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Bite-Sized Art: History, News, Auctions, and More!
Welcome! If you’re new here, every week we send out a newsletter containing:
- One “Frame” of the week: history & opinions about a work of art
- One “Fame” of the week: sales from auctions or other big art news
- One “Find” of the week: a work we like, gallery opening, or surprise!
Frame of the Week
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Vision of a Knight (1503-1504) by Raphael
There are competing views on what Vision of a Knight means.
Some believe that the knight represents a Roman general who dreamed that he had to choose between Virtue and Pleasure.
Others believe that the two women may represent the ideal attributes of the knight: the book, sword, and flower that they hold suggest the ideals of scholar, soldier and lover which a knight should combine.
What is clear is that Raphael didn’t shy away from using a multitude of bright pigments to paint this masterpiece.
Fame of the Week
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Under the Wave off Kanagawa (The Great Wave) by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
One of the original prints of The Great Wave, was sold on July 20th for £304,800 GBP.
This was a part of Hokusai’s series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji.
The numbered designation of the series was canonical – a nod towards the Thirty-six Poet Immortals (Sanjurokkasen), a group of historic poet exemplars – evoking the mountain as a source of poetry, art and sublimity.
For more info on the auction, click here!
Find of the Week
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TumTum (2013) by Gil Yefman
On Saturday, August 5th from 4-6pm, Gil Yefman is having the opening reception to his first solo exhibition, It Ain’t Necessarily Soft, with Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Los Angeles.
Yefman’s practice explores a unique artistic language defined by brightly colored knitted sculptures of grotesque, fluid, multi-organ beings. From shoshanawayne.com
An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished.
That’s it for this week! If you know of any art news you’d like me to feature, artworks you’d like me to write about, or anything else, feel free to dm me on Instagram. And please share the newsletter too!