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Matthews Gallery

@matthewsgallery / matthewsgallery.tumblr.com

Santa Fe, New Mexico art gallery. We exhibit distinctive European and American masters, Santa Fe and Taos artists, American modernism and contemporary art by established artists.
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Laziness, Felix Vallotton 

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Sloth may be one of the seven deadly sins, but Vallotton makes it gorgeous in this woodcut. Have a lazy Saturday, Tumblitos! 

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Gustav Klimt, Pallas Athene, 1898, oil on canvas and inlay, 75 x 75 cm, Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien, Vienna.

Despite being a huge fan of the Symbolists, I hadn’t come across Klimt’s Pallas Athene before. It was only when my good friend mentioned it the other day that I looked it up - and I’m so glad I did. Klimt has typically used plenty of gold to represent the armour of strong and determined Athena, though the effect is less reminiscent of some of his famous gold works (think The Kiss and Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer), and more like the metallic sheen of Judith and the Head of Holofernes.

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Gorgeous. 

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Rene Magritte ~ “Checkmate”, 1926

Magritte was an avid chess player and several of his paintings use chess references. Also he was fond of using the “Baluster" for symbolism which, in this instance, resembles a chess piece…the falling king. 

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"Art is always seeking a state in which abstract forms can become meaningful objects, or else pure symbols as constant as numbers and letters of the alphabet. Taken all together, these may become symbols of the cosmos; that is to say, they become a form of religious experience." 
-Paul Klee

Pioneering female sculptor Hannah Holliday Stewart was inspired by Klee's words in her work. She sought to manifest spiritual energy in her monumental sculptures through a complex symbol system. 

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