by Sandy | Mar 9, 2010 | Art, Blogroll, Drawing, Exhibits, Museums
Until April 11, 2010, drawings and prints from the 16th to the 21st centuries will be on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The work, from the museum’s permanent collection, represents artists from America, Italy, France, Holland and England in all their diverse styles: Raphael, Rembrandt, Goya, Ingres, Delacroix, Manet, Degas, Cézanne, Renoir, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Matisse, Hockney and Ruscha.
“Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection” until April 11, 2010
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Ave and 86 Street, NYC
Galleries for Drawings and Prints on 2nd floor
by Sandy | Dec 10, 2009 | Art, Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Drawing, Exhibits, Galleries
Bay area artist, Arthur Okamura, 1932 – 2009, did screen printing, painting and drawing. His first exhibition was with Braunstein/Quay Gallery in 1981, showing works from his travels to Indonesia. “A tireless and gifted artist, Okamura had recently completed a body of Zen influenced paintings and drawings. This exhibition will include early as well as new paintings and other works.”
“Arthur Okamura | Now, Then and Beyond” until December 24, 2009
Braunstein/Quay Gallery
430 Clementina, San Francisco, CA
(Images: “Dove Sound”, 2007 and “Somewhere In A Stream”, 2007 – both acrylic on canvas)
by Sandy | Nov 24, 2009 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Drawing, Exhibits, Museums
Rembrandt van Rijn is always associated with his work as a painter, but he was also a master printer. This part of his genius is being celebrated at NMA – Nevada Museum of Art until January.
Included in the 130 etchings on display are examples of Rembrandt’s biblical scenes, portraits and landscapes.
“Rembrandt: The Embrace of Darkness and Light” – ‘til January 17, 2010
Nevada Museum of Art/ NMA
Donald W. Reynolds Center for the Visual Arts
160 West Liberty Street, Reno, NV
(Image: “Self-Portrait Leaning on a Stone Sill”, Rembrandt van Rijn,1639, etching)
by Sandy | Aug 15, 2009 | Artist, Blogroll, Drawing, Exhibits, Museums
“Waking Dreams: Max Klinger and the Symbolist Print”
Klinger, 1857 – 1920, was a German painter/sculptor who thought that his black & white etchings were the best way 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 9/6/09
Legion of Honor, Lincoln Park
34th Avenue & Clement Street
San Francisco, CA
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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 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
