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		<title>Georgia &#8216;O Keeffe</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Georgia ‘O Keeffe (1887-1986) &#160; sample work Bella Donna, 1939; oil on canvas; private collection, loan to &#8216;O Keeffe museum &#160; &#160; Representing the flower &#8216;Nobody sees a flower, really, it is so small. we haven&#8217;t time &#8211; and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time. if i could paint [...]]]></description>
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<h3>Georgia ‘O Keeffe</h3>
<p> (1887-1986)           </p>
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<p align="right"><img src="../image/okeeffebelladonna.jpg" />             <br /><font size="-2">sample work              <br />Bella Donna, 1939; oil on canvas; private collection, loan to &#8216;O Keeffe museum </font></p>
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<h4>Representing the flower</h4>
<p align="justify">&#8216;Nobody sees a flower, really, it is so small. we haven&#8217;t time &#8211; and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time. if i could paint the flower exactly as i see it no one would see what i see because i would paint it small like the flower is small. </p>
<p>So I said to myself &#8211; I&#8217;ll paint what I see &#8211; what the flower is to me but I&rsquo;ll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it &#8211; I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers. </p>
<p>&#8230;Well, I made you take time to look at what i saw and when you took time to really notice my flower you hung all your own associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if i think and see what you think and see of the flower &#8211; and i don&#8217;t.&#8217; </i></font></p>
<p align="right">Georgia O&#8217; Keeffe</p>
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<h4><strong>Bio</strong></h4>
<p> One of the most famous twentieth century woman artists in the world.
<p>&#8216;O Keeffe was born in Wisconsin, but lived a good part of her life in her beloved New Mexico, where she painted many of her paintings. </p>
<p>Besides in her home state Wisconsin, she studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the New York art student&#8217;s league. Georgia married Alfred Stieglitz, a distinguished photographer, who discovered and promoted her work. </p>
<p>She started with <strong>abstractionism</strong> in 1915, and made numerous works of flower close-ups, landscapes and skulls. Her paintings are characterized by asymmetrical compositions, flat colors and spare forms. </p>
<p>Georgia O’ Keeffe produced approximately 2,000 2D art works during the 80 years she was active as an artist. She also worked in clay later in life, when her eyesight worsened. When she died, she held 400 oils, charcoals, pastels, pencils, and watercolors, plus 700 sketches in her personal collection. </p>
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<h4><strong>Museums</strong></h4>
<p align="justify">locally celebrated, her works are featured in the <a href="http://www.okeeffemuseum.org">Georgia &#8216;O keeffe museum</a> in downtown Santa Fe, new Mexico. </p>
<p>&#8216;o keeffe&#8217;s art is also featured in other great museums around the world, including the NY MOMA, SF MOMA, Guggenheim, Tate, Prada, etc. special exhibitions of her work are frequently organized, as can be seen in our <a href="../resources/news.html">news section</a>. </p>
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<h4><strong>reference books</strong></h4>
<p> 1.  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0500092990/wwwwebcommerceor/"><strong>O&#8217; Keeffe&#8217;s O&#8217;Keeffes: the artist&#8217;s collection</strong></a><strong>,</strong> by Barbara Buhler Lynes, a.o.; Thames &amp; Hudson, 2001
<p><font size="-2">&#8216; .. explores and showcases the significance of Georgia O&#8217;Keeffe&#8217;s collection of her own work and comprises 75 seminal works reproduced in full color and dating from around 1910 down through the 1960s. unique, impressive, O&#8217;Keeffe&#8217;s O&#8217;Keeffe&#8217;s is an essential volume for students of American art history in general, and the life and work of Georgia O&#8217;Keeffe in particular. &#8216; Midwest book review, Oregon, WI </font></p>
<p>.. &#8216;Lynes looks at O&#8217;Keeffe&#8217;s possible motivations for keeping these particular works for herself, including specific strategies learned from husband and mentor Alfred Stieglitz to market her art and maintain her financial security. for example, O&#8217;Keeffe might have kept a number of her charcoal abstractions out of the public eye, as they were not as marketable and distracted from her image as a painter of imagery of the southwestern united states. she also seems to have held back pieces that she felt were important examples of her work, including the &quot;evening star&quot; watercolors&#8230;&#8217; Sandra Rothenberg, Framingham, MA. </p>
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<p>2.&#160; A wonderful gift of &#8216;O Keeffe&#8217;s magic touch: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0300079354/wwwwebcommerceor/"><strong>Georgia O&#8217;Keeffe: the Poetry of Things</strong></a> by Elizabeth Hutton Turner, a.o.; Yale university press,1999 </p>
<p><font size="-2">Elegant color images of her work are interwoven with biographical details and photos of her life, all encaptuled by &#8216;o keeffe&#8217;s portrait by Ansell Adams in the book. &#8216;this stunning book is the first in-depth exploration of Georgia o`keeffe`s unique contribution to still-life painting. it features beautiful full-page reproductions of some sixty of her paintings, related photographs, essays that discuss the sometimes surprising formative influences on o`keeffe`s approach to objects, and an illustrated chronology of her life.&#8217; border regional library association note to its southwest book award </font></p>
<p>&#8216;&#8230;. the companion catalog to the O&#8217;Keeffe exhibition at the Phillips gallery in Washington, dc. &#8230;.. what impressed me most about the exhibition (and the book) is how intelligently it was put together. it examines O&#8217;Keeffe&#8217;s development as an artist by tracking both her philosophy and her influences, and some rarely shown works were chosen to represent this in the exhibition (and are reproduced in the book). of all the books on O&#8217;Keeffe that I&#8217;ve read, and of all the exhibitions I&#8217;ve seen of her work, this one by far does the best job of explaining both the artist and her work.&#8217; robin black, Washington dc </p>
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<p>The above books are the all-time favorites, while these here below are the latest books on O’Keeffe:</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300166303/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=crmhelsof-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=0300166303"><img src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ASIN=0300166303&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=wwwwebcommerceor&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822" border="0" /></a><img style="margin: 0px; border-top-style: none! important; border-right-style: none! important; border-left-style: none! important; border-bottom-style: none! important" height="1" alt="" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=crmhelsof-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0300166303&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373" width="1" border="0" /></p>
<p>          <br clear="all" /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300166303/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wwwwebcommerceor&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=0300166303">My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O&#8217;Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933 (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)</a><img style="margin: 0px; border-top-style: none! important; border-right-style: none! important; border-left-style: none! important; border-bottom-style: none! important" height="1" alt="" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=crmhelsof-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0300166303&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373" width="1" border="0" /> </td>
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		<title>Frida Kahlo</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Celebrating Frida Kahlo’s 103st birthday, we thought to highlight her on the blog today. Art by Frida Kahlo is Art on Frida Kahlo &#160; &#160; Articles Featuring Frida Kahlo Frida Kahlo Auto-biographical Artwork A glimpse of the real life of Frida Kahlo (video) The life of Diego Velasquez &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; Art Books on [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Celebrating Frida Kahlo’s 103st birthday, we thought to highlight her on the blog today.</p>
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Art on Frida Kahlo</p></blockquote>
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<h3>Articles Featuring Frida Kahlo</h3>
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<p><a title="http://eartfair.com/blog/frida-kahlos-auto-biographical-artwork/" href="http://eartfair.com/blog/frida-kahlos-auto-biographical-artwork/">Frida Kahlo Auto-biographical Artwork </a></p>
<p><a title="A glimpse Real Life Frida Kahlo  - Video" href="http://eartfair.com/blog/a-glimpse-of-the-real-life-of-frida-kahlo-2-videos/">A glimpse of the real life of Frida Kahlo (video)</a></p>
<p><a title="http://eartfair.com/blog/the-life-of-diego-velasquez" href="http://he-life-of-diego-velasquez">The life of Diego Velasquez</a></p>
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<a href="http://eartfair.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/fridakahlo.jpg"><img title="frida kahlo" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="183" alt="frida kahlo" src="http://eartfair.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/fridakahlo_thumb.jpg" width="244" border="0" /></a></p>
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<h3>Art Books on Frida Kahlo</h3>
<p>To celebrate her, may we suggest some <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26x%3D0%26ref_%3Dnb%5Fsb%5Fnoss%26y%3D0%26field-keywords%3Dfrida%2520kahlo%26url%3Dsearch-alias%253Dus-stripbooks-tree&amp;tag=wwwwebcommerceor&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957">excellent biographical and coffee-table art books on Frida Kahlo</a><img style="margin: 0px; border-top-style: none! important; border-right-style: none! important; border-left-style: none! important; border-bottom-style: none! important" height="1" alt="" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=wwwwebcommerceor&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1" width="1" border="0" />: </p>
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<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0810959542?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wwwwebcommerceor&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0810959542"><img title="frida kahlo diary" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="244" alt="frida kahlo diary" src="http://eartfair.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/fridakahlodiary.jpg" width="163" border="0" /><br clear="all" />The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait</a><img style="margin: 0px; border-top-style: none! important; border-right-style: none! important; border-left-style: none! important; border-bottom-style: none! important" height="1" alt="" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=wwwwebcommerceor&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0810959542" width="1" border="0" /> by Frida Kahlo </p>
<p>Her bizarre life, filled with more theatre and characters than a Fellini film, more physical and mental agony than most humans can endure is one that deserves her own thoughts, although at times they are convoluted. Whether she was under the influence(doped to mask pain) is irrelevant: spellbinding text +&#160; illustrations that captivate the imagination, take readers on a surrealistic journey as only Frida can. </p>
<p>This grotesquely beautiful book, rich in imagery, literally + illustrated in the unique style of Frida Kahlo, reflects the pain and suffering she lived, both self-inflicted and through fate.</p>
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<p>&#160;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0811863441?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wwwwebcommerceor&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0811863441"><img title="self portrait in velvet dress frida kahlo wardrobe" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="244" alt="self portrait in velvet dress frida kahlo wardrobe" src="http://eartfair.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/selfportraitinvelvetdress_fridakahlo_wardrobe.jpg" width="193" border="0" /><br />
             <br />Self Portrait in a Velvet Dress: The Fashion of Frida Kahlo</a><img style="margin: 0px; border-top-style: none! important; border-right-style: none! important; border-left-style: none! important; border-bottom-style: none! important" height="1" alt="" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=wwwwebcommerceor&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0811863441" width="1" border="0" />, by Carlos Phillips Olmedo, Denise Rosenzweig, Magdalena Rosenzweig, and Teresa del Conde </p>
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<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3822859834?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wwwwebcommerceor&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=3822859834"><img title="frida kahlo book pain passion" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="244" alt="frida kahlo book" src="http://eartfair.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/fridakahlobookpainpassion_taschen.jpg" width="196" border="0" /><br clear="all" >Frida Kahlo 1907-1954: Pain and Passion</a><img style="margin: 0px; border-top-style: none! important; border-right-style: none! important; border-left-style: none! important; border-bottom-style: none! important" height="1" alt="" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=wwwwebcommerceor&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=3822859834" width="1" border="0" /> by Andrea Kettenmann </p>
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<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060085894?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wwwwebcommerceor&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0060085894"><img title="frida kahlo biography" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="244" alt="frida kahlo biography by herrera" src="http://eartfair.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/frida_biographyherrera.jpg" width="156" border="0" /> <br clear="all" >Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo</a> <br clear="all" ><img style="margin: 0px; border-top-style: none! important; border-right-style: none! important; border-left-style: none! important; border-bottom-style: none! important" height="1" alt="" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=wwwwebcommerceor&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0060085894" width="1" border="0" /> by Hayden Herrera</p>
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		<title>Andy Warhol Arrived in Vienna With 35 Cars</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What I’m referring to of course is the current Andy Warhol exhibition ‘Cars’ that the Albertina in Vienna is putting on currently till May 16 2010. &#160; The show is called ‘ANDY WARHOL. CARS’, and holds works by Warhol, Fleury, Longo and Szarek. The Albertina expains: “CARS presents works from the Daimler Collection, by artists [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What I’m referring to of course is the current Andy Warhol exhibition ‘Cars’ that the Albertina in Vienna is putting on currently till May 16 2010.</p>
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<h3>The show is called ‘ANDY WARHOL. CARS’, and holds works by Warhol, Fleury, Longo and Szarek.</h3>
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<p>The Albertina expains:</p>
<p><em>“CARS</em> presents works from the Daimler Collection, by artists Andy Warhol, Robert Longo, Sylvie Fleury, and Vincent Szarek. Common to all of the works is their examination of the history, the types, or the design of the Mercedes-Benz car. </p>
<p>The core of the exhibit are the thirty-five silkscreen paintings of Andy Warhol’s (1928-1987) series <em>CARS</em>, which employ eight selected types of Mercedes to document the history of the automobile. This important late series by Warhol remained unfinished and after around twenty years is being shown again complete. </p>
<p>Joining this series are drawings and airbrushed paintings by Robert Longo (*1953). Videos by Sylvie Fleury (*1961) blend the myth of the legendary Mercedes-Benz automobile with some of the most contemporary ideas from the art and fashion worlds. Vincent Szarek (*1973) uses design elements from the Mercedes-Benz SLR as the starting point for his group of sculptures, which were digitally developed as a modern form of drawing, rendered with 3D programs. “</p>
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		<title>Contemporary Art (Graffiti on Canvas) by Jean Michel Basquiat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought to feast the eye and nourish the soul with some paintings by Jean Michel Basquiat today. It&#8217;s Friday after all. I know that Basquiat&#8217;s work is not everybody&#8217;s cup of tea, but I personally love his work because it is vibrant, articulate, offers social commentary and is overall interesting: there&#8217;s stuff to see [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought to feast the eye and nourish the soul with some paintings by Jean Michel Basquiat today. It&#8217;s Friday after all.</p>
<p>I know that Basquiat&#8217;s work is not everybody&#8217;s cup of tea, but I  personally love his work because it is vibrant, articulate, offers social commentary and is overall interesting: there&#8217;s stuff to see and learn from every painting.  </p>
<p>To me, his paintings read like a personal  art journal, which displays his cultural history, his heros, his beliefs of social justice, his poetry and overall his personal identity.</p>
<p>Learn more about the graffiti and other art by<strong> <a href="http://eartfair.com/blog/index.php?s=basquiat">Jean Michel Basquiat</a>.</strong></p>
<h2>Selected Works by Jean Michel Basquiat</h2>
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		<title>Cubist Artist Juan Gris</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spanish Cubist Artist Juan Gris (1887-1927) was born in Madrid, with his original name Jose Victoriano Gonzalez. Gris was one of the lead artists in the cubist movement. As a painter, Gris was part of the &#8216;School of Paris&#8217; (Ecole de Paris) -movement. Gris&#8217;s subject-matter was always his immediate surroundings: he produced still lifes composed [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Spanish Cubist Artist Juan Gris (1887-1927) was born in Madrid, with his original name Jose Victoriano Gonzalez. Gris was one of the lead artists in the cubist movement.  As a painter, Gris was part of the &#8216;School of Paris&#8217; (Ecole de Paris) -movement.  Gris&#8217;s subject-matter was always his immediate surroundings: he produced still lifes composed of simple, everyday objects, portraits of friends, and occasionally landscapes or cityscapes.</p>
<h2>Biography Juan Gris</h2>
<p>A highly intelligent man, Juan Gris initially went to study engineering in Madrid in 1902.  Then in about 1904, he switched to painting.  Two years later, in 1906 Juan Gris left Madrid as it was too provincial at that time, and moved to Paris. Gris adopted the pseudonym by which he is known today after moving (1906) to Paris.  </p>
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<p>In Paris, Gris met fellow-country man Pablo Picasso, whose lead he followed. They lived in the same building and became friends. In Paris Gris also befriended Georges Braque, another cubist, as well as Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger, and Amedeo Modigliani.  </p>
<p>In  the early stages of his career, Juan Gris earned his living by providing humorous drawings to L&#8217;Assiette au Beurre, Le Temoin and other illustrated papers. Gris began to paint seriously in 1910. Between 1907 and 1912 he watched closely the development of the cubist style.</p>
<p>Gris participated from 1912 in the Cubist movement, his work being noted for its classical purity and lucidity. Gris exhibited at the Section d&#8217;Or 1912 and was subsequently offered a contract with Kahnweiler. </p>
<p>In 1912 Gris exhibited his &#8216;Homage to Picasso&#8217;, which established his reputation as a painter of the first rank. He worked closely with Picasso and Braque until the outbreak of World War I, molding their intuitively generated innovative approach with his own, more methodical taste.   Picasso, Braque and Gris formed really the three musqueteers of Cubism, with Picasso &#038; Braque being the founders, and Gris the most gifted developer of this genre.  </p>
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<p>Typical of his approach was his remark about Cezanne, the universally acknowledged father of Cubism: </p>
<blockquote><p>&#8216;Cezanne made a cylinder out of a bottle. I start from the cylinder to create a special kind of individual object. I make a bottle out of a cylinder.&#8217; </p></blockquote>
<p>Juan Gris was an influential artist of the Section d&#8217;Or (the cubists), who also inspired other Ecole de Paris- artists such as Matisse.</p>
<p>Grist embraced collage as soon as Picasso &#038; Braque had invented it, and made paper collages from 1913 to 15.  Then he evolved into a more synthetic style, &#8216;a flat pictorial architecture&#8217;. </p>
<p>Gris had his first one-man exhibition at the Galerie de l&#8217;Effort Moderne, Paris, 1919. Designed sets and costumes for Les Tentations de la Bergere and other Diaghilev productions from 1921 to 1924. In the &#8217;20s, Gris designed costumes and scenery for Serge DIAGHILEV&#8217;s Ballets Russes. </p>
<p>At that time, Juan Gris also completed some of the boldest and most mature statements of his cubist style, with landscape-still lifes that compress interiors and exteriors into synthetic cubist compositions and figure paintings, especially the fine series of clowns.</p>
<p>Settled at Boulogne-sur-Seine in 1922, but spent most winters in the South of France. First illness 1920; increasing ill-health from 1925. Died at Boulogne-sur-Seine.</p>
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<p><em>Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Spanish; School of Paris painter, sculptor, etcher, lithographer, ceramist and designer;  influenced 20th century art enormously; worked in an unprecedented variety of styles. </em></p>
<p>Picasso’s art is categorized into periods.  The most well-known periods in his work are the Blue Period, the Rose Period (1905–1907), the African-influenced Period (1908–1909), Analytic Cubism (1909–1912), and Synthetic Cubism (1912–1919). Names of many of his later periods are not as clearly defined.</p>
<h2>The Years of Picasso&#8217;s Blue Period</h2>
<p>The three years known as Pablo Picasso&#8217;s Blue Period was a time when a pale, cold blue was the dominant color in his paintings and drawings, and when the mood of his paintings, mostly paintings of poor people and sad-faced women, was very gloomy.</p>
<p>There were several factors that shaped Pablo Picasso&#8217;s paintings of that time.   </p>
<p>First, the &#8216;Blue Period&#8217; constituted some difficult, unsettling times for Picasso personally. It was the first time that Picasso was away from home, and he moved back and forth between Spain and France quite a bit. </p>
<p>In 1900, Picasso visited  Paris, then the art capital of Europe, for the first time with his friend Carlos Casagemos. It was on the occasion of the Universal Exhibition, an exhibition which included one of  Picasso&#8217;s paintings.  Picasso lands a contract with the art dealers Pere Manach as well as sales and future exhibitions at the Berthe Weil gallery. In 1901 Picasso moved to Madrid, and makes a second trip to Paris, and has his first exhibition there in the Vollard Gallery. In 1902 he moves back to Barcelona and makes a third trip to Paris. In 1904 he finally settles in Paris, in Montmartre.</p>
<p>Second, the struggling young artist, Picasso, was so poor that he often did not have sufficient funds to pay rent or to buy art materials.  Some of his paintings were made into firewood to keep his apartment warm.</p>
<p>Third, the period marks the death of his friend, Carlos Casagemas. Carlos had attempted to commit suicide because of a broken heart.  The loss of his friend made a huge impression on him and brought on a period of depression for Picasso.</p>
<p>It was February 1901, while Picasso was in Madrid, when he received news of Casagemas’s suicide. In response he produced several intense paintings of his dead friend including the &#8216;Death of Casagemas&#8217; (made in summer 1901) and a symbolically complex work, &#8216;Evocation: The Burial of Casagemas&#8217; (later in 1901).  This latter painting superimposed allusions to the art of the past and in particular to El Greco’s &#8216;Burial of Count&#8217; Orgaz (1586–8). </p>
<p>Fourth, at that time, Pablo Picasso was a young artist, just in his early twenties. While he had starting painting at an supreme early age (3 years old), his early twenties was a time when Picasso was looking for a style of his own.  He was very prolific at that time, painting and drawing at all times.</p>
<p>Fifth and finally: Picasso&#8217;s depicted melancholy was also a sign of the times.  In the artistic cycles of  Barcelona at that time, early death, suicide and doubt about one&#8217;s own calling were common. </p>
<h2>Characteristics of Blue Period Paintings</h2>
<p>During this time, Picasso&#8217;s paintings and sketches were mostly done in its melancholy palette of predominantly blue tones. The mood of his paintings and sketches during this period showed strong emotions.  </p>
<p>In 1901, Toulouse Lautrac dies in Paris, and large individual exhibitions are dedicated to him the following year. In terms of style, young Picasso artist was following in the footsteps of Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, and the 19th Century symbolists.   Picasso explored actually all the avant-garde painting styles of that time, in an endeavor to find his own.</p>
<p>While monochromatic, these early paintings by Picasso are far from simple: they are layered and complex, typically rich with symbolic color, exaggerated form, and abstracted spaces.</p>
<p>Picasso&#8217;s Blue Period paintings borrowed El Greco&#8217;s elongated forms and hallucinatory spaces.</p>
<p>During his Blue Period, Picasso started to sign his works with &#8220;Picasso&#8221; instead of the prior &#8220;Pablo Ruiz y Picasso.&#8221; </p>
<h2>Motifs in Picasso&#8217;s Blue Period</h2>
<p>During the The Blue Period, Picasso focused almost exclusively on gloomy themes and the disenfranchised. His subjects included blind beggars, drunks, laborers and women from a prison in Paris. Most of his artworks were portraits.  Perhaps no artist depicted the plight of the underclasses with greater poignancy than Picasso.</p>
<p>As Picasso lived himself in relative poverty in his early years in Paris, Picasso obviously empathized with the  disenfranchised around him. He often portrayed them with great sensitivity and pathos.</p>
<h2>Examples of  Paintings of Picasso&#8217;s Blue Period</h2>
<p>Excellent examples from the period depict include the Blue Nude (1902), The Tragedy (1903) and The Old Guitar Player (1903). </p>
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<h2>Picasso  &#8211; Child with a Dove &#8211; Just Before the Blue Period</h2>
<p>Picasso&#8217;s father bred doves. Many of Picasso&#8217;s childhood sketches included them. This work refer to memories of Picasso&#8217;s childhood, and in particular to his sister Conchita, who passed away in 1895 because of diphtheria. Picasso&#8217;s work took on a new maturity after her death.  His sadness over the loss of his sister contributed to the melancholy in Picasso&#8217;s Blue Period.  Picasso painted &#8216;Child Holding a Dove&#8217; just prior to his &#8216;Blue Period&#8217;. The painting represents influences which marked his early work.</p></blockquote>
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<h2>Pablo Picasso  &#8211; Blue Nude</h2>
<p>The Blue Nude is currently in the Picasso Museum in Barcelona, Spain.</p>
<p>It depicts the back of a woman in fetal position. Her emotions are not clear.</p>
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<h2>Pablo Picasso  -The Old Guitarist</h2>
<p>The painting, The Old Guitarist, is presently held at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US. </p>
<p>Pablo Picasso painted The Old Guitarist in 1903.  The painting was made just after the suicide death of Picasso&#8217;s close friend, Casagemas. </p>
<p>This work was created in Madrid, and the distorted style (note that the upper torso of the guitarist seems to be reclining, while the bottom half appears to be sitting cross-legged) is reminiscent of the works of El Greco.</p>
<p><strong>The hidden secret</strong><br />
The painting &#8216;The Old Guitarist&#8217; is known for a ghost-like appearance of a mysteriously faced a women painted underneath. (Her face is above the old man&#8217;s neck). As Picasso was strapped for cash to buy art materials, it is likely that Picasso reused materials. Most likely, he originally started painting a portrait of a seated, upset woman. Only her face and legs are visible. </p>
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<h2>Pablo Picasso &#8211; The Tragedy</h2>
<p>&#8216;The Tragedy&#8217; (1903) can be found by the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., US.  </p>
<p>The painting depicts three figures, one presumes a family, wife to left, husband center and boy of perhaps five years of age left, stand barefoot on a beach, a greenishblue beach in front of a pale blue sea and a darkened dusky sky blue. The man and woman have their heads bowed down. The boy is clapping his hands for heat. The husband looks old. </p>
<p>There is something between that they must say but can&#8217;t say and they acknowledge that they can&#8217;t say it. Someone or something is missing. A home? A person? Sustenance? There is a space between them they know not how to fill. </p>
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<h2>Pablo Picasso &#8211; La Vie</h2>
<p>La Vie, 1903. This painting marks the peak of Picasso&#8217;s Blue Period, and at the same time it represents the sum-total of this period. It is amongst his most famous paintings of this period.  </p>
<p>This Picasso painting is currently in the Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio, US.  </p>
<p>As you can see here, it depicts an Eden-ish couple standing to the left. The nude woman in the moment after a shock, just in the beginning of absorbing it, cradling her head on the man&#8217;s shoulder. The blue loin-clothed man is painted in a classical pose with his finger pointing towards a mother on the right, who is holding an infant swaddled in a blanket. The mother looking somber, severe, fearful, angry, tired &#8230;. </p>
<p>In between the couple on the left and the mother with child on the right, there are two blue outlined silhouettes. In a slightly lighter shade of blue, a man consoling a woman, beneath them, a figure cradling head on knees, either weeping in torment, asleep or dead. It is as if the man is asking the mother what will become of her child, and in the space between, where one might expect find hope, instead there is desolation or, at best, mutual consolation.</p>
<p>There is no simple explanation to this painting, although many stories could be told based on this work. &#8216;La Vie&#8217; is really a complex Symbolist allegory that evolved through numerous sketches. As X-rays analysis revealed that &#8216;La Vie&#8217; is painted over &#8216;Last Moments&#8217; and that it underwent several revisions. Its synthesis and layering of references rule out a fixed reading.</p>
<p>Autobiography is embedded in the male figure, which was begun as a self-portrait but later given the features of Casagemas.  The iconically stiff composition, compressed space and enigmatic gestures, however, evoke a more general significance.</p>
<h2>Conclusion</h2>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Expression: Whenever I have had something to say, I have said it in the manner I felt I ought to say it. Different motives inevitably require different methods of expression.&#8221; ~ Picasso</p></blockquote>
<p><!-- from "Picasso Speaks" in The Arts, New York, 1923. --></p>
<p>At the young age of 20, Picasso already realized a distinct style of art that is all of his own, despite his borrowing from various other artists and artistic movements and styles.</p>
<p>Picasso&#8217;s Blue Period was followed by Picasso&#8217;s Rose Period, which began in  October 1904, following an exhibition of Picasso&#8217;s work at the Berthe Weill gallery of 12 works from the previous three years. His was favorably reviewed.</p>
<p>Both the Blue and the Rose periods were precursors to Cubism, which later defined much of Picasso&#8217;s career.
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		<description><![CDATA[Gerhard Richter Concurrent Art Shows 2009 The Abstract Art of Gerhard Richter (1932-, Dresden) is currently on show everywhere in Europe, it seems: * Richter en France, Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France March 07 2009 &#8211; June 01 2009 * Gerhard Richter. Abstract Paintings, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany February 27 2009 &#8211; May 17 [...]]]></description>
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<p>The <a href="http://eartfair.com/blog/index.php?s=abstract+art">Abstract Art</a> of Gerhard Richter  (1932-, Dresden) is currently on show everywhere in Europe, it seems:</p>
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      March 07 2009 &#8211; June 01 2009<br />
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    * Gerhard Richter. Abstract Paintings, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany<br />
      February 27 2009 &#8211; May 17 2009<br />
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    * Gerhard Richter. Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK<br />
      February 26 2009 &#8211; May 31 2009<br />
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    * Overpainted Photographs, Centre de la photographie, Geneva, Switzerland<br />
      February 20 2009 &#8211; April 12 2009<br />
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    * Gerhard Richter. Retrospektive, Albertina, Vienna, Austria<br />
      January 30 2009 &#8211; May 03 2009
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<h2>Gerhard Richter in Germany</h2>
<p>If you can just do one show, consider the &#8216;Gerhard Richter&#8217;s Abstract Paintings exhibition at the Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany.  This just-opened show will run until May 17, 2009.</p>
<p>This &#8216;Gerhard Richter &#8211; Abstract Paintings&#8217; exhibition includes 50+, mostly large, format paintings of an incredible painterly poetry appearing like ‘cascades of intoxicatingly psychedelic colours’, to use the words of Tagesspiegel.  </p>
<p>Gerhard Richter has been painting his abstract paintings since the &#8217;70s. Today, they comprise nearly 70% of all his work. With its concentration on this type of painting, this exhibition differs from past Richter retrospectives, which primarily focused &#8211; each updated &#8211; on the proportional shift from the artist&#8217;s photograph-based paintings to his abstract ones. </p>
<blockquote><p>‘For me, there is no difference between a landscape and an abstract picture.’ &#8211; Gerhard Richter</p></blockquote>
<p>These large format paintings usually form a series.  They testify to the artist’s continued examination of the conditions of painting: its principles, limits and possibilities. The innate properties of color and form, as well as the inclusion of the painterly process, is of central importance to Richter’s abstractions:</p>
<blockquote><p> &#8216;I &#8230; want to preserve a painting at the end that I had not actually planned for &#8230; I, naturally, very much want to preserve something more interesting that what i can invent’. </p></blockquote>
<p>Thereby, Richter does not start with a predetermined motif for his abstract paintings, but rather works until the picture is recognisable – a working process that the artist describes as ‘meticulously planned spontaneity’. </p>
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<p><em>Wald, 2005; Gerhard Richter</em></p>
<p>During an intensive creative process color elements and structures are applied with paintbrushes, scrapers and spatulas layer by layer; already existing layers are overlaid, expunged or exposed by scraping. The tools’ and coatings’ traces add themselves to the spatial or landscape-like structures, though, without ever compacting into a recognizable object. </p>
<p>Some of Richter’s abstract paintings pass through more than thirty stages of which nothing more than a hint remains at the end, and, yet, these are a significant part of the finished work. In one way, the abstract paintings clearly attest to their origination process, but in another way they shroud exactly this. </p>
<p>Show Address: Haus der kunst, Prinzregentenstrasse 1, München, Germany. For more info: www.hausderkunst.de</p>
<h2>About Gerhard Richter&#8217;s Art in General</h2>
<p>The British Guardian considers Gerhard Richter a ‘Picasso of the 21st century’, the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper sees him as ‘the master of all genres’. </p>
<p>Gerhard Richter  became famous with his photo realist paintings in the 1960s, although his oeuvre comprises monochrome and abstract paintings, graphic prints, works in glass and sculptures. </p>
<h2>Gerhard Richter in the States</h2>
<p>If you can&#8217;t make it to Europe this Spring, consider a trip to Los Angeles, where Gerhard Richter is part of a group show &#8216;Art of Two Germanys. Cold War Cultures&#8217;.  You can find the show  at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US. It is on now and will run till April 19 2009.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A few days ago, January 16, <a href="http://eartfair.com/blog/the-realist-art-of-american-artist-andrew-wyeth/">painter Andrew Wyeth</a> died in his sleep in his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, at age 91.  He was surrounded by his family, and died after a short period of illness.  He has been painting until recently.</p>
<p>Wyeth has become one of America&#8217;s most famous painters thanks to his idyllic way of paintings his surroundings: the landscapes, farms, tree lands, farm houses, and neighbors in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.</p>
<p>What strikes me most about the news of Andrew Wyeth is the way he died.  It had the same idyllic poetry with which he painted. Who would not like to die  of old age, without too much pain, sleeping, surrounded by loved ones?  </p>
<p>Art is life and life is art &#8211; at least for Andrew Wyeth it was.</p>
<p>To commemorate the American realist painter, I would like to mention 5 highlights of Andrew Wyeth&#8217;s art career:</p>
<p>1.  While the rest of the art world explored &#8216;<a href="http://eartfair.com/blog/index.php?s=Abstract+Expressionism">Abstract Expressionism</a>&#8216;, Wyett did his own thing, i.e. realism. Specifically, he painted his world his way. And he became most famous it. Some art critiques call him &#8216;an icon of Americana&#8217;.  Well, actually Wyeth did represent post-war America&#8217;s nostalgic yearning for a return to what had been normalcy.  Does that make him less of an artist? He was no more or no less a sign of his time than self-managed contemporary British artist Damien Hirst, or was he?</p>
<p>2.  Wyeth received many awards during his lifetime including some prestigious ones, such as: being the first artist to receive President Kennedy&#8217;s &#8220;Presidential Freedom Award&#8221; America&#8217;s highest civil award (&#8217;63). Also, Andrew Wyeth had been the first living artist to have had an exhibition at the White House (&#8217;70).  He was the recipient of the National Institute for Art &#038; Letters&#8217; Gold metal for Painting (&#8217;65).  And when the Helga pictures came out, he had been one of the few single artists to have been hailed as a creator of &#8216;a national treasure&#8217; and to receive a coast-to-coast solo exhibition tour from the National Gallery of Art.</p>
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<p>3. His painting of a young woman in a field, &#8216;Christina&#8217;s World&#8217; (1948) became one of the best known paintings in America.  It is his most famous single artwork.  The painting is one of the most popular works on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.</p>
<p>&#8216;Christina&#8217;s World&#8217;  is made in tempera. Wyeth started his art career in watercolors and dry brush, and then moved to egg tempera, which became &#8216;his&#8217; medium.  The tempura allowed him to achieve his superb textural effects.</p>
<p>The story behind &#8216;Christina&#8217;s World&#8217;, as MoMA explains it, is this:</p>
<p>&#8220;The woman crawling through the tawny grass was the artist&#8217;s neighbor in Maine, who, crippled by polio, &#8220;was limited physically but by no means spiritually.&#8221; </p>
<p>Wyeth further explained, &#8220;The challenge to me was to do justice to her extraordinary conquest of a life which most people would consider hopeless.&#8221; He recorded the arid landscape, rural house, and shacks with great detail, painting minute blades of grass, individual strands of hair, and nuances of light and shadow. </p>
<p>In this style of painting, known as magic realism, everyday scenes are imbued with poetic mystery.&#8221;</p>
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<p>4. Andrew Wyeth managed to surprise the public once again in &#8217;86 with &#8216;The Helga Pictures&#8217; ~ a large collection of paintings featuring a single subject, i.e. a neighbor by the name of Helga Testorf.  The collection of 240+ individual works went beyond tempura and includes dry brush paintings, watercolors and pencil studies.  It had been created over a span of fifteen years (&#8217;71-&#8217;85).  Andrew Wyeth created these artworks without telling a single person, including his wife, for over a decade. </p>
<p>The entire collection was said to be sold for $40 million in &#8217;86 to publisher Leonard E. B. Andrews, complete with copyright to the artwork and all.  Leonard Andrews agreed to keep the collection together and offer public access.  Washington&#8217;s National Gallery of Art organized a tour from America&#8217;s coast-to-coast during &#8217;87-&#8217;89.  10 months after the tour, 200 or so of The Helga Pictures were sold for $50 million to an unidentified Japanese industrialist, who has continued public access to the works through exhibitions. </p>
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<p>I&#8217;m not getting into the scandals and speculations about The Helga Pictures. Truth is, they are skillful executions and it&#8217;s unique for a single subject to be painted over and over again during decades.  I&#8217;m not sure if prolific artist Picasso matches the number of paintings of &#8216;Dora Maar&#8217;, but knowing Picasso: he would not like to be compared.</p>
<h2>Where to see AndrewWyeth</h2>
<p>Brandywine museum, Chadds Ford, PA<br />
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY</p>
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		<title>Outsider Art by Henry Darger &#8216;In the Realms of the Unreal&#8217; &#8211; part 2</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is the <a href="http://eartfair.com/blog/outsider-art-by-henry-darger-in-the-realms-of-the-unreal-video-documentary/">continuation of part 1 of the article on the Outsider Art of Henry Darger</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://eartfair.com/blog/outsider-art-by-henry-darger-in-the-realms-of-the-unreal-video-documentary/">This first part of the article</a> includes a detailed biography of Henry Darger and a description of his Outsider Art making methods.</p>
<p>Here are the remainder of the video clips.  At the end of the article, after the clips I&#8217;ll tell you where to go see the works by Henry Darger and give you some recommendations for further reading on Henry Darger.</p>
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<h2>Where to See the Works by Henry Darger</h2>
<p>The best place to see Darger&#8217;s work has to be the Henry Darger Studio Center at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City. This center was established by the museum in 2000. It houses all four manuscripts and over 24 paintings, plus approximately 3,000 items from Darger’s archive of ephemera and source material. This comprehensive collection is one of a kind in the world of the art of the self-taught and is the largest public collection of works by Darger. </p>
<p>However, Darger&#8217;s work is also included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne; the New Orleans Museum of Art; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the Milwaukee Art Museum.  Furthermore, specialist outsider art galleries feature his work. I&#8217;m sure there will be some references to his work by them this weekend at the Outsider Art Fair in New York City.  </p>
<h2>Highly Recommended Further Reading on Henry Darger</h2>
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		<title>Rene Magritte&#8217;s Surrealism: Meticulous, Witty Illusions</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Ceci n&#8217;est pas une pipe&#8221;. Who has not heard of the text on this very famous painting, &#8216;La Trahison des Images&#8217;? It was painted by the Belgium surrealist pioneer, René Magritte. La Trahison des Images Rene Magritte Exactly two years ago I was lucky to see a wonderful show at the Los Angeles County Museum [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Ceci n&#8217;est pas une pipe&#8221;.  Who has not heard of the text on this very famous painting, &#8216;La Trahison des Images&#8217;? It was painted by the Belgium surrealist pioneer, René Magritte.</p>
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<p>Exactly two years ago I was lucky to see a wonderful show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) by surrealist painter and sculpture, René Magritte.  I loved seeing so many of his works first hand, that, as today marks his 110th birthday, I thought to write about him and his work.</p>
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<h2>Uniquely Magritte</h2>
<p>What sets Magritte apart is his masterful ability to mix wit with illusion in thought-provoking imagery. His dreamlike paintings are meticulous. They remind you of a documentary on the subject.    </p>
<p>By placing ordinary objects in unusual contexts and by juxtaposing or overlaying reality and illusion, Rene gave new meaning to familiar things and challenged our beliefs, perceptions and realities. In particular, Magritte&#8217;s surrealism fooled our sense of time and space. </p>
<p>There are two branches of surrealism: one created realistic representations of dream-like states; the other preferred an abstract style. Magritte was clearly a master of representational surrealism. </p>
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“If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.”</p></blockquote>
<p>While Magritte did not draw upon dreams, the state of pre-consciousness (just before you wake up) was important to him.</p>
<blockquote><p>“My painting is visible images which conceal nothing&#8230; they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question &#8216;What does that mean&#8217;? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.” </p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;People who look for symbolic meanings fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the image&#8230;. The images must be seen such as they are.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>~ René Magritte about his art.</p>
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<p>Technically as well as philosophically, Magritte&#8217;s painting was genial.  For example, the pipe in &#8216;La trahison des images&#8217;  does not look and feel as a real pipe, but rather as a model pipe for a tobacco  advertisement. Indeed, c&#8217;est ne past une pipe ~  it is a reflection of a pipe.</p>
<p>Similarly, Magritte painted his apple in &#8216;La Chambre d&#8217;ecoute&#8217; realistically. Then, he denied that it was real, by framing &#038; captioning it.   While realistic art can appear to be real, it is not real,  Magritte seems to say. It is just a representation or a reflection of reality.</p>
<p>While Magritte is mostly known for his paintings, he also made sculptures which ranged dramatically in size. </p>
<p>There are small wooden pipe boxes with a model pipe in it and with a small pipe &#038; capture painting on the lid. In a similar way, did he create a small glass cheese dome with a painted plaque inside &#8220;Ceci est un morceau de fromage&#8221;.  </p>
<p>On the other hand, he created say 4-5 meter high bronze sculptures (like the one in the Getty museum). These sculptures directly complemented his paintings.</p>
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<h2>René Magritte &#8211; Biography</h2>
<p>Magritte was born in Lessines, Hainaut in Belgium, but the family moved to Charleloi right after his mother drowned, and then to Brussels. </p>
<p>The sight of her corpse with her dress covering her face is said to have influenced his work. Magritte actually disputed this.  Consciously, he often purposefully blocked a subject’s face with a suspended object to challenge human assumptions about the unknown.   </p>
<p>Unlike surrealist Dali, Magritte led a &#8216;normal&#8217; rather than an extravagant life. Magritte basically was a middle-class working man, who painted at his kitchen table.  Like a good citizen, Magritte did his military service in 1921.  When he returned, the 23-year-old Magritte married Georgette Berger in 1922.  In 1940, Magritte moved with his wife to Carcassone, in the south of France.   When Magritte died in 1967, he was buried &#8216;back home&#8217;, in Brussels. </p>
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<h2>René Margritte &#8211;  Artistic Development</h2>
<p>René Magritte started early. He began drawing classes at age 12. He studied intermittently between 1916 and 1918 at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.  Magritte first exhibited at the Centre d&#8217;Art in Brussels in 1920.</p>
<p>Until the blessed day that Magritte landed the contract with Galerie la Centaure in Brussels, enabling him to paint full-time, he worked for a wallpaper factory. He designed wallpapers, posters, and advertising.   1923 marks the year  that he sold his very first painting. It was a portrait of singer Evelyne Brélia.</p>
<p>Magritte made his first surreal painting, &#8216;Le jockey perdu&#8217;, in 1926. That was eight years after he left the academy. </p>
<p>He had his first solo exhibition at Galerie la Centaure in 1927. However, the Brussels art world had not been ready for Magritte&#8217;s work at that time and critics shunned the art exhibition. </p>
<p>In a way this was fortunate, as Magritte moved to Paris for three years as a result. There, he frequented the Surrealist circle, which included Jean Arp, André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Paul Eluard, and Joan Miró. This deepened his understanding of surrealism, and positively affected his artistic style.  In 1928 Magritte took part in the Exposition surréaliste at the Galerie Goemans in Paris. </p>
<p>Magritte moved back to Brussels in 1930 when his contract income ended.  The Galerie la Centaure had closed. He resumed his prior career in advertising, and formed an agency with his brother.</p>
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<p>In 1933 was given a solo show at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. In the &#8217;40s Magritte often showed at the Galerie Dietrich in Brussels. During the following two decades he executed various mural commissions in Belgium.</p>
<p>Magritte did not always paint in his style that he is most famed for. For a few years, starting in 1943, Magritte actually tried out a new style of painting. It was called &#8220;Renoir&#8221; or &#8220;Solar&#8221; style. He painted in this way, alongside with his main style.  However, when Magritte showed his new style in 1948 in an exhibition at the Galerie du Faubourg, in Paris, his audience was startled. So Magritte decided to give up this new way of painting.</p>
<p>A Magritte retrospectives was held in 1954 at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.</p>
<h2>René Magritte  &#8211; International Shows, Support &#038; Fame</h2>
<p>In  1929, the Magritte family was invited to stay at the Dali&#8217;s in Cadaquès, Spain. There, he contributed to the &#8220;Révolution Surréaliste&#8221;, and he paints the first version of &#8220;The treachery of Images&#8221;.</p>
<p>Magritte&#8217;s first solo exhibition in the US was at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York in 1936.  In that same year, he was also represented in the Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.</p>
<p>In 1937, surrealist art patron and poet, Edward James, enabled Margritte to paint large canvasses in London. His first show in England was at the London Gallery in 1938.</p>
<p>From 1953 he exhibited frequently at the galleries of Alexander Iolas in New York, Paris, and Geneva.  </p>
<p>Two more Magritte Retrospectives were held in 1960 in the US at the Museum for Contemporary Arts in Dallas and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.</p>
<p>Magritte&#8217;s work was exhibited again in New York in two retrospective exhibitions, one at the Museum of Modern Art in 1965, and the other at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1992.</p>
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<h2>René Magritte &#8211; Peaking Popularity</h2>
<p>While Magritte&#8217;s talent and important artistic contributions were recognized early on in his career, popular awareness and interest in Magritte&#8217;s work boomed later in his life, in the &#8217;60s.  His advertising background had helped him throughout his artistic career, and also then: the increase in popularity in the &#8217;60&#8242;s was in part brought about by reproductions of his works featured on rock album covers!</p>
<p>Throughout the &#8217;60s, René Magritte traveled through Europe, the US and beyond. He either visited influential artistic friends (André Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst and Man Ray and others) in Paris,  or took family vacations in Italy or France. He explore places like Israel. </p>
<p>And last but not least, he attended his own international (retrospective) art shows. In 1965 Magritte traveled to the US for the first time for his retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.  Just before Magritte died, he had opened a major exhibition of his work at the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.</p>
<h2>René Magritte &#8211;  The Inspiration</h2>
<p>Throughout his art career and afterwards, René Magritte has been an unusually influential artist.  His imagery has influenced pop, minimalist and conceptual art.  </p>
<p>Actually, the 2006 LACMA exhibition on Magritte that I mentioned earlier showcased this influence.  It illustrated how Margritte had influenced contemporary artists by presenting the inspired artworks side by side with the inspiring source-paintings of Magritte.</p>
<p>Amongst the artists inspired by Magritte, were John Baldessari (who incidentally had designed this LACMA show), Sherrie Levine, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Vija Celmins, Marcel Broodthaers, Martin Kippenberger, and others.   </p>
<p>He also influenced many musicians, movie directors and video game producers. Numerous films, games, and albums have included imagery inspired by Magritte. </p>
<p>by A. Lee</p>
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