A Brief History of Blue

Items

• Reclining Nude with Outstretched Left Arm
  A drawing of a starved young woman laying on her back.
• The Bride (Unfinished)
  Several Figures intertwined in each other with a figure laying alone, unfinished.
• Danae
  A depiction of the myth of Danae, who is impregnated through a golden shower by the God Zeus.
• Hope I
  A young, pregnant female, surrounded by dark creatures.
• Judith and the Head of Holofernes
  A painting of a myth, Judith who slays Holofernes.
• The Three Ages of Woman
  Three women depicting three ages in the life cycle of a woman.
• The Virgin
  Six women lay intertwined, each representing a stage of life.
• The Situationist City
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
  © 2020 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
• Joseph Cornell (December 24, 1903 – December 29, 1972), American artist and sculptor. Photograph by Hans Namuth, 1971.
  By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33723510
• Tropicália
  "One of the most original artists of the twentieth century, Oiticica (1937—1980) made art that awakens us to our bodies, our senses, our feelings about being in the world: art that challenges us to assume a more active role."
• Sun Setting over a Lake
  "While the topographical details of this painting are hazy and indistinct, the sunset is vividly depicted, lighting up the sky in vibrant reds and oranges, reflected across the water. At the right, passages of white paint may depict snowy Alpine mountains, perhaps those around Lake Lucerne, a destination favoured by the artist during the 1840s."
• The Double Dream of Spring
  "Certain of Chirico’s paintings, which were clearly inspired by architecturally originated sensations, exert in turn an effect on their objective base to the point of transforming it: they tend themselves to become blueprints or models. Disquieting neighborhoods of arcades could one day carry on and fulfill the allure of these works." - Guy Debord from "Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography"
• The Gates, Central Park, New York City, 1979-2005
  "The installation of The Gates in New York's Central Park was completed in February 2005. The 7,503 gates with their free-hanging saffron colored fabric panels seemed like a golden river appearing and disappearing through the bare branches of the trees."
• Scrim veil—Black rectangle—Natural light, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1977)
  "Scrim veil—Black rectangle—Natural light, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1977), by California Light and Space artist Robert Irwin, is a large-scale installation that uniquely engages the Whitney’s iconic Breuer building and the natural light that emanates from the large window in the fourth floor gallery space."
• Sky above Clouds IV
• Monk by the Sea
  "No artistic composition had ever been as uncompromising as this: the main space of the picture seems like an abyss of some kind; there are no boundaries, there is nothing to hold on to, just a sense of floating between night and day, between despair and hope."
• Akhob
  From the series "Ganzfeld" "Turrell creates a similar experience of 'Ganzfeld': a German word to describe the phenomenon of the total loss of depth perception as in the experience of a white-out."
• Psychogeographic Guide of Paris.
  "The production of psychogeographical maps, or even the introduction of alterations such as more or less arbitrarily transposing maps of two different regions, can contribute to clarifying certain wanderings that express not subordination to randomness but complete insubordination to habitual influences (influences generally categorized as tourism, that popular drug as repugnant as sports or buying on credit)." - Guy Debord, from "Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography" Expanded title: Psychogeographic Guide of Paris. Discourse on the Passions of Love. Psychogeographic Descents of Drifting and Localisation of Ambient Unities
• Gas
  "The light in this painting—both natural and artificial—gives the scene of a gas station and its lone attendant at dusk an underlying sense of drama."
• He could see Undine beneath the crystal vault.
• The magic cup.
• The wolf disguised as grandmother
• [The troll was quite willing, and before long he fell asleep and began snoring.]
• Medici Princess