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Item Ships From: New Orleans
Waiting Room
By Andrew Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
In highly developed nations today there is a widespread alienation and loneliness that engenders fear and distrust, a restrictive self-righteousness of thought, and a dread of what-c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
#mybouquet
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: paint chip sample mosaic on panel
Born in 1971 in Cincinnati, Ohio, CARLTON SCOTT STURGILL received his Masters of Arts (Fine Art) from London’s Chelsea College of Art in De...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mosaic, House Paint, Wood Panel
Ego
By Maggie Evans
Located in New Orleans, LA
[b. 1980 – Denton, TX ::: lives & works – Savannah, GA]
MAGGIE EVANS is an artist based in Savannah, Georgia. She currently uses painting, drawing and installation to examine huma...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Steady, Now
By Monica Zeringue
Located in New Orleans, LA
MONICA ZERINGUE received her Masters of Fine Arts from the University of New Orleans in 2006 and her BA in 1993. In 1999 she was awarded the Prix de l'Acadamie de Paris, Societe Inte...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Alabama Goddamn
By Nora See
Located in New Orleans, LA
NORA SEE grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where, as a child, she taught herself to draw. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Corcoran College of Art and Design and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of New Orleans. She works and lives in New Orleans.
In her oil paintings, Nora See renders framed paintings on walls with which human figures interact. Through her classical painting style and the use of historical visual references, her pieces contrast the past with the present. By combining these temporal elements with the use of frames as containers, she explores themes of consumption, imprisonment, and liberation.
Nora’s work has been exhibited in a variety of venues and is also in the personal collection of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds.
STATEMENT
“Good artists borrow. Great artists steal.” A quote oft attributed to various sources that was never actually uttered by any of them. Though Mark Twain elaborated on the sentiment: “Ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms.” In the Framed Series, I use my 1% contribution to combine issues of consumption with my autobiography.
I paint copies of copies of paintings within paintings to reference the appropriation, commodification, and altered continuum of art. My paintings of paintings are based on photographs of originals to perpetuate the continual distillation of form, given the ease with which images are presently exchanged and modified. Further, by reducing historically significant paintings to framed objects...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Panel
Get Out
By Nora See
Located in New Orleans, LA
NORA SEE grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where, as a child, she taught herself to draw. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Corcoran College of Art and Design and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of New Orleans. She works and lives in New Orleans.
In her oil paintings, Nora See renders framed paintings on walls with which human figures interact. Through her classical painting style and the use of historical visual references, her pieces contrast the past with the present. By combining these temporal elements with the use of frames as containers, she explores themes of consumption, imprisonment, and liberation.
Nora’s work has been exhibited in a variety of venues and is also in the personal collection of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds.
The artist says of her work...
“Good artists borrow. Great artists steal.” A quote oft attributed to various sources that was never actually uttered by any of them. Though Mark Twain elaborated on the sentiment: “Ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms.” In the Framed Series, I use my 1% contribution to combine issues of consumption with my autobiography.
I paint copies of copies of paintings within paintings to reference the appropriation, commodification, and altered continuum of art. My paintings of paintings are based on photographs of originals to perpetuate the continual distillation of form, given the ease with which images are presently exchanged and modified. Further, by reducing historically significant paintings to framed objects...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
OF-Head22
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF
Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Head27
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF
Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Head25
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF
Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Head15
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF
Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Head16
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF
Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Head20
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF
Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Hand3
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF
Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Head4
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF
Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Foot3
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF
Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
C'mon, son!
By Chris Barnard
Located in New Orleans, LA
This depicts an Art Institute of Chicago gallery space with a fictional sculpture. The two men rendered in the sculpture are based on white youth who attacked and beat Ted Landsmark, a black lawyer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Beard II
By Akihiko Sugiura
Located in New Orleans, LA
AKIHIKO SUGIURA (b. 1979) is a Japanese painter from Hyogo, Japan whose artistic style mixes purely physical non-representational art with a base of traditional representational pain...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Beard and fairy
By Akihiko Sugiura
Located in New Orleans, LA
AKIHIKO SUGIURA is a Japanese painter from Hyogo, Japan whose artistic style mixes purely physical non-representational art with a base of traditional representational painting. A co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pleasure Garden
By Akihiko Sugiura
Located in New Orleans, LA
AKIHIKO SUGIURA is a Japanese painter from Hyogo, Japan whose artistic style mixes purely physical non-representational art with a base of traditional representational painting. A co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The two
By Akihiko Sugiura
Located in New Orleans, LA
AKIHIKO SUGIURA is a Japanese painter from Hyogo, Japan whose artistic style mixes purely physical non-representational art with a base of traditional representational painting. A co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Moonlight Bends Over the Black Silence
By Monica Zeringue
Located in New Orleans, LA
Materials: Graphite and hand-sewn beads on primed linen
MONICA ZERINGUE received her Masters of Fine Arts from the University of New Orleans in 2006, and her BA in 1993. In 1999 she...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Graphite
A Platform
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Ted Turner, founder of CNN and by extension a 24-hour news cycle
I’ll blame everything wrong with America on Ted Turner. Don’t misread me – h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
An Automated Message
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From a series of paintings by Ed Valigursky.
Our technology is staggering. We now have computers that can lie for us. For proof you only need to head over to any online comment boar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Horrifying Self-Actualization
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Thomas Eakins’ Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic), 1875
At some point the lying has to stop, right? But when? I’m no longer convinced that any external stimulus...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Willing Ignorance
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From John Singer Sargent’s Gassed, 1919
When considering the factors that are required (or at least helpful) for a lie to succeed, I constantly look to the audience. I constantly tr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
An Audience Unaware
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Johannes Vermeer’s A Girl Asleep, 1656-57
Learning to lie is a bit like learning how to play a game. There are strategies. There’s an opponent. It can be fun because it’s a cha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Tentative Probe
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Rembrandt van Rijn’s Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq (The Night Watch), 1642
The search for limits is an ongoing endeavor. Circu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Bit Too Far
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Thomas Eakins’ Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic), 1875
As we seek this fine line separating safe lying from detrimental misdirection, we often have to cross it...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A False Prophet
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of news anchor Brian Williams
Similar to the regular fall of the Democrats, Brian Williams positioned himself as a figure worthy of our trust nightly. He convinced us tha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Sense of Guilt
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Fred Rogers, Mr. Rogers
I suppose I like to believe that liars know they’re lying. I like to believe it’s a controlled activity. And if they...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Frail Attempt
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus, 1484-86
We desire attention, but no one likes a show-off. So, we’ve sharpened our ability to practice false modesty. We pretend to cover ours...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
An Opportunity to Test
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Thomas Eakins’ Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic), 1875
Knowing what we do about insufficient consequences, we will always test the limits of acceptable lying. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Reliable Pardon
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Nicholas Poussin’s The Death of Sapphira, circa 1652
As we invariably test the waters of lying, we quickly learn to recognize the more forgiving...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Counter Example
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Abraham Lincoln
We’ve assigned a great deal of responsibility to our shared cultural figures when it comes to teaching lessons about truth, fiction, and morality. We u...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Constant, Attractive Artifice
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A mannequin
For some reason, mannequins seemed to be everywhere when I was growing up. Maybe it was growing up during the heyday of malls in America. Nevertheless, with their clearl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Cautionary Tale
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Pinocchio from Pinocchio, Disney, 1940
Are there any more recognizable stories about the difficulties that can accompany lying than that of Pinocchio? For the puppet-...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
End
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Lone Star, True But Whatever
There was I time when I ached for the world. Before cell phones, before social media, I felt the urgency of environmental damage, of social injustice.
Nothing seems to have gotten better. I'm not numb to it, but in some way I've become flip, a resigned humor like a layer of scar tissue between my concerns and the abrasion all around.
Still, I was surprised how playful these paintings became.
Disasters intertwine: Urns, much like the one that held my twin sister's ashes, a familial disaster, come to the forefront, variations of childhood memory. Images from photos I took in Port Aransas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Glitter, Acrylic, Color Pencil
5, 307 nails
By John Adelman
Located in New Orleans, LA
John Adelman was born in a small town in northwest Ohio in 1969. In 1992, he earned a BFA in painting, drawing and printmaking from Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Upon graduating, he worked first for CM/SNP Printing, a local newspaper print shop, and then for Airwaves Inc. a t-shirt design silk screen-printing manufacturer for ten years, in which, it is estimated he produced over 12 million images during his tenure. In 2006, John earned his MFA from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. After moving to Houston, he worked with galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Marfa Texas and Bradbury Gallery at Arkansas State University. John currently has representation by two galleries in Houston and Los Angeles. Adelman has been a finalist for the Hunting Art Prize, awarded by Hunting PLC, 3 times (in 2009, 2012, and 2014).
STATEMENT:
My work of drawing on canvas is an exploration of process, rules-based art. This procedure is comprised of a formula of specific actions based upon a variable circumstance and can be rooted in computer based algorithmic if, then statements. These procedural mandates are instituted from the beginning of a work and continue through its completion. The formula can dictate, structure, color, composition, scale and interior or exterior values. The formula not only controls my actions as the artist but likes organizes either the component parts of a (dismantled) object or the component parts of a single used dictionary. When the dictionary is put into play, I transcribe definitions from the 1979 Unabridged Webster's Encyclopedic Dictionary. I create dense, layered images of handwriting or convert letters of the definition into their numeric counterpart and proceed through the formula with the use of that number as a means a moving through the whole of the image. Primarily, the most used component is nails, an extension of the dismantled object, traced and sometimes labeled. Other works have included individual stitches from an entire embroidery, every part of a motorcycle, electric organ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
If I paint us (in gold) V
By Nikki Rosato
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: gold gouache on paper
The artist says of the inspiration in her latest work . . .
Moving to Washington, DC in 2016 changed me. The unraveling of this country's leadership ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
If I paint us (in gold) I
By Nikki Rosato
Located in New Orleans, LA
The artist says of the inspiration in her latest work . . .
Moving to Washington, DC in 2016 changed me. The unraveling of this country's leadership elicited a strong, visceral rea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Twins
By Skylar Fein
Located in New Orleans, LA
SKYLAR FEIN x MRSA (collaboration)
SKYLAR FEIN was born in Greenwich Village and raised in the Bronx. He has had many careers including teaching nonviolent resistance under the umbr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Shepherd
By Skylar Fein
Located in New Orleans, LA
SKYLAR FEIN x MRSA (collaboration)
SKYLAR FEIN was born in Greenwich Village and raised in the Bronx. He has had many careers including teaching nonviolent resistance under the umbr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Child of the Night
By Skylar Fein
Located in New Orleans, LA
SKYLAR FEIN x MRSA (collaboration)
SKYLAR FEIN was born in Greenwich Village and raised in the Bronx. He has had many careers including teaching nonviolent resistance under the umbr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
If He Wasn't Handsome, Would He Still be Super?
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: Joseph Shuster’s Superman #1 Cover (1939) and #17 Beast and the Beauty from Wally Wood’s, Bob Powell’s, and Norm Saunders’ Mars Attacks trading cards...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed: 11h x 16w in
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Madison Fats, Oils and Sweets
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed: 20h x 18w in
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Franklin's Milk, Yogurt, and Cheese
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in the manufacturing of pigm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Davie Crockett, Pecos Bill, the Bull Moose Party, and a Man Walking into Frame
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed: 10h x 10w in
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Chases Dirt
By Gina Phillips
Located in New Orleans, LA
Gina Phillips is a mixed media, narrative artist who grew up in Kentucky and has lived in New Orleans since 1995. The imagery, stories and characters of both regions influence her wo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood
Clutches
By Gina Phillips
Located in New Orleans, LA
Gina Phillips is a mixed media, narrative artist who grew up in Kentucky and has lived in New Orleans since 1995. The imagery, stories and characters of both regions influence her wo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Ink, Paint, Thread
Girl with a Banjo by Mary Cassatt
By Mary Cassatt
Located in New Orleans, LA
Mary Cassatt
1844–1926 American
Girl with a Banjo
Signed (lower right)
Pastel on board
This important pastel entitled Girl with a Banjo by Mary Cassatt is a true masterwork from ...
Category
19th Century Impressionist New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Board
The Twelve Princesses
By Gustave-Max Stevens
Located in New Orleans, LA
The greatest triumph of the artist’s career, this extraordinary and monumental oil on canvas by Gustave-Max Stevens perfectly represents the highly detailed compositions and richly h...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Petite Mendiante By William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Located in New Orleans, LA
William Bouguereau
French 1825-1905
Petite Mendiante
(Little Beggar)
Signed “W. Bouguereau 1880” (center left)
Oil on canvas
William Bouguereau's faithful images of young women a...
Category
19th Century Academic New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Au Bord Du Ruisseau By William-Adolphe Bouguereau
By William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Located in New Orleans, LA
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
1825-1905 French
Au Bord du Ruisseau
Signed and dated “W-Bouguereau-1888” (upper left)
Oil on Canvas
“Bouguereau’s paintings of children allowed for th...
Category
19th Century Academic New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait Of A Gentleman By Frans Hals
Located in New Orleans, LA
Frans Hals
1582-1666 Dutch
Portrait of a Gentleman
(possibly Theodore Blevet)
Oil on panel
“Frans Hals is a colourist among the colourists...Frans Hals must have had twenty-seven blacks...
Category
17th Century Old Masters New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Le carnaval du sage by René Magritte
By René Magritte
Located in New Orleans, LA
René Magritte
1898-1967 Belgian
Le carnaval du sage
(The Sage’s Carnival)
Signed “Magritte” (lower right); titled and dated "Le carnaval du sage 1947" (en verso)
Oil on canvas
The enigmatic paintings of René Magritte have become some of the most familiar and celebrated of the Surrealist movement. Among the most influential of the Surrealist painters of the 20th century, Magritte is an artist of international renown, as beloved for his popular appeal as he is for the psychological intensity of his works. The present oil on canvas, entitled Le carnaval du sage, was executed in 1947 at the height of his career, and it is a tour-de-force example of the haunting, mysterious scenes that comprise his oeuvre.
Painted in the years following the Second World War, Le carnaval du sage showcases several recurring themes from Magritte’s oeuvre. Chiefly, a juxtaposition between the visible and the hidden is keenly felt. Throughout his career, Magritte explores the psychological obsession with revealing what is hidden, particularly with regard to the human face. In his Le fils de l’homme, he obscures the face of a man in a bowler hat with an apple, while his Les amants (Metropolitan Museum of Art) conceals the faces of two lovers with white sheets. In Le carnaval du sage, Magritte juxtaposes the blatant nudity of his central figure by masking her face, simultaneously revealing and concealing her from the viewer.
The work also incorporates two of Magritte’s most common tropes – the glass of water and the baguette. Lending the scene a strange sense of domesticity, they appear infinitely familiar and distinctly out of place, and thus heighten the uncanny effect of Magritte’s composition. In the background hovers a ghost obscured by a sheet, a figure which was of particular fascination to Magritte beginning in 1946. He once wrote to his fellow Surrealist Paul Nougé: "I saw in a dream an answer to the problem of the ghost: the traditional ghost draped...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young girl from Tetouan, Morocco
By Charles Zacharie Landelle
Located in New Orleans, LA
Young girl from Tetouan, Morocco
Signed (center right)
Oil on canvas
In this important oil on canvas, French Orientalist painter Charles Landelle captures the engaging visage of a young Moroccan woman in a moment of tranquil contemplation. Seated on the floor of what is almost certainly an opulent riad, the young woman wears an intricately embroidered Moroccan kaftan and headdress. The sumptuous patterns on the floor and in the background lend an additional warmth to the strikingly vivid red hues which dominate the composition and are a hallmark of Landelle’s work.
The symbols behind the young woman may represent either the Jewish Star of David or the Islamic Seal...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
La Danse pyrrhique (Pyrrhic Dance)
By Jean-Léon Gérôme
Located in New Orleans, LA
This painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme entitled La Danse pyrrhique is among the most fascinating compositions ever composed by the Academic master’s hand. Gérôme’s iconic scenes of the East captivated a generation, and this work showcases all of the artist’s unparalleled talents. Set in the Ptolemaic period of Ancient Egypt, its depiction of the ritual Pyrrhic dance is vivid and striking. Beautifully painted and rich with detail, it represents the best of Gérôme’s famed Orientalist scenes.
In La Danse pyrrhique, Gérôme gives us a dramatic rendering of this ancient war dance. Greek in origin, it was performed by costumed dancers armed with swords who completed a series of movements set to music pantomiming combat. Homer wrote that Achilles performed this dance in a show of respect and grief at the funeral of his friend, Patroclus. When Julius Caesar introduced it to the Roman Games, its popularity spread across the Roman Empire to include Egypt, where Gérôme’s composition is set.
Gérôme visited Egypt for the first time in 1856, and he returned throughout the late 19th century when this work was created. Gérôme’s first-hand familiarity with this setting is evident in this piece, and his visual narrative is unlike any other. His paintings combine the rationalist style of historical paintings and the theatrical...
Category
19th Century Academic New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
