by Sandy | Feb 23, 2010 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
Next month, the Newark Museum of Art presents:
“Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s-50s”
The intention is to offer a “ground-breaking exhibition of 90 works from the 1920s through 1950s and the first to present the Pan-American scope of geometric abstraction. The exhibition investigates the conceptual connections and exchanges that existed between artists from South and North America, highlighting a vital period when painters, sculptors, photographers and filmmakers infused the language of abstraction with new perspectives and innovations.
Represented will be such diverse artists as: Alexander Calder, Joaquín Torres-García, Jesús Rafael Soto, Gyula Kosice, Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Geraldo de Barros.
“Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America” – until May 23, 2010
The Newark Museum, 49 Washington Street, Newark, NJ
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by Sandy | Feb 17, 2010 | Art, Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Directors, Exhibits, Movies, Museums
The Museum of Modern Art, NYC presents a retrospective of artist and film maker Tim Burton.
The program is a celebration of the gifted and often bizarre and controversial director of such movies as “Sweeney Todd”, “The Nightmare Before Christmas”, “Ed Wood” and “The Corpse Bride”.
The exhibition and film series is to highlight “Burton‘s career as a director, producer, writer, and concept artist for live-action and animated films, along with his work as a fiction writer, photographer and illustrator.”
Tim Burton at MOMA – thru 4/26/10
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by Bob Martin | Feb 15, 2010 | Artist
There are a number of painters who paint on small canvases and yet the work is flowing and loose as if the artist was working on a surface that was at least a hundred times the size. One of many artists who’s work I like is Bill Sharp who is able to create architectural structure and atmosphere with large brush strokes on a small canvas.
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by Sandy | Feb 15, 2010 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
As part of its program called “The American Season”, MFAH presents “Painted Truths”, devoted to the colorful and intense work of artist Alice Neel, 1900 – 1984. She is “best known for her psychologically acute portraits. Intimate, casual, direct and personal, satirical at times, they chronicle the social and economic diversity of mid-20th-century American life.”
“Alice Neel: Painted Truths” * March 21 – June 13, 2010
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston / MFAH, 1001 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX
(Images: “Hartley”, 1966 and “Dana Gordon”, 1972)
by Sandy | Feb 7, 2010 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Exhibits, Photograhy
“The Portrait Unbound” exhibit is a collection of 21 large photographs created by Robert Weingarten using composite digital images that represent his subjects.
There are portraits of Hank Aaron, Buzz Aldrin, Chuck Close, Jane Goodall, Dennis Hopper, Colin Powell, and more, that include not just pictures, but also their interests, accomplishments and passions.
“Portrait Unbound” – High Museum of Art Atlanta – until May 30, 2010
1280 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, GA
(Images: Musician Quincy Jones and former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell)
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by Sandy | Feb 4, 2010 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
I love watercolors – the result can look so easy and effortless – the best don’t reveal the skill and control required.
The Studio Museum of Harlem is showcasing 18 pieces on paper – A Delicate Touch: Watercolors from the Permanent Collection:
“Watercolor is quick, lightweight and portable. Successfully painting with watercolors requires dexterity, a soft touch and a delicate hand. The medium has an extensive history that dates back to European Paleolithic cave paintings. Scribes used watercolor to decorate illuminated manuscripts in the Middle Ages and European Renaissance. Eventually, watercolor became the technique of choice for artists to make sketches, copies and small-scale versions of larger works. Watercolor’s portability may account for why it was, and still is in many instances, the preferred painting style for depicting nature, wildlife and nautical themes.”
Some of the artists represented are Romare Bearden, Beauford Delaney, Norman Lewis, John Dowell, and Otobong Nkanga
Watercolors- lovely!
A Delicate Touch: Watercolors from the Permanent Collection
The Studio Museum of Harlem until March 14, 2010
144 West 125th Street, New York, New York
The intention is to offer a “ground-breaking exhibition of 90 works from the 1920s through 1950s and the first to present the Pan-American scope of geometric abstraction. The exhibition investigates the conceptual connections and exchanges that existed between artists from South and North America, highlighting a vital period when painters, sculptors, photographers and filmmakers infused the language of abstraction with new perspectives and innovations.
