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- DC Moore Gallery Celebrates the Life and Work of George Tooker
- Retrospective of French Impressionist Jean-Louis Forain at the Dixon Gallery Museum
- The Heide Museum of Modern Art Presents "The Futile City"
- George Condo Etchings Highlights Opens at Jack of Rutberg Fine Arts
- Getty Museum Celebrates Italy by Showcasing Objects in Its Collection
- The Bowers Museum Displays Japanese Masterpieces fromThe Price Collection
- National Gallery of Canada Unveils Rare Exhibition Caravaggio and His Followers
- Art Basel Fair Is Bountiful For Billionaires
- The Estorick Collection Presents Portraits of Major Artists by Italian Photographers
- Imaginary Visions of the Land on the Nile at the Liechtenstein Museum
- The National Gallery Prague (Czech Republic) Receives Our Editor ~ A Massive Art Collection Spread Over Various Locations Around Prague
- Maryland Institute College of Art Organizes a Retrospective of Laure Drogoul
- Exhibition At Rome’s State Archives Shows Carravaggio to Have Been ~ Mad, Bad and Dangerous
- Best Works by Sarah Morris on View at Gallery Meyer Kainer
- Moderna Museet presents Max Ernst ~ Dream and Revolution
- Antiquity Revived ~ Neoclassical Art of the 18th Century at the MFA in Houston
- 'LIFE AS A LEGEND: MARILYN MONROE' at BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART
- Casa Encendida Exhibit in Madrid
- Art Institute of Chicago Announces 500 Ways of Looking at Modern
- This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News
| DC Moore Gallery Celebrates the Life and Work of George Tooker Posted: 17 Jun 2011 10:41 PM PDT  NEW YORK, NY.- George Tooker: Reality Returns as a Dream celebrates the life and art of a painter whose powerful imagery and technical mastery made him one of the most acclaimed artists of his generation. For over sixty years, Tooker (1920-2011) has been highly regarded for his luminous and often enigmatic paintings. His themes range from alienation and the dehumanizing aspects of contemporary society to personal meditations on the human condition. Over the course of his long career, he created fewer than 170 paintings, most of which are seldom on public view. As such, this exhibition offers a rare opportunity to see a select group of works from museums, private collections, and the artist's estate that span his career, from the late 1940s to the 2000s.The exhibition includes Subway (1950), Tooker's best-known work, on loan from the Whitney Museum of American Art. A deeply spiritual and contemplative man, Tooker created hauntingly beautiful modernist works through an intuitive artistic process combined with a precise and deliberate technique. "My pictures start on a fairly unconscious level," he explained, and while his work is essentially representational, he felt that he was more involved in creating abstractions than in depicting reality. He was not interested in rendering events or documenting life, but was after the essence of experience. In doing so, he chose a timeless method to pursue his purpose. He preferred working in egg tempera, a traditional Renaissance medium that produces a rich, lustrous finish yet demands focused attention and exacting execution. His figures, too, often embody classical sensibilities even when they are placed in contemporary settings.  By reducing action and anecdote to subtle gestures and juxtapositions that carry meaning and express essential truths, Tooker created modern allegories without traditional narrative content. The curator and ballet enthusiast, Lincoln Kirstein, once defined his work as Magic Realism, which has since been frequently used to describe his paintings. Tooker never cared much for that characterization, though, because he considered his work to be rooted in actual human experience, not fantasy or Surrealism. "I am after painting reality impressed on the mind so hard that it returns as a dream, but I am not after painting dreams as such, or fantasy," he has said. In the early 1940s, Tooker studied with Reginald Marsh, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and Harry Sternberg at the Art Students League in New York. He met Paul Cadmus in 1944, and then Jared and Margaret French, artists who became lifelong friends. Cadmus and French, in particular, encouraged him to adopt egg tempera as his primary medium. Tooker first came to prominence for imaginative visions that expressed the uncertainty of the Cold War era. He also frequently addressed issues of race and oppression in his work, and was very involved with the Civil Rights Movement, in one instance marching with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Selma, Alabama. In 1960, Tooker relocated from Brooklyn to a house that he and his partner had built in Hartland, Vermont, not far from the French's summer home. The relative solitude of rural Vermont suited Tooker, allowing him to concentrate almost entirely on his art and spiritual life. He continued to paint penetrating critiques of contemporary society, such as Landscape with Figures (1965-66), a powerful work that explores the dehumanization and estrangement of nameless individuals in the modern world. Increasingly, though, he focused on more personal concerns, creating images like Embrace of Peace II (1988), which resonates with compassion and tolerance, expressing his lifelong belief in the enduring themes of human fellowship and universal brotherhood. Visit D C Moore Gallery at : http://www.dcmooregallery.com/ |
| Retrospective of French Impressionist Jean-Louis Forain at the Dixon Gallery Museum Posted: 17 Jun 2011 09:56 PM PDT  Memphis, TN.- The Dixon Gallery and Gardens is pleased to present a major retrospective of French Impressionist Jean-Louis Forain on June 26th. The Dixon in Memphis is the only American venue for the seminal retrospective of French painter and graphic artist Jean-Louis Forain, essential member of the Impressionist circle, protégé of Edgar Degas, and mentor to Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The exhibition is the result of an unprecedented collaboration with the Petit Palais, the Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, featuring more than 125 paintings, pastels, prints and decorative objects assembled from museum and private collections across the globe. |
| The Heide Museum of Modern Art Presents "The Futile City" Posted: 17 Jun 2011 09:11 PM PDT  Melbourne, AU - The Heide Museum of Modern Art is pleased to present "The Futile City", on view from June 25th through October 9th. Taking its inspiration from Albert Tucker's 1940 painting of the same title, "The Futile City" examines the rise of the city from the modern era to the present day. The exhibition juxtaposes several images of the city painted by Tucker over the course of his lifetime with those by contemporary artists for whom the city and its structures provide rich visual and thematic source material. |
| George Condo Etchings Highlights Opens at Jack of Rutberg Fine Arts Posted: 17 Jun 2011 08:20 PM PDT Los Angeles, CA.- Works by the influential and provocative contemporary American artist George Condo are the highlight of Jack Rutberg Fine Arts' summer exhibition, with an opening reception on Saturday, June 18th, from 5:00-8:00 p.m., and continuing through September 3rd. "George Condo: a collection of etchings" at the Rutberg Gallery follows the recent retrospective exhibition, 'George Condo - Mental States' at New York's New Museum, labeled "sensational" by The New York Times art critic Holland Cotter. That major exhibition, organized by the Hayward Gallery, will travel to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (June 25–September 25); Hayward Gallery, London (October 18 – January 15, 2012); and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (February 23–May 28, 2012). |
| Getty Museum Celebrates Italy by Showcasing Objects in Its Collection Posted: 17 Jun 2011 08:01 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES, CA.- Highlighting Italy's rich cultural heritage, the J. Paul Getty Museum is celebrating the 150th anniversary of Italian unification with the Italian Showcase, a presentation of objects from its permanent collection that draws visitors' attention to the many fine examples of Italian art on view at both the Getty Center and Getty Villa. |
| The Bowers Museum Displays Japanese Masterpieces fromThe Price Collection Posted: 17 Jun 2011 08:00 PM PDT  Santa Ana, CA.– More than one million viewers have already flocked to experience the re-discovered Japanese painting masterpieces from the Joe and Etsuko Price Collection at the Bowers Museum. Because of the wealth of art in the collection, the exhibition had to be split into 2 parts, with the second part of "Masterpieces from the Price Collection" on view from June 18th through July 10th. The exhibition includes 26 sets of screen and scroll paintings by artists Nagasawa Rosetsu, Katsu Jagyoku, Maruyama Okyo, Mori Sosen, Isoda Koryusai, Sakai Hoitsu, Suzuki Kiitsu, Nakano Kimei, Yamaguchi Soken, Goshun and Matsumura Keibun, Yoshimura Kokei, Katayama Yokoku, Kitagawa Kikumaro, Katsukawa Shun'ei and Suzuki Shuitsu. |
| National Gallery of Canada Unveils Rare Exhibition Caravaggio and His Followers Posted: 17 Jun 2011 07:39 PM PDT  OTTAWA.- The National Gallery of Canada unveils its much anticipated, ground-breaking exhibition, Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome. The exhibition brings the genius of Caravaggio to Canada for the first time ever and is presented exclusively in Canada at the NGC. On view until September 11, this prestigious, international exhibition features 58 works by more than 30 artists, 12 of which are by Caravaggio. Among them is the recently discovered St. Augustine, a painting lost since the 19th century which will be publicly exhibited for the first time. The exhibition is presented by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. |
| Art Basel Fair Is Bountiful For Billionaires Posted: 17 Jun 2011 07:17 PM PDT  BASEL (REUTERS).- Wealthy collectors at Art Basel, the world's top fair for modern and contemporary art, had to dig deep into their pockets this week to get hold of high-quality works, amid signs the market was returning to pre-crisis peaks. In times of low interest rates, many investors seek to diversify their portfolios, and masterpieces by 20th century artists like Picasso and Miro, or contemporary stars such as Anish Kapoor, Roy Lichtenstein or Antony Gormley, are in high demand. |
| The Estorick Collection Presents Portraits of Major Artists by Italian Photographers Posted: 17 Jun 2011 06:40 PM PDT  London.- "United Artists of Italy", an exhibition of portraits of some of the 20th century's best-known artists by twenty-two leading Italian photographers, will be staged at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, 39a Canonbury Square, London N1, from Wednesday 22nd June to Sunday 4th September. The exhibition, comprising around 90 photographs of artists including De Chirico, Fontana and Morandi by such photographers as Mario Giacomelli, Mimmo Jodice and Gianni Berengo Gardin, tells the story of the Italian contemporary art scene from the 1960s. The photographs on view concentrate exclusively on the portraits of Italians. |
| Imaginary Visions of the Land on the Nile at the Liechtenstein Museum Posted: 17 Jun 2011 06:39 PM PDT  VIENNA, AUSTRIA.- In the early part of the nineteenth century, Norbert Bittner (1786–1851) executed 57 views of a journey to Egypt – without ever having set foot in the country himself. Using French and German volumes of engravings, he made imaginative use of the details he found there, combining them to create his own personal vision of the Land on the Nile. This series of watercolours was left as a legacy to the Kupferstichkabinett of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in 1839. Twenty-six of these views, arranged in topographical order from north to south and juxtaposed with modern photographs of the same sights, are shown in the Neoclassical Library of the LIECHTENSTEIN MUSEUM until September 20th. Norbert Bittner studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1806. Having initially enrolled as a student of landscape painting, he soon transferred to the class for architecture. His exceptional achievements led to the award of a bursary from 1807. Besides making etchings of all the stage designs produced by the theatre designer Joseph Platzer (1751–1806), it seems that he mainly worked for Count Gregor Rasumofsky (1759–1837), who probably commissioned the Egyptian series For the latter Bittner drew on the Description de l'Egypte (Paris 1809–1828), the monumental documentation of the French expedition, and works by the Cologne-born artist Franz Christian Gau (1789–1853), Antiquité de la Nubie, ou Monuments inédits des bords du Nil, situés entre la première et la seconde cataracte, published by Cotta between 1820 and 1827, and Jean Raymond Pacho (1794–1829), whose illustrated account of his expedition to the ancient sites of Libya including Syrtis Maior in 1824/1825 appeared under the title Voyage dans la Marmarique, la Cyrénaïque et les Oasis d'Audjelah et de Maradèh in Paris in 1827/29.  The selection made by Bittner from the Description de l'Egypte and the engravings of Gau was intended to show the important edifices and works of art from Cairo and Abu Simbel and represent a fictitious journey from the north to the south of Egypt. In his views, Bittner drew on the topography of the individual sites but sometimes gave his imagination free rein, combining various details. He sought to 'improve' the original images aesthetically and in terms of composition by depicting the monuments in a stage-like fashion. This invests his views with an intrinsic artistic value, ensuring their impact on anyone interested in Egyptian art. In contrast to the monochrome copperplate engravings, the delicate watercolours deepen the emotional experience of the Nile expeditions and the Egyptian landscapes. They also attest to the huge interest in Europe for the rediscovery of Egypt, and the fashion for all things Egyptian that spread across Europe after 1809, thus representing an early contribution to the popularisation of the monuments of ancient Egypt Loaned by the Kupferstichkabinett of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, the watercolours are complemented by works from the Library of the Princely Collections which provide a historical view of Egypt, and are contrasted with historical and modern photographs of the same sights as they are today. HIGHLIGHTS OF THE EXHIBITION The early years of the nineteenth century in Europe saw the rise of widespread enthusiasm for ancient Egyptian monuments in the wake of Napoleon's campaign in Egypt, which had been accompanied by a group of scholars and artists. One very early example of this interest in all things Egyptian is the series of 57 watercolours by Norbert Bittner (1786–1851), today preserved in the collections of prints and drawings at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. These watercolours are joined by a number of volumes from the Princely Library to supplement the historical perspective of Egypt, including Athanasius Kircher's Obeliscus Pamphilius (1650), Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach's Entwurff einer historischen Architektur (1721) and Giovanni Battista Piranesi's Diverse maniere d'adornare i cammini (1769). The Baroque polymath Kircher made an attempt to decipher hieroglyphics, while Fischer was the first European author to include non European monuments and buildings, for example the pyramids of Giza, in a work of architectural theory. The inspirational architect, theorist and archaeologist Piranesi used Egyptian motifs in no fewer than ten of his large-format fireplace designs. Visit : http://www.liechtensteinmuseum.at/en/pages/home.asp  |
| Posted: 17 Jun 2011 06:22 PM PDT  The National Gallery in Prague in the Czech Republic comprises a number of different sites spread around the city. Originating in February 1796 when a group of prominent patriotically oriented Czech nobility, along with several scholars from among the enlightened bourgeoisie decided to form a corporation, named "The Patriotic Friends of Art" that could then establish two important institutions that were lacking in Prague: An Academy of Arts and a publicly accessible picture gallery. In 1918, the Picture Gallery of the Society of Patriotic Friends of Art turned into the central art collection of the new state of Czechoslovakia and ultimately the National Gallery. The Collection of Prints and Drawings (SGK) of the National Gallery in Prague, which is situated in Kinsky Palace in the Old Town Square, keeps some 320,000 prints and 60,000 drawings from the Middle Ages to the present. The National Gallery in Prague is also a research organization whose main purpose is to conduct basic and applied research and experimental development and to disseminate the results through scientific publications, exhibitions, educational programs, methodologies, or technological transfer. The National Gallery collects, records, stores, processes and provides public access to works of painting, sculpture and other graphic works as well as new media, both from domestic and famous foreign artists. With multiple individual galleries locations devoted to art from specific periods or regions, scattered around Prague, the National Gallery is colossal and it would take several days to visit every location. Two of the largest galleries are the Schwarzenberg Palace (near the castle) which contains much of the gallery's Czech Baroque collection, and the "Fair Trade Palace" (which is located a short distance from the city centre), which houses the gallery's modern and contemporary art collection. Visit the museum's website at: http://www.ngprague.cz |
| Maryland Institute College of Art Organizes a Retrospective of Laure Drogoul Posted: 17 Jun 2011 06:21 PM PDT
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| Exhibition At Rome’s State Archives Shows Carravaggio to Have Been ~ Mad, Bad and Dangerous Posted: 17 Jun 2011 06:20 PM PDT  Rome, Italy - Infamous while he lived, forgotten almost immediately after his death, it was only in the 20th century that the importance of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio to the development of Western art was rediscovered. An exhibition of documents at Rome's State Archives now throws light on his tumultuous life there at the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th centuries. Caravaggio's friendships, daily life and frequent brawls, including the one which brought him a death sentence from Pope Paul V, are described in handwritten police logs, legal and court parchments all bound together in heavy tomes and carefully preserved in this unique repository of Rome's history during the Renaissance and after. Four hundred years after his death, Caravaggio is a 21st Century superstar among old master painters. His stark, dramatically lit, super-realistic paintings strike a modern chord - but his police record is more shocking than any modern bad boy rock star's. Exhibition on view February 11 to May 15, 2011 shows Carravaggio to have been almost constantly In trouble with local police. |
| Best Works by Sarah Morris on View at Gallery Meyer Kainer Posted: 17 Jun 2011 06:19 PM PDT
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| Moderna Museet presents Max Ernst ~ Dream and Revolution Posted: 17 Jun 2011 06:18 PM PDT
Stockholm, Sweden - Max Ernst is one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, and a leading surrealist, Max Ernst continues to fascinate and inspire to this day. The exhibition is produced jointly with Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, to which it will proceed in spring 2009. In conjunction with the exhibition an extensively illustrated catalogue will be published in Swedish, English and German, by Hatje Cantz Verlag. On view through 11 January, 2009. |
| Antiquity Revived ~ Neoclassical Art of the 18th Century at the MFA in Houston Posted: 17 Jun 2011 06:17 PM PDT  HOUSTON, TX.- At the end of the 18th century, fresh archeological finds in Herculaneum and Pompeii inspired artists, intellectuals, and the public all over Europe to be newly fascinated with antiquities. "Neoclassicism" is the term given to the various classicizing movements that developed in the late 18th to early 19th centuries and influenced fine arts, decorative arts, and architecture from Rome to Paris and from London to Saint Petersburg. Influenced by Enlightenment thinkers, the French Revolution, and Napoleon's rise to emperor, as well as the excavations that made antiquities popular, Neoclassicist artists responded to societal trends by reviving the simple designs and restrained ornament of ancient Greek and Roman art. Antiquity Revived is organized by Edgar Peters Bowron and Helga Aurisch, the MFAH's European art curators, in association with the Musée du Louvre, Paris. It will be on view in the Museum of Fine Arts Houston through May 30, 2011 in the Audrey Jones Beck Building. |
| 'LIFE AS A LEGEND: MARILYN MONROE' at BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART Posted: 17 Jun 2011 06:16 PM PDT
Boca Raton, FL - The Boca Raton Museum of Art is pleased to announce the opening of Special Exhibitions Life as a Legend: Marilyn Monroe; Graham Flint: Portrait of America, Images from the Gigapxl™ Project and Yozo Hamaguchi: Father of the Modern Mezzotint. The exhibitions will be on display through April 1, 2007. Yozo Hamaguchi will be on display through February 18, 2007. |
| Casa Encendida Exhibit in Madrid Posted: 17 Jun 2011 06:15 PM PDT
MADRID - From April 15 through June 15 the Casa Encendida of Obral Social Caja Madrid will be presenting two exhibitions – curated by Octavio Zaya – on the work of two highly regarded, international contemporary artists: Ellen Kooi and Jesper Just. This is the first time that they are the subjects of solo exhibitions in Spain. |
| Art Institute of Chicago Announces 500 Ways of Looking at Modern Posted: 17 Jun 2011 06:14 PM PDT
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| This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 17 Jun 2011 06:14 PM PDT This is a new feature for the subscribers and visitors to Art Knowledge News (AKN), that will enable you to see "thumbnail descriptions" of the last ninety (90) articles and art images that we published. This will allow you to visit any article that you may have missed ; or re-visit any article or image of particular interest. Every day the article "thumbnail images" will change. For you to see the entire last ninety images just click : here .  |
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