Jennifer Sanchez: Cruisin the Met I

Jesse Franklin Turner, Evening Dress, 1933

Callot Soeurs (Madame Marie Gerber), Evening Dress, 1910

so much good shit at the met! i usually have a show or 2 i wanna see and after that i'm out. this time, i rambled. i started with the exhibition, American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity. i love looking at dresses from the turn of the century up through the 40's. they're so sensual and ultra-feminine!

Madame Grès (Alix Barton), Evening Dress, 1937

women are finally outta corsets! i'm really attracted to all the gathering. a woman wearing the white dress above must look like she's floating as she walks across a room - gorgeous! this is one of the reasons i love watching films from the golden age of hollywood. the women are impeccably dressed and the men are urbane. whoever did the wigs for this show is brilliant! most were over the top w/lots of metallic streaks! see them on this video on the website. great show. however, i could have done w/out the panorama of female fabulocity at the end.

George Tjungurrayi, Soakage Water of Kirrimalunya, 2002

next exhibit was Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia. you'd swear this painting was screaming bridget riley!

Paddy Bedford, Queensland Creek (Merrmerrji), 2005

randomness between shows

Michael Aschenbrenner, Damaged Bone Series - detail, 1990's

this is some creepy but elegant looking shit! forgot how i got to this but so glad i did.

Aschenbrenner served as a medical field technician during the Vietnam War, and his work addresses the physical consequences of war and the trauma of human casualties. In his Damaged Bone Series, translucent glass bones are delicately attached by thin wires or carefully bound with rags and supported by wood splints. The reverence with which the bones are treated, as well as their deliberate presentation as relics, is a mute reminder of the transience of existence and the horror of the battlefield.

Adolph Gottlieb, The Rape of Persephone, 1943

another random painting that i'd never seen at the met before was this gottlieb. turns out it's part of the exhibition, Side by Side: Oberlin’s Masterworks at the Met. this image does no justice to the pink that surrounds that ghoulish head. but i really liked the juxtaposition of such a horrible subject and image w/such a pretty pink.

Pablo Picasso, Woman in Profile, 1901

Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art rocks for all the linocuts it has! want to go back when it's not so packed. this image above greets you as you enter the show - and it's really fabulous. the color and the luminosity are breathtaking.