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“Modernism” at the De Young
The De Young Museum in San Francisco, CA offers an exhibit of several paintings and sculpture owned by CBS founder William S Paley, (1901-1990).
The selections include work from the late 1800’s to the 1970’s. “Particularly strong in French Post-Impressionism and Modernism, the collection includes multiple works by Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, as well as significant works by Edgar Degas, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Gauguin, Andre Derain, Georges Rouault and artists of the Nabis School such as Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard.”
The William S. Paley Collection: A Taste for Modernism
Until December 30, 2012
De Young Museum, Golden Gate Park, S.F.
(Image: Paul Cézanne (French, 1839–1906), Milk Can and Apples, 1879–80)
Aaron Douglas Exhibit at SLAM!
Window Cleaning 1935 - Aaron Douglas
Currently at the Saint Louis Art Museum there is an exhibit of works by Aaron Douglas and feature three rarely exhibited gouaches from the collection of Anita White. Well celebrated and often referred to as a “Harlem Renaissance painter” and as “African American Modernist”, I’ve grown to love some of his early paintings, that have not received, in recent years , the same attention that his more famous graphic works have. Would love to see a complete retrospective of his work.
The exhibit at the Saint Louis Art Museum
The Art of Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
I have this sense that 2011 will be a year filled with great and inspiring art exhibits that I will travel to see. Exhibitions that move away from traditional and/or shock, but rather whose intent is to honestly educate and invites the viewer to participate in a conversation about the art and the artist.
What My Mother Told Me: The Art of Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons at the Harvey B. Gantt Center – until June 19, 2011
Alice Neel at MFAH
Two Girls, Spanish Harlem
There is a ton of information in Neel’s
portraits and I find it easy to identify with her subjects. For those of us who are traveling to Houston Texas, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will have an exhibit of Neel’s work as part of their “An American Season” series, until June 13, 2010 at the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Alice Neel: Painted Truths both traces the evolution of Neel´s style and examines themes that she revisited throughout her career, including her social and political commitment, her stylistic evolution, and her reversal of the typical artist/model gender roles, maternity, and old age. MFAH
The painting “Two Girls” was my introduction Alice Neel and an inspiration for me.
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Art’s Neutrality – Telling It Like It Is
Steve Mumford's "Dying Soldier" 2009 oil on linen.
After witnessing war first hand, an artist’s depiction never resembles Rambo or the animated Xbox games like “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2” or any other fictional account of war. It is almost always a portrait of people thinking they are doing the right thing, killing or dying because someone has asked them to. They are never the people who start wars.
The Postmasters Gallery in New York City is currently showing recent paintings by Steve Mumford that depict his experience when visiting Iraq and Afghanistan. Mumford paints the dutiful, the courageous, the bored and the frightened. Unlike a photographer, a painter spends a long time with what must surely haunt them.
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