For Christmas I got a set of fifty postcards from the Museum of Modern Art. The collection is called Modern Colors, and as might be expected, each card depicts one of fifty modern art masterpieces.
While flipping through the cards, it occurred to me that some would make excellent Tarot cards. Then I wondered if I could come up with 22 Majors from the 50 card set. Amazingly enough, it was pretty easy.
This Modern Art Postcard Tarot was just waiting to be found! I’ve already used it a few times and love it.
For copyright reasons, I can’t post all the pictures, but I’ve linked up to most of them and have posted some that are in the public domain.
The Fool
#0 – The Fool – Kazmir Malevich – Suprematist Composition: White on White
#1 – The Magician – Mark Rothko – 5 (Number 22)
#2 The High Priestess – Mark Rothko – Number 10
#3 The Empress – Georgia O’Keeffe – Abstraction Blue
#4 The Emperor – Josef Albers – Homage to the Square: Broad Call
The Hierophant
#5 The Hierophant – Theo van Doesburg – Simultaneous Counter-Composition
#6 The Lovers – Frank Stella – Double Gray Scramble
#7 The Chariot – Franz Marc – Blue Horse with Rainbow
#8 Justice – Frank Stella – Abra Variation I
The Hermit
#9 The Hermit – Henri Matisse – The Red Studio
The Red Studio
#10 Wheel of Fortune – Joan Miro – The Hunter (Catalan Landscape)
#11 Strength – Robert Ryman – Untitled (Orange Painting)
Death
#12 The Hanged Man – Joan Miro – Hirondelle/Amour
#13 Death – Yves Klein – Colored Fire: Blue/Rose
#14 Temperance – Ellsworth Kelly – Spectrum, IV
#15 The Devil – Philip Gustan – Red Painting
#16 The Tower – Vasily Kandinsky – Picture with an Archer
The Sun
#17 The Star – Alexander Calder – The Red Sun
#18 The Moon – Meret Oppenheim – Red Head, Blue Body
#19 The Sun – Laszlo Moholy-Nagy – Yellow Circle
The World
#20 Judgment – Liubov Sergeievna Popova – Painterly Architectonic
#21 The World – Robert Delaunay – Simultaneous Contrasts: Sun and Moon