2. Titian, Venus of Urbino, 1538 E.V. Day, Flesh for Fantasy, 2000
Oil on canvas Blow-up dolls, surgical wire, hooks
3. Jacques-Louis David, Death of Claude Monet, The Monet Family in
Socrates, 1787 the Garden at Argenteuil, 1874, o/c, 24
o/c, 51 x 77 ¼ inches, MET x 39 ¼ inches, MET
5. Claude Monet, The Monet Family in the Garden at Argenteuil, 1874
o/c, 24 x 39 ¼ inches, MET
6. Jacques-Louis David, Death of Claude Monet, The Monet Family in
Socrates, 1787 the Garden at Argenteuil, 1874, o/c, 24
o/c, 51 x 77 ¼ inches, MET x 39 ¼ inches, MET
7. "A picture, before being a war horse, a nude
woman, or some anecdote, is essentially a flat
surface covered by colors in a certain order.”
—Maurice Denis
16. Ferdinand Léger Jean Tinguely
Woman with a Cat, 1921 Homage to New York, 1950
17. “…if you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose
with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or
philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with
paint, today, when you think about it, since we have this problem of doing it
or not doing it. But then all of a sudden it was even more absurd not to do it.
So I fear I have to follow my desires.”
—Willem de Kooning, in a 1962 radio interview
Born in Holland, emigrated to the US
Well-known abstract active 1940s-80s
