Höch and Dada: Cut it like it is
| 2 of 4 | Deep Dive I: Visual Analysis of Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany (1919/20)
THE REFLECTIVE EYE
A monthly slow-looking practice: following one artist across the month through sustained visual analysis. + Proust: reading In Search of Lost Time through art.
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Hannah Höch: First Look
| 1 of 4 | Cut, collage, rebellion and the strange poetry of the fragments
Hammershøi’s Hidden Colors
| 4 of 4 | Muted Palette in a Decade of Color
Proust’s Gallery #10: Sandro Botticelli
Reading In Search of Lost Time through art: Odette as Botticelli’s Zipporah, and the ghost of Ruskin
The Golden Age, Emptied: Hammershøi’s Depopulated Cities
In 1907 Hammershøi photographed his street, then painted out every person on it. Why emptying a living city was a radical act.
Hammershøi: Back Story
| 2 of 4 | Deep Dive I: why Hammershøi stops time
Vilhelm Hammershøi: First Look
Begin the Hammershøi arc with a slow gallery: Ida from behind, doors onto doors, rooms with no one in them, a Copenhagen without people.
Egon Schiele: First Look
| 1 of 4 | Line as its own kind of metaphysics
Proust’s Gallery #9: Pieter de Hooch
Reading In Search of Lost Time through art: Interior and the receding planes of light
Proust’s Gallery #8: Vittore Carpaccio
Reading In Search of Lost Time through art: the sound of the trumpet