Édouard Manet,The Bullfight, 1864, oil on canvas. Overall: 18 7/8 x 42 7/8 in., Frick Collection
Why is it that I am always late when I drop by the Frick Gallery in Manhattan? And after plowing through the Fragonards, stopping respectfully at the Goya, and practically running down the dark green museum hall, where I don’t … Continue reading
Parmigianino, Madonna with the Long Neck, oil, 1534- 1535, Uffizi Gallery
In a book I have on sex in art, the beginning is mostly pictures of Greek vases depicting enjoyable blowjobs, Roman statues with proud extra large dicks, and Hindu temples covered in gods fucking each other’s brains out. Then you … Continue reading
Beginning, Max Beckmann, 1949, 69 x 125.5 in., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
“What’s going on?” is the normal reaction because the first thing that hits you in a Max Beckmann painting is the urgency of the message. Each panel is like a box crowded with foreigners, images both symbolic and narrative, struggling … Continue reading