by Bob Martin | Nov 9, 2009 | Art, Art Travel, Artist, Events, Galleries, Museums
Johannes Itten
If you visit the MOMA be sure to visit the exhibit of approximately 400 works from the three Bauhaus Schools.
Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity
November 8, 2009–January 25, 2010
The MOMA is excellent at putting these types of shows together with all the aids, history and other ways of educating it’s visitors. We would like to encourage you to walk through the exhibit the first time with out the aids and soak up and experience the work. Come to your own conclusion as to what you’ve just seen and the work the show a second taking full advantage of all the reference material the museum has made available.
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by Bob Martin | Nov 6, 2009 | Art, Artist, Creativity, Education
Of course we are thinking that there may be a trickle down effect. We’ve been concerned that art work was going in the direction of quietly listening to music at home (digitized with pictures). Art is an investment, true, but it is a pleasure to look at that can enjoyed at any price level. Support your local artist and buy something that you will treasure for ever.
“Tonight’s results were clear vote of confidence for the art market,” said Simon Shaw, Head of Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art Department in New York. “We wanted to put together a sale with works that were not just of great quality but were also presented with attractive estimates. I think the great depth of bidding we saw this evening is a testament to that strategy. Tonight was the first time since May 2006 in New York that we exceeded our top estimate, proving what we have seen consistently this year, that there is an enormous appetite for works of art of great quality.” from Art Knowledge News 11/4
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by Sandy | Nov 5, 2009 | Art, Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Galleries
Featured at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco is “3 Worlds – Myths / Bricks / Prints” with the diverse work of colorful Peruvian artist Luis Arias Vera, the late Casper Banjo, who used bricks to create his images, and Chicano poster artist Juan R. Fuentes.
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts – MCCLA
2868 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA
(Images: “Pensando en la Paz”, silkscreen print, 1988, Fuentes and exhibit poster from the MCCLA)
by Sandy | Nov 2, 2009 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
“If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn’t do art.”, Baldessari
A retrospective of the work of this colorful artist covering 40 years is on view at the Fine Arts Museum, Legion of Honor in San Francisco, CA until the end of November.
Included are more than 100 items starting from the 70’s “when the artist abandoned painting to work exclusively with photography and text. He is known for his use of photographic images and text to which he adds colorful cutout shapes to create unique collage-based arrangements.”
“John Baldessari: A Print Retrospective”
Legion of Honor – Lincoln Park
34th Avenue & Clement Street, San Francisco, CA
by Sandy | Nov 1, 2009 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
Reminder! MoAD, Museum of the African Diaspora, and 2 other Bay Area museums, Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz and de Saisset Museum in San Francisco, is showcasing a retrospective of abstract artist Richard Mayhew, who was born in Amityville, NY in 1924, and now resides in California.
Mayhew describes himself as “an improvisationalist.” when describing his work. He says that he uses “painting terms like expressionism only as reference point for others. They don’t understand improvisation…real, gut feeling, the act of improvising as the act of discovery. That’s abstract expression. That’s jazz.”
The exhibit will display “the best of Mayhew’s paintings that combine his unique style, philosophy for painting, and synthesis of artistic and social influences that set the trajectory of his artistic career… The MoAD exhibition will explore the personal and professional foundations of Mayhew’s style as a young man of African and Native American descent coming of age in New York during the 1950s explosion of Abstract Expressionist art.“
“The Art of Richard Mayhew” until January 10, 2010
MoAD – The Museum of the African Diaspora
685 Mission Street San Francisco, CA
by Sandy | Oct 24, 2009 | Art, Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Galleries
The Kathleen McMahon Fine Art Gallery presents contemporary art by local San Francisco Bay Area artists.
“Spirit Boats” is the current exhibition – 3 women artists are featured: Jennifer Ewing, Margo Mullen and Elizabeth Stahl.
Kathleen McMahon Fine Art Gallery
3150 18th Street, Suite 105, San Francisco, CA
Image: “Sutro Baths”, Elizabeth Stahl, acrylic on canvas
