Paul Landacre, Engraving, Desert Wall, 1932
If you live in California, once you see the mountains in Landacre’s wood engravings you are suddenly home, a place that yanks at your heart no matter how much you hate it here. These are the hills you see every … Continue reading
Salomé dancing before Herod by Gustave Moreau, 1876 (The Armand Hammer Museum of Art & Collection, Los Angeles)
I cannot look at this painting without thinking it is an unintentional portrait of the artist’s subconscious. As in a dream, all the characters are Moreau; he is the half dead king Herod trapped in a fantasy Hindu castle, as … Continue reading
Mary Woronov 2009. All rights reserved.
Painting’s Title: Stupid Size: 4 ft x 4 ft (aprox. 122 cm x 122 cm) Paint: Oil Condition: Stretched on frame Date: 2009 SOLD
Mary Woronov 2007. All rights reserved.
Painting’s Title: Comedian Size: 20 in x 30 in (aprox. 51cm x 76cm) Paint: Oil Condition: Stretched on frame Date: 2007 Available for purchase
Andy Warhol, Empire, film, 1964
It’s freezing in New York. I’m staying at the Gershwin, a mid-town hotel with imagination and rooms straight out of Raymond Chandler. This week they are having a Warhol festival, everyone gets a free silver wig and a pair of … Continue reading
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
Mary Woroov 2009. All rights reserved.
Painting’s Title: Ballerina Size: 4 ft x 5 ft Paint: Oil Condition: Stretched on frame Date: 2009, by Mary Woronov SOLD