by Sandy | Jan 1, 2024 | Art
“Abraham Ángel: Between Wonder and Seduction introduces U.S. audiences to this legendary artist with the first major survey of his work in over 35 years. During his brief three-year career, Ángel developed a unique artistic style that successfully captured the rapidly changing society and culture of Mexico in the early 20th century.”
Abraham Ángel: Between Wonder and Seduction
Dallas Museum of Art / DMA ~ 9/10/23 until 1/28/24
(Image: Abraham Ángel, Self-portrait (1923), oil on cardboard)
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by Sandy | Dec 23, 2023 | Art
“…Henri Matisse and Andre Derain embarked on a partnership that led to a wholly new, radical artistic language later known as Fauvism. Their daring, energetic experiments with color, form, structure, and perspective changed the course of French painting; it marked an introduction to early modernism…”
“At the Salon d’Automne in 1905, when Matisse and Derain unveiled their controversial canvases, a prominent French journalist labeled them “les Fauves,” or wild beasts.”
Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism
Until January 21, 2024
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Ave and 86 Street, NYC
by Sandy | Dec 2, 2023 | Artist, Exhibits
I love this so much. Color!
“Bisa Butler’s portrait quilts vividly capture personal and historical narratives of Black life…Her quilts present an expansive view of history through their engagement with themes such as family, community, migration, the promise of youth, and artistic and intellectual legacies. ”
Bisa Butler: Portraits
(Image: The Safety Patrol, 2018, Bisa Butler)
*From the AIC exhibit
by Sandy | Nov 18, 2023 | Art, Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll
“For more than thirty years, the Los Angeles–based artist Henry Taylor (b. 1958) has portrayed people from widely different backgrounds—family members, friends, neighbors, celebrities, politicians, and strangers—with a mixture of raw immediacy and tenderness. His improvisational approach to artmaking is hinted at in this exhibition’s title, Henry Taylor: B Side, which refers to the side of a record album that often contains lesser-known, more experimental songs. “
Henry Taylor: B Side
Oct 4, 2023–Jan 28, 2024
Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street, NYC
by Sandy | Nov 5, 2023 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The Whitney Museum, NYC, presents: “Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945”.
“Mexico underwent a radical cultural transformation at the end of its Revolution in 1920. A new relationship between art and the public was established, giving rise to art that spoke directly to the people about social justice and national life… It galvanized artists in the United States who were seeking to break free of European aesthetic domination to create publicly significant and accessible native art.”
The exhibition contains about 200 works by 60 Mexican and American artists, including José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros.
Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945
Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street, NYC
(Image: David Alfaro Siqueiros, Echo of a Scream, 1937)
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