Andrew Wyeth Drawings at Brandywine Museum

Thursday, 02 March 2006 18:33

Chadds Ford, PA- Andrew Wyeth’s extraordinary skill as a draftsman is the primary subject of a new exhibition at the Brandywine River Museum. Andrew Wyeth: Master Drawings from the Artist’s Collection features approximately 40 works on paper created over more than five decades—from 1951 to 2005—and ranging from portraits of family members and friends to vibrant depictions of objects, landscapes and buildings in and around the artist’s homes in Pennsylvania and Maine. This is the first detailed examination of drawings by Andrew Wyeth since 1963 when a collection of his works opened at Harvard University’s Fogg Art Museum and traveled to three other museums. “Wyeth captures tonal values almost perfectly,” writes Professor Henry Adams in the extensive catalogue that accompanies the exhibition. Contours, outlines, textures, light and shade are documented with near-perfect precision.

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Paul Manes: The Big Big Picture Show

Friday, 03 March 2006 10:18

Beaumont, TX- New York artist Paul Manes grew up in Beaumont, Texas and learned to love art there. He has gone on to become a much-admired artist, exhibiting in galleries and museums from Milan to Houston. His large-scale paintings and drawings are of subjects ranging from airplanes to collections of precariously-stacked empty bowls. The Art Museum of Southeast Texas (AMSET) will present Paul Manes: The Big Big Picture Show in its McFaddin-Ward Gallery from April 1 to July 16, 2006. Picture Show, curated by critic Barbara Rose, marks Manes’ first solo exhibit in Beaumont since 1992. Manes, for one, is proud to continue his association with AMSET.

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The Picassos from Antibes at Malaga

Written by Jolene Viveiros Monday, 07 February 2011 23:16

Malaga, Spain- When in 1946 Picasso received the offer to use one of the great rooms in the castle at Antibes as a studio, he exclaimed enthusiastically: "I'm not only going to paint, I'll decorate the museum too". The result was a series of paintings and drawings - on rather unusual supports due to the shortage of materials in the post-World War Two period - that reflected the jubilant spirit, the joie de vivre, of a country that was free once more. Picasso later added sculptures, graphic works and ceramics to this collection, forming the basis for what would be France’s first museum dedicated to him, inaugurated in 1966 as Musée Picasso, Antibes. The Picassos from Antibes, an exhibition shown here for the first time in Spain, brings together most of the works by Picasso in the Musée Picasso, Antibes, many of them never before shown outside the museum. These include the murals La Joie de vivre (1946), The Sea Urchin Eater (1946) and the impressive sculpture Head of Woman with Chignon (1932). In all, 73 works, featuring paintings, drawings, sculptures and ceramics that serve to illustrate a splendid period in Picasso's artistic career. From 13 March until 11 June, 2006.

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Canadian Rene Lemay Exhibits in Bangkok

Friday, 03 March 2006 11:17

Bangkok, Thailand- René Lemay’s paintings celebrate life. Whether it be a group of musicians, a bird in flight or a figure floating in space, the subjects Lemay paints have all the cadence and joy of a ceremony. A ritual-like dance scene a vision of musicians embarked on a journey at night in a boat — or a simple depiction of a rooster in a yard — all these scenes evoke the sense that they are part of some larger unrecorded event. We are not just witness to these paintings but participate through Lemay’s process of visual engagement, caught up in the simple sensation of being there and multi-sensory delight. Lemay provides us with all we need to capture a universal spirit of place or a foreign experience. Intensely poetic, these pictures are suffused with a euphoric sense of joy that comes from the way Lemay, with great sensitivity, plays with color, shape and form. Hidden beneath the multi-layered surface of each painting Lemay creates a kind of sophisticated illusion that acts as a spur to our imagination. The effect is achieved using an elaborate process of layering texture and color section by section, detail by detail with a spatula knife in the acrylic.The light that shines through in various specific parts of a composition is incomparably abstract. It becomes a visual device that unites these paintings in composite and color.

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Expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner : Drawings

Saturday, 04 March 2006 10:52

Cologne, Germany- GALERIE MICHAEL WERNER exhibits of works on paper by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner until 22 April, 2006 Born in Aschaffenburg, Lower Franconia, in 1880, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner is regarded as one of the most important German artists of the 20th Century and leading figure of the German Expressionist movement. While studying for his architecture degree at the Technical Institute in Dresden, Kirchner and his fellow students, Fritz Bleyl, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Erich Heckel founded ‘Brücke’ in 1905. The main objective of the group was the quest for new ways of artistic expressions and thereby breaking with the leading, conservative understanding of art in Germany at the time. In his work, Kirchner was influenced by a variety of artists, cultures and techniques, for example the erotic drawings of Rodin, Valloton’s and German Old Master woodcuts, the emotionally highly expressive drawing of the Art Nouveau, the shining coloring of van Gogh’s paintings or the sculptures of African and Asiatic primitive tribes. As the impelling force amongst the Brücke artists, Kirchner developed very quickly his own style and his work was showed in many exhibitions. Differing opinion amongst the artists caused the break up of the Brücke group in 1913.

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American Master James Rosenquist New Work at MAM

Written by Flora Zellers Friday, 20 May 2011 21:43

Miami, FL- American master James Rosenquist brings his unique brand of imagery to the Miami Art Museum’s New Work Gallery for his first U.S. museum exhibition since his forty-year retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2003. The exhibition, curated by MAM Assistant Director for Special Projects / Curator Lorie Mertes will be on view from March 3 to July 2. Two of the seven large-scale works on exhibit, Brazil and The Xenophobic Movie Director or Our Foreign Policy , are being shown for the first time in the United States. Both are stunning examples of Rosenquist’s signature style of massive scale paintings, derived from his early experience as a commercial billboard painter. “Since the late 1950s, James Rosenquist has been creating an exceptional and consistently intriguing body of work,” Mertes said. “As a leader in the American Pop art movement in the 1960s, he drew on the iconography of advertising and the mass media to conjure a sense of contemporary life and the political tenor of the times. Throughout his forty-year career, Rosenquist has demonstrated a command of texture, color, line and shape that dazzles audiences and influences younger generations of artists.”

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Yale U. Acquires A Rare Gerald Murphy

Saturday, 04 March 2006 11:17

New Haven, CT- The Yale University Art Gallery has announced the purchase of Bibliothèque (1926–27), a rare work by Yale-educated American artist Gerald Murphy (1888–1964). It is one of only seven Murphy paintings that are known to survive out of an oeuvre that comprises only fourteen paintings. Perhaps the epitome of the sophisticated, cultured “American in Paris” in the 1920s, Murphy painted for less than a decade, using a style that lies midway between realism and abstraction. “As soon as Bibliothèque came on the market, we realized that this was probably the last opportunity to purchase a work by this important artist. When united with other key modern works in our collection, and with the rich archival material at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Bibliothèque will add to our understanding of the transatlantic dialogue that was so crucial to the development of avant-garde visual art, music, theater, dance, and literature.” Helen Cooper, the Gallery’s Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, adds, “Murphy’s work—more than that of any other American artist of the period—blends American vigor and optimism with French elegance and refinement, forming a bridge from the modernism of Léger to the work of his American contemporaries, such as Stuart Davis and Charles Demuth. Bibliothèque is a gem, which will enrich the Gallery’s already great strength in modernism.”

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Wendy Anziska Exhibit in Cape Town

Monday, 06 March 2006 10:24

Cape Town, SA- The 34 LONG Gallery presents a collection of Wendy Anziska's recent paintings in a show entitled Our Realities, March 7- April 1. Wendy, the daughter of a well-known sculptor of the 1960s Parisian art scene, has a growing international reputation and is listed in the International Who's Who in Art. She has been painting for many years and is represented in most South African public collections and in numerous private and corporate collections abroad and locally. She has a considerable following in Cape Town, and her return to the local exhibition circuit should be a notable event for art collectors and more casual art lovers alike.

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Historic Bellini Exhibit at National Gallery

Monday, 06 March 2006 09:56

London- Bellini and the East explores the impact of the East on the work of the 15th-century Venetian painter, Gentile Bellini(active about 1460, died 1507). The exhibition focuses on this highly significant period in the millennium-long interaction between three cultures: Venetian, Byzantine and Turkish, as well as three religions – Catholicism, Eastern Orthodox and Islam. During his lifetime Gentile Bellini was Venice’s most prestigious painter. Between 1479-81, as a diplomatic favour, the Venetian Senate sent him to work for the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II. Bellini and the East brings together for the first time all the works thought to have been made by Gentile when in Turkey. In 1453 the Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople, capital of the Greek Byzantine Empire.

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Degas at J. Paul Getty Museum

Monday, 06 March 2006 11:06

LOS ANGELES- The Getty’s broad and important holdings of works by Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917) are the focus of a new exhibition, which features paintings, drawings, pastels, and photographs from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum. Degas at the Getty , March 7–June 11, 2006, offers a rare opportunity to explore the artist’s mastery across media. The exhibition brings together, for the first time, a wide variety of his works. Degas at the Getty features 14 works that span the length of his career, highlighting three of Degas’ key subjects—portraits, popular entertainment and social life, and bathers. The exhibition includes two recent acquisitions, The Milliners (about 1882–before 1905), one of Degas’ most modern works and the most emotionally resonant and technically complex of his millinery pictures, and the dynamic pastel drawing Miss Lala at the Fernando Circus (1879).

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" Within A Budding Grove " at Roenisch Gallery

Tuesday, 07 March 2006 10:11

TORONTO- The Clint Roenisch Gallery presents a group exhibition of seven Canadian and international artists from 11 March to 9 April 2006. 'Within A Budding Grove' brings together sculpture, photography, drawing, painting and post-war teaching material that, taken collectively, indicates a teeming world of fecund possibility, seed dispersal and the flowering of connective means. Anchoring the exhibition is Evan Penny's 1983, hyper-realist, 4/5 life-size sculpture 'Ali' with her voluptuous features suggesting a contemporary Venus of Willendorf. Gabriel Vormstein's large watercolour and gouache 'Tiny Feet' is an appropriation of a famous Egon Schiele nude but rendered now on German newsprint. Massimo Guerrera presents two recent works on paper, one a large portrait of the artist with multiple figures emerging from his legs, arms and mouth and the other a highly articulated drawing of a threesome whose corporeal limits seem to have dissolved. Peter von Tiesenhausen's thickly wrought painting, 'Burden', meanwhile, suggests a supine woman at post-partum birth. A school chart from a New York biology class in the 50's reveals the various strategies that plants (with inadvertently suggestive names) employ for seed dispersal in a ecologically rich situation. A work from Spring Hurlbut's Oology series takes a page from a natural history text with an illustrated typology of eggs that has been subtly made three dimensional with the seamless insertion of a real egg painted to mimic the rest of its printed brethren. As a womb-shape bulging from the page the egg revitalizes what had been only dryly catalogued before. Jack Burman, a Toronto photographer known for his large-scale images of anatomy specimens in medical museums, here shows a hydrocephalic head of a baby. Lastly Marcel van Eeden, a Dutch artist who since 1993 has made a drawing a day based on any source that preceded 1965, the year of his birth, here presents a text fragment perhaps lifted from a old science book which reads: "...side your body's cells - and you are made of trillions of these.

Max Streicher Installation at Museum London

Friday, 10 March 2006 10:39

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Views of Old New York City at Hofstra

Friday, 10 March 2006 11:09

Hempstead, NY.- The Hofstra Museum presents View of Old New York City: D.T. Valentine's Manuals, 1841-1870, through May 7, 2006, at the David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor. Valentine's Manuals, each volume officially titled, Manual of the Common Council of the City of New York, are a collector's valued treasure and a historian's basic reference. These books are a source of delight for the eye, containing hundreds of maps, lithographs and woodcuts of New York City and times long past, often of sites long demolished. The Manuals are surely the first illustrated histories of New York City, the first comprehensive portrait of the City, and the first to use prints and maps relating to New York City so extensively and effectively. They are also amongo the first to organize and present a governmental record of the Corporation of the City of New York, including lists of offices, office holders, election results and financials summaries. In addition, they contain statistics as to numerous social and religious institutions, banks, hospitals, schools and any number of other related materials.

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Warhol /Hawkins /Meese at Pollack Fine Art

Written by Hugh Ronald Tuesday, 18 January 2011 22:47

London- Pollock Fine Art is pleased to present an exhibition of drawings from 1978-2006 with works by Andy Warhol, Robert Hawkins and Jonathan Meese. The exhibition is accompanied by an introductory text, What About Robert Hawkins by Glenn O’Brien. * The gallery will display over twenty five drawings in various media. Notable is the inclusion of two museum-quality Warhol graphite on paper portraits of Queen Elizabeth. With these stylish works, Warhol made sly alterations to HRH’s likeness. Hawkins royals are fabulous in a different way; an extended genealogy chart named The Royal Family of the Planet of the Apes. Beginning with the coupling of two ancestral lines, there is no evolution: just gems and pathos in reversed chiaroscuro. The pure draftsmanship morphs from the visual to the cerebral, as King Omega and Queen Tang descend to Princess Tomba and Prince Bobo, begetting the Infante Tuti. Also included is the rare Lolitadzio Kotbart, by Jonathan Meese. In contrast to his recent performance at Tate Modern; this hand made book is a fusion of image and text, both intimate and poetic. Beautifully drawn in ink and hand-written in his private language, the book is trance-like and in the artist’s own words, “one of the masterpieces”.

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" Love of A Mother " Images by Mary Cassatt

Written by Hector Edelstein Tuesday, 09 November 2010 15:56

Columbus, GA.- The Love of a Mother focuses on the theme of motherhood and its many facets as examined by important American artists. The exhibition includes more than a dozen works in a variety of media and styles and represents the first official display of Mary Cassatt’s Sara and Her Mother with the Baby. 1901, a pastel acquired by the Museum in 2005. The Cassatt is accompanied by other works from the Columbus Museum’s collection as well as selected works from several area museums. On View until May 14, 2006 at The Columbus Museum. Mary Cassatt is well known in North America. But when Europeans talk or write about Impressionism, names like Monet, Manet, Renoir, Sisley or Pissarro are mentioned. But few know the American woman artist Mary Cassatt. Is it because she was a woman and an American? Her beautiful art work has earned her a place in the pantheon of the great Impressionist artists. Mary Cassatt was born in 1844 in Pennsylvania, USA as the daughter of a wealthy merchant.

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Next Level: Art, Games, and Reality

Monday, 13 March 2006 12:28

Amsterdam, NL- ‘Turning Games into a New Kind of Art’: that was the headline in The New York Times on January 21, of an article about a games exhibition – and provides all the more proof that to an ever increasing degree digital games are part of popular culture. In addition, digital games unite multiple disciplines such as film, photography, theatre and architecture. The medium appears to have begun an unstoppable advance, and forces – or tempts – us to a redefinition of our everyday environment. In its exhibition ‘Next Level’, the Stedelijk Museum shows work by artists and designers who make the vocabulary of games their own, and provide us with their personal reflection on it. ‘Next Level: Art, Games & Reality’ runs through June 18, 2006, in Stedelijk Museum CS. The realism of simulations has undergone an enormous development in a very short time. The visual language in digital games has become so natural that it almost transcends fiction.

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