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 [...]
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September 14, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Koons in Versailles 2008
September 10, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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, [...]
The Complex Simplicity of Henri Rousseau’s Art
September 9, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Contemporary Art Museums Around the World
September 6, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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) [...]
Timeline of Art History: United States & Canada, 1900 ad – present
September 5, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
CARLO CARDAZZO: New Vision for Art
September 4, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Salvador Dali: Musical Interpretation of his Paintings – video
September 2, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
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