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Maybe this, too, is obvious but by one of my favorite artists...
Les Amants (Lovers)
Rene Magritte
1928
The Bolt
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
1777-1778
"Fragonard in Love" at Musée du Luxembourg
Fragonard loaded his ravishing paintings with sexual innuendo. In this piece, a cherubic gentleman caller bolts the bedroom door while simultaneously embracing his coy paramour, a rosy-cheeked Marie Antoinette lookalike. By combining the flourishes of Rococo
style (billowing, slippery dresses and bedsheets, just-plucked flowers) and a fair amount of sly symbolism, the painter makes clear what will happen next. The bolt and the vase stand in for the phallus and vagina, respectively, while the overturned chair, with its legs in the air, alludes not-so-subtly to the subjects’ urge for a more acrobatic roll in the hay.
The Love Embrace of the Universe, the Earth (Mexico), Myself, Diego, and Señor Xólotl
Frida Khalo
1949
Kahlo’s relationship with fellow painter Diego Rivera
was nothing short of volatile. Their marriage swung vertiginously between passion, alienation, and anger. But through it all, both regarded their love as deep and essential. “Your word travels the entirety of space and reaches my cells which are my stars then goes to yours which are my light,” Kahlo wrote in one of many love letters to Diego. This painting unearths the complexity of their relationship, and of Kahlo’s view of love in general. Like an evolutionary drawing or family tree, the Aztec Earth Mother Cihuacoatl holds Kahlo, who holds Rivera in return. The composition emphasizes Kahlo’s independence, but also her frustrating inability to have a child; instead, she seems to suggest, she’s fated to nurture a childish husband.
Two Lovers by a Lake
Alan Kenney
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This one could go on forever! Help yourself to adding more! I plan to when I have more time.
Haha, guess you were a bit sad February was over ;-)
Good! It’s a fun one, when I get off this stupid phone and back to my PC I found many more I want to post!
Two Nudes (Lovers)
Oskar Kokoschka
1913
Painted in Vienna in the years just prior to World War I, Two Nudes is a self-portrait of Kokoschka with Alma Mahler, a symbolic testimonial to the artist’s tumultuous affair with the widow of the great composer Gustav Mahler. Kokoschka’s haunted expression and the ambiguous poses of the two lovers—who seem both to embrace and to move past each other—reflect a complex and tormented relationship. Kokoschka’s bold brushwork and Expressionist style were influenced not only by van Gogh but by the sixteenth-century Spanish painter El Greco, whose work Kokoschka greatly admired.
https://www.mfa.org/collections/objec...
Here one of the leftovers from February:
Very subtle what she's doing with corn ;-)
One from the great Rembrandt!
Anyone remember the Banksy I posted in February?https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Do you think he got inspired by this Rockwell?
And after a Rockwell why not post a McAfee?
I pity the goldfish!
Exactly - why not a kitchen pan of water instead.
How about Mars and Venus United by Love? I've seen it in the Met in Manhattan - Veronese I think - BIG sucker too!
Indeed! The Krazy Kaption is: "Why don't you go play with the nice horsie?" I love the Pan caryatid in the background too.
Edvard Munch "Kiss by the Window" 1892
The earliest version of many similar paintings by the artist
Thank you, Melina! Nice to have a new comment!
That’s an interesting one, Kristine! I’ve never seen that one, either.
The Kiss
Gustav Klimt
1907-1908