The American artist Ansel Adams is one of the world’s best known landscape photographers. He was born in 1902 in San Franciso. He died just south of his place of birth, on the beautiful coast of Monterey, in 1984. He was the most celebrated American photographer of the twentieth century, whose photography spans over 60 […]
Museu del Prado in Madrid, Spain
May 2, 2020 by 1 Comment
Prado Museum is one of Madrid’s a most popular tourist destinations. The focus of this museum is on famous Spanish artists such as Velázquez, Goya and El Greco. However, There is lots of artwork on display by other artists. Actually, there are 7000+ paintings in this museum well-worth visiting. Much of the early collection found […]
Clothes Shoes
May 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Holly Morrison, Planet Aid (detail), 2013. Ultrachrome print, 8 x 9 inches, Courtesy Holly Morrison. Clothes Shoes, a re-appropriated urban re-signing found on a Richmond thrift-recycling bin, describes not only the context, but perhaps the demographic of current graduate artists’ work. The found marker resonates with a generations’ zeitgeist—the urgency of creating and presenting their […]
Paradise Found: Summer in California
June 19, 2012 by Leave a Comment
It opened just a few days ago and you can enjoy it till the very end: the art exhibition ‘Paradise Found: Summer in California’ will close as late as September 20, truly at the end of summer. It is a show featuring selected paintings from Californian Impressionists (period 1890-1930). The show will be in […]
Art Basel 43: Excellence in Art Led to Excellence in Sales
June 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment
It has not been like this for years, but we seem to curb the lul in sales performance in the world league art markets in the EU and US. Thank goodness. Art Basel management just reported that the 43rd edition of Art Basel in Switzerland closed last night (June 17, 2012) with excellent results. “The […]
World’s Oldest Cave Painting in Spain
June 14, 2012 by Leave a Comment
We, and those before us, have been making art longer than previously known. By about 15,000 years…. Recent tests made scientists conclude that the ‘Panel of Hands’ in a cave in El Castillo, Spain, is older than 40,800 years. This is more than 15,000 years older than was previously thought. With this finding, these ancient […]
Photographer Cindy Sherman, 1 more week in MOMA, NYC
June 2, 2012 by Leave a Comment
American artist photographer and film director Cindy Sherman (1954, –) is currently being celebrated at home. Let me clarify this : celebrated in the lead museum of New York, the MOMA. Till mid-June. Sherman, Contemporary Master of Socially Critical Photography Cindy Sherman is recognized as one of the most important and influential contemporary artist of […]
Eve Leader, Canadian Artist Extraordinaire
June 2, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Represented (currently) by Granville Fine Art gallery, Contemporary artist Eve Leader has stood her ground on the Canadian passage of change toward truly innovative art. Canadian art has been so long synonym with either Aboriginal Art or
Georgia ‘O Keeffe
April 19, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Georgia ‘O Keeffe (1887-1986) sample work Bella Donna, 1939; oil on canvas; private collection, loan to ‘O Keeffe museum Representing the flower ‘Nobody sees a flower, really, it is so small. we haven’t time – and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time. if i could paint the […]
Edvard Munch : the Man behind the Scream ~ Biography
March 17, 2012 by 1 Comment
“I want to show men breath, fell, love, and suffer. I want to bring home to the spectator the sacred element in these things, so that he takes his hat off just as he would in church.” ~ Edvard Munch Early Childhood of Edvard Munch Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter and graphic artist, born […]
