Aunt-led studio visits, New York museums, and radiology by day, this is where her collecting began.
Collector: @joysimmonsdivadoc
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22 days agojessicalloyceworld
The Mickalene Thomas original is such a flex and I LOVE it for you ma’am!!!
3 months agocarolinemccaff
🔥🔥🔥 thanks so much for sharing this. I’m writing a new book on women collectors and it’s always such a joy to hear about what motivates people to form collections
4 months agomarilyn.art_schmidlin
Such a great explanation. I love how art inspires and encourages. Thank you for sharing why you have a passion for creativity.
4 months agovenusbernardophotography
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4 months agofelix.pruner
PROFOUNDISM – SHORT VERSION (ENGLISH) For Art Historians, Curators and Collectors Profoundism is a painterly position developed by Felix Pruner, aimed at restoring compositional complexity within modern painting. At its core lies the conviction that the evolution of painting should not culminate in reduction or decorative simplification, but rather in an intensified density of form, color, and pictorial structure. Formally, Profoundism operates at a productive threshold between compositional order and potential fragmentation. Its characteristic feature is a high density of visual information, in which figurative elements, spatial depth, and abstraction merge into a complex pictorial unity. The work derives its effect less from narrative or immediate beauty than from the internal tension generated by composition itself. Although traces of Expressionism, Cubism, and Impressionism may be perceptible, Profoundism should not be understood as a synthesis of historical styles, but as an independent expansion of painterly possibilities. Familiar artistic languages are absorbed into an open process until a new visual order emerges — one that transcends its individual references. From an art historical perspective, Profoundism resonates particularly with Paul Cézanne’s search for structural wholeness in painting. It may be understood as an attempt to recover a sense of compositional unity lost in the fragmentation of modernism, without abandoning the achievements of abstraction. For collectors, the remarkable coherence of Pruner’s oeuvre — developed over more than five decades and preserved largely intact due to the artist’s reclusive working practice — represents a rare opportunity for reassessment within the context of postwar European painting. #wepruneru #felix.pruner #profundism 🎨 Instagram: www.instagram.com/felix.pruner/ 🌐 www.pruner.info/en 🎬 YouTube: www.youtube.com/@PrunerArtOfficial ©PRUNER ART
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