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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Monday, July 28, 2008
Back from NYC
Unfortunately was very sick during my visit to MoMa (and wasn't able to appreciate much of what I saw although I was ecstatic to see Picasso's Boy Leading a Horse, one of my favorite paintings by him). Then I got better and we went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art where they had a special exhibition retrospective on JW Turner, my favorite seascape/landscape painter. However, I was largely unaware of his groundbreaking 1840s work late in his life which blew me off my feet. Armed with an insane obsession with color and inspiration from the early color theory of Goethe's writing, Turner flirted with impressionism and abstraction in the 1840s decades before the movements would begin. These canvases hit me as perfect examples of emotive hard hitting art and blew my mind:
"Shade and Darkness - The Evening before the Deluge", 1843
"Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) - The Morning after the Deluge - Moses Writing the Book of Genesis", 1843
I overheard numerous people complaining with lines such as "see, now, I can't tell what that is" at the exhibit... if there are still people that can't appreciate this as art today, imagine how controversial and risky it must have been in the 1840s?
I also saw a few other favorite works at the Met such as Sargent's "Madame X" and two Warhols I actually liked (!?!?).
Later we visited the Guggenheim where they had a retrospective on a Louise Burgeois which gave me a great introduction to her work which I had only stumbled on occasionally previously.
"Shade and Darkness - The Evening before the Deluge", 1843
"Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) - The Morning after the Deluge - Moses Writing the Book of Genesis", 1843
I overheard numerous people complaining with lines such as "see, now, I can't tell what that is" at the exhibit... if there are still people that can't appreciate this as art today, imagine how controversial and risky it must have been in the 1840s?
I also saw a few other favorite works at the Met such as Sargent's "Madame X" and two Warhols I actually liked (!?!?).
Later we visited the Guggenheim where they had a retrospective on a Louise Burgeois which gave me a great introduction to her work which I had only stumbled on occasionally previously.
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Still Life
Had this outdoors still life done quite a while... just now getting around to posting because of broken camera (right click view image for full size):
Progress Animation (right click view if not play):
Flying to NYC tomorrow!!! Be back in town the 22nd.
Progress Animation (right click view if not play):
Flying to NYC tomorrow!!! Be back in town the 22nd.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Rebecca Peters
Digging the collage work of Rebecca Peters
Rebecca Peters - "Making Butterflies"
Rebecca Peters - "Worms for the Babies"
The vivid colors, intense texturality, and pseudo surrealism appeal to me on a similar level as Max Ernst's paintings:
Max Ernst - "The Eye of Silence"
Monday my Dad and I hop on a plane and fly to NYC. Where I will be staying for a week and hitting up MoMA and Guggenheim multiple types. Extremely excited to experience probably the largest and best collection of modern art I will ever see in my life. Other activities include the usual NY site seeing and a viewing of Spamalot on broadway.
Rebecca Peters - "Making Butterflies"
Rebecca Peters - "Worms for the Babies"
The vivid colors, intense texturality, and pseudo surrealism appeal to me on a similar level as Max Ernst's paintings:
Max Ernst - "The Eye of Silence"
Monday my Dad and I hop on a plane and fly to NYC. Where I will be staying for a week and hitting up MoMA and Guggenheim multiple types. Extremely excited to experience probably the largest and best collection of modern art I will ever see in my life. Other activities include the usual NY site seeing and a viewing of Spamalot on broadway.
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