Posts in Category: Art History
Cindy Sherman Interview – Cindy Sherman Exhibition at MOMA
THE REAL CINDY SHERMAN
The famed artist is known for bringing a universe of characters to life, but she’s the most compelling of them all. Also read about her upcoming exhibit at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
via Cindy Sherman Interview – Cindy Sherman Exhibition at MOMA – Harper’s BAZAAR.
Willem de Kooning and Wildstyle
Essay: Willem de Kooning and Wildstyle – News – 12ozProphet.com
Most movements in all the arts go through this progression. In graffiti it happened within a mere five to ten years, because of the immediacy and speed of the subways to share the work with a whole city of young artists the very next day after it was created. There were no studio visits to schedule, no galleries to organize shows, no hiding the work from prying eyes. It was in your face the day after the artist painted it. This sped up the process of transition towards complexity.
The Feral Diagram illustrates these connections with a 2-D info-graphic, charting the revolutionary change in Fine Art History as Graffiti and Street Art became the most relevant movement(s) throughout the world, as evidenced by their popularity and influence. As time has passed, because of the successes of the Pop Art movement as well which allowed for the acceptance of the movement into the art world in the first place, Graffiti and Street Art have continued to grow in acceptance and popularity, becoming the most relevant movement of the late twentieth century and at the start of the new millennium.
Essay: Willem de Kooning and Wildstyle – News – 12ozProphet.com
Last Monday, the once-in-a-lifetime retrospective, de Kooning, closed its doors at the MoMA. The 12ozProphet crew squeaked in at the last minute on Sunday to check out the two hundred paintings by the Abstract Expressionist/Action Painting Master. He and the other painters of his generation actually have more in common with graffiti than you’d think. Much like the Wildstyle masters of the late twentieth century into the new millenium, de Kooning had impeccable drafting skills; professional experience as a house painter, sign painter and designer; considered himself a working class artist; and explored full-body gestures, improvisation, and deconstruction of form. When he painted he totally bugged out and shredded reality.
via Essay: Willem de Kooning and Wildstyle – News – 12ozProphet.com.
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“I have joyously shut myself up in the solitary domain where the mask holds sway, wholly made up of violence, light and brilliance.”
—James Ensor
Van Gogh: Up Close – National Gallery of Canada
Van Gogh: Up Close
25 May 2012 – 03 Sep 2012
This will be the first major project devoted to the Dutch artist by a Canadian institution for over two decades. Presented in Canadian exclusivity in Ottawa, Van Gogh: Up Close will break new ground in exploring the artist’s representation of nature in particular his innovative use of the close-up view. The artist depicts nature in very particular ways: he experiments with depth of field and focus, zooms in on a verdant tuft of grass or a single iris and or provides shifting perspectives of a farmer’s field or the corner of a garden. This exhibition will feature approximately 50 paintings including works that have rarely been shown publicly, as well as a selection of Japanese prints. Organized by the National Gallery of Canada and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.Presented by Sun Life Financial.
via Van Gogh: Up Close – Exhibitions – National Gallery of Canada | National Gallery of Canada.
Exhibition: ‘Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome’ at the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
One of the most influential figures in the history of art, Caravaggio (1571-1610) overturned the artistic conventions of the day and created stunningly dramatic paintings, both sacred and secular. This ambitious exhibition explores the profound impact of his work on the wide range of painters of Italian, French, Dutch, Flemish, and Spanish origin who resided in Rome. Arranged by theme, it includes over 50 paintings, with Caravaggio’s compelling images juxtaposed with those he inspired. This is the second largest display of his paintings in North America and only the third Caravaggio exhibition to be held in the United States.
Matisse notes 1908
Expression, for me, does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of my picture is expressive: the place occupied by the figures, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything has its share. Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the diverse elements at the painter’s command to express his feelings. In a picture every part will be visible and will play its appointed role, whether it be principal or secondary. Everything that is not useful in the picture is, it follows, harmful. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety: any superfluous detail would replace some other essential detail in the mind of the spectator.
PICASSO & IDEALS OF PEACE: Better Red than Fed
For four years, Picasso, the foreigner, did not have a single exhibition of his recent work, and Matisse had the limelight all to himself. During Vichy, the foreigner who had successfully competed with the equally famous French artist (on the latter’s turf, so to speak) was not on view. At a time of French nationalism and Fascism in Franco’s Spain, the Loyalist Picasso and his art, symbols of Judeo-Marxist foreign decadence in France, were in purgatory.
via PICASSO & IDEALS OF PEACE: Better Red than Fed | Madame Pickwick Art Blog.
Advertising is a poison
Advertising is a poison that demeans even love – and we’re hooked on it
We are subjected to ever more pervasive messages to consume, encouraging dissatisfaction.
