Lee Miller, Lambe Creek, Cornwall, England (1937)
Photograph: Roland Penrose.[x]

Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa: Falleras lisérgicas.

Como no he encontrado el título del cuadro, nadie me puede convencer de que no se llama así. Y sí, sigo estudiando Arte Valenciano II. Esta asignatura pasa de lo bonito a lo absurdo (o directamente a la drogadicción pictórica) en cuestión de segundos. Muy divertido todo, pero por favor, que se termine ya este examen.

Edit: Minutos antes de entrar al examen me enteré de que se llama “Grupa”. ¿Cómo le pueden poner un título tan repetitivo (Sorolla tiene dos o tres llamados así) y soso a un cuadro tan maravillosamente fosforito?

Edgar Degas, Woman in a Tub
c.1883, Pastel on paper

This pastel is one of the most delicately executed and finely resolved of all Degas’ studies of the nude. It belongs to a celebrated series of pastels of women at their toilette produced in the mid-1880s, a group of which was included in an exhibition of Impressionist painters in Paris in 1886. Critics varied in their reactions to these works. Some praised the way Degas showed plausible, modern women rather than idealized goddesses. Others complained of the models’ ugliness and suggested they were prostitutes. In this pastel, however, there are no indications of the woman’s social class or line of work. [x]

La tentación de San Antonio, Salvador Dalí, 1946.