The museum is encouraging creativity by providing an art supplies to create with. Photo of the actual sculpture and the awesome artistic interpretations. Love it!
#art #museum #create #scuplture #nortonsimon
Russian artist Alexei Jawlensky (Алексей Георгиевич Явленский ... often shortened to Алексей Явленский) titled this work for “Galka,” the affectionate nickname he gave to Emilie Esther “Galka” Scheyer, the German-American artist and impresario who became his tireless advocate. Painted in 1917 during Jawlensky’s Swiss exile in World War I, the Mystical Heads series distilled human features into spiritual signs, drawing on Russian Orthodox icon traditions he knew from childhood. The stylized woman’s head fills the board, cropped at her neck and shoulders. Her skin is rendered in luminous planes of pink, tan, and violet bounded by decisive dark contours. Wide-set almond eyes float beneath arched brows. Her small, closed mouth rests in a soft triangle of shadow. A vertical band centers the face like a quiet axis, while curved strokes at the temples suggest a veil or halo. Color blocks stack like icon fragments, giving the face a calm, frontal stillness as it is neither a portrait likeness nor a mask, but a serene, contemplative presence. Scheyer met Jawlensky in Switzerland in 1916; by the early 1920s she was championing him alongside Klee, Kandinsky, and Feininger, later organizing them as the Blue Four (Die Blaue Vier which is distinct from Der Blaue Reiter aka The Blue Rider, an earlier, separate group). In this image, devotion is formal as much as personal thanks to saturated color and strict contour create an inner radiance, suggesting a visage contemplated rather than observed, a face as vessel for thought, faith, and friendship while signaling the circle of artists and ideas Scheyer would carry to California.
"Mystical Head: Galka" by Alexei Jawlensky (Russian) - Oil and pencil on tan textured cardboard / 1917 - Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena, CA) #WomenInArt #art #artText #artwork #Jawlensky #AlexeiJawlensky #GalkaScheyer #Expressionism #RussianAvantGarde #Modernism #NortonSimon #BlueFour #DieBlaueVier
#cuadrodeldía Jarrón de lilas, rosas y tulipanes (Gustave Courbet 1819–77) #NortonSimon Pasadena #art Lideró el realismo francés del XIX, atrevidas apuestas sociales y rechazo del romanticismo. Hizo este bodegón por dinero: tulipanes de primavera y amapolas de estío #FelizDomingo
This and that day. First, we have the last two from the Norton Siman Museum and then we have some interesting things I found at the Highway Sanctuary.
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Part II: When visiting museums I sometimes theme my photos. Portraits and a statue from Norton Simon museum in Pasadena, California.
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Today we are highlighting Hindu figures from the Norton Simon Museum.
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When visiting museums I sometimes theme my photos. Portraits from Norton Simon museum in Pasadena, California.
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This Monet inspired garden has a lily pond and purple irises around the edge. In the background are trees and a lawn. This garden is part of The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California.
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Today's prompt is #Iris
Irises in the garden of The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena. It is intended to be reminiscent of Monet's Garden.
#EastCoastKin #MonetGarden #BloomScrolling #ArtYear #NortonSimon
Today I thought we would get spiritual with images of Hindu gods and a couple of Buddhas.
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Back to the Norton Simon Museum we find various artworks including a couple of Cubist pieces.
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Featuring a few more selections from the Norton Simon Asian Art exhibit today.
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Some more art from the Norton Simon Museum today including a Gaugin and an angel playing bagpipes.
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365 ART: 100 Colors
February 28: Aspen Gold. Pantone 14-0850.
Vincent Van Gogh. This painting lives in an excellent local art museum, Norton Simon. Up close you see the layers of paint strokes, step back and take in the colorful mood.
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An older man sits next to a woman in front of a myriad of statues. A golden hue envelopes the room.
A lone statue of a young woman goes unattended by museum patrons, who look at other pieces instead.
A couple stares up at a stunning painting of angels.
At the musuem today. #fuji #photography #nortonsimon
Van Gogh “The Mulberry Tree” October 1889
I never tire of seeing this one: Vincent van Gogh’s “The Mulberry Tree” has been in the permanent collection at the Norton Simon Museum since 1976. #vangogh #nortonsimon
Marie-Thérèse Walter depicted as a Woman with a Book by Pablo Picasso (Spanish) in an oil on canvas painting from 1932
(Marie-Thérèse Walter) Woman with a Book by Pablo Picasso (Spanish) - Oil on canvas - 1932 - Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena, California) #picasso #painting #womanwithabook #womeninart #nortonsimon #pasadena #pablopicasso #art
Pierre de Wissant Nude by Auguste Rodin ©️Cris Calderon. All Rights Reserved.
Pierre de Wissant Nude by
Auguste Rodin @ the Norton Simon Museum #sculpture #nortonsimon #photography #pasadena #museum
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