A Flickr member named Kraftgenie has what I think is a nice collection of modern art galleries (which you can see by clicking here). Included among the featured artists are Max Ernst (husband of Dorothea Tanning, the subject of my Feb. 21st post) and also Victor Brauner, a man who seemingly predicted the loss of his own eye in at least two separate paintings. I've also added Kraftgenie's blog, "Weimarart Art & Modernity" to my list of blogs in the right sidebar.
In Toyen's gallery, the painting "Der Paravent" is quite similar to a vision that I've had in my head since I was a child. In my vision, a young boy enters a darkened doorway to confront a pair of gloved, disembodied hands that are floating in the air above him. Kraftgenie wrote that Toyen was not concerned about what the gallery owners thought would sell, she simply painted as she wished. That scores points with me.
The Franz Sedlacek gallery is also likable. The interiors that he painted have the precision and luminosity of many of today's 3d graphics, but with a palpable, somber mood to them (mood being something missing in many 3d images, I feel).
I'll be spending a bit of time looking through Kraftgenie's page of artists.
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