Thursday February 18th, 2010

Title: Luncheon on the Grass

Artist: Edouard Manet

Year: 1862-3

Medium: Oil on Canvas

And this Manet Painting reminds me of this Giorgione Painting:

Title: Pastoral Concert

Artist: Giorgione

Year: 1508-9

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Thursday February 18th, 2010

Title: The Blue Room

Artist: Suzanne Valadon

Year: 1923

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Title: Reclining Nude

Artist: Suzanne Valadon

Year: 1928

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Thursday February 18th, 2010

Title: Hannah Dressed in Men's Clothes

Artist: Hannah Cullwick, Commissioned by Arthur Munby

Year: 1860's

Medium: Photography

Thursday February 18th, 2010

Title: Woman at Her Toilette

Artist: Berthe Morisot

Year: 1875

Medium: Oil on Canvas

This painting reminds me of this Lee Miller Photograph:

Thursday February 18th, 2010

Title: Birth of Venus

Artist: Alexandre Cabanel

Year: 1863

Medium: Oil on Canvas

I love, in this painting, how she is peeking at the viewer, as if to suggest some naughtiness is afoot.