by Sandy | May 11, 2009 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Museums, sculptor
45 pieces by Saint-Gaudens, 1848-1907, will be presented at The Met beginning June 30, 2009. Born in Dublin, Ireland, he moved to the U.S. as a child and apprenticed in New York City. He is credited with steering American sculpture away from the usual classical subjects of the time to a more natural, dynamic style. (Saint-Gaudens made everyday things, like a mantelpiece, beautiful)
Augustus Saint-Gaudens * 6/30/09 – 11/19/09
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Ave and 86 Street, NYC
Images:
Vanderbilt Mantelpiece, 1883 (marble, oak and cast iron)
Davida Johnson Clark, 1886 (Plaster and shellac)
www.metmuseum.org
by Sandy | May 5, 2009 | Artist, Blogroll, Books, Museums, Photograhy
Swiss born Robert Frank traveled around the United States in the mid-1950s and captured the America he saw through his photographs. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of his book, 83 of his images, considered controversial at the time they were taken, are on display at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans, May 16 – August 23, 2009
SF MoMA, 151 Third Street
San Francisco, CA
Images: Robert Frank, Trolley, New Orleans, 1955 and Robert Frank & wife at a photography festival in China (photo by E. Keating)
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by Sandy | Apr 28, 2009 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Exhibits, Galleries, Museums
The largest concentration of Dutch 17th century works of art – includes paintings, drawings, decorative arts – will be on view at the Vancouver Art Gallery from May 10 thru September 13, 2009.
This period in Holland, known as the “Golden Age”, produced a huge output of work paid for by the newly emerging middle class. These merchants used their money to become patrons of the arts. Their wealth supported artists such as Rembrandt, Hals, Vermeer and Cuyp.
Vermeer, Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch Art: Masterpieces from the Rijksmuseum
Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Images: “Mistress and Maid”, 1666, Vermeer and “Portait of a Young Man”, 1651, Cuyp
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by Bob Martin | Apr 26, 2009 | Art, Art Travel, Artist, Museums
The Brooklyn Museum is one of New York City’s treasures which is not often mentioned as a destination when visiting the city.
Metallic Boa Necklace
Currently you can see the jewelry designs of Art Smith, Assyrian Panels that date back to 850 BC and the works of notable American artists, like Sargent, Diebenkorn, O’Keeffe and many others.
“More than three hundred fifty objects from the Brooklyn Museum‘s premier collection of American art integrates a vast array of fine and decorative arts”
by Sandy | Apr 13, 2009 | Art, Artist, Exhibits, Museums
The Art Institute of Chicago has revamped and refurbished its extensive collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. Works by Pierre August Renoir, Jean Carriès, Paul Gauguin, Emile Bernard, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet are all together in a new space for easier viewing. (An example is Renoir’s ” Two Sisters (on The Terrace), 1881, oil on canvas)
Btw: “Impressionism was a 19th century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris based artists exhibiting their art publicly in the 1860’s. The name of the movement is derived from the title of a Claude Monet work, Impression, Sunrise…”
Claude Monet, “Impression, Soleil Levant” (Impression, Sunrise), 1872, oil on canvas
The Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
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by Bob Martin | Apr 11, 2009 | Art, Artist, Film, Movies
I, like a lot of people, have seen Blade Runner at least twenty times. Seeing it this time out I noticed for the first time that the year was 2019 (vs 2021 in the book) just a short ten years from now.
P.K. Dick
When the movie was first released we were certainly on track to re-create a world that look very much like this adaption of PK Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” Overcrowded, polluted, constant wetness and the need to eradicate mistakes made through bio engineering. This was a world that did not know about Google, Amazon.com, Ebay, no smoking in public places, flat screen TVs, I-Phone, the Internet or 911, but nonetheless the film contributed in many ways to how we’ve seen things over the last 27 years, especially the visual look of sci-fi films. The look of the film is what makes it so believable. There is none of the cuteness of ET the Extra-Terrestrial which was released the same year as Blade Runner. ET was a huge success, Blade Runner was a box office failure but a far more durable and enjoyable film to see year after year.
We’ve seemed to have escaped, for the time being, the smoked filled skies and its’ dankness, but for some people the fear of “replicants” or clones causes nightmares. Let’s see where we are in another 10 years.
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