2011 OCT. / NOV
The image is a RICHARD DIEBENKORN painting from his Ocean Park series on view in Ft. Worth.
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Every year the fall and especially October seems to give every organization and most people a shot in the arm. There are projects galore and urgent meetings that often are not. There are things to do that you forgot that you promised to do when fall was so far in the distance. But here we are with a few of the many events for you to consider.
BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART...........an exhibition of works by African artist EL ANATSUI
The examples of work in this exhibition are remarkably diverse and impressive when one realizes they are done by a single artist. The works most publicized are the metal wall hangings of small pieces cut and linked by wire into a blanket of color and texture. There are drawings, paintings, prints, and beautiful two dimensional incised wood wall pieces as well as large free standing wood sculpture, all by El Anatsui. One wonders if he has a atelier with apprentices as did the artists of the Renaissance. It is a don't-miss-exhibition.
The KIMBELL and the MODERN ART MUSEUMS in Fort Worth are worth the trip.
Italian painter CARAVAGGIO at the KIMBELL MUSEUM rarely used assistants and it is believed this may explain the high quality of his work. He was probably born in Milan in 1571 and died shortly before he was 40 years old, but he produced some of the most moving religious paintings in the history of western art. His family had lived in the town of Caravaggio and it is believed that he adobted that name when he went to Rome to apprentice as was the established tradition for young artists. It's interesting to note that Michelangelo grew up in the town of Caravaggio.
Biographers allege that Caravaggio may have engaged in some criminal difficulty when a teenager. Although ill behaved, he was exceptionally intelligent and he enjoyed the protection of exalted patrons who paid him generously. After his death his work was scorned, but today it is universally admired.
RICHARD DIEBENKORN American artist after World War II lived most of his life in California and has a worldwide reputation. His Ocean Park series of paintings is on view at the MODERN MUSEUM OF ART in Ft. Worth. Diebenkorn was born in Portland Oregon in 1922, grew up in San Francisco and began painting with a distinctive abstract vocabulary while teaching at the California School of Fine Arts. In 1955 he switched to a representational mode, and became associated with the Bay Area figurative school of art.
In 1967 he wanted to work in a slightly larger scale. "The height was what I could get out of the place (his studio) without any alteration of my door." It is the Ocean Park series of paintings that represents his return to big geometric abstractions.
When studying reproductions of this series, what I have personally enjoyed are the richly textured surfaces and the aquatic blues and greens. Diebenkorn says, "What I enjoyed almost exclusively was altering--changing what was before me--by way of subtraction or juxtaposition or superimposition of different ideas.
Next Tuesday, Oct. 18th, I will be in Fort Worth standing before Diebenkorn's 75 paintings described in a review as "refreshing as iced lemonade". This past August I had been disappointed when we were in San Francisco's Modern Museum to find only two early abstract paintings by Diebenkorn and one painting by a later Bay Area figurative painter, Nathan Oliveria. So I guess patience IS a virtue and sometimes it pays big dividends.
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Every year the fall and especially October seems to give every organization and most people a shot in the arm. There are projects galore and urgent meetings that often are not. There are things to do that you forgot that you promised to do when fall was so far in the distance. But here we are with a few of the many events for you to consider.
BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART...........an exhibition of works by African artist EL ANATSUI
The examples of work in this exhibition are remarkably diverse and impressive when one realizes they are done by a single artist. The works most publicized are the metal wall hangings of small pieces cut and linked by wire into a blanket of color and texture. There are drawings, paintings, prints, and beautiful two dimensional incised wood wall pieces as well as large free standing wood sculpture, all by El Anatsui. One wonders if he has a atelier with apprentices as did the artists of the Renaissance. It is a don't-miss-exhibition.
The KIMBELL and the MODERN ART MUSEUMS in Fort Worth are worth the trip.
Italian painter CARAVAGGIO at the KIMBELL MUSEUM rarely used assistants and it is believed this may explain the high quality of his work. He was probably born in Milan in 1571 and died shortly before he was 40 years old, but he produced some of the most moving religious paintings in the history of western art. His family had lived in the town of Caravaggio and it is believed that he adobted that name when he went to Rome to apprentice as was the established tradition for young artists. It's interesting to note that Michelangelo grew up in the town of Caravaggio.
Biographers allege that Caravaggio may have engaged in some criminal difficulty when a teenager. Although ill behaved, he was exceptionally intelligent and he enjoyed the protection of exalted patrons who paid him generously. After his death his work was scorned, but today it is universally admired.
RICHARD DIEBENKORN American artist after World War II lived most of his life in California and has a worldwide reputation. His Ocean Park series of paintings is on view at the MODERN MUSEUM OF ART in Ft. Worth. Diebenkorn was born in Portland Oregon in 1922, grew up in San Francisco and began painting with a distinctive abstract vocabulary while teaching at the California School of Fine Arts. In 1955 he switched to a representational mode, and became associated with the Bay Area figurative school of art.
In 1967 he wanted to work in a slightly larger scale. "The height was what I could get out of the place (his studio) without any alteration of my door." It is the Ocean Park series of paintings that represents his return to big geometric abstractions.
When studying reproductions of this series, what I have personally enjoyed are the richly textured surfaces and the aquatic blues and greens. Diebenkorn says, "What I enjoyed almost exclusively was altering--changing what was before me--by way of subtraction or juxtaposition or superimposition of different ideas.
Next Tuesday, Oct. 18th, I will be in Fort Worth standing before Diebenkorn's 75 paintings described in a review as "refreshing as iced lemonade". This past August I had been disappointed when we were in San Francisco's Modern Museum to find only two early abstract paintings by Diebenkorn and one painting by a later Bay Area figurative painter, Nathan Oliveria. So I guess patience IS a virtue and sometimes it pays big dividends.
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