American Journal of Art and Design

Volume 10, Issue 2, June 2025

  • Case Report

    Of Women Pioneers, Relics and Proto-Abstractions: A Visual Analysis of O’Keeffe’s Manhattan

    Robmarie Lopez*

    Issue: Volume 10, Issue 2, June 2025
    Pages: 35-41
    Received: 7 March 2025
    Accepted: 20 March 2025
    Published: 10 April 2025
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ajad.20251002.11
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    Abstract: Oddly rendered in abstract, cubist forms, O’Keeffe’s Manhattan (1932) is a transitional work in the artist’s canon. Painted as a commission for a mural proposal exhibition, Manhattan features elements unusual for the artist at the time: a sublimely large canvas, a sense of geometric minimalism, a series of floating peonies and calico roses which in... Show More
  • Research Article

    Suzanne Valadon’s The Blue Room Model as a Depiction of a Modern Venus: Visual Analysis and Case-Comparison with the Effigy of the Venus of Brassempouy

    Robmarie Lopez*

    Issue: Volume 10, Issue 2, June 2025
    Pages: 42-48
    Received: 7 March 2025
    Accepted: 21 March 2025
    Published: 10 April 2025
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ajad.20251002.12
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    Abstract: Suzanne Valadon’s The Blue Room (1923) is instantly transfixing. A woman lounges on a bed in a camisole and striped slacks. Her gaze does not acknowledge the audience, but fixates elsewhere, perhaps authentically lost in thought, perhaps in performative absorption. Valadon was one of the few women artists who emerged during the Fauve period of mode... Show More