Leda, glassy and standing nudes

Salvador Dali

Leda Atomica 1949

Teatre-Museu Dalí, Figueres, Spain

 The picture depicts Leda, the mythological queen of Sparta, with the swan. Leda is a frontal portrait of Dalí's wife, Gala, who is seated on a pedestal with a swan suspended behind and to her left.

Erich Heckel, Glassy Day, 1913

Modern art Gallery, Mûnchen, Germany 

Erich Heckel (1883 –  1970) was a German painter and printmaker, and a founding member of the group Die Brücke ("The Bridge") which existed 1905-1913.

Joan Miro 

Standing Nude, 1921

New York , Perls Galleries, U.S.A.

Joan Miró i Ferrà ( 1893 – 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma de Mallorca in 1981.

Salvador Dali

 The Elephants, c.1948

Shirley Temple, 

The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster 

of the Cinema in Her Time. !939

Fried Eggs on a Plate Without the Plate. 1932
From my "Salvador Dali  30 postcards" book

"Dali's Moustache" 1954
Photo Philippe Halsman

Hat and pipe

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Rene Magritte, This is Not a Pipe 1929. 

travel time 24 days

distance travelled 8,402 km

sent by Lyola in San Francisco, California.

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René Magritte, Golconda 1953

travel time 21 days

distance travelled 7,768 km

sent by Minori in Tokyo

René Magritte (1898 – 1967) was a Belgian Surrealist artist. He became well known for creating a number of witty and thought-provoking images. Often depicting ordinary objects in an unusual context, his work is known for challenging observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality. His imagery has influenced Pop art, minimalist and conceptual art.

 Magritte for the first time in Finland,

Amos Rex Art Museum, Helsinki  8.2. – 19.5.2019

Melting clocks

Salvador  Dalí (1904 –  1989), was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain. Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. The Persistence of Memory (1931) is one of his most recognizable works. This painting made Dali world famous at 28.

I must say I'm not a huge fan of Dali myself, but definitely his works are most interesting  with lots of details.  

Bright Colors and Joan Miró

Many years ago before my "postcrossing-time"  I bought this little PostcardBook, a set of  Joan Miro's postcards and there are still some of them left in my art collection.

  Blu II 1961
"Blue is the color of my dreams"  Miro

  Landscape 1924/25

Dancer 1925

The Lark's Wing, Encircled with Golden Blue, Rejoins the Heart of the Poppy Sleeping on a Diamond-Studded Meadow 1967

The work of Joan Miró is immediately identifiable by his unique style, bright colours and signature shapes. He was at the forefront of Spanish modern art and internationally acclaimed artist.

Joan Miró i Ferrà (1893 Barcelona – 1983 Palma de Mallorca) oli katalonialainen taidemaalari, kuvanveistäjä ja keraamikko. Mirón töitä on kuvattu surrealistisiksi, lapsenomaisiksi, katalonialaista kansallisylpeyttä ilmentäviksi ja alitajuntaa peilaaviksi.

Joan Miro at the age of seven

This is my entry to Maria's  "Postcards for The Weekend" on her "Connections to the World-blog" and the theme for this week is Bright colors. 

Kiki from France

Art by Man Ray (1890-1976)  Le Violon d'Ingres, (Ingres's Violin) 1924

Kiki de Montparnasse (1901 - 1953)

Alice Ernestine Prin was born in a deprived environment and after having experienced all kinds of odd jobs, including being a nude model for a sculptor at only 15, she entered an artistic environment. Close to Chaim Soutine, she spent time with the Montparnasse artistic figures in such places as La Rotonde while she began sitting for Amadeo Modigliani and Tsugouharu Foujita. Soon, in the 1920s, she became the 'Queen of Montparnasse' and established her legendary persona with her short hair, bright red lips and smoky eyes, the whole under the name Kiki de Montparnasse. In 1921, she was Man Ray's lover and favourite sitter. She befriended such figures as André Breton and Max Ernst as well as Ernest Hemingway and she became the muse of a bohemian Parisian Left Bank. From the 1930s, the icon slowly declined and to finance the medical care for her mother and husband, Kiki de Montparnasse opened a cabaret in 1936 before dying obese and a drug addict.

Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky, August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in France. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. He produced major works in a variety of media but considered himself a painter above all. He was best known for his photography, and he was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. Man Ray is also noted for his work with photograms, which he called "rayographs" in reference to himself.

Facebook swap from Liisa, Finland

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