LaurieAnnie's photos with the keyword: skull

Andy Warhol. American, 1928-1987. Skull 1977 Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas Accession # 1981.536.2 Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

From the Faraway, Nearby Georgia O'Keeffe (American, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin 1887–1986 Santa Fe, New Mexico) Date: 1937 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 36 x 40 1/8 in. (91.4 x 101.9 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1959 Accession Number: 59.204.2 Description: In 1935 O'Keeffe began to experiment with compositions that combined bones and landscapes, without regard to relative size, scale, or perspective. Despite her realistic painting technique, there is no verisimilitude to this scene. The poetic title—conveying longing and loneliness—suggests that the odd juxtaposition of words and images depicts an emotional state of mind as well as a physical location. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/2100...

From the Faraway, Nearby Georgia O'Keeffe (American, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin 1887–1986 Santa Fe, New Mexico) Date: 1937 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 36 x 40 1/8 in. (91.4 x 101.9 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1959 Accession Number: 59.204.2 Description: In 1935 O'Keeffe began to experiment with compositions that combined bones and landscapes, without regard to relative size, scale, or perspective. Despite her realistic painting technique, there is no verisimilitude to this scene. The poetic title—conveying longing and loneliness—suggests that the odd juxtaposition of words and images depicts an emotional state of mind as well as a physical location. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/2100...

Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue, 1931 Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887–1986) Oil on canvas; 39 7/8 x 35 7/8 in. (101.3 x 91.1 cm) Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1952 (52.203) Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue prominently displays the three colors of the American flag. Painted at a time when American artists, musicians, and writers were interested in identifying a uniquely American style and subject matter for their work, O'Keeffe offered a dissenting opinion about what images could best symbolize America. Rather than paying homage to the lush agricultural landscape as the Regionalist painters did, or uncovering urban problems like the American Scene painters, she used a weathered cow's skull to represent the enduring spirit of America. Although she made it as a joke on the concept of the "Great American Painting," the picture is a quintessential icon of the American West. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/geok/ho_52.203.htm

Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill, 1628 Pieter Claesz (Dutch, 1596/97–1660) Oil on wood 9 1/2 x 14 1/8 in. (24.1 x 35.9 cm) Rogers Fund, 1949 (49.107) This is one of the earliest dated still lifes by Claesz., a Haarlem painter who gave extraordinary presence to familiar things. Here a skull, an overturned glass roemer with its fleeting reflections, an expired lamp, and the attributes of a writer suggest that worldly efforts are ultimately in vain. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/49.107

Life with Three Skulls 1945 Max Beckmann, German, 1884–1950 Dimensions: 55.2 x 89.5 cm (21 3/4 x 35 1/4 in.) Material: Oil on canvas Classification: Paintings Type: Still Life - Vanitas Accession Number: 67.984 Beckmann fled Germany in 1937, taking refuge in Amsterdam, where he painted this still life during the final months of World War II. He combines a modern style of flattened space, schematic forms, and intense colors with traditional still-life objects-skulls, an extinguished candle, playing cards-that suggest the frailty and transience of human life. The artist described these years as "a truly grotesque time, full to the brim with work, Nazi persecutions, bombs, hunger." In the choice of objects, the predominance of black, and the thick, rough paint, this still life captures the grim mood underlying such words. Text from: www.mfa.org/collections/object/still-life-with-three-skul...