This month The Second Space gallery in Spokane, WA held its first ever juried show titled “Lipstick and Rouge”. The show’s title was to illicit the idea that color can portray emotion or be associated with a thought. Most of the work accepted seemed to hold true to the theme ...
Oskar Kokoscha’s Bride of the Wind (die Windsbraut), is an impassioned depiction of his tumultuous love affair with Viennese socialite Alma Mahler. Painted in 1913 during the chaos of World War I, Bride of the Wind seems to portray not only the extent of Kokoscha’s feelings for his lover, but ...