SHOES AND ART

Art is a fairly dirty word used by a large number of people hiding behind walls of themselves.

Charles Bukowski
from poem Art Class (Bone Palace Ballet - HarperCollins, 1997)


EUGENE DELACROIX
1832 | Etude De Babouches

FÉLICIE DE FAUVEAU
1847 | Right Foot Of The Dancer Fanny Elssler

VARIOUS ARTISTS
1850-1940 | Sabots

FRANCOIS BONVIN
1876 | Les souliers d'un réserviste

EDOUARD MANET
1876-1880 | Drawings

EDGAR DEGAS
1878 | Etudes

EVA GONZALÈS
1879 - 1880 | White Shoes |

WILLIAM AIKEN WALKER
1879 | Old Shoe With Mice

VINCENT VAN GOGH
1881 - 1885 | Wooden Clogs |
1885 - 1889 | Shoes & Boots |

FERDINAND HODLER
1882 | The Cobbler By The Window |

HENRI CHARLES GUERARD
1888 | The Assault Of The Shoe

UNKNOWN
Ca. 1890 | The shoe: object of seduction

ILYA REPIN

SIR WILLIAM NICHOLSON
1919 - 1920 | Boots

GIACOMO BALLA
1920 | Futurism Explained To A Cobbler
1928 - 1929 | Study For A Woman's Shoe

NORMAN ROCKWELL
1921 | Cobbler Studying Doll's Shoe
1969 | Spring Flowers

GRANT WOOD
1926 | Old Shoes

WILLIAM H. JOHNSON
Ca. 1926 | Shoes

KÄTE HOCH
1927 | Still Life With Boots

KARL SCHMIDT-ROTTLUFF
1928 | Antiques

SALVADOR DALÍ
1931 | Remorse, or Sphinx Embedded In Sand
1931 | Scatological Object Functioning Symbolically
1937 | Cannibalism Of The Object
1941 | Original Sin

RENE MAGRITTE
1930 | The Key To Dreams
1935 | La Modèle Rouge | The Red Model
1935 | L'Amour Dèsarmè
1947 | Philosophy In The Boudoir

CAROL RAMA
1936 | Grandmother Carolina

JOAN MIRÓ
1937 | Still Life With Old Shoe |

YIANNIS MORALIS
1941 | Shoes

MAN RAY
1942 | Broken Chair With Stump And Ballet Shoes

ABRAHAM RATTNER
1943 | Window at Montauk Point
1947 | Still Life With Shoes

JACOB LAWRENCE
1945 | The Shoemaker

WIM VAN HOOFF
(After) 1945 | Stolen Shoes

LOLA ÁLVAREZ BRAVO
DOMENICO GNOLI
1966 - 1968 | Shoes

HERVE TELEMAQUE
1966 - 1968 | Shoes

ALEXANDER CALDER
1968 | Milton's Shoes

GRAZIANO LOCATELLI
2013 | Untitled

NORTHAMPTON MUSEUM & ART GALLERY [U.K.]
History, Art & Shoes
Part ONE
Part TWO

PAGANI MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | CASTELLANZA, MILAN - ITALY
Part ONE
Part TWO
Featuring Fernand Léger & Toyofuku Tomonori


 

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