by Sandy | Jul 7, 2010 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Culture, Exhibits, Museums
Often referred to as a “Harlem Renaissance painter”, Aaron Douglas (May 1898 – February 1979) spent his early years in Topeka, Kansas and moved to NYC in 1925.
Douglas worked with flat forms and hard edges. “In paintings, murals, and book illustrations, he incorporated elements from music, dance, literature, and politics to produce powerful artistic forms that had a lasting impact on American art history and the nation’s cultural heritage”
“Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist” refers to his four 1930’s murals from the Schomburg’s Reading Room.
BTW: The Schomburg Library was the vision of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg. Of African/ Puerto Rican descent, he recognized the need to consolidate the culture, history, and art of people of color. His collection was absorbed into the New York Public Library system after his death in 1938. It became a part of the “Division of Negro History” at the 135th Street Branch.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY
Image: “Into Bondage”, Aaron Douglas, 1936 (oil on canvas)
by Sandy | Jun 22, 2010 | Art, Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
“Salvador Dali- the Late Work” * High Museum of Art Atlanta
“August 7, 2010 through January 9, 2011 The High will be the sole venue for the first exhibition to focus on Dalí’s art after 1940. The exhibition, featuring more than 40 paintings and a related group of drawings, prints and other Dalí ephemera, will explore the artist’s enduring fascination with science, optical effects and illusionism, and his surprising connections to artists of the 1960s and 1970s such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Willem de Kooning.“
High Museum of Art Atlanta * August 7 to January 9, 2011
1280 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, GA
(Image: “Santiago El Grande”, 1957, oil on canvas)
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by Sandy | May 28, 2010 | Art, Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
As part of their major “An American Season” exhibition this summer, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents:
“The Masterworks of Charles M. Russell: A Retrospective of Paintings and Sculpture”
Charles M. “Charlie” Russell (1864-1926), was a painter and sculptor. “Self-taught, Russell began to paint early in his career as a cowboy. Later on, as a full-time artist, he provided inspiration to Hollywood´s first filmmakers… With first-hand knowledge of cowboys and outlaws, trappers and hunters, Native Americans, and Western wildlife and wilderness, Russell presents an unparalleled view of a bygone American culture, rich in authentic detail and infused with personal passion.”
Charles M. Russell – June 6 to August 29, 2010
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston / MFAH, 1001 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX
by Sandy | May 26, 2010 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The Art Institute of Chicago has an exhibit called “Four Followers of Caravaggio”. The display highlights 4 artists that were inspired by the paintings of artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, 1571-1610, who is acknowledged for “his revolutionary style and for his unconventional process of painting directly from live models”.
“The special loan of Orazio Gentileschi’s The Lute Player from the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC enables us to show how four other painters in early 17th-century Rome assimilated his style in their own distinct ways. The Lute Player joins three other Caravaggesque paintings from the Art Institute’s collection by Giovanni Baglione, Bartolomeo Manfredi, and Cecco del Caravaggio.”
“Four Followers Of Caravaggio” – until May 31, 2010
AIC, Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
(Images:“Judith Beheading Holofernes”, 1598, M. Caravaggio and “The Lute Player”, Orazio Gentileschi , 1612)
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by Bob Martin | May 10, 2010 | Artist, Movies
Ms. Lena Horne one of the finest vocal stylists, performers and actors of the 2oth century passed away Sunday in New York.
So much was always made of her beauty, and she was extraordinarily beautiful, but I always questioned if enough attention had ever been paid to her vocal talents.
Here’s to a great artist, lets lift those champagne glasses high!
by Sandy | May 4, 2010 | Art, Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll
You’ve probably heard about this already, but rumor has it that it took Picasso a day to complete, which is roughly 5.9 million per hour. Nice.
“Nu au Plateau de Sculpteur” (Nude, Green Leaves and Bust), 1932
