by Sandy | Aug 4, 2009 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Creativity, Drawing, Exhibits, Museums
“Capturing Nature’s Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes”
In this current exhibit, the Getty Museum “highlights key moments in the French landscape tradition, from its emergence in the 1600s to its preeminence in the 1800s.“
The 40 drawings on view include work by artists such as Van Gogh, Fragonard, Pissaro, Callot and more.
“Three Centuries of French Landscapes”, until November 1, 2009
J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, California
by Bob Martin | Aug 1, 2009 | Art, Artist, Galleries, Museums
The National Gallery in D.C. houses a collection of approximately a 150 pieces of art by African Americans that date back as far as 1807 and up to at least 2004. The collection, while diverse, in part is the story of the African in America. This body of work illustrates a contribution to the overall culture of the United States, sometimes overlooked and overshadowed by the rhetoric of the times. There are many well known artists in this collection as well as names that I was not familiar with. Any trip to the nation’s capital should include a visit the National Gallery.
by Sandy | Jul 19, 2009 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Creativity, Exhibits, Museums, Photograhy
Photographer Ansel Adams and painter Georgia O’Keeffe had similar sensibilities and a mutual love of the American West. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has selected 100 pieces from these 2 artists that reflect their appreciation of dramatic landscapes with both paintings and photographs.
“Georgia O’Keefe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities”
SF MoMA – Until 9/7/09
151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA
Images: “The Tetons and the Snake River”, Adams 1942 and
“Black Mesa Landscape, O’Keeffe, New Mexico 1930
by Sandy | Jul 17, 2009 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
“If I saw 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 November 2009.
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 | Jul 11, 2009 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
DAM, the Denver Museum of Art, is showcasing America’s “West” and how it is presented by American artists.
Charles M. Russell, (1864-1926) Charles Deas (1818-1867), N.C. Wyeth 1882-1945) and others painted Cowboys, Indians, gunslingers, landscapes and legendary ‘Rocky Mountain Men” as a way to immortalize not only our past, but also our last frontier.
DAM, Denver Museum of Art until September 2009
Image:
“Gunfight“, 1916 – N.C.Wyeth
by Sandy | Jul 6, 2009 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX presents:
“Diego Rivera: The Cubist Portraits, 1913 – 1917“
Diego Rivera, 1886-1957, was not just Frida Kahlo’s husband, but is also considered by many to be the best Mexican artist of the 20th century. 32 of his paintings, representing his cubist period, will be on view until September 20, 2009.
Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop Blvd.
Southern Methodist University , Dallas, TX
Btw: “Cubism was a 20th century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music and literature…
In cubist artworks, objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context.”
(Courtesy of Wikipedia)
Images: “Madame Marguerite Lhote”, 1917 and “Retrato Jacques Lipschitz”, 1916
