There is elegance in simplicity and the meaning of the words may be the same. 
I’ve always wanted to and have struggled as an artist to keep it simple. Sculptor Alberto Giacometti is an artist that I admire because he never made it complicated. His work speaks powerfully and quietly. I aspire to speak with such certainty in my own work.
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(Original post 12/23/09)
Runway Layout
My first working experience was in the New York Fashion Industry, 7th Ave as it was called. I don’t think we thought of it as an industry.
I got to meet people like Richard Blauner, (who gave me two ties from A. Sulka) Jerry Silverman, Herbert Sondheim and others. I was one of the first to see the original dresses and coats as they came back from the Paris Fashion Shows. In other words – I was in shipping. But none the less, I still admired the beauty of what I was seeing.
This painting is a layout of a series of paintings having to do with fashion for a show this winter.
Originally posted August 22, 2008
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New in San Francisco will be “Intimate Impressionism, on view at the Legion of Honor through August 3, 2014, showcasing approximately 70 Impressionist and Post-Impressionist landscapes, seascapes, still lifes, interiors, and portraits, from the collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.”
“Complementing these paintings… are depictions of artists’ studios and domestic interiors; several captivating self-portraits by Edgar Degas, Henri Fantin-Latour, Paul Gauguin, and Édouard Vuillard; Renoir’s 1872 portrait of Monet…”
Legion of Honor – Lincoln Park, San Francisco, CA
(Image: Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Madame Henriot, ca. 1876 and Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Milk Jug and Fruit, ca. 1900)
The Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco features 2 exhibits by French artist Henri Matisse, 1869 – 1954.
From SFMOMA Ollection :
”… traces four decades of the artist’s career—from his early, Cézanne-inspired still lifes to his richly patterned and brightly colored figural paintings made in the 1920s and 1930s.
This intimate exhibition features 23 paintings, drawings, and bronzes from the internationally acclaimed collection of works by Matisse at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)”
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Matisse and the Artist Book:
“Matisse was stimulated and challenged by book illustration and design… he declared that the first principle of good book design was a rapport with the nature of the book. For Matisse this meant carefully balancing text and illustration.
Henri Matisse was 60 years old when he began to create original illustrations for livres d’artiste (artists’ books). By the time of his death, 25 years later, he had produced designs for 14 fully illustrated books, several of which are considered 20th-century masterpieces of the genre.” Seven of these are on view.
Matisse at the Legion of Honor
34th Avenue & Clement Street, San Francisco, CA
Ms Weems is African American and her art reflects that, however, “It also contains a desire for universality: while African Americans are typically her primary subjects, Weems wants “people of color to stand for the human multitudes” and for her art to resonate with all audiences.”
“Carrie Mae Weems is a socially motivated artist whose works invite contemplation of race, gender, and class. Increasingly, she has broadened her view to include global struggles for equality and justice. Comprehensive in scope, this retrospective primarily features photographs, including the groundbreaking Kitchen Table Series (1990), but also presents written texts, audio recordings, and videos.”
Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video
thru May 14
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 89th Street and 5th Avenue, NYC
Image: Untitled (Woman playing solitaire) (from Kitchen Table Series), 1990
