Hat On, Hat Off

Amedeo Modigliani’s 1908 Nude with a Hat is hung upside down because another painting by him, Maud Abrantes, on the reverse side of the same canvas is oriented correctly, while on display at Haifa University’s Hecht Museum. Photo: Ariel Schalit/AP.

Neither Dead Nor Alive

People visit the exhibition “Van Gogh Alive: The Experience”, on display at the Pabellón de la Navegación in Seville, Spain from February 1 to April 15 2018. Photo: Cristina Quicler/AFP/Getty Images.

Gender Equality

香港 (Hong Kong), China: A Sotheby’s employee presents Pablo Picasso’s 1937 oil painting “Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter)” during a media preview. Photo: Anthony Wallace/AFP/Getty Images.

And Venus is Blue

Amedeo Modigliani, Woman Sitting in Blue Dress, 1917-1919
Courtesy: WikiArt/Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Take Shelter

A painting about being photographed, 2000 “I’ve been photographed quite a number of times. In this painting, I’ve stuck the palette that I was working from instead of my head”, Australian painter Ken Done said. Photo: Ken Done/The Done Group.

Imaginary Lines

If not Mado Flynn’s flowers, there is at least one more reason for you to pay a visit to the gallery-shop “Art of Tuscany”, Borgo Ognissanti 99/R, 50123 Florence, Italy – that’s the permanent exhibit of the artist Attilio Antonelli, whose joyous, abstract oil paintings decorate and give life to the shop’s clean-lined space. Photo courtesy of artoftuscany.it.

The Importance of Not Being Arcovazzi

It was such a stroke of luck to have found today a framed art print of the French Algerian-born painter Thierry Ona’s danseurs, just to remind everyone what can (still) happen to those who don’t squeeze themselves into suburban shopping malls for common Sunday people! Photo: Isadora Duncan.

Contrapasso

London, England: My Hell, a 5.2-metre painting on show at the Fahrelnissa Zeid retrospective at Tate Modern, which opens on June 13. Photo: Nick Ansell/PA.

Alternate Princess Audition

Mark Ryden, Princess Sputnik, 1998. Courtesy of WikiArt.

Dalinian Dancer

Dalí’s Dancer (1949) reflects his admiration for the art of dance, especially the Spanish Flamenco. Photo: Isadora Duncan.

Alice in Wonderland

Dalí’s Alice in Wonderland (1977) is a hymn to the eternal girl who don’t get overwhelmed by the inhabitants of the surrealist world. Photo: Isadora Duncan.

“I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it”. Salvador Dalí

Unicorn

The unicorn is a mythical creature prominent in legends as an intricately linked symbol of purity. The horn of a unicorn is believed capable of neutralizing any poison. In his Unicorn (1977), Dalí chose to portray the unicorn as a phallic figure whose horn penetrates a stone wall through a heart-shaped opening, from which a drop of blood seems to be slowly falling. The nude, reposing female stretched out in the foreground at the hooves of the animal and defended by the mythical beast, underlines the sensual nature of this sculpture. Photo: Isadora Duncan.

Homage to Terpsichore

Terpsichore is one of the famed nine Mythological muses. In creating his Homage to Terpsichore (1977), Dalí uses a reflected image, setting the soft, carnal muse against the hardened, statuesque one. Photo: Isadora Duncan.

Dance of Time I

Dance of Time I (1979) is the most well-known and beloved of Dalí’s iconic images; the fluidity of time is represented through the melting watch as time not only moving, but dancing in rhythm to the beat of the universe. Photo: Isadora Duncan.

Woman Aflame

Woman Aflame (1980) unites two of Dalí’s obsessions: fire, and a female figure with drawers. Photo: Isadora Duncan.

Surrealist Piano

The Surrealist Piano (1954) is one of Dalí’s major iconoclastic symbols. The artist has chosen to transform the banal woodden legs of a piano, replacing them with dancing female legs, thus creating an animate, joyous instrument that can dance as well as play. Photo: Mado Flynn.

Between Dream and Reality

Salvador Dalí exhibition “Between Dream and Reality” with over 100 works in the medieval town Pietrasanta, Lucca, Italy (November 12, 2016 – February 7, 2017). The Pietrasanta Cathedral and the evocative spaces of the church and the cloister of Saint Augustine are actually hosting over one hundred works by Salvador Dalí. Photo: Isadora Duncan.

Lunch at Gotham City

The Cimitirul Vesel (Merry Cemetery) is a cemetery in the village of Săpânța, Maramureş county, Romania. It is famous for its colourful tombstones with naïve paintings describing, in a literary and poetic manner, the people who are buried there as well as scenes from their lives. The Merry Cemetery became an open-air museum and a national tourist attraction. Photo: Michael Bukowski.

If it was a secret they’d tell you

Georgia Scott-Hunter from the Australian Ballet recreates Edgar Degas’ Dancer With Bouquets. Photo: Wayne Taylor.

Evie Ferris of the Australian Ballet poses with Edgar Degas’ Dancers on the Stage. Photo: Wayne Taylor.

Evie Ferris recreates the pose of Marie Geneviève van Goethem at the National Gallery of Victoria. Photo: Wayne Taylor.

• Steph Harmon, The Australian Ballet takes on Degas’ dancers — in pictures, The Guardian, June 28, 2016

If it was a secret they’d tell you

This morning, while I was walking a long way under a very burning sun, I suddenly stopped right in front of an art gallery’s window at the corner of Via degli Orti and Via Chiarugi in Empoli, Italy, to take a look at a painting on a chess theme. It was a serigraph with collage, signed in pencil, by Paolo Fresu, and particularly interesting is the artist’s caption (which is also the title of the artwork): “The White King and the Black Queen were meeting on the evening off the board” (“Il Re bianco e la Regina nera s’incontravano di sera fuori dalla scacchiera”). If it was a secret they’d tell you.