David and the Horatii

Oath of the Horatii (1784) 329.8 × 424.8 cm (129.8 × 167.2 in)
Louvre; Paris

The brothers Horatii, hailing from Rome, accept the charge to fight the Curiatii also three brothers,  from neighboring Alba Longa, to settle a war between the two city states. A proud father Publius Sr. raises swords to his unified sons, at a high pitch of stoicism. Their tribute to Rome is considered a great honor. Averting the crisis is a necessity.

Jaques-Louis David has a power which he employs in the contrast of powerful actionable men who are all muscle, guts and steel, to the weeping women which they pay no attention. Each knows full well the dangers of this undertaking, their bloodshed to save the lives of many. Their sister stands to lose a fiancé in the brothers Curiatii adding to her dismay.

Non-Objective

 It is a reality that non objective art has been popular in the New York art scene for many years (some time after WWII). I can't say exactly where it stands today. It is a-kin to such movements as color fields, futurist or cubic abstraction, but non objective art is a mode with marked differences in artistic interpretation. Its strongest aspect the absence of original subject. In other words non objective art does not resemble any real world object nor should it be inspired by one.

"sir" Francis Bacon

Hirshhorn

Willem de Kooning; Woman 1965

      An image. Hung in a well lit room. There are many reproductions. Of the original there is only one. The artist spent months, years, or maybe hours to physically make the piece. A lifetime to conceive it. It beckoned him to place his brush upon the canvas. When he did make pass at it, there were moments of pure pleasure and others of great pain. Maybe more of one than the other. As frustrating as it was he sought to see his way through. The proof is in the paint.

hallows eve

Study in yellow

Frank Stella

paijnt

Washington and the World

watch it burn

Indifferent Equation

color naturals- mulberry

color naturals-nasturtium

Egon Schiele