Yale Art Gallery Picture Walk

This will be my final post and is a picture walk of the gallery that I experienced today. I saw many new things and would like to share my favorites. 

This is a piece titled View of the Distant Sea 2. It is Japanese and made by Fukami Sueharu. He made this when he was 38 in 1985. It is modeled as porcelain under a green glaze. I was drawn to it because it was in the pottery room. Most things on that floor were dishes or vases or cups. however, this was a ceramic work of art depicting something else. This represents a wave about to break. This was new for this era as most ceramic models were functional and not glazed.

This piece is called View of the Thames from the Vichers Building Millbank by Oskar Kokoschka. He is an Austrian artist who lived from 1886 until 1980. He lived 106 years. This painting is oil on canvas. I liked this painting because it reminds me of the Impressionist era. It is an impression of the city with bright colors and blurred images. It gives motion to the wide landscape. However, when you look closely it is playing with light more than detail. This is always impressive to me. 

This piece is called Standing mobile by Alexander Calder. It was made in 1943 when the artist was 45. I wonder if the artist twas just having a child or if it was later. However, this mobile seems macabre and not at all stimulating for a child but maybe an adult. This specifically prompts ongoers not to touch which leads me to believe it is. mobile for an adult. This artist did not divulge his true intentions as a believer of beauty being in the eye of the beholder.

This painting is Untitled by Oscar Dominguez it was made in 1940 when he was 34 and is oil on canvas. This is a surrealist and somewhat cubist painting. the shading reminds me of cubism more but the figure and perspective is very surrealist. It gives strange and dramatic proportions to this woman. She looks in distress and it takes the viewer a few seconds to understand the figure pose. 

This is by far my favorite piece in the gallery. I have been draw to it every time I visit. It is on the top floor and is called Toward the Forest 1. It is a woodcut print in pink and green and inscribed Edvard Munch who usually works in darker colors and Selvtrykt. It was made in 1897 and printed in 1913-1915.  I love his painting because it is unlike any of Munch's work. It seems to me to be a glimmer of light in his dark expressionary work. As someone who loves nature and camping with friends and family, I can't help but adore the nostalgic film of capturing moments. Although we aren't sure why these two people are leaning on each other we know they have each other for the entire of the "the forest" ahead.