Cecilia
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Cecilia
Les Biches, Marie Laurencin. Musée d’Orangerie, Paris
Portrait of Mademoiselle Chanel, Marie Laurencin. Musée d’Orangerie, Paris
Jay DeFeo, the Rose: https://www.jaydefeofoundation.org/artwork/the-rose/
Can’t figure this out …. Decay/industrialisation/the Anthropocene (?). Why Medusa?
Article linking it to Leucippe and Clitophon and the fear of movement in ekphrasis: ‘Helen Morales, in her brilliant study of vision and narrative in Achilles Tatius’ novel, points out that, even though Medusa’s head (and, by extension, the painting depicting it) is lifeless, the language of the description is suffused with movement’ https://minusplato.com/2015/05/petrifying-danger-chris-burdens-medusa-2.html
Gabriel Argy-Rousseau - "Eurythmics" Vase - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gabriel Argy-Rousseaumetmuseum.org
When the common periwinkle population exploded in Maine in the 19th century, it literally changed the color of the coastline. The stone-colored winkles ate the orange, red and green algae that once lined the bottom of the northeastern shallows. Marine biologists have studied oil paintings from the period to try and determine the degree of this colo... See more