by Sandy | Mar 3, 2009 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Museums
“Waking Dreams: Max Klinger and the Symbolist Print”
Artist Max Klinger, 1857 – 1920, was a German painter/sculptor who thought that his black & white etchings were best to capture his day dreams, fantasies and nightmares.
Included in the exhibit are other strange and macabre prints by “French artists Charles Méryon, Rodolphe Bresdin, and Odilon Redon; the Belgians Félicien Rops and James Ensor; and the Norwegian Edvard Munch”.
Max Klinger * Until 7/4/09
Legion of Honor, Lincoln Park
34th Avenue & Clement Street
San Francisco, CA
(Images: “The Plague”, 1898 and “Abduction of a Glove”, 1881)
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by Sandy | Feb 8, 2009 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Culture, Exhibits, Museums
Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking by David C. Driskell
The High Museum of Atlanta’s exhibit of nearly 100 objects and works on paper presents the work of David C. Driskell, artist, scholar, and educator for the first time. His work themes, of the last 40 years, have been on the African Diaspora.
April 21, 2009 August 2, 2009
High Museum of Art Atlanta, 1280 Peachtree Street, N.E. Atlanta, GA
(Image: “Lady In Waiting”, D.C.Driskell)
by Sandy | Feb 6, 2009 | Art, Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Culture, Exhibits, Museums, sculptor
Newark Museum has grouped together 50 works of the last 15 years by artists that represent creativity from all parts of the world. Painting, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, and jewelry are examples of “global” art for modern times.
Included are Martin Puryear, Diego Romero, Kwesi Owusu-Ankomah, Lu Wen Xia, Lorna Simpson, Vivan Sundaram, Gonkar Gyatso, Rossinah Maepa, Senzeni Marasela and many more.
According to the program curators, the exhibit is “A dynamic thematic display highlighting the universal concerns and ideas that inspire artistic creativity, creating unexpected connections or groupings that transcend traditional divisions based on geography, genre or media.“
The Newark Museum – 2/11/09 thru 8/16/09
49 Washington Street, Newark, NJ
by Sandy | Jan 17, 2009 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Culture, Exhibits, Film, Movies, Museums
Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice
Sixty paintings by 16th century “Venetian style” artists will be on view beginning March 15:
Titian (1485–1576), Tintoretto (1518-1594) and Veronese (1528–1588)
Venetian Style – “painters from Venice were not as concerned with sculptural form and hard edges of lines as they were with brilliant color and the sensitive use of light”
Mar 15, 2009 – Aug 16, 2009
MFA – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Avenue of the Arts
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts
617-267-9300
Image: St Mark’s Body Brought to Venice (1548), Tintoretto
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by Sandy | Jan 10, 2009 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Drawing, Museums
This exhibition at the Met, beginning 1/27/09, will be the first devoted to French, Post –Impressionist painter Pierre Bonnard, (1867 – 1947). His “radiant” late interiors and still lifes will be highlighted.
About 80 paintings, drawings and water colors, from 1923 to 1947 will be on display – glowing fruit, colorful gardens and scenes of family members relaxing in sun filled rooms – all examples of this painter’s style.
“Pierre Bonnard: The Late Interiors”
January 27, 2009–April 19, 2009
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street
New York City, NY
http://www.metmuseum.org
by Sandy | Dec 5, 2008 | Art, Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Exhibits, Museums, sculptor
Calder Jewelry * December 9, 2008–March 1, 2009
I never knew that American-born artist Alexander Calder (1898–1976) made earrings.
He is best known for his mobiles, sculptures, and paintings etc. In this exhibit, his necklaces, rings, bracelets and earrings, in gold, silver, brass, will be on display at The Met. I expect his jewelry will be as beautiful, inventive and abstract as his other art pieces.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 12/9 – 3/1/09
The Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Gallery,
Lila Acheson Wallace Wing, Modern Art, 1st floor
5th Ave and 86 Street, NYC
www.metmuseum.org
Also a book:
Calder Jewelry
by Mark Rosenthal (Contributor), Alexander S. C. Rower (Editor), Holton Rower (Editor), Maria Robledo (Photographer)
