Art and Film Friday; Vol. 7 - Children of Men

Still from Children of Men - more here.

Tilo Baumgartel, Hol´s der Geier, 2008, 30x40cm, Öl auf Leinwand

Still from Children of Men

Ryan McGinley, Smoke & Silhouette, 2007

Still from Children of MenJames McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Blue and Silver: The Lagoon, Venice, 1879–80, Oil on canvas

James McNeill Whistler, Nocturne: Blue and Silver—Battersea Reach, 1872–78, Oil on canvas

A Pair

Edward Steichen

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Like Breath on Glass

Like Breath on Glass accompanies an exhibition of the same name at The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. I just got the book in the mail yesterday and it is absolutely gorgeous. The work of the Tonalists in the late 1800s is really exquisite. It makes me look at my own paintings like I made them while wearing oven mits and a blindfold.

Eduard Steichen
Cooper's Bluff—Moonlight Strollers
1905
Oil on canvas

Accompaniment

I was researching the work of Giulio Aristide Sartorio - a painter I remembered from a trip to Italy some years ago, when I came across a series of war paintings of his that are fantastic. I paired excerpts form the series with aesthetically similar paintings or painters. I'm not meaning to imply one painter looked at the other painter, but it is always interesting to me to see similarities between artists. Unfortunately, the page on which I found these works by Sartorio is written in Italian so I do not translated titles - the series is from 1917-1918.

Giulio Aristide Sartorio, "Attacco aereo di Venezia" ("Air Attack of Venice"), 1917-1918
"Buildings Lancaster", 1930, by Charles Demuth (Source: Wiki Commons), Oil on board, 24 x 20 in
Giulio Aristide Sartorio, "Bombardamento di Quota" ("Bombing of Quota"), 1917-1918
George Bellows, "A Morning Snow: Hudson River", 1910 (Source: Wiki Commons)

Giulio Aristide Sartorio, "L'isola di Fagarè" ("The Island of Fagare"?), 1917-1918James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Harmony in blue and silver: Trouville (1865)
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Giulio Aristide Sartorio,"Gli Austriaci ripassano il Piave" (The Australians Crossing the Piave"), 1917-1918 Frederic Remington (American, 1861–1909), "The Scout: Friends or Foes", 1902–5,
Oil on canvas; 27 x 40 in. from the Met Museum

translations by the talented Patti Hallock