#1950s art

[the-evil-clergyman]

Two Kittens by Kawano Kaoru (1950's)

[creativespark]

Lloyd Steel, Untitled, c.1955 tempera

[vsthepomegranate]

Orphée Aux Yeux Perlés (Orpheus With Pearl Eyes) (1950)

by Jean Cocteau

[olde-with-an-e]

Salvador Dalí

Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus)

1954

Oil on canvas

[queststhroughduality]

[pinkpinkstarlet]

think I’m getting good at this artstyle

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reference below

[thepaintedroom]

John Koch (American, 1909 - 1978) • The Reader • 1955

[the-cricket-chirps]

Georges Spiro, 1957

[gayartists]

Painter and Model (1953), John Minton

[hyperfixating-rn-brb]

on today's episode of Someone Let Me Use Photoshop

this may or may not have started very inspired by bildad the shuite and became more and more 50s but I love it so much

[the-evil-clergyman]

Illustration from Black Angels Have No Wings for Amazing Stories by Virgil Finlay (Aug. 1952)

[creativespark]

George Quaintance, The Praying Matador, 1953

[battydeville]

Gift? I Am The Gift 🎁

[pagansphinx]

Women's History Month

Lee Krasner (American, 1908-1984)

Right: Self-portrait • c. 1930

Left: Krasner in her New York City studio • c. 1939

Lee Krasner (American, 1908-1984) • Desert Moon • 1955 • LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

Lee Krasner was a first-generation abstract expressionist who married fellow artist Jackson Pollock in 1945. Although she never abandoned painting, Krasner's career existed in the shadow of her husband's, whose success was largely achieved with Krasner's help. When Pollock died in an auto accident in 1956, Krasner worked to ensure his legacy.

In the late 1970s, Lee Krasner finally took her rightfull place among other notable abstract expressionists in the exhibition Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Upon meeting Piet Mondrian, a hero of hers, Krasner discovered they were both jazz fans and took him to a Greenwich Village nightclub. Mondrian was impressed by her work, saying it had ‘a very strong inner rhythm'. Krasner introduced Jackson Pollock to Mondrian in one of several introductions that would subsequently help propel his career.

'I painted before Pollock, during Pollock, after Pollock.'

– Lee Krasner

References:

• Essay: Abstract Expressionism, Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Art Forum: Abstract Expressionism: The Formitive Years

• The Women's Studio: Lee Krasner biography

• The Jewish Museum: Lee Krasner

• The Guardian: Reframing Lee Krasner, the artist formerly known as Mrs. Pollock

[goobersplat]

1958/59 Memory Book Pages

(Image ID: Five 1950s memory book pages with fifties style illustrations. The first is kids crossing the street saying “school memories”, the second is a boy holding a plush heart reading “someone special” and presenting it a girl, the third is two boys with baseball gear with text saying “my pal”, and the third is three kids in a classroom with text saying “all about me.” All the pages have a place to glue in a photo.)

[pinkpinkstarlet]

diamonds are a girl’s best friend ♡

really proud of this ngl! Reference under the cut hehe

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