The Haifa Mediterranean Biennale
The first Haifa Mediterranean Biennale of contemporary art is an international event initiated by Belu-Simion Fainaru the artistic director and curator, and the co-curator Avital Bar-shay. The biennale will be held in downtown Haifa, near the harbor, in the area known as the Harbor Campus.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Graphic Masters II: American Art
Smithsonian exhibition featuring watercolors, pastels, and drawings by artists such as Edward Hopper, Stuart Davis, William H. Johnson, John Steuart Curry, Jacob Lawrence, and Sam Francis. From a 1937 black & white, pen and ink, drawing by Isabel Bishop showing a man playing cards, to a 1951 abstract by David Smith that suggests a tropical jungle in vibrant green and yellow, to Andrew Wyeth's watercolor representation of a field in winter, November 1st, 1950, there are bound to be at least a few places and things you have never seen on your computer before. There's also a Stuart Davis' bright watercolor, Abstraction, 1937; a conte crayon self portrait by John Steuart Curry from 1928, and Edward Hopper's landscape, White River at Sharon, 1937.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety, and Myth
Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety, and Myth
Norwegian painter and printmaker Edvard Munch is commonly thought of as a tortured artist, whose personality mirrored his iconic work The Scream. This new exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago is based on recent research that examined Munch's diaries and letters in conjunction with his artwork, to reveal an artist very much in charge of his image, who carefully constructed his own myth. The web exhibition features 30 works by Munch and other artists, selected from over 150 on display at the Art Institute, that can be viewed arranged in themes. "Constructing a Persona" includes two self-portraits: Self-Portrait in Moonlight, a stylized woodcut from 1904, and Self-Portrait with Cigarette, a painting that Munch made in 1895. The "Isolation and Influence" theme presents Munch's work along with that of his contemporaries; Munch's Summer Night: Inger on the Beach in relation to Monet's On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt, which Munch may have seen at art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel’s gallery in 1889.
Source: Internet Scout Project
Norwegian painter and printmaker Edvard Munch is commonly thought of as a tortured artist, whose personality mirrored his iconic work The Scream. This new exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago is based on recent research that examined Munch's diaries and letters in conjunction with his artwork, to reveal an artist very much in charge of his image, who carefully constructed his own myth. The web exhibition features 30 works by Munch and other artists, selected from over 150 on display at the Art Institute, that can be viewed arranged in themes. "Constructing a Persona" includes two self-portraits: Self-Portrait in Moonlight, a stylized woodcut from 1904, and Self-Portrait with Cigarette, a painting that Munch made in 1895. The "Isolation and Influence" theme presents Munch's work along with that of his contemporaries; Munch's Summer Night: Inger on the Beach in relation to Monet's On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt, which Munch may have seen at art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel’s gallery in 1889.
Source: Internet Scout Project
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Abstract vis a vis Abstraction
My passion is abstraction...
Yet one must understand that abstraction is not at all a synonym for abstract as far as artistic genres go.
In an abstract piece, such as in Stepanov's Milky Way (2005) -
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...one can generally not identify any specific construct (e.g. a still life, a landscape, a portrait etc.) that had led to the creation of a piece of work.
In an abstraction, however, the base construct is very clear.
As an example consider the following art by Georgia O'Keefe - (1932, originally untitled by artist)
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This painting is clearly modeled after an urban landscape.
Some may even recognize specific buildings in Manhattan.
This then is the difference between abstract art and abstractions. Abstract art does not depict specific constructs or objects; it is non-representational. Abstractions are always representational of some real or imagined object or construct.
Raging Academic
Yet one must understand that abstraction is not at all a synonym for abstract as far as artistic genres go.
In an abstract piece, such as in Stepanov's Milky Way (2005) -
+Milky+Way+(Abstract).jpg)
...one can generally not identify any specific construct (e.g. a still life, a landscape, a portrait etc.) that had led to the creation of a piece of work.
In an abstraction, however, the base construct is very clear.
As an example consider the following art by Georgia O'Keefe - (1932, originally untitled by artist)
+(Manhattan).gif)
This painting is clearly modeled after an urban landscape.
Some may even recognize specific buildings in Manhattan.
This then is the difference between abstract art and abstractions. Abstract art does not depict specific constructs or objects; it is non-representational. Abstractions are always representational of some real or imagined object or construct.
Raging Academic
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