Ok starting a new art thread for 2023! Here's the deal: a mostly daily thread with a different artist every day (sometimes I repeat from previous years if I feel like featuring other work/projects), primarily modern and contemporary since that's my thing. I'm even making a hashtag for it in case that makes it easier for folks to follow. Enjoy! #art#BigArtThread
Paintings by Argentinian artist Alfred Hlito, 1950s, a member of the Concrete Art movement, a postwar style popular in South America that sought pure abstraction removed from symbolism or representation.
Paintings by American artist Alice Stallknecht, 1930s-50s, who paused an illustration career to marry and care for her family, but turned back to art in her forties after meeting John Singer Sargent, making portraits of her Chatham, MA neighbors as well as a series of murals. #art#painting#ModernArt#BigArtThread
Works by Japanese American artist, illustrator, and teacher Chiura Obata, 1920s-30s, a classically trained art prodigy who immigrated to the US in 1903 and became known for his elegant landscapes of the American West. He was forcibly interred during WWII, and set up an art school at the prison camp. #art#ModernArt#BigArtThread
Drawings by German communist artist Lena Meyer-Bergner, 1930s-40s, who studied at the Bauhaus and became an influential fabric designer and textile instructor across several countries (including the USSR and Mexico), introducing industrial weaving techniques to poor communities. She believed art's greatest role was to empower revolutionary societies. #art#drawing#Bauhaus#ModernArt#BigArtThread
Works by French artist Jacqueline Lamba, 1940s, who despite being a multi-talented designer, painter, dancer, and translator, is often more remembered as André Breton's wife and a Surrealist muse. #art#painting#ModernArt#BigArtThread
Paintings by French artist Amédée Ozenfant, 1920s, who along with Le Corbusier founded the "Purist" movement, an offshoot of Cubism emphasizing the simplification of objects and forms. #art#painting#ModernArt#BigArtThread
Paintings by self-taught Polish-American artist Morris Hirshfield, 1940s, who ran a successful shoe business as a designer of women's slippers but retired due to poor health, taking up painting in later life. #art#painting#ModernArt#BigArtThread