Two-for-Tuesday (Cup & Saucer ART, Benches, Paths)

TIME FOR A TWO-4-TUESDAY POST

CUP AND SAUCER ART

 

Object, 1936 by Meret Oppenheim. A picture of this was in an old book I am reading (by Edmund Burke Feldman) and so I had to find out more about it. Here, I found this: “The story behind the creation of Object, an ordinary cup, spoon, and saucer wrapped evocatively in gazelle fur, has been told so many times its importance in modernist history transcends the fact it might be apocryphal (of dubious authenticity). The twenty-two year old Basel-born artist, Meret Oppenheim, had been in Paris for four years when, one day, she was at a café with Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar. Oppenheim was wearing a brass bracelet covered in fur when Picasso and Maar, who were admiring it, proclaimed, “Almost anything can be covered in fur!” As Oppenheim’s tea grew cold, she jokingly asked the waiter for “more fur.” Inspiration struck—Oppenheim is said to have gone straight from the café to a store where she purchased the cup, saucer, and spoon used in this piece. This amusing story belies the importance of Object and the critical acclaim and public fascination that has elevated it to point where it has become the definitive surrealist object…ultimately to Oppenheim’s dismay.”

Ceramic Sculpture #9 by Roy Lichtenstein. This was also in the book – and in 1965, Lichtenstein worked with Hui Ka Kwong to create a series of ceramic heads and another series of stacked cups and saucers based on diner cutlery and glassware (more here). Feldman noted that these artists had “Surrealist impact on the deliberate violation of the craftman’s aesthetic.”

BENCHES WITH A VIEW (for Pull up a Seat)

It was dusk and the lights were just coming on

THE PATHS

Linked to which way….

So – really – how are you today?

April is half over –  how’s it going?

 

This last image made me smile

Saw these two “Dummies” books side by side – had to smile – someone has their priorities straight – puppies and mutual funds – lol

P R I O R H O U S E   B L O G

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