Elegy for Robert Rauschenberg
September 19, 2008
Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in that gap between the two.) – Robert Rauschenberg, 1959 “Elegy for Robert Rauschenberg is an homage to an artist who was my personal hero, and my nemesis, in my student years.” says Susan Sollins-Brown from Art21. “He was my hero because of the infallibility of his touch, and the constancy of his ability to invent and re-invent the potency and power of visual art — to push the boundaries of what art could be. He was my nemesis because I saw him as pure genius and his every gesture as perfection... Read more »
Art School
September 14, 2008
Can you get a decent art education on the web? The answer is a qualified ‘yes’, …. if you do your homework, and if you select a reputable art school. The internet is actually a good way to find out about various art programs around the country, around the world. First you have to select an art school which has a good reputation. Many of the benefits to online education have to do with added flexibility: 1. Ability to stay home and study with a college or school whose base is at a different location. 2. Ability to study when it suits you. You can work around your day job or... Read more »
Koons in Versailles 2008
September 10, 2008
Both enthralled and appalled by the Jeff Koons exhibition in Versailles, one of the world’s most refined palaces today, I needed a long but leisurely stroll in the extended gardens of this glorious monument of art and artifacts of French style of the highest quality caliber, to allow me to reflect on it all. Self-confessed, I love walking through old places and imagining me ‘there’, at another time. Versailles is an amazingly wonderful location to be transported into another world and to glance into the lives of a King and his Queen. It is for this reason that, after my... Read more »
The Complex Simplicity of Henri Rousseau’s Art
September 9, 2008
By Jessica Cander A few basic, descriptive words can define a person’s reputation in a mere brush stroke. Naïve, childlike, primitive - words like these have lived on long after the renowned French painter Henri Rousseau has left this world. Yet time and time again they are the tidbits of vocabulary, or the glaring labels that people give to Rousseau. One has only to stare intently at his works with their bright shades, seemingly simple forms and fantasy like scenarios to see that they do have an unmistakable childlike aura about them, yet surely they show us more upon second glance. The man... Read more »
Contemporary Art Museums Around the World
September 6, 2008
This is an overview of the centers, institutes and museums around the world that specialize in contemporary art. EUROPEAN CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUMS Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London (England) Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (England) Nykytaiteen museo Kiasma (Museum of Contemporary Art), Helsinki (Finland) Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö (Sweden) Malmö Konsthall (Sweden) Bildmuseet, Umeå (museum of contemporary art and visual culture) (Sweden) Museet for Samtidskunst (Museum of Contemporary Art), Roskilde (Denmark) Centre for Contemporary Art,... Read more »
Timeline of Art History: United States & Canada, 1900 ad – present
September 5, 2008
List of significant American art, artistic events and influences that mark the last century of American art. ARCHITECTURE 1900 In the design of the Ward W. Willitts House in Highland Park, Illinois, Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) creates the “Prairie Style,” a modernist aesthetic for architecture and design that complements the Midwestern landscape. DANCE 1903 San Francisco–born expatriate Isadora Duncan (1878–1927) delivers a lecture in Berlin entitled “The Dance of the Future” and is soon hailed in the U.S. and Europe as the founder of modern dance. ART PHOTOGRAPHY 1908... Read more »
CARLO CARDAZZO: New Vision for Art
September 4, 2008
It is rare for a museum to hold an exhibition showcasing an art collector instead of an artist, but Peggy Guggenheim in Venice does it! This upcoming 1 November 2008 till 9 February 2009 it will hold an exhibition dedicated to Carlo Cardazzo (1908–63). The exhibition documents the variety of his interests as a patron of the arts, collector, publisher and gallerist. He opened his Galleria del Cavallino opened in Venice in 1942. In the contemporary art world following the Second World War, few personalities matched the enterprise and volcanic curiosity of the Venetian Carlo Cardazzo. Cardazzo’s... Read more »
Salvador Dali: Musical Interpretation of his Paintings - video
September 2, 2008
This video offers an oral sensory interpretation of three of Dali’s painting. The interpretation may resonate to your own, or … ?! I find that the soothing tones makes me stay in front of the paintings, so what could be better than to appreciate art, in all its nature. What the musician says: “The crossover of different aspects of media is a frequent media within itself that we see frequently, sometimes without noticing it. My project was to create music to three paintings by Salvador Dali. Within my music, I tried to portray my initial feelings created when I first looked... Read more »
