For example:
www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/nyregion/rembrandt-drawings-on-display-at-the-bruce-in-greenwich.html
"Rembrandt used drawing in the 17th century the way 21st-century artists use photography: to record people, places and things, and as source material or preparatory studies for his works." An exhibition of drawings at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT gives insight into Rembrandt's process as an artist and teacher. The exhibition includes studies for some of his more famous paintings. He also used drawings and prints to train apprentices in his studio. Besides these insights into his process, the article also describes some of the difficulties of authenticating drawings and crediting the correct artist.
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/The-Queen's-Diamond-Jubilee:-A-true-icon--/25544
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this article describes some obstacles and gives some context for a well loved portrait done by Pietro Annigoni (1910-88) of Queen Elizabeth. it gives a brief history of portraits done of her by comparing different ones. before the Annigoni painting there was a very official portrait done of her by sir james gunn that was even ore old fashioned. A lot changed and there are many unconventional portraits done of her such as work by Freud and Annie Lebowitz. Annigoni was anti modernist trained in florence who they imply was not a great artist, he was talented but his portrait of queen Eilzabeth was his strongest work. they also imply that a big reason he was picked was because he refused to paint hitler and mussolini. they talk a lot about politics. they give a quote from Annigoni telling the story of the first time she sat for him. he says that he was nervous and didn't know how to pose her and she picked up on his uneasiness and said some inspirational stuff."Her words were like a searchlight lighting my way. I saw her immediately as The Queen who, while dear to the hearts of millions of people whom she loved, was herself alone and far off. I knew then that was how I must show her.” the article then describes what people said about the painting. the royal family liked it, which was a relief for everyone. he made good money for it and reproductions were in some magazines and all around the country on money and stamps. a critic asked why would someone go to an exhibition of Annigoni's work when it was everywhere. the article ends by saying criticism aside it is an iconic portrait.
Earliest copy of Mona Lisa found in Prado
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“A copy of the Mona Lisa has been discovered in the Prado which was painted in Leonardo’s studio—created side by side with the original that now hangs in the Louvre. This sensational find will transform our understanding of the world’s most famous picture.”
Experts now propose that it was either Andrea Salai or Francesco Melzi, two of Leanoardo da Vinci’s pupils who painted this copy of Mona Lisa along side their teacher. It was originally dismissed as a replica painted after da Vinci’s death. But infrared images of the new Mona Lisa conclude that the underlying sketches used by the painter’s in the preliminary stages of their work, are very similar to those of da Vinci’s. The material it was painted on was assumed to be oak, which was rarely used in Italy; but further tests have determined it to be walnut, which as used in Italy. The Prado copy is a bit bigger than da Vinci’s, but with close measurements when compared.
For Edie Sedgwick,a Belated 16th Minute
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"Edie today is both a source of envy and a cautionary tale. What she is not is a source of art. Notoriously recut and reshot, the troubled “Factory Girl” (which opened Friday) turns out to be a Warhol-centric film that is the opposite of everything Warhol stood for. This safely middlebrow movie has the banal trajectory of a biopic and is simple-minded about fame."
Edie Sedgwick was a superficial star for Andy Warhol in 19th century. Behind her fame, there were dark sides which drove Edie Sedgwick to be destroyed. Smoking cigarettes, doing drugs, and being reckless with her money brought destruction of her life. The fact that Edie Sedgwick’s life destruction was caused by Andy Warhol’s consideration of Edie as his puppet had been denied. People in these days, however, have different perspective of view on Edie Sedgwick’s side. Thus, many directors who admire Edie have made films about life of her.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2011/11/dance-draw.html
ReplyDelete"There has been a veritable explosion of interest in dance by a group of emerging artists. I was curious about why this was so. I wanted to trace some of the contemporary developments that has led to this renewed interest in dance on the part of visual artists and the participation of dancers and choreographers in the art world."
ICA chief curator Helen Molesworth talks about the exhibit held at the ICA this past January that collaborated contemporary dance and contemporary drawing into one exhibit. She talks about her inspiration for having an exhibit coming from the work Judson Dance Theatre did in the 60's and how the boundary between the audience and the dancers was pushed to new levels and at the same time visual art was pushing the limits of drawing just whats there with a pencil and paper. Even though the exhibit was called Dance/Draw there were all kinds of media present such as film, photography, and painting, even more classical types of dance when into the production of the exhibit.
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ReplyDelete“Kallat uses images symbolically, combining elements together to weave layered metaphors about life. His works are rooted in the megalopolis that is Mumbai and, by extension, all urban experiences, connecting the disciplines of sociology, biology, and archeology.” In the solo exhibition of painting, sculpture and photographs at Nature Morte Museum, Kallat’s art works are showing strong themes in common. He combined contradictory with realistic, telling stories among the city narrating various kinds of features to indicate the metaphors about life. Kallat used special pigments to picture desires; through sculpture, he displayed daily scenes; he represented the cycles of life by showing series of photographs; also the paintings are a synthesis of both nature and culture.
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/It%E2%80%99s+time+to+compromise+over+Haring%E2%80%99s+mural/25539
ReplyDelete“So I say to the arts community: let the conservators do their job and turn down the volume. And to the conservators: back off a little. Embrace and foster the notion of a faithful copy elsewhere by the hand of others, and offer to help with the technical challenges of the re-painting camp to create a facsimile of the original that the community will value.”
This article is about compromise between people who think Keith’s Harring’s painting should be kept on the wall as the way it is and people who think Keith’s Harring’s painting should be repainted by other painter because it is fading away and it does not look good. There is explanation for both sides. Consevators want the mural to be original and the community wants the picture to look fresh. The solution is trying best to keep the brush stroke of original painting how it was painted but it should be repainted. Therefore, they can use sign painter and artist to renew the original painting. I found it interesting how those two opinions both sound right to me and it is hard to decide which decision to make. I think that it is important to keep the originality of artist’s work because every bit of lines of brush strokes has artist’s himself or herself in it. However, at the same time, there will be no point if viewer cannot see art well because it has been faded away. Therefore, the last solution this article decided sounds fair.
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=53713
ReplyDelete"Rehousing the American Dream invited new dialogues between the disciplines that shape our environments in suburbs and cities, as well as between the financial and physical architectures of housing, transport, and daily life."
Like it says in the quote above, constructing a city or a place has to be done by combining collective knowledge about environments like suburbs and cities and financial and physical architectures of housing, transport, and daily life. We need to think about every aspect of our life in order to well build a city. Researches, interviews, and surveys need to be done by experts and people living in or near the city. I think that design is not something that can be created without a context, but something that has to include a context, because design is there to improve and make people's lives more comfortable and efficient.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/arts/design/the-ungovernables-2012-new-museum-triennial.html?pagewanted=2&ref=design
ReplyDelete"How ungovernable can artists be who have all, so to speak, attended the same global art school, studied under the same star teachers, from whom they learned to pitch their art, however obliquely, to one world market?"
In the New Meseum's 2012 Trienial is titled "The Ungovernables", attempting to reference the young age of the artists who's work make up the exhibit. Their work has attracted controversy, a reaction they're work begs for. However the writer of the article makes a point of reminding us that these "rebels" are really a product of the same manufacturers that make the more main stream visual artists. Rebels are not recognized in famous museums and galleries. Is there even a point in looking to Broadway, The Moma, or any other mega hub? The article delves into the various artworks, there is also a slideshow of each work of art.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2012/02/wasilla-alaska-sculpture-vagina-sarah-palin.html#more
ReplyDeleteA public sculpture at the town's high school is causing a ruckus for what some claim to see as a depiction of the female genitalia."
In the town of Wasilla, Alaska (the town made famous by Sarah Palin), a work of art was just created and placed in front of the town’s local High School. However, some say that the sculpture is too inappropriate because it could be interpreted as looking too similar to the “female genitalia”. A few days after the piece was unveiled it was covered back up by order of the Principle who claims that it was covered due to “possible damage”. The creator of the sculpture claims that the sculpture was meant to represent different warrior symbols.
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=53712
ReplyDelete“Printed materials, in both innovative and traditional forms, have played a key role in this exchange of ideas and sources.”
The Museum of Modern Art is having an exhibition that examines the print medium. The exhibition features 70 series of projects from different artists. Some of the artists in this collection are Ai Weiwei, Trisha Donnelly, Martin Kippenberger, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Lucy McKenzie, Aleksandra Mir and more. This exhibition as quoted in the beginning will have various art works that shows the way that the prints work to show and to communicate. It will also be a chance to see the co-organized exhibition by artist Ellen Gallagher and Sarah Suzuki.
"you may want to make use of one of the magnifying glasses provided by the museum at the entrance to the exhibition and take a closer look at the individual works.."
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I read an an article about a display of Rembrandt drawings,which in this article are compared to serving the purpose of what photographs do today. His drawings were simply to record things rather than to exude expression or emotion like some other forms of art. His drawings are very similar to the works of his students, but it is important to remember to look at each drawing as an individual peice of work by an individual artist. It is easy to lump them together, especially with the new exhibit being set up. But they really are remarkable, and unique drawings that capture specific moments and things about history and the culture of Amsterdam during this time. They are also special because most people know Rembrandt for his paintings. I find this article especially interesting because one, I only knew Rembrandt as a painter, not as a drawer, and also because although these pieces of art lack a lot of color or great detail, they still depict things very clearly and are still very beautiful and respectable works of art.
On the article about Rembrandt, it was interesting how he made these biblical scene’s look so modern. When it came to the time period, you’d think that he would have just stuck to the norm if he was looking to make money, but I guess that’s why he stands out from the rest of the artist of his time, even though all the people he taught looked sort of similar, but its interesting that he choose that topic.
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ReplyDeleteStreet art can be illegal, but it is for sure fun and interesting to follow this trend. Even the artists now they should not be doing this, but they still do this because the fans they get from this form of art are countless. This is how Bansky, a famous street artist, who no one knows his real identity got his fame. Bansksy is listed as one of “Britains most wanted artists”. He is known for not signing his work because he knows he can get in trouble for this form of art some people refer to it as vandalism. In this article they are talking about a new “piece”recently found on the streets of Liverpool. Banskys fans identify his paintings from him uploading the paiting in an official website. But this one that looks like a bansky it is not either signed nor uploaded in the webpage so there is a debate weather it is from him, or it is just a fan trying to copy him. In this article banksy puts himself as a real artist that wants to promote art, instead of wanting to make art just for money
“This is one reason I don’t sign my street stuff, and, like other artists, would never authenticate it—it’s not made to be sold, but to be enjoyed.”
Hyejin Lee
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"that laid out ideas about abstraction, creativity, primitivism, the collective unconscious, and other topics discussed in his circle of artists."
This painting is painted by John Graham. This painting is very abstract that he didn't use much colors. He express the idea of abstraction, creativity, primitivism, the collective unconscious and other topic. I love this painting, because I could know that he is very talented and he knows what to focus on. (The focus mean is he knows about the light and dark values). However, later on, he become as an lawyer and gave up on artist. It is interesting point that Graham gave to audience about his energy and strength. He shows one of primary theorists during American artists of the period. He wrote about "System and Dialectics of Art.
This from Eun Gee:
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“The exhibition, which includes her most recent paintings, and spanning more than three decades, reveals Weisberg’s unique vision through which the viewer sees the convergence of art history, personal memory, and cultural experience.”
This article explains about two solo exhibitions surveying the works of important women artists from Los Angeles, Claire Falkenstein and Ruth Weisberg, opened at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts. Ruth Weisberg’s Now & Then” presents paintings and works on paper and Claire Falkenstein’s An Expansive Universe” features a selection of the artist’s larger sculptural work and rarely-seen paintings, and follows an earlier Pacific Standard Time exhibition at the gallery of her intimately-scaled sculpture, wall pieces and iconic jewelry. These two artists with different field, one deals with 2D and the other handles 3D, seems to having exhibitions at the same time. It is both intriguing to observe both artwork from totally different styles.