by Sandy | Oct 2, 2016 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, and Kitaj is a presentation at the Getty Center in Los Angeles that “ highlights the work of six of the leading artists who revolutionized and reinvigorated figurative painting in the later 20th century”… the artists of the “School of London” rejected contemporary art’s preoccupation with abstraction and conceptualism in favor of the human figure and everyday landscape.”
London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, and Kitaj
Until November 13, 2016
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Getty Center Drive and Sepulveda Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
(Image: Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne, 1966, Francis Bacon, oil on canvas)
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by Sandy | Sep 22, 2016 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
“P.S. Art is an annual celebration of achievement in the arts in New York City public schools. This juried exhibition of the work of talented young artists showcases the creativity of 90 prekindergarten through grade 12 students from all five boroughs and includes paintings, prints, sculptures, photographs, mixed-media works, collages, and drawings. Each piece demonstrates personal expression, imaginative use of media, the results of close observation, and an understanding of artistic processes.”
P.S. Art 2016: Celebrating the Creative Spirit of New York City Kids
Until October 23, 2016
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Ave and 86 Street, NYC
( Image: Cyra Cupid (Age 16, Grade 11). Faces of Youth, 2016. Acrylic on canvas)
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by Sandy | Aug 3, 2016 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The Dallas Museum of Art offers 140 photographs by Irving Penn, (1917–2009), the first retrospective in twenty years.
Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty showcases “one of the best-known American photographers of the 20th century. In a career that spanned almost seventy years, Penn worked on professional and artistic projects across multiple genres. He was a master of both black-and-white and color photography, and he was key to the revival of platinum printing in the 1960s and 1970s.”
Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty – Until August 14, 2016
DMA / Dallas Museum of Art
1717 North Harwood, Dallas, Texas
(Image: Irving Penn, “Sitting Enga Woman”))
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by Sandy | Jul 21, 2016 | Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The Art Institute of Chicago:
“What is American art? That is a question the country’s artists asked and answered in myriad ways during the decade spanning the economic crash of 1929 through America’s entry into World War II. With economic downturn at home and the rising threat of fascism abroad, artists of the time applied their individualized visions of the nation to rethinking modernism. This exhibition brings together 50 works by some of the foremost artists of the era—including Aaron Douglas, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Grant Wood—to examine the landscape of the United States during the Great Depression and the many avenues artists explored as they sought to forge a new national art and identity.”
America After The Fall: Painting In The 1930s
Thru September 18, 2016
AIC / The Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Il
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by Sandy | Jun 6, 2016 | Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums, Photograhy
“Bruce Davidson (American, b. 1933) is one of the most influential photographers of the last half century. Working in both color and black and white …Davidson is known for his humanist outlook and a desire to engage directly with his subject matter, approaches that owe much to his early artistic influences in photography, including Robert Frank, W. Eugene Smith, and Henri Cartier-Bresson.”
“Bruce Davidson: Gifts to the Collection”
Until September 11, 2016
De Young Museum, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
(Image: “England/Scotland”, 1960)
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by Sandy | Apr 20, 2016 | Art, Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The Seattle Art Museum presents: Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic
“Kehinde Wiley is one of the leading American artists to emerge in the last decade and he has been ingeniously reworking the grand portraiture traditions. Since ancient times the portrait has been tied to the representation of power, and in European courts and churches, artists and their patrons developed a complex repository of postures and poses and refined a symbolic language… Wiley’s portraits are highly stylized and staged, and draw attention to the dialectic between a history of aristocratic representation and the portrait as a statement of power and the individual’s sense of empowerment.”
Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic
Seattle Art Museum – Until May 8 2016
(Image: Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness (detail), 2013, Kehinde Wiley)
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