by Sandy | Jan 25, 2010 | Art, Blogroll, Culture, Exhibits, Museums, Photograhy
The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco presents:
“When Lives Become Form: Contemporary Brazilian Art, 1960s to the Present”
In Brazil, an artistic movement called “Tropicalia” arose with the purpose of creating a uniquely indigenous art, photography, paintings, sculpture, etc., devoid of American and European influences. The intent was to highlight the “originality of the culture of people who live in the tropics.”
“Contemporary Brazilian Art” – until January 31, 2010
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street, San Francisco
(Image: “Untitled”, Marepe)
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by Sandy | Jan 19, 2010 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Culture, Exhibits, Museums
Until January 24th, The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents “American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915” – an exhibition that includes “more than 100 masterpieces of American painting explores a major mode of artistic expression from the pre-Revolutionary era to the beginning of World War I: figural scenes of ordinary people engaged in life’s tasks and pleasures. In the exhibition’s first section (ca. 1765–1830), John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, Samuel F. B. Morse and others produce evocative portraits that tell personal stories and reflect the shift from colonies to nation. The second section (ca. 1830–1860) includes multi-figured compositions by William Sidney Mount, George Caleb Bingham, Lilly Martin Spencer, and others that help to define national identity and national character. In the exhibition’s third section (ca. 1860–1876), Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, Thomas Eakins, and others respond to the Civil War and, going forward, encode Reconstruction and the Centennial in pictures that contribute to healing the nation’s spirit. In the fourth and final section (ca. 1876–1915), Homer and Eakins are joined by John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, John Sloan, George Bellows, and others who respond to new subjects and new expressive modes in an increasingly cosmopolitan age.”
“American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915”, til January 24, 2010
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Ave and 86 Street, NYC
Image: “A Street in Venice”, John Singer Sargent, 1882, oil on canvas
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by Sandy | Jan 18, 2010 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Culture, Galleries
Abstracts by the colorful Alejandro Santiago and other contemporary artists, such as Roldolfo Morales and Adan Paredes, are hung along side the work of established painters such as Diego Rivera as examples of the Bond Gallery’s varied collection of Latin art.
Bond Latin Gallery – Latin Masters and Contemporary Latin Art
251 Post Street, Ste 610, San Francisco, CA
by Bob Martin | Jan 10, 2010 | Art, Culture, Photograhy
We can hardly hear one another because we tip toe around every thought.
Man Ray ‘Noire et blanche’
We want to claim that we can’t see what is in front of us, that everything is the same, that we don’t look different and if we do notice we are required to apologize for noticing. Artists have one requirement and that is to tell their truth, regardless of who it might offend.
There is an exhibit of Man Ray photographs at the Jewish Museum New York — “Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention” ends March 14, 2010
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by Sandy | Jan 3, 2010 | Art, Blogroll, Culture, Museums
I love to look at these colorful, comforting coverings. They so often seem to represent what the quilter’s life and dreams are about.
The de Young Museum in San Francisco, until June 6, 2010, will present an exhibit called: “Amish Abstractions – Quilts from the Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown”.
48 pieces, quilted between 1880 and 1940 by Amish women of Pennsylvania and the Mid West. “Using a rich color palette and bold patterns, these quilts are truly a unique contribution to American textile history. The quilts highlight the beauty and complexity of the abstract patterns.”
“Amish Abstraction”
de Young Museum
Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA
Image: Crib Quilt, “Thirty Six Patch”, 1930
by Sandy | Jan 2, 2010 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Culture, Museums
In the 19th century, Siam (now Thailand) and Burma (now Myanmar) were neighboring kingdoms. Before they were touched by European imperialism, their traditions of luxurious arts and architecture flourished.
The Asian Arts Museum of San Francisco’s “Emerald Cities is the first major exhibition in the West to explore the rich but little known arts of Siam and Burma from this period. Many of the 140 stunning artworks—including gilded ritual vessels, mother-of-pearl inlaid furniture, colorful paintings, manuscripts, exquisite textiles, delicate ceramics, and more—were recently acquired by the museum from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and are on display for the first time.”
“Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam & Burma” * Until January 10, 2010
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
