If you're interested in learning more, the most recent comprehensive exhibition about Black Mountain College had an accompanying catalogue: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
A dynamic new look at the legendary college that was a major incubator of the arts in midcentury America In 1933, John Rice founded Black Mountain College in...
I've always loved this photo of Josef Albers teaching with a very young Ray Johnson - who would go on to become one of the leading practitioners of Mail Art - looking studious in a white t-shirt in the foreground
Black Mountain College's progressive values were fully on view in 1946, when Josef Albers invited Jacob Lawrence (with wife Gwendolyn Knight, below) to teach at the school. Due to racial segregation in South at the time, Albers hired a private train car to transport the Lawrences to & from Asheville
With Asheville isolated due to damage from Tropical Storm Helene, a reminder of how important the area, through presence of Black Mountain College, was to 20th-century art, including in figure of Anni Albers, European émigré who taught there & pursued innovative experiments in weaving & textiles
Willem de Kooning, Asheville, 1948. The title of the painting references de Kooning's time teaching at Black Mountain College, the influential mid-20th-century experimental arts school located near the town of Asheville, North Carolina www.phillipscollection.org/collection/a...
Alcalá's a really interesting painter; this is one of my favorite paintings from a gallery show of their work last spring in NYC (Their Coronation, 2023) www.marlboroughnewyork.com/exhibitions/...
If you're interested in a more historically minded approach to connecting the Just Stop Oil protests to Van Gogh's own work, here's a relevant section from my book "Van Gogh and the End of Nature," which links our current climate crisis to Van Gogh & his era yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Okay, sorry- didn't mean to come off as argumentative! Am honestly just befuddled (in a good way). Will take it all under advisement...🙏
Yes, absolutely- he took huge liberties with color, form, etc. But the distinction between the other ostensibly natural forms, rendered in much more naturalistic hues, and those red, blue, yellow ones has just piqued my curiosity