portrait
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by Natee Utarit
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Madonna in Glory detail (circa 1670) by Carlo Dolci
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“In my case all painting… is an accident. I foresee it and yet I hardly
ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual
paint. I don’t in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it
does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.”
Study after Velázquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X, 1953, by Francis Bacon
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“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”
The Dream by Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973)
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“Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one’s self by entering into the real sense of things.”
Sleeping Muse by Constantin Brancusi
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Olympia, 1863 by Edouard Manet
Though Manet’s The Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l’herbe) sparked controversy in 1863, his Olympia stirred an even bigger uproar when it was first exhibited at the 1865 Paris Salon. Conservatives condemned the work as “immoral” and “vulgar.”[1] Journalist Antonin Proust later recalled, “If the canvas of the Olympia was not destroyed, it is only because of the precautions that were taken by the administration.” The critics and the public condemned the work alike. Even Émile Zola was reduced to disingenuously commenting on the work’s formal qualities rather than acknowledging the subject matter, “You wanted a nude, and you chose Olympia, the first that came along”.[9] He paid tribute to Manet’s honesty, however, “When our artists give us Venuses, they correct nature, they lie. Édouard Manet asked himself why lie, why not tell the truth; he introduced us to Olympia, this fille of our time, whom you meet on the sidewalks.”[10]