standing behind a woman in contemplation. The exhibit— 2000 years of Korean Art. The Art Institute of Chicago. black wall. woman in black. two prints. two black hats. irresistible. so i didn't resist.
trio in black
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recent museum visit.
saw this. had a camera.
click.
photograph.
Some coolio retrospect room in the Art Institute of Chicago! #Stocks #Retro #Art #ArtInstituteofChicago #AIC
I got to take a look at paradise lost, make a craft, and have some tea. An afternoon well spent ;) #chicago #chicagotiktok #artinstituteofchicago
Painting by Alma Thomas titled Starry Night and the Astronauts. Featuring various blue brushstrokes, with a small patch of warm colored brushstrokes.
A #Holiday visit to the #ArtInstituteofChicago and viewed this lovely piece by Alma Thomas titled Starry Night and the Astronauts. #BlueSkyArtShow
1929 Stanisław Szukalski (1893 - 1987) Woodcut, “Song of Warning and Annunciation”
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My ekphrastic poem inspired by my favorite painting, which I had the good fortune to view at the Art Institute of Chicago
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#OTD in 1940
'51st Annual Exhibition
American Painting and Sculpture
November 14 to January 5
The Art Institute of Chicago'
Color silkscreen. Chicago, Illinois WPA Art Project, 1940.
#WPA #FederalArtProject #silkscreen #AmericanArt #ArtInstituteOfChicago #exhibition
A new Conservation and Science center is being created at the Art Institute of Chicago
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This. You can click link to reach (in 2 stages) #ArtInstituteOfChicago catalog entry. Pissarro tested the colours using watercolour, R, then later he used multiple plates to create a colour etching. And that's his handwrit'g, below. Barbara S. Shapiro is good scholar to read re: Pissarro's prints.
The beautiful Georgia O'Keeffe painting at the Art Institute of Chicago
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Opera house sign that reads "she doesn't need labubus buy opera tickets"
skyscrapers above a clean river; bridge
city steet in Chicago
city street with lamppost, old neon sign of The Berghoff, an old German restaurant
I'm not a photographer but I took these pictures on my walk from the train station to the art museum today 😊 #chicago #artinstituteofchicago #saturdayvibes
In the midst of the US government declaring war on us, the #ArtInstituteOfChicago has a magnificent exhibit running right now on the Black revolutionary artist Elizabeth Catlett. I'm most familiar with Catlett's printmaking, but turns out she's a Renaissance woman.
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Kids outside The Art Institute of Chicago. Summer 2025. And phones
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The #ArtInstituteOfChicago currently has a wonderful exhibit about #ElizabethCatlett, printmaking among her many talents
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CAILLEBOTTE, COCKTAILS & CALO : A QUARTET OF HAIKU
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In a barren, cracked landscape divided into day and night, legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo appears twice. At left, she lies on a hospital gurney beneath the sun, torso wrapped in white sheets. Her bare lower back shows two fresh, sutured incisions as vertical red wounds that weep into the cloth. At right, under a full moon, she sits upright on a wooden chair in a vivid red Tehuana dress, dark hair braided as she directly faces us. She holds a small red-tipped flag inscribed in Spanish “Árbol de la esperanza, mantente firme.” The ground splits into two clefts echoing the wounds. No attendants are present; the doubled figure and stark sky heighten the scene’s stillness and resolve. Painted after Kahlo’s major spinal fusion surgery in New York in 1946 by orthopedic surgeon Dr. Philip Wilson, this work stages the artist’s lived medical crisis as a drama of dual selves: suffering body and willed endurance. Kahlo herself called the painting “nothing but the result of the damned operation,” yet she turns convalescence into an icon of defiance. The scarred, supine Kahlo belongs to the sun’s harsh light; the seated Kahlo, under the moon, grips a pink medical device that looks like a back brace to me. The fissured earth mirrors her back; day and night divide pain and hope while her traditional Mexican dress asserts cultural identity and composure when the body fails. The flag’s imperative to “remain strong” joins popular devotional language with personal survival, functioning like a votive retablo offered for recovery. On display recently in the 2025 "Frida Kahlo’s Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Reynolds" exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, 2025), the painting’s private-collection status underscores its rarity in public view. When considered alongside her 1940s hospitalizations and lifelong depiction of chronic pain, this painting stands as a concise manifesto: the artist refuses to reduce herself to a patient, even as she records every wound.
"Árbol de la esperanza, mantente firme (Tree of Hope, Remain Strong)" by Frida Kahlo (Mexican) - Oil on masonite / 1946 - Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois #WomenInArt #Kahlo #art #FridaKahlo #artwork #WomensArt #artText #artic #ArtInstituteofChicago #MexicanArtist #hope #FemaleArtist #WomenArtists
“Along the Beach, Puerto Plata.” Wilmot Emerton Heitland (American; 1893–1969). Watercolor and gouache, over graphite, on ivory paper, 1914. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
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In 1959, when “Exploración de las fuentes del río Orinoco” was painted, Spanish-Mexican artist Remedios Varo was at the height of her artistic career and in the midst of a prodigious output of works that dealt with the metaphorical theme of esoteric searching. Slender and elegant women, looking much like the artist, populate these canvases, often astride fantastical vehicles of transit. The internal world of Remedios Varo is fraught with conflict over separation (e.g., her mother or homeland, Spain), which in her particular symbolism of locomotion, means moving, changing, leaving, and breaking away. Here a young light-skinned woman conservatively dressed in a proper British trench coat and bowler hat (a reference to British painter Leonora Carrington?) maneuvers in a boat that looks like a garment--replete with side pocket and buttons! Lost in concentration, she navigates by means of a complicated and amusing system of cords, propelled at top by wings reminiscent of the god Mercury. The "origin" of the river appears to be a goblet in a shrine-like hollowed out tree from which water flows, akin to the goblet of the Holy Grail or a bubbling alchemical beaker. Although interested in the mystical ideas of Russian-Armenian George Gurdjieff, Varo was also "attracted to the logic and order of scientific investigation." In fact, a decade earlier Varo had made a journey on the Orinoco River in Venezuela with her then companion/lover Jean Nicolle, who was working with a team of scientists organized by the French Institute in Mexico to study the agricultural potential of the region. It is this dichotomy that provides humor to not only this work but to many of her paintings--for her serious female explorers are on scientific safari to nothing less than the realm of dream.
Exploración de las fuentes del río Orinoco (Exploration of the Sources of the Orinoco River) by Remedios Varo (Spanish Mexican) - Oil on canvas / 1959 - Art Institute of Chicago (Illinois) #WomenInArt #art #surrealism #artText #RemediosVaro #artic #ArtInstituteofChicago #WomensArt #WomenArtists
photograph of an interior gallery taken at the Art Institute of Chicago. standing outside, shooting through the glass to the insided. also seen are reflections on the glass wall of two women behind me passing by. layers and layers... my favorite thing to work with.
gallery interior
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image created by shooting through a glass window.
women behind me are reflected on the glass in front of me.
layers and layers.
photograph.
Well, here's a late 1920s clock to remind you when to tune into your favorite radio programs.
Paul Theodore Frankl, Massachussetts. Bakelite, brush-burnished silver, chrome, and enamel. #ArtInstituteofChicago 📸 me
11/24/23. #photography #blackandwhitephotography #canonphotography #ArtInstituteofChicago #art #sculpture
I saw this painting in-person at the #ArtInstituteofChicago a lifetime ago, and still remember how awed I was. It's breathtaking.
![in honor of no kings! detail of Raquib Shaw's 100 foot long painting: Paradise lost. a giant narrative and an intricate painting. this figure is about 6 inches long and studded with rhinestones. a king with a crown on his leopard's head [on a human body]. hands and feet bound. with a bear hot on his trail. saw this thursday. it's on view at the art institute of chicago in the asian hall. worth seeing if you're nearby.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j72d7yxrr3vacidzdargb476/bafkreicmar7x3pjztpgg3dq2sn3ikgepr36uhu5aw2i7qjbr6mpoeikvpa)
in honor of no kings! detail of Raquib Shaw's 100 foot long painting: Paradise lost. a giant narrative and an intricate painting. this figure is about 6 inches long and studded with rhinestones. a king with a crown on his leopard's head [on a human body]. hands and feet bound. with a bear hot on his trail. saw this thursday. it's on view at the art institute of chicago in the asian hall. worth seeing if you're nearby.
King, hog-tied
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i saw this last thursday at AIC.
Raquib Shaw's Paradise Lost.
an intricate, 100 ft-long painting.
studded with tiny rhinestones in selected spots.
took the photo with 'no kings' in mind!
human with crowned leopard head.
details in alt.
