 Today’s ArtDrop is a functioning toilet cast in gold by Maurizio Cattelan from 2014. He called it ‘America’. It is a piece of participatory art because exhibit goers are encouraged to use the facilities. The first copy was stolen. The second sold to the Ripley’s Believe It or Not corporation.
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 Today’s ArtDrop is Andy Warhol’s series of 32 acrylic & enamel paint on canvas ‘Campbell’s Soup Cans’ from 1962.
The image shows the 20” x 16” paintings installed in an 8 x 4 grid as if the cans are stocked on a grocer’s shelf. The canvases are framed in identical simple wood frames. The red, white, and gold cans fill the canvas with two strips of white background on either side. Each can is marked as a different kind of soup.  Today’s ArtDrop are sampled from the Margeaux Lange’s ‘Plastic Body Series’ of contemporary jewelry made out of preowned Barbie dolls.
The image is contains two photographs of different necklaces. On the left, is a necklace made of Barbie arms arranged in a fan with the hands toward the neck and the upper arms down. The fan is hooked around the neck by a silver wire. The right photo is an assemblage of the mouths and noses of Barbies each in its own bezel. They are arranged in slightly overlapping levels for dimension. The necklace is also hooked around the neck with a silver wire.  Today’s ArtDrop is ‘Womanhouse’ a collaborative feminist art project developed by Miriam Shapiro and Judy Chicago from 1972. This portion of ‘Womanhouse’ is ‘Bridal Staircase’ contributed by Kathy Huberland. The collaborative project encouraged women artists to take a portion of the house to express their experience living as women. The project featured installations, sculpture, and performance art,
The image features a stereotypical bride (mannequin in a wedding dress and veil) making her grand entrance to her wedding as she is about to descend the staircase. The back wall is draped with tulle. The balusters of the stairs are festooned with garlands of floral greenery. The staircase is draped on the left with a satin runner.  Photo by Kenneth Lopez
Today’s ArtDrop is a piece of activist street art by Kimberly Dawn Robertson from this year. ‘Fuck Ice’ is a peyote stitched bead weaving installed on a utility pole. The image shows the artist stitching the weaving onto the pole during the day. The bead weaving has orange “Fuck Ice” text on a flat gray background with black orange and light grey stripes at the top and geometric pattern along the bottom.  Today’s ArtDrop is a symbolist lithograph on paper. ‘The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Goes to Infinity' was created by Odilon Redon in 1882.
The image is a landscape/skyscape in black and white. The horizon line is 1/4 up from the bottom edge. The landscape is a flat grassland. Up in the cloudy sky is an object resembling a hot air balloon. The ‘balloon’ is a black orb with a giant eyeball within. The eyeball is rolled up to its limit looking upward. Short rays are being emitted from the top of the balloon that ambiguously also resemble eyelashes. Beneath the balloon are taut tethers leading to the passenger compartment suspended beneath. It resembles both a classic UFO and a head on a platter with a glimpse of nose, eyes, and forehead.  Today’s ArtDrop is a documentary painting from World War I. The oil on canvas 'The Music Room of The Royal Pavilion as a Hospital for Indian Soldiers’ was painted between 1914 and 1916 by Charles Henry Harrison Burleigh.
The painting shows the interior of an orientalist music room in Brighton Pavilion lavishly decorated in red, green, and gold. Rows of hospital beds are set up near the French windows. The patients are wounded Indian soldiers some in hospital gowns and turbans or partially uniformed.  Today’s ArtDrop is an oil on canvas from 1645 called ‘Portrait of a Gentleman’ attributed to Baroque artist Charles Mellin.
The image is a full-length 3/4 standing portrait of an obese gentleman in black. He stands within a marble-clad room with a column to his immediate right. He is uplit from a single source coming from the bottom left. At his feet is a rumpled military standard in red, gold and white. His left hand rests upon the end of a long walking stick or metal rod.  Today’s ArtDrop was an oil on canvas by Gustav Klimt known as ‘Schubert at the Piano II’. The work, made in 1899, was tragically destroyed at the end of World War II.
The image shows the composer, Schubert, in left-facing profile at the piano during a soiree. His hair and mutton chop facial hair is long and romantically wild as he peers at the notation before him through glasses. He wears a black suit and his hands and fingers are splayed as he actively works the keys. The scene is lit with a candelabra that lights the sheet music. Glare from the light balances the composition as it reflects from a mirror on the right hand side of the painting behind the guests. Those guests are three ladies and one man huddled around the composer and the candle light listening in rapture to the performance. The fashionable young ladies are lovely as their silk embroidered dresses glimmer and flicker. |
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