art survey, 101

Marvelous Joey made a marvelous trip to D.C. this weekend. We went to the National Gallery of Art.

This is Joey looking at Jackson Pollock’s Lavender Mist:

This is Joey looking at Jasper John’s Target:

This is Joey looking at a Mark Rothko:

This is Joey inside the Alexander Calder room:

‘Effing Barnett Newman:

This is Joey looking at a Frank Stella:

This is Joey looking at an Andy Warhol, his favorite:

This is Joey looking at a Chuck Close, closely:

This is Joey looking at an Anselm Kiefer:

Following the making of this photograph, Joey turned to me and said, “Marv, I truly believe that Kiefer wonderfully expresses the psychological landscape of post-war Germany with an aplomb physicality, vis a vis a textural weight and minimal palette that when presented on such grand scale becomes pregnant with an explosive power that is matched only by its elegiac tone.”

I agreed.