary are "free days" at the hotels or within the city of Venice as long as you're with at least one other person.

Aug 1: Travel from Ohio to Venice Aug 2: Gondala rides on Grand Canal from 12pm-3pm Aug 4: Opera at Teatro La Fenice from 8pm-11pm Aug 6: Tour of Doge's Palace (museum, architecture, Bridge of Sighs) from 10am-12pm Aug 9: Tour of Peggy Guggenheim Collection from 11am-1pm Aug 11: Travel from Venice to Ohio

OOC: Please message us with any concerns or questions. Also, ALL PLOTS MUST BE APPROVED by admin. Especially anything triggers, world-involved, or dealing with effects on multiple people.

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our woman in Paris, perhaps?

I genuinely though I had written something for this, but this document AND my keep are all notes about Paris in 1941. So here are some things about Paris in 1941! This is a sequel to notre femme a paris, if it isn't obvious.

Part of Diana's cover is as an art dealer. Peggy Guggenheim went to Paris in 1940 intending to buy "a painting a day". Those paintings went on to become the foundation of the Guggenheim museum in Venice.

The Louvre was closed and all the paintings removed, and all that was left were the gilded frames still hanging on the walls

The Louvre was open for sculpture galleries for a few hours a week

Diana is an SOE agent: In most cases, the primary quality required of an agent was a deep knowledge of the country in which he or she was to operate, and especially its language, if the agent was to pass as a native of the country. Dual nationality was often a prized attribute. This was particularly so of France.

The SOE sent women as the first wave of agents to collect information on what was happening after the dunkirk evacuation.

The story will be set in 1941, after the fall of Paris but before the breaking of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.