Posted by Sandy in Art, Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Featured Articles, Museums on 01 31st, 2010 | 3 Comments
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
Vera Farmiga
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...
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,...
Posted by Sandy in Art, Blogroll, Culture, Exhibits, Museums, Photograhy on 01 25th, 2010 | No Comments
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.,...
Trust What You See
by Jose Chavez Morado
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...
DVD Corner: Roberto Rossellini
Italian Neorealist Director Roberto Rossellini, (1906-1977), made a series of films just after World War II labeled the “War Trilogy”. They have been issued as a DVD box set :
“Rome Open City, (1945)” “Paisan” (1946) and “Germany Year Zero” (1948)
Acclaimed...
Photo Exhibit-Gordon Parks at the Toledo Museum of Art
Oddly, the press release on this exhibit of Parks’ photos describes him as being best known as the director of “Shaft” (org 1971).I would think that his work as a photographer, fashion and journalism, is how he is best remembered. The exhibit at the Toledo Museum is titled “Bare...
American Art at The Met
Until January 24th, The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents “American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915” - an exhibition that includes “more than 100 masterpieces of American painting explores a major mode of artistic expression from the pre-Revolutionary era to the beginning...
Latin Art in San Francisco
Abstracts by the colorful Alejandro Santiago and other contemporary artists, such as Roldolfo Morales and Adan Paredes, are hung along side the work of established painters such as Diego Rivera as examples of the Bond Gallery’s varied collection of Latin art.
Bond Latin Gallery – Latin Masters...
Harvey Dinnerstein
I spent some time at the Art Students League studying with Harvey Dinnerstein and admittedly imitated as I looked at some of the work done by very gifted students and being hard on myself for waiting so long to get back to painting. This morning for no apparent reason I recalled some of the conversation...
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