Thursday 26 January 2012

Robert Mapplethorpe

Robert Mapplethorpe, at the Onassis Foundation was great fun and very informative as my previous knowledge of Mapplethorpe's work was photographs of Patti Smith and the male nudes he photographed in his early career, the ones with all those whips and the leather. There is so much more to his work, I learnt yesterday. I was totally entranced by his photographs of flowers - not since Georgia O'Keefe's paintings have I been so touched by pictures of flowers. I also loved the portraits and some of the sculpture-like nudes of his later period as well as the 'white gauze' series.

We were also able to watch a film on his work and life which was very good - as the credits started rolling, we realised that it was a BBC Arena film made in 1986!

We were not allowed to take photographs of the exhibition but thanks to the Mapplethorne Foundation I have been able to download some excellent ones, some of which I saw at the Onassis Foundation and some others that I would like to be able to see again. There are far too many, but I got carried away....



Flowers




Poppy, 1988




Tulips, 1987




Calla Lilly, 1987




Double Jack in the Pulpit, 1988




Anenome, 1989




Calla Lilly, 1984


Tulips, 1987


<i>Tulips</i>, 1988

Tulips, 1988




Iris, 1982



Orchids, 1989




Orchid, 1987



Calla Lilly, 1984






Mum, 1989



<i>Orchid</i>, 1988

Orchid, 1988




Flowers, 1986



<i>Two Tulips</i>, 1984

Two Tulips, 1984



Male Nudes



Ajitto, 1981



<i>Thomas</i>, 1986

Thomas, 1986



Thomas, 1987



Female Nudes




Patti Smith, 1976




Barbara Heirston, 1983



Portraits


<i>Lisa Lyon</i>, 1982

Lisa Lyon, 1982




Grace Jones, 1988




Ken Moody and Robert Sherman, 1984



<i>Molissa Fenley</i>, 1983

Molissa Fenley, 1983




Andy Warhol, 1986





Louise Nevelson, 1986




Isabella Rosellini, 1988



Gregory Hines, 1985




David Hockney, 1976




<i>Iggy Pop</i>, 1981

Iggy Pop, 1981




Paloma Picasso, 1980





Lindsey Kay, 1985



Patti Smith



1978




1987




1986





1987




1987





1978



Miscelaneous





Feet, (Marty Gibson), 1982





NYC Contemporary Ballet, 1980




White Gauze, 1984




White Gauze, 1984






Shell and Crystal, 1986





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