Monday Morning Museum: Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg – Thursday 22 October 1925 Port Arthur, Texas to Monday 12 May 2008 Captiva Island, Florida

American Pop Artist


In a departure from the Rauschenberg paintings shown above, here is an outdoor, public art piece – Riding Bikes, 1998 – located in Berlin, Germany.



Last Monday’s Artist – Edgar Degas
Next Monday’s Artist – Walker Evans


Images:
Left: Yoicks, 1953 from the website pinatura.aut.org
Center: Winter Pool, 1959 from Workman Publishing
Right: Retroactive I, 1964 from the website pinatura.aut.org
Below: “Monday Morning Museum” logo created by Adrean Darce Brent

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor – Saturday 27 February 1932 London To Wednesday 23 March 2011 Los Angeles

“Here lies Elizabeth.
She hated being called Liz,
but she lived”

-Elizabeth Taylor

Images:
Left: Elizabeth Taylor from the website fashionsmostwanted.blogspot.com
Center: Elizabeth Taylor from the website sant-cugal.net
Right: Elizabeth Taylor from the website movieeye.com

Monday Morning Museum: Edgar Degas

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas – Saturday 19 July 1834 Paris, France to Thursday 27 September 1917 Paris, France

French Realist / Impressionist Painter and Sculptor

Degas is known for his paintings of ballet dancers, but in this work – Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando, 1879 – he presents a performer of a different kind. Living in Southern California, I certainly appreciate the woman’s name.



Last Monday’s Artist – Mary Stevenson Cassatt
Next Monday’s Artist – Robert Rauschenberg

Images:
Left: At the Races: The Start, 1861-1862 from the website the-anthenaeum.org
Center: The Dance Class, 1874 from the website metmusuem.org
Right: The Millinery Shop, 1885 from the website the-anthenaeum.org
Below: “Monday Morning Museum” logo created by Adrean Darce Brent

in Just- spring

in Just-
spring          when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman

whistles          far          and wee

and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring

when the world is puddle-wonderful

the queer
old balloonman whistles
far           and          wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing

from hop-scotch and jump-rope and

it's
spring
and
          the

                    goat-footed

balloonMan          whistles
far
and
wee


e. e. cummings
(1894 to 1962)



“Vernal Equinox 2011” graphic created by Adrean Darce Brent

Monday Morning Museum: Mary Stevenson Cassatt

Mary Stevenson Cassatt – Wednesday 22 May 1844 Alleghany City, Pennsylvania to Monday 14 June 1926 Château de Beaufresne, France

American Impressionist Painter


Although Cassatt is primarily known for portraying women and children in her paintings, this is a landscape from early in her career – Picking Flowers in a Field, circa 1875




Last Monday’s Artist – Gustav Klimt
Next Monday’s Artist – Edgar Degas


Images:
Left: Spring: Margot Standing in a Garden, 1902 from the website sirismm.si.edu
Center: Lilacs in a Window, 1880-1883 from the website metmuseum.org
Right: Young Woman in Green, Outdoors in the Sun, 1914 from the website upload.wikimedia.org
Below: “Monday Morning Museum” logo created by Adrean Darce Brent