Henri Matisse – AIC

The French artist Matisse, (1869-1954), is known for his use of glorious color in both his paintings and lithographs. However, this exhibit, according to the Art Museum of Chicago curators, focuses on “the time between his 1913 return from Morocco and his 1917 departure for Nice witnessed the production...

Up In The Air

This film turned out to be more then I expected. I expected grown up humor, well acted, well written and directed movie about road worries, consultants who spend their lives someplace other then home. I was expecting an expansion of the films trailer. The film is much better then the trailer suggest. Up in...

Paul Gauguin: Cleveland Museum

The Cleveland Museum presents over 100 pieces – paintings, wood work, drawings, ceramics – by French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin, 1848-1903, to track how he developed his style in the year 1889. “The exhibition documents the development of familiar motifs—such as the mourning Eve, the...

Brazilian Art

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...

Trust What You See

It may be as a result of the “recession” or simply that I’ve not been paying attention, in any case I’m appreciative of the many exhibits at local Museums that are featuring works of art by artists you may have overlooked. Locally in Phoenix there is The Americas Series at the Phoenix...