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Central United Methodist Church: Noon-5 p.m. Sat.; 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Sun. Fellowship Hall, 3700 Pacific Ave. (209) 466-5046.Children's Museum of Stockton: Hands-on, play-based exhibits of a
small city with bank, post office, grocery store, hospital, newsroom, movie theater, firetruck, police car; ongoing. Hours: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Tues.-Fri.; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat.; noon-5 p.m. Sun. 402 W. Weber Ave. $4.75; younger than 2, free. (209) 465-4386.Elsie May Goodwin Gallery: Hours: 11
a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Fri.; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. 1902 Pacific Ave. Free. www.stocktonartleague.org, (209) 466-6604.The Haggin Museum: American Western landscape paintings by Albert Bierstadt
and others, Hull Gallery; Realist and Impressionist 19th century about Custom oil painting
Haggon Room. Hours: 1:30-5 p.m. Wed.-Sun.; 1:30-9 p.m., first and third Thurs. Victory Park, 1201 N. Pershing Ave. $5; $2.50 seniors (65 and older); $2.50 students and children; 9 and younger admitted free. haggin museum.org, (209) 940-6300.Horton art painting , Shima Center: Hours: 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tues.; 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Wed., Thurs.; 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Fri.; 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sat. 5151 Pacific Ave. Free. finearts.deltacollege.edu, (209) 954-5507.Jack Feldman Museum of Fine Art: Acrylics by Jack Feldman. Available for show by appointment. 330 W. Magnolia St., Stockton. Free. (209) 460-1633.San Joaquin County Law Library: Hours: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. 20 N. Sutter St. Free. (209) 468-3920.Tidewater Art Gallery: Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri.; 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sat. 223 E. Weber Ave. Free.(209) 463-4033.Lodi,County Historical Museum: Hours: 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Wed.-Sun. Micke Grove Regional Park, 11793 N. Micke Grove Road, Lodi. $5 adults; $4 seniors and teens; $2 children (6-12). Park entry fee: $3 weekdays; $5 weekends,(209) 953-3460 and (209) 331-2055.Knowlton Gallery: Hours:
11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat. 115 S. School St., No. 14. Free. (209) 368-5123.Lodi Community Art Center: Hours: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tues.-Sat. 1373 Lakewood Mall, Ham Lane and Elm Street. www.lodiartcenter.org, (209) 333-3855.Mother Lode, Modern art : Fine-art masks by Sharon Strong; oil paintings by George Allen Durkee, ongoing. Hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Fri.-Mon. 432 Main St., Murphys. Free. (209) 728-8640.Fine Eye Gallery: Hours: 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. daily. 71 Main St., Sutter Creek. info@fineye.com, (209) 267-0571.Gallery 10: Hours: 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Thurs.-Mon., Sutter Creek. 15 Eureka St., Sutter Creek., (209) 267-0203.Harbinger Gallery: Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Thurs.-Mon. 1224 Oak Circle, Arnold. (209) 795-5957.
Heritage Museum and Gallery: Hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. Ironstone Vineyards, 1894 Six Mile Road, Murphys. (209) 728-1251.
Iron Door Gallery: original oil paintings watercolors, acrylics, oils and pastels, art glass, jewelry, pottery, fine Canvas oil painting ,artist greeting cards. Hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Thurs.-Mon. 458-C Main St., Murphys. Free. (209) 728-1928.My Glass Shop: oil painting artist , ongoing. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues., Thurs.; 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Wed., Fri.; 1-6 p.m. Sat. 291 S. Washington St., Sonora. (877) 457-7467.
2009年3月22日星期日
Oil painting Frame
Oil painting Frame
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That's how I feel about the big Norman Rockwell exhibition that opens today at the Detroit Institute of Modern art . Well, hate isn't exactly right. I find Rockwell to be a virtuoso illustrator, a master storyteller and concoctor of escapist nostalgia and fantasy. He can be funny and, of course, he tugs at the heartstrings as relentlessly as Old Yeller.And believe it or not, Rockwell, once derided as the Rembrandt of Punkin' Crick, has found a home in American museums. The handmade oil paintings of high culture are still wrangling over whether his arrival is a sign of decadence or redemption, but no matter how you look at it, Rockwell remains a special case.He is an Animal painting in complete command of his technique and whose iconic images have left an indelible mark on the American imagination. He is endlessly fascinating for the questions his idealized apple pie-and-mom iconography and easy-to-grasp pictures raise about the perils of popularity, the hegemony of the mass media and the evolving notions of fine art, kitsch and the avant-garde.
"American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell," first organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass., but smartly reconceived by the DIA, includes 43 oil paintings, all 323 of the artist's Saturday Evening Post covers and the ubiquitous "Four Freedoms" posters from World War II. The show, which runs through May 31, makes the Landscape oil painting case that there was more to Rockwell than meets the eye, without, gratefully, trumpeting him, as others have, as a Yankee version of a Dutch master like Vermeer.
But with a handful of exceptions, the paintings here are dead on arrival. There is no life in the surfaces. The brushwork and color lay mute. Many pictures are so overstuffed with detail they suggest clogged Impression painting. It's reasonable to forgive the parade of freckle-faced children, fuzzy family scenes, small-town syrup and triumphant Waspism -- a falsely sanitized picture of the American experience
on the grounds that Rockwell was, after all, an ad man Oil painting Frame a mirage designed to sell everything from magazines to corn flakes. (2 of 4)
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That's how I feel about the big Norman Rockwell exhibition that opens today at the Detroit Institute of Modern art . Well, hate isn't exactly right. I find Rockwell to be a virtuoso illustrator, a master storyteller and concoctor of escapist nostalgia and fantasy. He can be funny and, of course, he tugs at the heartstrings as relentlessly as Old Yeller.And believe it or not, Rockwell, once derided as the Rembrandt of Punkin' Crick, has found a home in American museums. The handmade oil paintings of high culture are still wrangling over whether his arrival is a sign of decadence or redemption, but no matter how you look at it, Rockwell remains a special case.He is an Animal painting in complete command of his technique and whose iconic images have left an indelible mark on the American imagination. He is endlessly fascinating for the questions his idealized apple pie-and-mom iconography and easy-to-grasp pictures raise about the perils of popularity, the hegemony of the mass media and the evolving notions of fine art, kitsch and the avant-garde.
"American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell," first organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass., but smartly reconceived by the DIA, includes 43 oil paintings, all 323 of the artist's Saturday Evening Post covers and the ubiquitous "Four Freedoms" posters from World War II. The show, which runs through May 31, makes the Landscape oil painting case that there was more to Rockwell than meets the eye, without, gratefully, trumpeting him, as others have, as a Yankee version of a Dutch master like Vermeer.
But with a handful of exceptions, the paintings here are dead on arrival. There is no life in the surfaces. The brushwork and color lay mute. Many pictures are so overstuffed with detail they suggest clogged Impression painting. It's reasonable to forgive the parade of freckle-faced children, fuzzy family scenes, small-town syrup and triumphant Waspism -- a falsely sanitized picture of the American experience
on the grounds that Rockwell was, after all, an ad man Oil painting Frame a mirage designed to sell everything from magazines to corn flakes. (2 of 4)
2009年2月15日星期日
china oil painting
china oil painting
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Reviews by Holly Myers (H.M.), David Pagel (D.P.) and Leah Ollman (L.O.). Compiled by Grace Krilanovich. Critics' ChoicesBecca Mann: New Work The long-standing dialogue between painting and photography finds eloquent -- if not especially radical -- expression in the work of Becca Mann. The six paintings and three drawings in this show, based on found photographs of imperial Russia, are solemn and poignant, imbued with a sense of both elegance and doom (H.M.). Roberts & Tilton, 5801 Washington Blvd., Culver City. Tue.-Sat., 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; ends Feb. 28. (323) 549-0223. Group Show: Pavement Paradise: American Parking Space This matter-of-fact exhibition transforms a simple subject -- and one most folks ignore -- into a thought-provoking meditation on what it means to live in an increasingly crowded world. Although there is not a single work of art on display, "Pavement Paradise" does art's job efficiently and with significantly less to-do than usual (D.P.). The Center for Land Use Interpretation, 9331 Venice Blvd., Culver City. Today-next Sun.; indefinitely. (310) 839-5722.Ads by Google
Oil painting artist Secret Revealed.New York Art World Newest Sensation Unique One-of-a-Kind Works of Art,M Shamansky, Bookseller.Importer of European Books on the Fine ArtsThe online art show,Best way to find the art you love #1 Contemporary Art Network,Continuing.Alex Couwenberg: A Bit Left of All Right The paintings in Couwenberg's exhibition are as blithely appealing as the show's title would imply and a pleasure to encounter at a glance. After a while, however, their tricks reveal themselves, along with their relative limitations (H.M.). William Turner Gallery, 2525 Michigan Ave., E-1, Santa Monica. Mon.-Sat., 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; ends Sat. Free. (310) 453-0909. Varvara Shavrova: Between the Borders Shavrova's first U.S. show is plagued by disproportionality. The artist's background and intentions for this project are rich and compelling; the work markedly such as China oil painting. Borders, shifting landscapes and cultural collision are the stuff of both life and art for the Russian-born artist, who moved to China several years ago from England. Her two short videos and paintings based on them are impressionistic, but ultimately uneventful records of the border between China and Russia (L.O.). Morono Kiang Gallery, 218 W. 3rd St., L.A.; ends March 28. (213) 628-8208.
Charlotte F. Smith: The Untitled Script of the Janes' childhood semidetached suburban nuclear family home pantry under the stairs, oil painting for sale I and II Smith's moderately absorbing, slightly frustrating installation bears a long title identifying the work as a script. Both of the environments that compose the show read as stage sets, partially activated by the written or spoken word.
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Reviews by Holly Myers (H.M.), David Pagel (D.P.) and Leah Ollman (L.O.). Compiled by Grace Krilanovich. Critics' ChoicesBecca Mann: New Work The long-standing dialogue between painting and photography finds eloquent -- if not especially radical -- expression in the work of Becca Mann. The six paintings and three drawings in this show, based on found photographs of imperial Russia, are solemn and poignant, imbued with a sense of both elegance and doom (H.M.). Roberts & Tilton, 5801 Washington Blvd., Culver City. Tue.-Sat., 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; ends Feb. 28. (323) 549-0223. Group Show: Pavement Paradise: American Parking Space This matter-of-fact exhibition transforms a simple subject -- and one most folks ignore -- into a thought-provoking meditation on what it means to live in an increasingly crowded world. Although there is not a single work of art on display, "Pavement Paradise" does art's job efficiently and with significantly less to-do than usual (D.P.). The Center for Land Use Interpretation, 9331 Venice Blvd., Culver City. Today-next Sun.; indefinitely. (310) 839-5722.Ads by Google
Oil painting artist Secret Revealed.New York Art World Newest Sensation Unique One-of-a-Kind Works of Art,M Shamansky, Bookseller.Importer of European Books on the Fine ArtsThe online art show,Best way to find the art you love #1 Contemporary Art Network,Continuing.Alex Couwenberg: A Bit Left of All Right The paintings in Couwenberg's exhibition are as blithely appealing as the show's title would imply and a pleasure to encounter at a glance. After a while, however, their tricks reveal themselves, along with their relative limitations (H.M.). William Turner Gallery, 2525 Michigan Ave., E-1, Santa Monica. Mon.-Sat., 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; ends Sat. Free. (310) 453-0909. Varvara Shavrova: Between the Borders Shavrova's first U.S. show is plagued by disproportionality. The artist's background and intentions for this project are rich and compelling; the work markedly such as China oil painting. Borders, shifting landscapes and cultural collision are the stuff of both life and art for the Russian-born artist, who moved to China several years ago from England. Her two short videos and paintings based on them are impressionistic, but ultimately uneventful records of the border between China and Russia (L.O.). Morono Kiang Gallery, 218 W. 3rd St., L.A.; ends March 28. (213) 628-8208.
Charlotte F. Smith: The Untitled Script of the Janes' childhood semidetached suburban nuclear family home pantry under the stairs, oil painting for sale I and II Smith's moderately absorbing, slightly frustrating installation bears a long title identifying the work as a script. Both of the environments that compose the show read as stage sets, partially activated by the written or spoken word.
2009年2月13日星期五
classical painting
classical painting
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HONG KONG (Reuters Life!) - Global auction house Sotheby's said on Friday it expects to sell $77 million of art painting at its major spring Asian sales in Hong Kong, a substantial scaling back of business from a year ago as the financial crisis bites.Sotheby's, which hosts two major sales of Asian artwork in Hong Kong in the spring and autumn, last spring sold HK$1.77 billion ($228.3 million) worth of artwork, classical painting almost three times as much as what it expects to sell this time round.In London too also a series of auctions of largely Western artwork from Christie's and Sotheby's earlier this month saw combined sales revenues for both auction houses fall around 75 percent from the previous season's tally.Despite such troubling signs, Sotheby's said its Hong Kong sales would be of a condensed but high quality.
"We have put together this well-edited auction series guided by collectors' demand for quality, rarity and immaculate provenance," said Kevin Ching, chief executive officer for Sotheby's in Asia."All works have been priced to reflect the current market condition," he added in a statement.In the giddy days before the financial crisis deepened last September, Sotheby's smashed a slew of auction records as red-hot global demand for Asian art including Chinese oil painting contemporary decoration paintings and rare imperial treasures, sent prices soaring.A rare Chinese Ming dynasty gold tripod vessel for instance, sold for HK$116.8 million ($15.1 million) last April.But last autumn, demand began weakening for Asian art among once free-spending collectors as the global credit woes deepened.Over 1,700 objects will be hammered off at Sotheby's upcoming Asia sales including Chinese classical and contemporary paintings, imperial ceramics, jewelry and watches.
The sale will include Sotheby's first major wine auction in Hong Kong which is positioning itself as a wine hub, with $3 million of fine vintages expected to be auctioned off.
Other highlights include a painting of "Mount Jiuhua" by Chinese master Li Keran that could fetch up to $500,000, and a pair of "Famille-rose" mille-fleur bowls from the Qing dynasty Yongzheng period, that could be hammered off for $2.6 million.
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HONG KONG (Reuters Life!) - Global auction house Sotheby's said on Friday it expects to sell $77 million of art painting at its major spring Asian sales in Hong Kong, a substantial scaling back of business from a year ago as the financial crisis bites.Sotheby's, which hosts two major sales of Asian artwork in Hong Kong in the spring and autumn, last spring sold HK$1.77 billion ($228.3 million) worth of artwork, classical painting almost three times as much as what it expects to sell this time round.In London too also a series of auctions of largely Western artwork from Christie's and Sotheby's earlier this month saw combined sales revenues for both auction houses fall around 75 percent from the previous season's tally.Despite such troubling signs, Sotheby's said its Hong Kong sales would be of a condensed but high quality.
"We have put together this well-edited auction series guided by collectors' demand for quality, rarity and immaculate provenance," said Kevin Ching, chief executive officer for Sotheby's in Asia."All works have been priced to reflect the current market condition," he added in a statement.In the giddy days before the financial crisis deepened last September, Sotheby's smashed a slew of auction records as red-hot global demand for Asian art including Chinese oil painting contemporary decoration paintings and rare imperial treasures, sent prices soaring.A rare Chinese Ming dynasty gold tripod vessel for instance, sold for HK$116.8 million ($15.1 million) last April.But last autumn, demand began weakening for Asian art among once free-spending collectors as the global credit woes deepened.Over 1,700 objects will be hammered off at Sotheby's upcoming Asia sales including Chinese classical and contemporary paintings, imperial ceramics, jewelry and watches.
The sale will include Sotheby's first major wine auction in Hong Kong which is positioning itself as a wine hub, with $3 million of fine vintages expected to be auctioned off.
Other highlights include a painting of "Mount Jiuhua" by Chinese master Li Keran that could fetch up to $500,000, and a pair of "Famille-rose" mille-fleur bowls from the Qing dynasty Yongzheng period, that could be hammered off for $2.6 million.
printing oil painting
printing oil painting
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ASID Winter Spruce-up: Interiors designers will come to your home and offer design suggestions at a reduced rate. The designers have a wide range of specialties and oil painting for sale will match your needs with the appropriate designer. Runs through February. For an painting. call the American Society of Interior Designers San Diego office at (858) 274-3345. DESIGN CLASSES ,Wire earrings: Design your own earrings with Anne Wolf, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 14; at Ray Street Annex, at the corner of Ray Street and North Park Way. $50. Reservations: (619) 488-7540. Rag bag/Crochet pillow: Make a bag out of scraps, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 10; and crochet a pillow, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 14. Both classes at the Black Sheep, 1060 S. Coast Highway 101, Encinitas. $30. Registration: (760) 436-9973.
Basic knitting III: Learn how to increase and decrease stitches, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 15; the Black Sheep, 1030 S. Coast Highway 101, Encinitas $24. Registration: (760) 436-9973. Valentine tin/wrap book: Make a Mexican punched tin ornament, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Feb. 14; and an accordion pop-up book with Maureen Ceccarelli, 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Feb 14 at Studio Maureen, 2963 Beech St. Tin ornament $25 fee and $5 for materials. Book fee is $30 and $10 for materials. Registration: (619) 233-6679.
Printing oil painting: Discover the art of Chinese oil painting, 10 a.m. to noon Feb. 15 at Immaculate Conception Church Hall, 2540 San Diego Ave. Registration: (619) 286-6718. Home improvement workshops: Painting, tile laying, lighting and bathroom updates are covered in classes on Saturdays through Feb. 28. Free at local Home Depot locations. Registration: (800) 430-3376 or homedepot.com. Ongoing watercolor: Ten-week classes for all skill levels. 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 Tuesdays and 1 to 4 p.m. Thursdays with Rikki Reinholz; Studio of Art and Design, 742 Genevieve Ave., Suite H, Solana Beach. $30 per class or $300 for 10 class. Registration: (858) 755-6202. Enamel on metal: Create garden accents, interior decor or wearable art. Ongoing classes offered by Golden State Crafts. $30 per session. Information and reservations: (619) 424-6646. Ongoing art: Six-and eight-week classes and one-day workshops for adults and children in oil/watercolor painting, stained glass, fabric printing, faux finish and more are offered. Monthly to yearly memberships available, plus gallery space. San Diego Art Department, 3830 Ray St., North Park. Information: (619) 299-4278.
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ASID Winter Spruce-up: Interiors designers will come to your home and offer design suggestions at a reduced rate. The designers have a wide range of specialties and oil painting for sale will match your needs with the appropriate designer. Runs through February. For an painting. call the American Society of Interior Designers San Diego office at (858) 274-3345. DESIGN CLASSES ,Wire earrings: Design your own earrings with Anne Wolf, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 14; at Ray Street Annex, at the corner of Ray Street and North Park Way. $50. Reservations: (619) 488-7540. Rag bag/Crochet pillow: Make a bag out of scraps, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 10; and crochet a pillow, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 14. Both classes at the Black Sheep, 1060 S. Coast Highway 101, Encinitas. $30. Registration: (760) 436-9973.
Basic knitting III: Learn how to increase and decrease stitches, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 15; the Black Sheep, 1030 S. Coast Highway 101, Encinitas $24. Registration: (760) 436-9973. Valentine tin/wrap book: Make a Mexican punched tin ornament, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Feb. 14; and an accordion pop-up book with Maureen Ceccarelli, 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Feb 14 at Studio Maureen, 2963 Beech St. Tin ornament $25 fee and $5 for materials. Book fee is $30 and $10 for materials. Registration: (619) 233-6679.
Printing oil painting: Discover the art of Chinese oil painting, 10 a.m. to noon Feb. 15 at Immaculate Conception Church Hall, 2540 San Diego Ave. Registration: (619) 286-6718. Home improvement workshops: Painting, tile laying, lighting and bathroom updates are covered in classes on Saturdays through Feb. 28. Free at local Home Depot locations. Registration: (800) 430-3376 or homedepot.com. Ongoing watercolor: Ten-week classes for all skill levels. 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 Tuesdays and 1 to 4 p.m. Thursdays with Rikki Reinholz; Studio of Art and Design, 742 Genevieve Ave., Suite H, Solana Beach. $30 per class or $300 for 10 class. Registration: (858) 755-6202. Enamel on metal: Create garden accents, interior decor or wearable art. Ongoing classes offered by Golden State Crafts. $30 per session. Information and reservations: (619) 424-6646. Ongoing art: Six-and eight-week classes and one-day workshops for adults and children in oil/watercolor painting, stained glass, fabric printing, faux finish and more are offered. Monthly to yearly memberships available, plus gallery space. San Diego Art Department, 3830 Ray St., North Park. Information: (619) 299-4278.
2009年2月12日星期四
group paintings
group paintings
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While many painters find success in painting scenery like landscapes or seascapes from photographs, others wouldn’t paint anywhere but outdoors in the open air with the scenery right in front of them.That describes the Half Moon Bay Plein Air group paintings, an informal collective of about 10 Coastside oil painting artists who have been together since August. They meet twice weekly to paint -- and will have their first exhibit through February at the Half Moon Bay Library, at 620 Correas St. in Half Moon Bay.
About 18 paintings by members of the group, which includes Eric Greenhut, Eric Shapira, Jack McKinnon, Nancy Margulies, Rebecca Ellis, Patricia Madson, Chris Ridgway, Linda Bea Miller and more, will be on display, and some will be for sale. Plein air painter Jack McKinnon stands before selections in the art painting exhibit the of the new Half Moon Bay Plein Air group paintings, which will be on display through February at the Half Moon Bay Library. The group meets Wednesday mornings at various locations to paint, and again Thursday mornings at Peet’s Coffee to finish their paintings. They also help each other by sharing tips and techniques, said McKinnon. A self-taught artist who has painted for 30 years, he said he likes the camaraderie and the exchange of tips such as techniques for a watercolor wash that he picked up from fellow member Greenhut.I really enjoy painting outdoors, with other painters for support and technique,” he said. “I don’t understand how to do watercolor, and when you’re able to be outdoors painting with other people, it’s really helpful to see how (they) do it.”All the paintings will capture Coastside scenery like the mountains, the ocean, lighthouses or the Princeton harbor – created in natural light right on site.
Painting outdoors on site has advantages over indoors from a photo, said McKinnon. Light and color are key: When an oil painting artist is looking at the subject in natural, not artificial light, “you can see the true colors of a landscape. Light is absolutely paramount to getting the true colors.”Natural light also enhances the emotional tone of the paintings, he added. “Often, the feeling of a scene is able to be depicted directly on paper.”An opening reception is planned for the artists from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20, at the library.The plein air group welcomes new members. For information, contact Greenhut at (650) 477-7085.
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While many painters find success in painting scenery like landscapes or seascapes from photographs, others wouldn’t paint anywhere but outdoors in the open air with the scenery right in front of them.That describes the Half Moon Bay Plein Air group paintings, an informal collective of about 10 Coastside oil painting artists who have been together since August. They meet twice weekly to paint -- and will have their first exhibit through February at the Half Moon Bay Library, at 620 Correas St. in Half Moon Bay.
About 18 paintings by members of the group, which includes Eric Greenhut, Eric Shapira, Jack McKinnon, Nancy Margulies, Rebecca Ellis, Patricia Madson, Chris Ridgway, Linda Bea Miller and more, will be on display, and some will be for sale. Plein air painter Jack McKinnon stands before selections in the art painting exhibit the of the new Half Moon Bay Plein Air group paintings, which will be on display through February at the Half Moon Bay Library. The group meets Wednesday mornings at various locations to paint, and again Thursday mornings at Peet’s Coffee to finish their paintings. They also help each other by sharing tips and techniques, said McKinnon. A self-taught artist who has painted for 30 years, he said he likes the camaraderie and the exchange of tips such as techniques for a watercolor wash that he picked up from fellow member Greenhut.I really enjoy painting outdoors, with other painters for support and technique,” he said. “I don’t understand how to do watercolor, and when you’re able to be outdoors painting with other people, it’s really helpful to see how (they) do it.”All the paintings will capture Coastside scenery like the mountains, the ocean, lighthouses or the Princeton harbor – created in natural light right on site.
Painting outdoors on site has advantages over indoors from a photo, said McKinnon. Light and color are key: When an oil painting artist is looking at the subject in natural, not artificial light, “you can see the true colors of a landscape. Light is absolutely paramount to getting the true colors.”Natural light also enhances the emotional tone of the paintings, he added. “Often, the feeling of a scene is able to be depicted directly on paper.”An opening reception is planned for the artists from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20, at the library.The plein air group welcomes new members. For information, contact Greenhut at (650) 477-7085.
Avian painting
Avian painting
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Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW, and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century” with author Randy Shaw at 6:30 p.m. at the YWCA Berkeley, 2600 Bancroft Way. Researching Chinese oil painting.American Ancestry” with Jeanie Low, author of “Chinese Connection: Finding Ancestral Roots for Chinese in America” at 7 p.m. El Cerrito Library, 6510 Stockton Ave., El Cerrito. 526-7512. UC Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum: Prediction Markets hosted by Lester Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at 6:30 p.m. at Abstract oil painting Andersen Auditorium, Haas School of Business, UC campus. Easy Does It Board of Directors’ Meeting at 6:30 p.m. at 1636 University Ave. 845-5513.East Bay Association for Women in Science Networking Meeting at 7 p.m., light supper at 6:30 p.m. at Novartis, Room 4.104, 4560 Horton St., Emeryville. Donation $5-$10. gt/event.h,event=1bfb0cc17e21 Baby & Toddler Storytime at 10:15 and 11:15 a.m. at Kensington Library, 61 Avian oil painting Ave. 524-3043.
Circle of Concern Vigil meets on Classicalism painting West Lawn of UC campus across from Addison and Oxford, Thurs. at noon and Sun. at 1 p.m. to oppose UC weapons labs contracts. 848-8055.Free Meditation Class at 7 p.m. at Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarians, 2nd flr., 1606 Bonita Ave. 931-7742. Three Beats for Nothing South Mostly ancient part music for fun and practice meets at 10 a.m. at the South Berkeley Senior Center, Ellis at Ashby. 655-8863. Fitness Class for 55+ at 9:15 a.m. at Jewish Community Center, 1414 Walnut St. 848-0237. World of Plants Tours Thurs., Sat. and Sun. at 1:30 p.m. at the UC Botanical Garden, 200 Centennial Drive. Cost is $5. 643-2755. FRIDAY, JAN. 23 City Commons Club Noon Luncheon with John King of the SFChronicle on “Innovative Architecture for Pleasure or Profit?” Luncheon at 11:45 a.m. for $14.50, speech at 12:30 p.m., at the Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant St. For information and reservations call 524-7468. Impression painting Albany Lions Club 42nd Annual Crab Feed at 5:30 p.m. at Albany Veterans Memorial Building, 1325 Portland Ave. Tickets $35 at the door or in advance. 418-6101. “Children of art painting. A documentary about a school for Palestine children, at 7 p.m. at Berkeley Friends Church. Sacramento at Cedar Sts. Discussion follows.
Youth Spirit Artworks Grand Opening for the new youth art studio at 4 p.m. at 1769 Alcatraz at Adeline. 282-0396. Berkeley Women in Black weekly vigil from noon to 1 p.m. at Bancroft and Telegraph. Our focus is human rights in Palestine. 548-6310.
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Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW, and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century” with author Randy Shaw at 6:30 p.m. at the YWCA Berkeley, 2600 Bancroft Way. Researching Chinese oil painting.American Ancestry” with Jeanie Low, author of “Chinese Connection: Finding Ancestral Roots for Chinese in America” at 7 p.m. El Cerrito Library, 6510 Stockton Ave., El Cerrito. 526-7512. UC Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum: Prediction Markets hosted by Lester Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at 6:30 p.m. at Abstract oil painting Andersen Auditorium, Haas School of Business, UC campus. Easy Does It Board of Directors’ Meeting at 6:30 p.m. at 1636 University Ave. 845-5513.East Bay Association for Women in Science Networking Meeting at 7 p.m., light supper at 6:30 p.m. at Novartis, Room 4.104, 4560 Horton St., Emeryville. Donation $5-$10. gt/event.h,event=1bfb0cc17e21 Baby & Toddler Storytime at 10:15 and 11:15 a.m. at Kensington Library, 61 Avian oil painting Ave. 524-3043.
Circle of Concern Vigil meets on Classicalism painting West Lawn of UC campus across from Addison and Oxford, Thurs. at noon and Sun. at 1 p.m. to oppose UC weapons labs contracts. 848-8055.Free Meditation Class at 7 p.m. at Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarians, 2nd flr., 1606 Bonita Ave. 931-7742. Three Beats for Nothing South Mostly ancient part music for fun and practice meets at 10 a.m. at the South Berkeley Senior Center, Ellis at Ashby. 655-8863. Fitness Class for 55+ at 9:15 a.m. at Jewish Community Center, 1414 Walnut St. 848-0237. World of Plants Tours Thurs., Sat. and Sun. at 1:30 p.m. at the UC Botanical Garden, 200 Centennial Drive. Cost is $5. 643-2755. FRIDAY, JAN. 23 City Commons Club Noon Luncheon with John King of the SFChronicle on “Innovative Architecture for Pleasure or Profit?” Luncheon at 11:45 a.m. for $14.50, speech at 12:30 p.m., at the Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant St. For information and reservations call 524-7468. Impression painting Albany Lions Club 42nd Annual Crab Feed at 5:30 p.m. at Albany Veterans Memorial Building, 1325 Portland Ave. Tickets $35 at the door or in advance. 418-6101. “Children of art painting. A documentary about a school for Palestine children, at 7 p.m. at Berkeley Friends Church. Sacramento at Cedar Sts. Discussion follows.
Youth Spirit Artworks Grand Opening for the new youth art studio at 4 p.m. at 1769 Alcatraz at Adeline. 282-0396. Berkeley Women in Black weekly vigil from noon to 1 p.m. at Bancroft and Telegraph. Our focus is human rights in Palestine. 548-6310.
Seascape painting
Seascape painting
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UPPER TOWNSHIP - Lance Balderson knows a little about rejection.The Seaville art painting instructor faced his share of disappointment during a career of juried exhibitions, gallery openings and art shows in which his work did not make the cut. It takes courage for an oil painting artist to present his best effort to a fickle public and discerning peers."It's like a puzzle coming together one piece at a time," he said of his career as an artist. "It happens so slowly. Some of my students are so talented, but they lose interest in it because success doesn't happen fast enough."At 67, Balderson is reaping the benefits of a career spent at the easel. The Philadelphia Museum of Art informed him last month it will add one of his works to its permanent collection.It is a rare honor for an artist worldwide, let alone for a painter from Cape May County.Balderson thought the letter from the museum was a solicitation for his membership dues. Instead, it was a notice that his 1995 abstract acrylic painting titled "Tryst" will adorn museum walls shared by Cezanne, Monet and Van Gogh. Balderson teaches painting at his Upper Township studio and is a fixture at arts centers in Atlantic City and Ocean City."To think my painting could be hanging in the same room as De Kooning or Rothko - it's mind-boggling," he said. "Twenty years from now, my grandkids can go there and say, 'That's Pop-Pop's seascape painting.'"
Balderson had a knack for art at Cheltenham High School in suburban Philadelphia, where he was named most artistic by his peers in the senior class yearbook. On a lark, he submitted a painting in Ocean City's Boardwalk Art Show in 1964.He won Best of Show."Someone encouraged me as a kid. It got my mind spinning: Maybe I can do this," he said.He spent an early career as an architect, designing office buildings and churches including St. Luke's in Glenside, Pa. Longtime Ocean City artist Jim Penland in 1964 advised him to quit his day job to work on his art painting . He took that advice, albeit 20 years later."It was frustrating. I worked at a big firm, so none of my work was recognized. The plaque always had the name of the partners," he said. "I just got a letter from a lady who bought a seascape painting years ago. She said she still looks at it every day and cherishes it. I never got any letters like that as an architect."Soon, his work appeared in galleries and shows across the country. But Balderson was not picky. His seascapes and abstract art adorned restaurants and taverns. He accepted commissions to paint tropical fish or landscape oil painting to suit his clients' tastes.One of his pieces hangs at City Hall in Atlantic City.But having a piece selected by a major metropolitan museum represents the height of achievement."I cannot tell you enough how thrilled we are to have this wonderful painting enter the permanent collection," Curator of Modern Art Michael Taylor wrote to Balderson in his acceptance letter.The painting was approved by a selection committee and the museum's board of trustees.
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UPPER TOWNSHIP - Lance Balderson knows a little about rejection.The Seaville art painting instructor faced his share of disappointment during a career of juried exhibitions, gallery openings and art shows in which his work did not make the cut. It takes courage for an oil painting artist to present his best effort to a fickle public and discerning peers."It's like a puzzle coming together one piece at a time," he said of his career as an artist. "It happens so slowly. Some of my students are so talented, but they lose interest in it because success doesn't happen fast enough."At 67, Balderson is reaping the benefits of a career spent at the easel. The Philadelphia Museum of Art informed him last month it will add one of his works to its permanent collection.It is a rare honor for an artist worldwide, let alone for a painter from Cape May County.Balderson thought the letter from the museum was a solicitation for his membership dues. Instead, it was a notice that his 1995 abstract acrylic painting titled "Tryst" will adorn museum walls shared by Cezanne, Monet and Van Gogh. Balderson teaches painting at his Upper Township studio and is a fixture at arts centers in Atlantic City and Ocean City."To think my painting could be hanging in the same room as De Kooning or Rothko - it's mind-boggling," he said. "Twenty years from now, my grandkids can go there and say, 'That's Pop-Pop's seascape painting.'"
Balderson had a knack for art at Cheltenham High School in suburban Philadelphia, where he was named most artistic by his peers in the senior class yearbook. On a lark, he submitted a painting in Ocean City's Boardwalk Art Show in 1964.He won Best of Show."Someone encouraged me as a kid. It got my mind spinning: Maybe I can do this," he said.He spent an early career as an architect, designing office buildings and churches including St. Luke's in Glenside, Pa. Longtime Ocean City artist Jim Penland in 1964 advised him to quit his day job to work on his art painting . He took that advice, albeit 20 years later."It was frustrating. I worked at a big firm, so none of my work was recognized. The plaque always had the name of the partners," he said. "I just got a letter from a lady who bought a seascape painting years ago. She said she still looks at it every day and cherishes it. I never got any letters like that as an architect."Soon, his work appeared in galleries and shows across the country. But Balderson was not picky. His seascapes and abstract art adorned restaurants and taverns. He accepted commissions to paint tropical fish or landscape oil painting to suit his clients' tastes.One of his pieces hangs at City Hall in Atlantic City.But having a piece selected by a major metropolitan museum represents the height of achievement."I cannot tell you enough how thrilled we are to have this wonderful painting enter the permanent collection," Curator of Modern Art Michael Taylor wrote to Balderson in his acceptance letter.The painting was approved by a selection committee and the museum's board of trustees.
linen canvas
linen canvas
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Fourteen paintings and drawings incorporating images of war and historical battles are on display at the Saginaw Valley State University Art Gallery.And all are the work of Matthew Zivich, a professor of art at the school. Zivich, 71, lives in Thomas Township."Recent Works From the Americana Series" remains on display through Saturday, Jan. 31 -- with a meet the artist reception running from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22.David A. Sommers The Saginaw News
Matthew Zivich, 71, of Thomas Township in front of two of his pieces on display at the "Matthew Zivich: Recent Works" exhibition from his Americana series at the Saginaw Valley State University Art Gallery. At left is Untitled, (Icarus), 2008 Acrylic about linen canvas at right is Flaps, 2004 Acrylic on linen. He is a professor at the school."Almost all of the imagery, with the exception of the oldest painting, 'Flaps,' (2004, an oil on linen), use war and battle imagery appropriated from various sites on the Internet," says Zivich of his creative process of cutting up and painting ."They are enlarged copies that have been downloaded, enlarged several times to the specific sizes of the respective canvases and then traced onto the linen canvas or drawing paper. David A. Sommers The Saginaw News,Flu-Like Symptoms, 2008, Acrylic on linen from the "Matthew Zivich: Recent Works" exhibition from his Americana series at the Saginaw Valley State University art painting Gallery."That's after the imagery goes through a process of cutting and splicing and photocoping yet another time (thus creating images, often abstract ones, far different from the orginals). This process saves a lot of time particularly for the necessary enlargements and accuracy of detail and proportion that is very much needed for my expressive purposes."
The pieces range in size from a 54-inch to 60-inch "basically bathtub caulk" linen canvas rendering of a battleship at sea to an 18-inch by 24-inch work created with tinted felt-tip pens and acrylic paint on canvas.Pen and ink, acrylic paint, mixed media and a wallpaper collage media also is reprsented in the show.The wars involved include the Mexican War, Civil War, World Wars I and II, "all the popular ones of our textbook past, particularly the ones that have had a lasting affect on our contemporary culture"And while they are ostensibly about U.S. history, figure painting they're really all about the paradox of surface versus illusion. Create an illusion then deny it."For example, caulk is a non-art medium that calls strong attention to the surface of the painting despite the illusion of a ship."David A. Sommers The Saginaw News.Untitled, (1905), 2007, Acrylic latex and tar caulk, shellac on linen canvas from the "Matthew Zivich: Recent Works" exhibition from his Americana series at the Saginaw Valley State University Art Gallery.Zivich also like to play mind games with viewers.
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Fourteen paintings and drawings incorporating images of war and historical battles are on display at the Saginaw Valley State University Art Gallery.And all are the work of Matthew Zivich, a professor of art at the school. Zivich, 71, lives in Thomas Township."Recent Works From the Americana Series" remains on display through Saturday, Jan. 31 -- with a meet the artist reception running from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22.David A. Sommers The Saginaw News
Matthew Zivich, 71, of Thomas Township in front of two of his pieces on display at the "Matthew Zivich: Recent Works" exhibition from his Americana series at the Saginaw Valley State University Art Gallery. At left is Untitled, (Icarus), 2008 Acrylic about linen canvas at right is Flaps, 2004 Acrylic on linen. He is a professor at the school."Almost all of the imagery, with the exception of the oldest painting, 'Flaps,' (2004, an oil on linen), use war and battle imagery appropriated from various sites on the Internet," says Zivich of his creative process of cutting up and painting ."They are enlarged copies that have been downloaded, enlarged several times to the specific sizes of the respective canvases and then traced onto the linen canvas or drawing paper. David A. Sommers The Saginaw News,Flu-Like Symptoms, 2008, Acrylic on linen from the "Matthew Zivich: Recent Works" exhibition from his Americana series at the Saginaw Valley State University art painting Gallery."That's after the imagery goes through a process of cutting and splicing and photocoping yet another time (thus creating images, often abstract ones, far different from the orginals). This process saves a lot of time particularly for the necessary enlargements and accuracy of detail and proportion that is very much needed for my expressive purposes."
The pieces range in size from a 54-inch to 60-inch "basically bathtub caulk" linen canvas rendering of a battleship at sea to an 18-inch by 24-inch work created with tinted felt-tip pens and acrylic paint on canvas.Pen and ink, acrylic paint, mixed media and a wallpaper collage media also is reprsented in the show.The wars involved include the Mexican War, Civil War, World Wars I and II, "all the popular ones of our textbook past, particularly the ones that have had a lasting affect on our contemporary culture"And while they are ostensibly about U.S. history, figure painting they're really all about the paradox of surface versus illusion. Create an illusion then deny it."For example, caulk is a non-art medium that calls strong attention to the surface of the painting despite the illusion of a ship."David A. Sommers The Saginaw News.Untitled, (1905), 2007, Acrylic latex and tar caulk, shellac on linen canvas from the "Matthew Zivich: Recent Works" exhibition from his Americana series at the Saginaw Valley State University Art Gallery.Zivich also like to play mind games with viewers.
2009年2月10日星期二
Still life oil painting
Still life oil painting
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The conversation pieces are actually worth talking about. Hannah Fink's oversized shoe sculpture is delightfully distressed, a crumpled, crinkled canoe for a giant's foot. Bruce Niedzwiecki's ''Joy to the World'' is a funky, feisty combination of storybook throne and political funhouse. On one side is a frog; on the other, a portrait oil painting of a sullen Barack Obama in a frog-eye mirror.Several artists deftly rearrange diverse worlds. Kenneth Kaplowitz's pigment prints are cunningly detailed, sophisticated cartoons of disembodied characters writing, kissing and designing a leaning tower. William Tersteeg's raku vase features a paneled landscape oil painting, a starry top and a strong resemblance to a miniature Japanese-Indian pavilion.
There's a lot of elegant humor, a difficult trick. A choice example is Brad Browne's gently eavesdropping gelatin-silver photograph of nine Amish women lunching on a hill above a cow pasture. Selenium toning highlights the different colors of the otherwise identical clothes, separating the women from the herd.Even the novelties are pretty novel. A portrait oil painting by Christian Faur is composed of tiny crayon heads that mimic tracer lights on a marquee. Seen from the diagonal, it becomes a pointillist photo.One surprise is that a good third of the 65 objects are textiles or textile mirages. The high percentage somehow makes sense in a museum that specializes in fabric pieces. Even better, all the works chosen by guest curators Chakaia Booker, James Carroll and Michiko Okaya are valuable in one way or art painting. Especially compelling is Charles Swanson's ''Destruction,'' a ripped flag made of barbed wire and shattered glass.
The biggest surprise is Ann Bandami's ''Fantasia in E Flat,'' an Old Masterish still life oil painting starring a rolled-up music score, a violin and a ghostly bowl of fruit. The juried show is typically too hip for such a radically traditional oil; indeed, it would be more welcome in the museum's Kress Collection of early European paintings. Unless, of course, you think that that ribbon-tied score could be mistaken for a fat, fancy doobie. Juried show, through April 26, Allentown Art Museum, Fifth and Court streets, Allentown. Hours: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m. Sunday. 610-432-4333,.PLAYGROUND FOR A WILD CHILD. Figure oil painting wyeth was arguably the wildest of her family's wild children. She often loved animals better than humans, and dogs better than her art works. Her father, N.C., built her a studio onto his, then watched in exasperation as she ignored his advice to build paintings with drawings. His daughter, he insisted, was ''an enthusiast, anarchist, pugilist -- and angel all in one.''A solo exhibit at the Brandywine River Museum confirms Wyeth (1909-1994) as the family chameleon. She could be a modernist, painting an old apple tree with cracked, glazed ceramic bark. She could be a surrealist, painting a metaphysical still life oil painting with a copy of Keats' death mask.
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The conversation pieces are actually worth talking about. Hannah Fink's oversized shoe sculpture is delightfully distressed, a crumpled, crinkled canoe for a giant's foot. Bruce Niedzwiecki's ''Joy to the World'' is a funky, feisty combination of storybook throne and political funhouse. On one side is a frog; on the other, a portrait oil painting of a sullen Barack Obama in a frog-eye mirror.Several artists deftly rearrange diverse worlds. Kenneth Kaplowitz's pigment prints are cunningly detailed, sophisticated cartoons of disembodied characters writing, kissing and designing a leaning tower. William Tersteeg's raku vase features a paneled landscape oil painting, a starry top and a strong resemblance to a miniature Japanese-Indian pavilion.
There's a lot of elegant humor, a difficult trick. A choice example is Brad Browne's gently eavesdropping gelatin-silver photograph of nine Amish women lunching on a hill above a cow pasture. Selenium toning highlights the different colors of the otherwise identical clothes, separating the women from the herd.Even the novelties are pretty novel. A portrait oil painting by Christian Faur is composed of tiny crayon heads that mimic tracer lights on a marquee. Seen from the diagonal, it becomes a pointillist photo.One surprise is that a good third of the 65 objects are textiles or textile mirages. The high percentage somehow makes sense in a museum that specializes in fabric pieces. Even better, all the works chosen by guest curators Chakaia Booker, James Carroll and Michiko Okaya are valuable in one way or art painting. Especially compelling is Charles Swanson's ''Destruction,'' a ripped flag made of barbed wire and shattered glass.
The biggest surprise is Ann Bandami's ''Fantasia in E Flat,'' an Old Masterish still life oil painting starring a rolled-up music score, a violin and a ghostly bowl of fruit. The juried show is typically too hip for such a radically traditional oil; indeed, it would be more welcome in the museum's Kress Collection of early European paintings. Unless, of course, you think that that ribbon-tied score could be mistaken for a fat, fancy doobie. Juried show, through April 26, Allentown Art Museum, Fifth and Court streets, Allentown. Hours: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m. Sunday. 610-432-4333,.PLAYGROUND FOR A WILD CHILD. Figure oil painting wyeth was arguably the wildest of her family's wild children. She often loved animals better than humans, and dogs better than her art works. Her father, N.C., built her a studio onto his, then watched in exasperation as she ignored his advice to build paintings with drawings. His daughter, he insisted, was ''an enthusiast, anarchist, pugilist -- and angel all in one.''A solo exhibit at the Brandywine River Museum confirms Wyeth (1909-1994) as the family chameleon. She could be a modernist, painting an old apple tree with cracked, glazed ceramic bark. She could be a surrealist, painting a metaphysical still life oil painting with a copy of Keats' death mask.
Modern oil painting
Modern oil painting
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LONDON.- Tonight’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale at Sotheby’s London saw 25 of the 27 works offered sell, realising a total of £17,879,250 ($25,785,250) within the estimate of £16.5-23.1 million. More than 200 clients registered to bid in the auction, which was 92.6% sold by lot – one of the highest ever achieved for a February sale in this category at Sotheby’s – and 90.7% sold by value. The sale established a new auction record for a Venezia series painting by Italy’s foremost Post-War oil painting artist Lucio Fontana, and witnessed three works sold for over £1 million, seven for over $1 million.
Discussing the results of the auction, Cheyenne Westphal, Chairman Contemporary Art Europe, said: “We are thrilled with the very positive results of this evening’s auction - the first test of this market in 2009 - which demonstrate the confidence in today’s adjusted but clearly functioning market. Our strategy of curating a sale of high-quality works, fresh to the market with exceptional provenance resulted in a sell-through rate of 92.6% - one of the highest ever achieved for a February sale of Contemporary Art. The prices established for Fontana, Richter and Koons show that the market continues to respond with enthusiasm to rarity and quality.”
Oliver Barker, Senior International Specialist, Contemporary Art, continued: “Bidding was measured in tonight’s sale which shows the level of connoisseurship in today’s market place. There were multiple bids on most lots, which came from all over the world, including Europe, the US, Asia and the Middle East. ”
Auction Highlights:
The top-selling lot of tonight’s sale was the rediscovered painting Concetto Spaziale of 1961 by Italy’s foremost Contemporary oil painting artist Lucio Fontana. The painting, which had never before appeared at auction and had remained hidden from public view for almost 50 years, saw three bidders – two on the telephone and one in the saleroom – compete for this sublime work before it sold to a private European buyer for £4,409,250 ($6,359,020), against an estimate of £5-7 million. The price realised established a new auction record for a Venezia series painting by the artist and represents the fourth highest price paid for any work by Lucio Fontana at auction.
Concetto Spaziale of 1961 belongs to the artist’s celebrated Venezia cycle of 22 paintings from 1961 and is one of the most effectively conceived and executed modern oil paintings in the series. This masterpiece of 20th-century European abstract painting, measuring 150 by 150 cm (59 by 59 inches), was acquired directly from the artist in the 1960s and has resided in the same private collection for over 45 years.£550,000-750,000 and his acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas Mick Jagger, executed circa 1975, sold for £892,450/$1,149,794 (estimate: £500,000-700,000).
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LONDON.- Tonight’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale at Sotheby’s London saw 25 of the 27 works offered sell, realising a total of £17,879,250 ($25,785,250) within the estimate of £16.5-23.1 million. More than 200 clients registered to bid in the auction, which was 92.6% sold by lot – one of the highest ever achieved for a February sale in this category at Sotheby’s – and 90.7% sold by value. The sale established a new auction record for a Venezia series painting by Italy’s foremost Post-War oil painting artist Lucio Fontana, and witnessed three works sold for over £1 million, seven for over $1 million.
Discussing the results of the auction, Cheyenne Westphal, Chairman Contemporary Art Europe, said: “We are thrilled with the very positive results of this evening’s auction - the first test of this market in 2009 - which demonstrate the confidence in today’s adjusted but clearly functioning market. Our strategy of curating a sale of high-quality works, fresh to the market with exceptional provenance resulted in a sell-through rate of 92.6% - one of the highest ever achieved for a February sale of Contemporary Art. The prices established for Fontana, Richter and Koons show that the market continues to respond with enthusiasm to rarity and quality.”
Oliver Barker, Senior International Specialist, Contemporary Art, continued: “Bidding was measured in tonight’s sale which shows the level of connoisseurship in today’s market place. There were multiple bids on most lots, which came from all over the world, including Europe, the US, Asia and the Middle East. ”
Auction Highlights:
The top-selling lot of tonight’s sale was the rediscovered painting Concetto Spaziale of 1961 by Italy’s foremost Contemporary oil painting artist Lucio Fontana. The painting, which had never before appeared at auction and had remained hidden from public view for almost 50 years, saw three bidders – two on the telephone and one in the saleroom – compete for this sublime work before it sold to a private European buyer for £4,409,250 ($6,359,020), against an estimate of £5-7 million. The price realised established a new auction record for a Venezia series painting by the artist and represents the fourth highest price paid for any work by Lucio Fontana at auction.
Concetto Spaziale of 1961 belongs to the artist’s celebrated Venezia cycle of 22 paintings from 1961 and is one of the most effectively conceived and executed modern oil paintings in the series. This masterpiece of 20th-century European abstract painting, measuring 150 by 150 cm (59 by 59 inches), was acquired directly from the artist in the 1960s and has resided in the same private collection for over 45 years.£550,000-750,000 and his acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas Mick Jagger, executed circa 1975, sold for £892,450/$1,149,794 (estimate: £500,000-700,000).
2009年2月9日星期一
chinese oil painting
chinese oil painting
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The focus of today's lesson is tree branches. The students of James Chen's Chinese oil painting class at the Baldwin Park Julia McNeill Senior Center have already learned how to hold their brushes and create the correct strokes with ink on rice paper.
Now they're learning how to reproduce the work of masters from a tradition that spans millennia. Students lean in to Chen as he explains what kind of brushes and strokes they can use to copy a landscape of pines against a background of mountains whose watercolors bleed into a hazy background. One day, Chen said, they will learn how to create their own original compositions - Chen teaches students of all levels here from West Covina, Arcadia and even LAX here in Baldwin Park and also at adult schools in Rosemead-El Monte and Cerritos - but for right now, these students are learning the basics.
One of Chen's students Le Nakashima, of Walnut, is already learning one of the tricky parts of her brush painting. Nakashima took oil painting classes, where it was easier to blur, smudge or repaint a mistake. But in brush painting, she said even if you paint over a flaw, the relief of the flawed stroke still shows. Chinese oil painting is a slow, painstaking art - and that's part of the attraction. Nakashima, for one, said she started taking classes from Chen just to have the pleasure of still. Life painting. She said she likes it because it allows her to carve out time in Advertisement her life to do something quiet - away from her family. When her 16-year-old asks her to do something, she enjoys being able to tell him, "Wait a second, Mom has homework to do." Chao Li also enjoys painting as a sort of retreat. "When you're painting, you forget everything that troubles you," Li said. Li, a retired civil engineer, said he's always been interested in Chinese painting, but it wasn't until retirement that he finally had the chance.
It's a story you'll hear over and over again in Chinese oil painting classes. Chen's classes are full of students who spent their lives in technical, mathematic fields.
"I teach lots of doctors," Chen said. Chen's story isn't too different. He attended the Tatung Institute of Technology in Taiwan and worked in the computer industry his whole life. Now that he's retired, he's been able to devote himself wholeheartedly to a lifelong hobby. But as much as it's about relaxing and spending time alone, his painting students come away with a tangible product.
Chen said that one of the main features that differentiates this tradition from a realistic Western tradition is that Chinese art isn't too concerned with the way something looks in real life, but the meaning it conveys.
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The focus of today's lesson is tree branches. The students of James Chen's Chinese oil painting class at the Baldwin Park Julia McNeill Senior Center have already learned how to hold their brushes and create the correct strokes with ink on rice paper.
Now they're learning how to reproduce the work of masters from a tradition that spans millennia. Students lean in to Chen as he explains what kind of brushes and strokes they can use to copy a landscape of pines against a background of mountains whose watercolors bleed into a hazy background. One day, Chen said, they will learn how to create their own original compositions - Chen teaches students of all levels here from West Covina, Arcadia and even LAX here in Baldwin Park and also at adult schools in Rosemead-El Monte and Cerritos - but for right now, these students are learning the basics.
One of Chen's students Le Nakashima, of Walnut, is already learning one of the tricky parts of her brush painting. Nakashima took oil painting classes, where it was easier to blur, smudge or repaint a mistake. But in brush painting, she said even if you paint over a flaw, the relief of the flawed stroke still shows. Chinese oil painting is a slow, painstaking art - and that's part of the attraction. Nakashima, for one, said she started taking classes from Chen just to have the pleasure of still. Life painting. She said she likes it because it allows her to carve out time in Advertisement her life to do something quiet - away from her family. When her 16-year-old asks her to do something, she enjoys being able to tell him, "Wait a second, Mom has homework to do." Chao Li also enjoys painting as a sort of retreat. "When you're painting, you forget everything that troubles you," Li said. Li, a retired civil engineer, said he's always been interested in Chinese painting, but it wasn't until retirement that he finally had the chance.
It's a story you'll hear over and over again in Chinese oil painting classes. Chen's classes are full of students who spent their lives in technical, mathematic fields.
"I teach lots of doctors," Chen said. Chen's story isn't too different. He attended the Tatung Institute of Technology in Taiwan and worked in the computer industry his whole life. Now that he's retired, he's been able to devote himself wholeheartedly to a lifelong hobby. But as much as it's about relaxing and spending time alone, his painting students come away with a tangible product.
Chen said that one of the main features that differentiates this tradition from a realistic Western tradition is that Chinese art isn't too concerned with the way something looks in real life, but the meaning it conveys.
Figure painting
Figure painting
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He's adamant throughout his career that his work is not political and does not speak to
political events, but 'The White Crucifixion' absolutely is a reaction to Kristallnacht and the fact the people are not paying attention to what is going on in Germany," said Miranda Hofelt, a Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago who will speak Thursday on Chagall for the Fine Seascape oil painting Society of Peoria. "If you look at the symbolism that is used in the iconography of that painting, he very much says, 'Christ was a Jew.' You have this attempt to show that all peoples are interconnected and that Christians and Jews are part of one entity and one community. Again, he's this kind of unifier." figure painting as unifier, as reconciler, as mediator - this is part of the fascination of Chagall, the man from the margins, culturally and geographically. Born in 1887 in Vitebsk in far western Russia near the Polish border, Chagall grew up singing in the synagogue, reading the Bible and absorbing the ideas of the Hasidism, a Jewish sectarian movement that stressed feeling and mysticism instead of what it saw as arid rationality.
"The core belief in Hasidic Judaism is that it is only through joy and celebration that you can ignite the spark within you that links you to God, that enables you to have a connection to both God and your community," Hofelt said. "That celebratory spirit, that search for joy, for wonderment, is the core element of Chagall's work. The central question for Chagall is, 'How do I visualize joy and love?' "Hence the exuberance of so much of Chagall's work, where lyricism replaces conventional, visual logic and where musicians, lovers, animal oil painting and other objects and figures float, apparently at random. Yet, Chagall always maintained that his work was the opposite of fanciful. "I am against the terms 'fantasy' and 'symbolism,' " he wrote. "Our whole inner world is reality - perhaps even more real than the apparent world."Exuberance and joy are capacious and embracing. When Chagall moved to France and became part of the fabled School of Paris in 1910, he naturally fell into the role of a synthesizer, receiving group painting from the two rival artistic camps of the day: Henri Matisse and the Fauve movement on one side, Pablo Picasso and the Cubists on the other.
Chagall's ability to mix, match and come up with something new - as well as his Jewishness - put him at odds with those who favored "pure" French Nude painting. Today, Chagall's cosmopolitan, joyful openness to all things makes him a 20th century artist worth revisiting and contemplating once more."I'm fascinated with this idea of cross-cultural exchange and how this really fosters incredibly human Impression painting," Hofelt said. "Chagall is part of that. He is a person who leaves Bylorussia, who lives in Paris, who lives also in the United States for a while, who has an incredible community of friends who are from all different cultures - and he kind of Birds painting that together in his artwork. He takes a piece of everything, and creates these incredibly hopeful statements about humanity."
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He's adamant throughout his career that his work is not political and does not speak to
political events, but 'The White Crucifixion' absolutely is a reaction to Kristallnacht and the fact the people are not paying attention to what is going on in Germany," said Miranda Hofelt, a Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago who will speak Thursday on Chagall for the Fine Seascape oil painting Society of Peoria. "If you look at the symbolism that is used in the iconography of that painting, he very much says, 'Christ was a Jew.' You have this attempt to show that all peoples are interconnected and that Christians and Jews are part of one entity and one community. Again, he's this kind of unifier." figure painting as unifier, as reconciler, as mediator - this is part of the fascination of Chagall, the man from the margins, culturally and geographically. Born in 1887 in Vitebsk in far western Russia near the Polish border, Chagall grew up singing in the synagogue, reading the Bible and absorbing the ideas of the Hasidism, a Jewish sectarian movement that stressed feeling and mysticism instead of what it saw as arid rationality.
"The core belief in Hasidic Judaism is that it is only through joy and celebration that you can ignite the spark within you that links you to God, that enables you to have a connection to both God and your community," Hofelt said. "That celebratory spirit, that search for joy, for wonderment, is the core element of Chagall's work. The central question for Chagall is, 'How do I visualize joy and love?' "Hence the exuberance of so much of Chagall's work, where lyricism replaces conventional, visual logic and where musicians, lovers, animal oil painting and other objects and figures float, apparently at random. Yet, Chagall always maintained that his work was the opposite of fanciful. "I am against the terms 'fantasy' and 'symbolism,' " he wrote. "Our whole inner world is reality - perhaps even more real than the apparent world."Exuberance and joy are capacious and embracing. When Chagall moved to France and became part of the fabled School of Paris in 1910, he naturally fell into the role of a synthesizer, receiving group painting from the two rival artistic camps of the day: Henri Matisse and the Fauve movement on one side, Pablo Picasso and the Cubists on the other.
Chagall's ability to mix, match and come up with something new - as well as his Jewishness - put him at odds with those who favored "pure" French Nude painting. Today, Chagall's cosmopolitan, joyful openness to all things makes him a 20th century artist worth revisiting and contemplating once more."I'm fascinated with this idea of cross-cultural exchange and how this really fosters incredibly human Impression painting," Hofelt said. "Chagall is part of that. He is a person who leaves Bylorussia, who lives in Paris, who lives also in the United States for a while, who has an incredible community of friends who are from all different cultures - and he kind of Birds painting that together in his artwork. He takes a piece of everything, and creates these incredibly hopeful statements about humanity."
2009年2月8日星期日
oil painting for sale
oil painting for sale
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Tucson Bead Show — Doubletree Tucson Reid Park, 445 S. Alvernon Way. Exhibitors will display art jewelry, glass-bead making, gold and silversmithing, Talks about oil painting for sale, lapidary, textiles, glass arts, ceramics, metalwork, antiquities, clay arts, handmade oil painting, bead and jewelry trade supplies and interior décor. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Feb. 8-9. Free. 1-530-274-2222. Garden Railway — Tucson Botanical Gardens, 2150 N. Alvernon Way. The garden railway chugs and whistles around a miniature train town. Call ahead to make sure train is running. All ages. 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. daily through April 8. Included with TBG admission; $7; discounts available. 326-9686, Ext. 10. Home Depot Clinics — Stores offer free in-store home and garden clinics. "Paint Like a Pro" 10 a.m., "How to Lay Tile" 11 a.m., "Small Bath Updates" 1 p.m. Saturdays; "Install Interior Lighting" 1 p.m. Sundays, all in the month of February. Locations: El Con, 3689 E. Broadway (327-3050); 7677 E. Broadway (722-6171); 4302 N. Oracle Road (408-7201); 1155 W. Irvington Road (294-1233); 3925 W. Costco Drive (575-8750); and 10855 N. Oracle Road (877-3533). Butterfly Magic — Tucson Botanical Gardens, 2150 N. Alvernon Way. Hundreds of beautiful tropical butterflies from all over the world fill the greenhouse. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. daily through March, Oil painting tracing $11; discounts available. 326-9686, Ext. 10. Tuesday ,Home Seller's Workshop — Long Realty Co., 6410 E. Tanque Verde Road. Interactive workshop offers strategies and ideas (staging) for selling homes in this market. Call Winnie for reservations. 6-7 p.m. Feb. 10. Free. 331-1086. Plant and Birds oil painting Walk in Sabino Canyon — Sabino Canyon, 5700 N. Sabino Canyon Road. Volunteer naturalists lead a walk into Sabino Canyon to learn about plants and birds and the unique flora and fauna. Wear sturdy shoes and bring water. 8:30-11:30 a.m. Tuesdays through April 28. Free activity; $5 to enter park. 749-8700, Ext. 0.
Behind the Scenes of Butterfly Magic — Tucson Botanical Gardens, 2150 N. Alvernon Way. Participants get hands-on experience from the curators/staff in the emergence room and the flight exhibit. Learn about sources of these Portrait paintings, how they are fed and cared for, and the impact that this exhibit has on the tropical rainforests, where these butterflies start their lives. All ages. 9:30-10 a.m. Tuesdays through March. $20 includes admission to butterfly exhibit; discounts available. 326-9686, Ext. 10.
Wednesday,Watersmart Workshops — University of Arizona-Pima County Cooperative Extension, 4210 N. Campbell Ave. Desert Rain Gardens, 9-11 a.m. Scott Calhoun discusses Harvesting Rainwater for Landscape oil painting Use. Learn how to use natural rainfall to offset irrigation, resulting in water conservation and lower water bills. Reservations recommended. Noon-2 p.m. Feb. 11. Free. 626-5161.
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Tucson Bead Show — Doubletree Tucson Reid Park, 445 S. Alvernon Way. Exhibitors will display art jewelry, glass-bead making, gold and silversmithing, Talks about oil painting for sale, lapidary, textiles, glass arts, ceramics, metalwork, antiquities, clay arts, handmade oil painting, bead and jewelry trade supplies and interior décor. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Feb. 8-9. Free. 1-530-274-2222. Garden Railway — Tucson Botanical Gardens, 2150 N. Alvernon Way. The garden railway chugs and whistles around a miniature train town. Call ahead to make sure train is running. All ages. 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. daily through April 8. Included with TBG admission; $7; discounts available. 326-9686, Ext. 10. Home Depot Clinics — Stores offer free in-store home and garden clinics. "Paint Like a Pro" 10 a.m., "How to Lay Tile" 11 a.m., "Small Bath Updates" 1 p.m. Saturdays; "Install Interior Lighting" 1 p.m. Sundays, all in the month of February. Locations: El Con, 3689 E. Broadway (327-3050); 7677 E. Broadway (722-6171); 4302 N. Oracle Road (408-7201); 1155 W. Irvington Road (294-1233); 3925 W. Costco Drive (575-8750); and 10855 N. Oracle Road (877-3533). Butterfly Magic — Tucson Botanical Gardens, 2150 N. Alvernon Way. Hundreds of beautiful tropical butterflies from all over the world fill the greenhouse. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. daily through March, Oil painting tracing $11; discounts available. 326-9686, Ext. 10. Tuesday ,Home Seller's Workshop — Long Realty Co., 6410 E. Tanque Verde Road. Interactive workshop offers strategies and ideas (staging) for selling homes in this market. Call Winnie for reservations. 6-7 p.m. Feb. 10. Free. 331-1086. Plant and Birds oil painting Walk in Sabino Canyon — Sabino Canyon, 5700 N. Sabino Canyon Road. Volunteer naturalists lead a walk into Sabino Canyon to learn about plants and birds and the unique flora and fauna. Wear sturdy shoes and bring water. 8:30-11:30 a.m. Tuesdays through April 28. Free activity; $5 to enter park. 749-8700, Ext. 0.
Behind the Scenes of Butterfly Magic — Tucson Botanical Gardens, 2150 N. Alvernon Way. Participants get hands-on experience from the curators/staff in the emergence room and the flight exhibit. Learn about sources of these Portrait paintings, how they are fed and cared for, and the impact that this exhibit has on the tropical rainforests, where these butterflies start their lives. All ages. 9:30-10 a.m. Tuesdays through March. $20 includes admission to butterfly exhibit; discounts available. 326-9686, Ext. 10.
Wednesday,Watersmart Workshops — University of Arizona-Pima County Cooperative Extension, 4210 N. Campbell Ave. Desert Rain Gardens, 9-11 a.m. Scott Calhoun discusses Harvesting Rainwater for Landscape oil painting Use. Learn how to use natural rainfall to offset irrigation, resulting in water conservation and lower water bills. Reservations recommended. Noon-2 p.m. Feb. 11. Free. 626-5161.
Flower painting
Flower painting
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On the occasion of her recent exhibit Ellen Phelan Still Life painting at Texas Gallery, which was on view from December 11, 2008 to January 24, 2009, Rail Publisher Phong Bui paid a visit to the painter’s Upper East Side home to talk about her life and work. (The traveling retrospective, Ellen Phelan: Theme and Variations, 1972-2009, organized by MaLin Wilson Powell for the McNay Museum in San Antonio, will open in the summer of 2010.)"Susie on Green Chair," 2007. Oil painting on linen, 40 3/4" × 60". Courtesy of the oil painting artist archives.Phong Bui (Rail): Let’s begin with your upbringing. What sort of family do you come from and how supportive were your parents when you decided to be an artist?
Ellen Phelan: Well, that’s already a novel. [Laughter.] My father was born in 1905.
My mother was born in 1913. And they both had very tough lives growing up. My
father grew up in Canada, the oldest of three boys. He was sent to seminary to
become a priest but ended up with bad rheumatic fever so they sent him home—flower painting still very beautiful, height 90 cms. He was 6’4”. His father was an engineer on the Canadian Pacific Railroad and also a big binge drinker. He got badly burned, supposedly due to a boiler accident. All of a sudden my painfully thin, sickly 19-year-old father was expected to be the breadwinner for the family. He went to Detroit—this would have been in the twenties—and gets a job dealing black jack at a club owned by the Purple Gang. (These were Jewish gangsters then in Detroit.) .He was involved with various mob related activities of a gambling nature and eventually became a book-maker—sports betting—mostly horses. (He was very good with math.)My mother went into nurse’s training at age 16 and her brother joined the Army at age 15. The stepmother signed papers stating that he was 18. As I understand the story, she took her nurse’s uniform to the dry cleaner one day and that happened to be the front for my father’s bookie operation. That was how they met. “Meeting cute” as they say in Hollywood. I must say that they were an attractive couple, had a lot of style. They loved to dance, loved music—swing—and went to nightclubs regularly.
After my brother and I were born, my mother eventually made my father “go straight.” He became a real estate salesman of group painting, very personable guy, but he always owned horses. I grew up at the racetrack. We moved to Ferndale when I was four—first suburb north of the Detroit city line. That’s where I grew up.
Rail: That must have been in the late forties when the suburban population in North America exploded after WWII.Phelan: Exactly.Rail: Do you remember when you first began to draw? abstract oil painting phelan: All kids draw but most stop by age 10 or 11—get self-critical, inhibited. But I never stopped. My father was particularly supportive of what I was doing, partly because he was interested enough in Drawing from nature .
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On the occasion of her recent exhibit Ellen Phelan Still Life painting at Texas Gallery, which was on view from December 11, 2008 to January 24, 2009, Rail Publisher Phong Bui paid a visit to the painter’s Upper East Side home to talk about her life and work. (The traveling retrospective, Ellen Phelan: Theme and Variations, 1972-2009, organized by MaLin Wilson Powell for the McNay Museum in San Antonio, will open in the summer of 2010.)"Susie on Green Chair," 2007. Oil painting on linen, 40 3/4" × 60". Courtesy of the oil painting artist archives.Phong Bui (Rail): Let’s begin with your upbringing. What sort of family do you come from and how supportive were your parents when you decided to be an artist?
Ellen Phelan: Well, that’s already a novel. [Laughter.] My father was born in 1905.
My mother was born in 1913. And they both had very tough lives growing up. My
father grew up in Canada, the oldest of three boys. He was sent to seminary to
become a priest but ended up with bad rheumatic fever so they sent him home—flower painting still very beautiful, height 90 cms. He was 6’4”. His father was an engineer on the Canadian Pacific Railroad and also a big binge drinker. He got badly burned, supposedly due to a boiler accident. All of a sudden my painfully thin, sickly 19-year-old father was expected to be the breadwinner for the family. He went to Detroit—this would have been in the twenties—and gets a job dealing black jack at a club owned by the Purple Gang. (These were Jewish gangsters then in Detroit.) .He was involved with various mob related activities of a gambling nature and eventually became a book-maker—sports betting—mostly horses. (He was very good with math.)My mother went into nurse’s training at age 16 and her brother joined the Army at age 15. The stepmother signed papers stating that he was 18. As I understand the story, she took her nurse’s uniform to the dry cleaner one day and that happened to be the front for my father’s bookie operation. That was how they met. “Meeting cute” as they say in Hollywood. I must say that they were an attractive couple, had a lot of style. They loved to dance, loved music—swing—and went to nightclubs regularly.
After my brother and I were born, my mother eventually made my father “go straight.” He became a real estate salesman of group painting, very personable guy, but he always owned horses. I grew up at the racetrack. We moved to Ferndale when I was four—first suburb north of the Detroit city line. That’s where I grew up.
Rail: That must have been in the late forties when the suburban population in North America exploded after WWII.Phelan: Exactly.Rail: Do you remember when you first began to draw? abstract oil painting phelan: All kids draw but most stop by age 10 or 11—get self-critical, inhibited. But I never stopped. My father was particularly supportive of what I was doing, partly because he was interested enough in Drawing from nature .
2009年2月6日星期五
Classical oil painting
Classical oil painting
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Color is by far the most prominent aspect of Guffogg current paintings, which can be expressed as an equation whereby the raw power of color is contained by the strength of pattern (as determined by its clarity and intensity).While this is an accurate analysis it doesn get at the essence of the work. The paintings in this show project the primal force and coherent intelligence of nature consciously experienced as an integrated whole. From another perspective there is a decidedly sensual side to Guffogg work, but it is never merely carnal, nor merely a decorative carnival of color policed by pattern. The interwoven elements are too well organized and spontaneous to be either riotous or rigid. His works, like nature, are so consistently well integrated as to constitute a complete reality in and of themselves, and it is ultimately this integrity rather than color that most deeply involves the viewer. Guffogg imagery exists within the classical oil painting Western illusion of three dimensional space as opposed to being presented primarily on the surface of the painting which the critic and champion of abstract oil painting . Clement Greenberg, referred to as the icture plane.?Guffogg counter to the flatness of abstract expressionism presents an ironic wrinkle, as he is fully committed to abstraction. To the same ironic effect, Guffogg further invokes classical Western realism through his use of multiple layers of oil and glaze (sixty or more in some works) and with his prodigious use of light, which is a reference to Rembrandt.
Guffogg painting also employs a modernist vocabulary in addition to his fundamentally abstract orientation. This can be seen in irregular linearity related to the automatic writing of surrealist Andre Breton and abstract expressionists Jackson Pollock and Robert Motherwell among others. Guffogg use of strong color is specifically inspired by Matisse, whose use of then shockingly intense color in the earliest years of the 20th century helped to define modern art; colors Matisse later combined with patterns drawn from Islamic art . The point of the forgoing discussion of influences is to demonstrate how Guffogg has integrated seemingly disparate art historical elements into a single, unified expression as regards the practice of painting. This self-titled exhibition, Communion, is best summarized in the artist own words:? The background, middle distance and foreground in these pictures are seen simultaneously, like looking down to the bottom of a pond as the light reflects off the ripples on the surface. These paintings are meant to be contemplative ?to be looked at and through - revealing the relationships between the various planes, painterly movements, textures and colors. They are intended as a visual tapestry that explores the interconnectedness of all things.
Works by Shane Guffogg are in the permanent collections of the Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Duke University Museum of Art, Laguna Art Museum.
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Color is by far the most prominent aspect of Guffogg current paintings, which can be expressed as an equation whereby the raw power of color is contained by the strength of pattern (as determined by its clarity and intensity).While this is an accurate analysis it doesn get at the essence of the work. The paintings in this show project the primal force and coherent intelligence of nature consciously experienced as an integrated whole. From another perspective there is a decidedly sensual side to Guffogg work, but it is never merely carnal, nor merely a decorative carnival of color policed by pattern. The interwoven elements are too well organized and spontaneous to be either riotous or rigid. His works, like nature, are so consistently well integrated as to constitute a complete reality in and of themselves, and it is ultimately this integrity rather than color that most deeply involves the viewer. Guffogg imagery exists within the classical oil painting Western illusion of three dimensional space as opposed to being presented primarily on the surface of the painting which the critic and champion of abstract oil painting . Clement Greenberg, referred to as the icture plane.?Guffogg counter to the flatness of abstract expressionism presents an ironic wrinkle, as he is fully committed to abstraction. To the same ironic effect, Guffogg further invokes classical Western realism through his use of multiple layers of oil and glaze (sixty or more in some works) and with his prodigious use of light, which is a reference to Rembrandt.
Guffogg painting also employs a modernist vocabulary in addition to his fundamentally abstract orientation. This can be seen in irregular linearity related to the automatic writing of surrealist Andre Breton and abstract expressionists Jackson Pollock and Robert Motherwell among others. Guffogg use of strong color is specifically inspired by Matisse, whose use of then shockingly intense color in the earliest years of the 20th century helped to define modern art; colors Matisse later combined with patterns drawn from Islamic art . The point of the forgoing discussion of influences is to demonstrate how Guffogg has integrated seemingly disparate art historical elements into a single, unified expression as regards the practice of painting. This self-titled exhibition, Communion, is best summarized in the artist own words:? The background, middle distance and foreground in these pictures are seen simultaneously, like looking down to the bottom of a pond as the light reflects off the ripples on the surface. These paintings are meant to be contemplative ?to be looked at and through - revealing the relationships between the various planes, painterly movements, textures and colors. They are intended as a visual tapestry that explores the interconnectedness of all things.
Works by Shane Guffogg are in the permanent collections of the Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Duke University Museum of Art, Laguna Art Museum.
Impression oil painting
Impression oil painting
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She attracted a cult following after breaking out on the CBS reality show "Rock Star:
Supernova." On Wednesday, Oregon's Storm Large sang the national anthem for a different kind of crowd: philatelists. They're stamp collectors, and people who study
tamps. About 100 of them -- some taking time off work -- crammed into the World
Forestry Center in Portland of Impression oil painting.The celebration.The first-day-of-issue ceremony of the Oregon Statehood Commemorative Stamp. The U.S. Postal Service issued the stamps to launch the celebration of the state's 150th birthday Feb. 14.
About 30 million have been printed. The 42-cent stamps are available at post offices around Oregon and at major cities nationwide. The organizers invited Large along with Oregon first lady Mary Oberst, Portland postmaster Shawneen Betha and other dignitaries to the two-hour event. In the Oregon stamp, white waves made with broad brush strokes appear to crash against rocks along the coast. A tree leans to the right, as if fighting the wind, and the sky turns orange as if the sun is about to set. "I wanted to make it an icon, an impression oil painting, of what the shoreline feels like," said Beaverton artist Gregory Manchess, who designed the stamp using oil painting on a panel. It depicts a scene reconstructed from a photo taken just south of Boardman State Park, north of Brookings.
Although Large is not a hard-core collector herself, she did go home with a first-day-of-issue stamp. The singer says stamps have their charm. In a day of e-mails and text messages, "Writing letters and using a stamp to actually mail them -- it's so romantic," she says. "But I don't like to lick them." Many celebrities collect stamps, says Ken Martin, spokesman for the American Philatelic Society in Bellefonte, Penn. They include Jerry Buss, owner of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team; actor Clint Eastwood; and the president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, who received a stamp book from President Bush during a recent visit. "Maybe it seems dorky because it doesn't require social skills and involves people studying fine details of little things," Martin said. "But it's a great hobby that can be done as a family at almost all ages." The stamp-collecting industry, he said, is booming of china oil painting. He cited a study from Lynn's Stamp News, a collectors magazine, which found in 2007 that U.S. stamp sales by all dealers had reached a record $1.18 billion.
The postal service's circulation doesn't reflect such gains. The agency of Oil paintings
estimates it circulated 202.7 billion pieces of mail in the past fiscal year, a decline of about five percent from the year before. First-class mail has been declining fastest, probably because more people send notes by e-mail and pay bills online, U.S. Postal Service spokesman Peter Hass said.
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She attracted a cult following after breaking out on the CBS reality show "Rock Star:
Supernova." On Wednesday, Oregon's Storm Large sang the national anthem for a different kind of crowd: philatelists. They're stamp collectors, and people who study
tamps. About 100 of them -- some taking time off work -- crammed into the World
Forestry Center in Portland of Impression oil painting.The celebration.The first-day-of-issue ceremony of the Oregon Statehood Commemorative Stamp. The U.S. Postal Service issued the stamps to launch the celebration of the state's 150th birthday Feb. 14.
About 30 million have been printed. The 42-cent stamps are available at post offices around Oregon and at major cities nationwide. The organizers invited Large along with Oregon first lady Mary Oberst, Portland postmaster Shawneen Betha and other dignitaries to the two-hour event. In the Oregon stamp, white waves made with broad brush strokes appear to crash against rocks along the coast. A tree leans to the right, as if fighting the wind, and the sky turns orange as if the sun is about to set. "I wanted to make it an icon, an impression oil painting, of what the shoreline feels like," said Beaverton artist Gregory Manchess, who designed the stamp using oil painting on a panel. It depicts a scene reconstructed from a photo taken just south of Boardman State Park, north of Brookings.
Although Large is not a hard-core collector herself, she did go home with a first-day-of-issue stamp. The singer says stamps have their charm. In a day of e-mails and text messages, "Writing letters and using a stamp to actually mail them -- it's so romantic," she says. "But I don't like to lick them." Many celebrities collect stamps, says Ken Martin, spokesman for the American Philatelic Society in Bellefonte, Penn. They include Jerry Buss, owner of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team; actor Clint Eastwood; and the president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, who received a stamp book from President Bush during a recent visit. "Maybe it seems dorky because it doesn't require social skills and involves people studying fine details of little things," Martin said. "But it's a great hobby that can be done as a family at almost all ages." The stamp-collecting industry, he said, is booming of china oil painting. He cited a study from Lynn's Stamp News, a collectors magazine, which found in 2007 that U.S. stamp sales by all dealers had reached a record $1.18 billion.
The postal service's circulation doesn't reflect such gains. The agency of Oil paintings
estimates it circulated 202.7 billion pieces of mail in the past fiscal year, a decline of about five percent from the year before. First-class mail has been declining fastest, probably because more people send notes by e-mail and pay bills online, U.S. Postal Service spokesman Peter Hass said.
2009年2月5日星期四
Avian painting
Avian painting
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The Ruth Clarke Avian painting , 81 Mill St., S., Port Hope, has Dancing with Minnie at 10:30 a.m. (ballroom, cha-cha, salsa and meringue), canasta at 1:15 p.m. and bid euchre at 7 p.m. 905-885-2228.The Cobourg Ontario Early Years Centre of the Cobourg Family YMCA (905-377-1271), 339 Elgin St. W., and the Port Hope Centre (905-885-8856), 74 Queen St., have programs at 10 a.m.The Seniors’ Activity Centre in the Cobourg Market Building has Tai Chi at 9, 10 and 11 a.m. (905-373-1580), golden age euchre at 1 p.m. (905-372-9525) and beginners’ line dancing at 3:30 p.m. (905-377-8089).The Cobourg Public Library offers the movie, Kung Fu Panda animal oil painting, at 1 p.m. $1. 905-372-9271.The Willow Beach Field Naturalists meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Cobourg Public Library to hear Ben Walters on his avian research in the Ganaraska Forest, Maryland and Nunavut. All welcomed.
From today through Feb. 7, Port Hope restaurants will offer Delectable Meal Deals. Call Port Hope tourism 905-885-2004.SATURDAY, JAN. 31Rev. Kristiane Charleton of Trinity United Church, Cobourg, will play hymns, classical oil painting, gospel and old favourites in the Christian Education Centre, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Refreshments - free will donations for the church.Today and tomorrow, the sport of snowkiting is offered at Elmhirst’s Resort, on the north shore of Rice Lake. Events are planned all weekend for watching and trying this sport. 705-295-4591.The Cobourg Ontario Early Years Centre of the Cobourg Family YMCA, 339 Elgin St. W., offers programs at 10 a.m. 905-377-1271.Caesar and Cleopatra, a comedy by George Bernard Shaw performed at the Stratford Festival Theatre, is offered in high definition Landscape oil painting at 1 p.m. in the Capitol Theatre, Port Hope. 905-885-1071.Journey through the Arts, 27 Walton St., Port Hope (above Smith’s Creek Antiques), winter hours are Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Showing to Feb. 28 is ‘Inner Reflections’. 905-885-0908.The A.K. Colling Gallery, 35 John St., Port Hope, is open Thursday to Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. 905-885-2001.The Colborne Art Gallery, 51 King St. E., is open Thursday to Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Currently showing is San Murata. 905-355-1798.
The Art Gallery of Northumberland, Victoria Hall, is open Tuesday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. Work new to the AGN Permanent Collection is on display. 905-372-0333.The Upstairs Gallery, 34 Walton St., Port Hope, is open Wednesday to Saturday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday 1 to 4 p.m. Currently running is the 4th annual Pet oil painting exhibition by the Northumberland Photography Club. 905-885-2115.Artist Susan Statham, president of the Cobourg Art Club and a member of the Society of Portrait oil painting, has work on display at the Campbellford Public Library through March 31.The photography of Bob Leahy is on exhibit at the 100 Mile Diner, Warkworth, until the end of February..A mystery meat spin is at 1:30 p.m. in the Port Hope Legion, Thomas Street. 905-885-4348.Free alternative health seminars by Lisa Messenger run from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Cobourg Health Shoppe, 76 King St. W. Registration required - 905-372-6632.
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The Ruth Clarke Avian painting , 81 Mill St., S., Port Hope, has Dancing with Minnie at 10:30 a.m. (ballroom, cha-cha, salsa and meringue), canasta at 1:15 p.m. and bid euchre at 7 p.m. 905-885-2228.The Cobourg Ontario Early Years Centre of the Cobourg Family YMCA (905-377-1271), 339 Elgin St. W., and the Port Hope Centre (905-885-8856), 74 Queen St., have programs at 10 a.m.The Seniors’ Activity Centre in the Cobourg Market Building has Tai Chi at 9, 10 and 11 a.m. (905-373-1580), golden age euchre at 1 p.m. (905-372-9525) and beginners’ line dancing at 3:30 p.m. (905-377-8089).The Cobourg Public Library offers the movie, Kung Fu Panda animal oil painting, at 1 p.m. $1. 905-372-9271.The Willow Beach Field Naturalists meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Cobourg Public Library to hear Ben Walters on his avian research in the Ganaraska Forest, Maryland and Nunavut. All welcomed.
From today through Feb. 7, Port Hope restaurants will offer Delectable Meal Deals. Call Port Hope tourism 905-885-2004.SATURDAY, JAN. 31Rev. Kristiane Charleton of Trinity United Church, Cobourg, will play hymns, classical oil painting, gospel and old favourites in the Christian Education Centre, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Refreshments - free will donations for the church.Today and tomorrow, the sport of snowkiting is offered at Elmhirst’s Resort, on the north shore of Rice Lake. Events are planned all weekend for watching and trying this sport. 705-295-4591.The Cobourg Ontario Early Years Centre of the Cobourg Family YMCA, 339 Elgin St. W., offers programs at 10 a.m. 905-377-1271.Caesar and Cleopatra, a comedy by George Bernard Shaw performed at the Stratford Festival Theatre, is offered in high definition Landscape oil painting at 1 p.m. in the Capitol Theatre, Port Hope. 905-885-1071.Journey through the Arts, 27 Walton St., Port Hope (above Smith’s Creek Antiques), winter hours are Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Showing to Feb. 28 is ‘Inner Reflections’. 905-885-0908.The A.K. Colling Gallery, 35 John St., Port Hope, is open Thursday to Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. 905-885-2001.The Colborne Art Gallery, 51 King St. E., is open Thursday to Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Currently showing is San Murata. 905-355-1798.
The Art Gallery of Northumberland, Victoria Hall, is open Tuesday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. Work new to the AGN Permanent Collection is on display. 905-372-0333.The Upstairs Gallery, 34 Walton St., Port Hope, is open Wednesday to Saturday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday 1 to 4 p.m. Currently running is the 4th annual Pet oil painting exhibition by the Northumberland Photography Club. 905-885-2115.Artist Susan Statham, president of the Cobourg Art Club and a member of the Society of Portrait oil painting, has work on display at the Campbellford Public Library through March 31.The photography of Bob Leahy is on exhibit at the 100 Mile Diner, Warkworth, until the end of February..A mystery meat spin is at 1:30 p.m. in the Port Hope Legion, Thomas Street. 905-885-4348.Free alternative health seminars by Lisa Messenger run from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Cobourg Health Shoppe, 76 King St. W. Registration required - 905-372-6632.
Reality painting
Reality painting
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From realism to abstraction with Chris Carter Friday, February 06, 2009 ,Lebanon Township's Chris Carter is known for the diversity of her style and for her versatility in handling a variety of media. She works primarily in watercolor and oil painting, and also in pastel, acrylic, gouache, ink and pencil. Carter's work ranges from 10-second strokes capturing the motion of a dancer or a yoga posture, to large watercolors that have evolved from layers of thrown paint, to carefully composed and rendered oil paintings. The paintings are equally split between abstract and representational. The subject is most often figures or orbs. Carter says her goal is always to capture energy in her work, to create the illusion of movement through space regardless of subject matter. For her, life is movement. As a child, Carter says she had no interest in the world of objects. Her doodles were always orbs of flying, button shapes that were connected by strings and ribbons floating through space. "The patterns of light and dark created by the light of the sun moving across the sky on a clear day or cutting through clouds thrilled me," she explains.
"It was these abstract oil painting shapes that haunted and inspired me. Learning to draw realistically was a painful task and well worth the effort. I now enjoy the marriage of abstraction
and reality. Having the ability to include the strengths of both in a reality painting is a joy and allows me to push paintings further exploring new forms of expression." Carter is a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art. Her work is in private collections throughout the country, as well as England, Germany and Japan. Hometown: Lebanon Township Blog: beforethecurtainfalls.blogspot.com Style: Known for diversity and for versatility in handling a variety of media, primarily watercolor and oil. Work ranges from strokes to carefully composed and rendered paintings. Influences: Arshile Gorky, Gustav Klimt, John Singer Sargent, Vieira de Silva, Hundertwasser, Morris Louis, Matisse, Vuillard, Egon Schiele, Arthur Rackham and Trina Schart Hyman
Knows her roots: As a child, she was inspired by abstract oil painting shapes formed by patterns of light and dark created by the light of the sun moving across the sky. Catch her if you can: New Jersey exhibits in February/March at Gibson Gallery, Washington; March/April at Straube Center, Pennington; March exhibit at Wings Conservancy, Chester. Represented by Monsoon Gallery, Bethlehem; Solaris Gallery, Califon. To visit a gallery of Chris Carter's work, visit Lehighvalleylive.com and click "entertainment" for Meet the oil painting artist blog.
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From realism to abstraction with Chris Carter Friday, February 06, 2009 ,Lebanon Township's Chris Carter is known for the diversity of her style and for her versatility in handling a variety of media. She works primarily in watercolor and oil painting, and also in pastel, acrylic, gouache, ink and pencil. Carter's work ranges from 10-second strokes capturing the motion of a dancer or a yoga posture, to large watercolors that have evolved from layers of thrown paint, to carefully composed and rendered oil paintings. The paintings are equally split between abstract and representational. The subject is most often figures or orbs. Carter says her goal is always to capture energy in her work, to create the illusion of movement through space regardless of subject matter. For her, life is movement. As a child, Carter says she had no interest in the world of objects. Her doodles were always orbs of flying, button shapes that were connected by strings and ribbons floating through space. "The patterns of light and dark created by the light of the sun moving across the sky on a clear day or cutting through clouds thrilled me," she explains.
"It was these abstract oil painting shapes that haunted and inspired me. Learning to draw realistically was a painful task and well worth the effort. I now enjoy the marriage of abstraction
and reality. Having the ability to include the strengths of both in a reality painting is a joy and allows me to push paintings further exploring new forms of expression." Carter is a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art. Her work is in private collections throughout the country, as well as England, Germany and Japan. Hometown: Lebanon Township Blog: beforethecurtainfalls.blogspot.com Style: Known for diversity and for versatility in handling a variety of media, primarily watercolor and oil. Work ranges from strokes to carefully composed and rendered paintings. Influences: Arshile Gorky, Gustav Klimt, John Singer Sargent, Vieira de Silva, Hundertwasser, Morris Louis, Matisse, Vuillard, Egon Schiele, Arthur Rackham and Trina Schart Hyman
Knows her roots: As a child, she was inspired by abstract oil painting shapes formed by patterns of light and dark created by the light of the sun moving across the sky. Catch her if you can: New Jersey exhibits in February/March at Gibson Gallery, Washington; March/April at Straube Center, Pennington; March exhibit at Wings Conservancy, Chester. Represented by Monsoon Gallery, Bethlehem; Solaris Gallery, Califon. To visit a gallery of Chris Carter's work, visit Lehighvalleylive.com and click "entertainment" for Meet the oil painting artist blog.
Portrait painting
Portrait painting
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Painting for you, the world's leading painting studio, is pleased to announce a charity auction of the world's largest custom oil painting of a wedding portrait painting, in support of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). SEATTLE, Feb. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The charity auction of the world's largest custom oil painting of a wedding portrait is live on eBay through February 4th 2009, and the start bid is US$1. painting for you has decided to donate 100% of the proceeds raised to IFRC.
"We are very pleased that painting for you. has decided to hold this charity auction, to sensitize people about the crisis in global humanitarian assistance," said Simon Missiri, Head of IFRC Resource Mobilization and Relationship Management."While the world financial crisis may have serious repercussions on humanitarian aid budgets, the Federation wants to remind governments that they cannot be oblivious to the worsening problems of the most vulnerable Portrait painting in countries around the world," said Federation Head of Communications, Pierre Kremer. "In the context of the 'globalisation' of crises, humanitarian issues are everyone's concerns.""What we can do might be very little, but we hope to make the world aware that there is a much worse disaster outside Wall Street now! And we are delighted to work with the IFRC to be part of the solution," said Thomas Luce, the co-founder of painting for you."The World's Largest Custom Oil Painting of a Wedding Portrait" will be 8 meters wide by 2.7 meters high. The auction winner will provide a wedding photograph, and artists from painting for you will turn it into the world's largest wedding portrait oil painting on canvas.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is the world's largest humanitarian organization. painting for you is the world's leading oil painting studio as well as the first online painting studio committed to charity support. It provides 100% hand-painted oil portraits, painted from customers' photographs, a unique and original gift idea for all occasions.
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Painting for you, the world's leading painting studio, is pleased to announce a charity auction of the world's largest custom oil painting of a wedding portrait painting, in support of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). SEATTLE, Feb. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The charity auction of the world's largest custom oil painting of a wedding portrait is live on eBay through February 4th 2009, and the start bid is US$1. painting for you has decided to donate 100% of the proceeds raised to IFRC.
"We are very pleased that painting for you. has decided to hold this charity auction, to sensitize people about the crisis in global humanitarian assistance," said Simon Missiri, Head of IFRC Resource Mobilization and Relationship Management."While the world financial crisis may have serious repercussions on humanitarian aid budgets, the Federation wants to remind governments that they cannot be oblivious to the worsening problems of the most vulnerable Portrait painting in countries around the world," said Federation Head of Communications, Pierre Kremer. "In the context of the 'globalisation' of crises, humanitarian issues are everyone's concerns.""What we can do might be very little, but we hope to make the world aware that there is a much worse disaster outside Wall Street now! And we are delighted to work with the IFRC to be part of the solution," said Thomas Luce, the co-founder of painting for you."The World's Largest Custom Oil Painting of a Wedding Portrait" will be 8 meters wide by 2.7 meters high. The auction winner will provide a wedding photograph, and artists from painting for you will turn it into the world's largest wedding portrait oil painting on canvas.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is the world's largest humanitarian organization. painting for you is the world's leading oil painting studio as well as the first online painting studio committed to charity support. It provides 100% hand-painted oil portraits, painted from customers' photographs, a unique and original gift idea for all occasions.
oil painting factory
oil painting factory
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"I just paint," Vivian Fields once told me."I paint whatever's about."If Vivian could see - or imagine - a person, place or flower, she could capture it in oil paintings.Vivian died last July at age 93, but her art lives on. She created dozens, perhaps hundreds, of paintings in her lifetime.When she died, many of her favorites went to family members and friends, but dozens of others were stored in her studio.Vivian was a longtime member of the San Angelo Art Club. After her death, Vivian's family offered the unclaimed paintings to the club.The club, in turn, has offered to share them with us."The paintings are free, but donations will be gratefully accepted," said Maggie Ault, the club's publicity chairwoman.I came home with two.
One's a farm woman in a red dress and white apron feeding chickens from a bucket. Expectant chickens wait on one side of her, and a curious cat's on the other.The second oil painting factory shows a small boy, maybe 3, dressed in blue overalls. He's looking down at a red flower in his left hand.I would love to ask Vivian about the people in the pictures. Is she the farm woman? Is the little boy hers?During our too-short visit in 2003, she talked about how she created her art."I just paint," she told me. "I paint whatever's about."She said she learned to paint after an illness. The doctor recommended art as therapy, and she took a correspondence course."I never dreamed I could paint," she told me. "But I've been painting ever since, and it's been such a blessing to me."She had her own style. One artist I talked to called it "primitive art," like Grandma Moses. Another said it was "German expressionism."Whatever her style, Vivian painted what she saw, what she knew. Many of her paintings recalled people and places from her past. She grew up in the country, in Coke County, and loved to paint farm scenes: grain harvests; open fields; a child with a lamb.When I visited her home in 2003, Vivian's house was a miniature museum of her own art, her own long life.A portrait oil painting of her late husband smiled from across the room. Another painting showed women sorting ceramic tile in a factory where Vivian once worked.
A third was a painting of Vivian and her newborn son, moments after the child was born at home."That's a house where Uncle Joe a oil painting artist used to live," she said, pointing to hand painted oil paintings.
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"I just paint," Vivian Fields once told me."I paint whatever's about."If Vivian could see - or imagine - a person, place or flower, she could capture it in oil paintings.Vivian died last July at age 93, but her art lives on. She created dozens, perhaps hundreds, of paintings in her lifetime.When she died, many of her favorites went to family members and friends, but dozens of others were stored in her studio.Vivian was a longtime member of the San Angelo Art Club. After her death, Vivian's family offered the unclaimed paintings to the club.The club, in turn, has offered to share them with us."The paintings are free, but donations will be gratefully accepted," said Maggie Ault, the club's publicity chairwoman.I came home with two.
One's a farm woman in a red dress and white apron feeding chickens from a bucket. Expectant chickens wait on one side of her, and a curious cat's on the other.The second oil painting factory shows a small boy, maybe 3, dressed in blue overalls. He's looking down at a red flower in his left hand.I would love to ask Vivian about the people in the pictures. Is she the farm woman? Is the little boy hers?During our too-short visit in 2003, she talked about how she created her art."I just paint," she told me. "I paint whatever's about."She said she learned to paint after an illness. The doctor recommended art as therapy, and she took a correspondence course."I never dreamed I could paint," she told me. "But I've been painting ever since, and it's been such a blessing to me."She had her own style. One artist I talked to called it "primitive art," like Grandma Moses. Another said it was "German expressionism."Whatever her style, Vivian painted what she saw, what she knew. Many of her paintings recalled people and places from her past. She grew up in the country, in Coke County, and loved to paint farm scenes: grain harvests; open fields; a child with a lamb.When I visited her home in 2003, Vivian's house was a miniature museum of her own art, her own long life.A portrait oil painting of her late husband smiled from across the room. Another painting showed women sorting ceramic tile in a factory where Vivian once worked.
A third was a painting of Vivian and her newborn son, moments after the child was born at home."That's a house where Uncle Joe a oil painting artist used to live," she said, pointing to hand painted oil paintings.
2009年2月3日星期二
Modern oil painting
Modern oil painting
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Robert Reed / Special to The Daily Yomiuri. For lovers of Modern oil painting of the first half of the 20th century and for those who want to deepen their appreciation of the art developments of this important period, the show Masterpieces of Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, now running at the Bunkamura Museum of Art in Shibuya, Tokyo, is one you should not miss. This is the same show that is being advertised in Japanese under the title The Era of Picasso and Klee, but it by no means focuses solely on these two 20th-century masters. The show is in fact a choice sampling of European painting of this period in 64 works by 23 artists, including not only Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso, but also Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Wassily Kandinsky, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Chaim Soutine, Joan Miro, Rene
Magritte, Yves Tanguy and Robert Delaunay among others. Most of these works from the celebrated Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen collection are being shown in Japan for the first time, and it is the consistently high quality of the individual works that makes this show so worth seeing. While most of the 23 artists are represented by just one or two works, there is a definite
focus to be found in the fact that Picasso is represented by five oil paintings and one collage and Klee by seven oils and 20 watercolors and drawings. These are two artists for which the Kunstsammlung collection is especially noted, and in the case of Klee there is a very specific reason for the museum's outstanding selection and number of works. The state of Nordrhein-Westfalen is Germany's industrial and commercial heartland and also a center of the arts. When plans were launched to create a state museum for Nordrhein-Westfalen in Dusseldorf,
Seascape oil painting the first priority was to amass an unparalleled collection of the works of Klee (1879-1940), who had taught at the Bauhaus and the Dusseldorf Art Academy.
However, in addition to Klee's connection to the region, this was an important part of a concerted effort to reclaim a heritage of German art that had been lost during the Nazi era. Prior to the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazi Party, Impression oil painting Klee had been an emerging star of a German art world that was quite different in character from the French art scene led by Spaniard Picasso and Frenchman Matisse. As such, Klee had been invited to teach art in Dusseldorf in 1931 for what would be an unexpectedly short tenure. With the establishment of the socialist Nazi regime in 1933, Klee was forced to quit his teaching position. His works were eventually designated "decadent art" by the Nazi Party Camel (in a Rhythmic Landscape oil painting of Trees) (1920, 43) When Klee uses the words "rhythmic" or "harmony" in his titles, it is with a particular authority. Son of musician parents and a great lover of music himself, Klee was an orchestra.
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Robert Reed / Special to The Daily Yomiuri. For lovers of Modern oil painting of the first half of the 20th century and for those who want to deepen their appreciation of the art developments of this important period, the show Masterpieces of Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, now running at the Bunkamura Museum of Art in Shibuya, Tokyo, is one you should not miss. This is the same show that is being advertised in Japanese under the title The Era of Picasso and Klee, but it by no means focuses solely on these two 20th-century masters. The show is in fact a choice sampling of European painting of this period in 64 works by 23 artists, including not only Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso, but also Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Wassily Kandinsky, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Chaim Soutine, Joan Miro, Rene
Magritte, Yves Tanguy and Robert Delaunay among others. Most of these works from the celebrated Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen collection are being shown in Japan for the first time, and it is the consistently high quality of the individual works that makes this show so worth seeing. While most of the 23 artists are represented by just one or two works, there is a definite
focus to be found in the fact that Picasso is represented by five oil paintings and one collage and Klee by seven oils and 20 watercolors and drawings. These are two artists for which the Kunstsammlung collection is especially noted, and in the case of Klee there is a very specific reason for the museum's outstanding selection and number of works. The state of Nordrhein-Westfalen is Germany's industrial and commercial heartland and also a center of the arts. When plans were launched to create a state museum for Nordrhein-Westfalen in Dusseldorf,
Seascape oil painting the first priority was to amass an unparalleled collection of the works of Klee (1879-1940), who had taught at the Bauhaus and the Dusseldorf Art Academy.
However, in addition to Klee's connection to the region, this was an important part of a concerted effort to reclaim a heritage of German art that had been lost during the Nazi era. Prior to the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazi Party, Impression oil painting Klee had been an emerging star of a German art world that was quite different in character from the French art scene led by Spaniard Picasso and Frenchman Matisse. As such, Klee had been invited to teach art in Dusseldorf in 1931 for what would be an unexpectedly short tenure. With the establishment of the socialist Nazi regime in 1933, Klee was forced to quit his teaching position. His works were eventually designated "decadent art" by the Nazi Party Camel (in a Rhythmic Landscape oil painting of Trees) (1920, 43) When Klee uses the words "rhythmic" or "harmony" in his titles, it is with a particular authority. Son of musician parents and a great lover of music himself, Klee was an orchestra.
Knife painting
Knife painting
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When a man is alleged to have cut in front of him in line at a crab cake joint, Keith Anthony Rantin Jr. pulled a knife to start Knife painting. When a man came to his house to retrieve some commercial painting equipment, the Baltimore man pulled a gun.A Baltimore jury this week convicted Rantin, 33, on three misdemeanor charges in the shooting of Kelly Myers. In acquitting Rantin of the most serious charge against him - attempted murder the jury sided with Rantin's attorney, who argued that his client acted self-defense when he shot the acrylic painting contractor in the face and back with a shotgun. The verdict came 18 months after Rantin pleaded guilty in the 2006 stabbing of Jeffrey Rites at the G&M Restaurant and Lounge in Linthicum Heights.In the crab-cake and painting-equipment incidents, attorney Kenneth Ravenell argued that the victims were armed and provoked Rantin. Also in both cases, prosecutors argued that the victims did little if anything to warrant the attacks.
In the crab-cake case, video showed that after an exchange of insults and shoves, the unarmed victim turned away from the dispute. Rantin then approached from behind, took a knife from his pocket and stabbed Rites in the side, said oil painting technique, who prosecuted the stabbing case.In the second case, prosecutor Nicole Lomartire told a jury that all Myers did was show up at the house about 9 p.m. April 5, 2007, asking for his paint sprayer back. Myers and a team of painters had been working on Rantin's house in the 1400 block of W. Pratt St. and had left the paint gun there.
"This is not the wild, wild West," Lomartire said in closing arguments. "You can't go out and shoot somebody for knocking on your door. ... You especially don't go downstairs and get your shotgun and shoot it at an unarmed man."Dunty, of the Anne Arundel County state's attorney's office, said it is clear that Rantin has problems controlling his temper."It's pretty safe to say that anyone involved with stabbing someone from behind over a food order has anger-management issues," he said. But Baltimore prosecutors could not tell the jury about the dispute over cutting in line at G&M, or about the other assault convictions on Rantin's record. In almost all Figure painting, the state must prove each charge beyond a reasonable doubt on the facts of that case alone - rather than establish a pattern of violence.
And Ravenell was able to convince a jury that Myers or someone who was with him may have fired a Modern oil painting first. Ravenell argued that Myers did not arrive at Rantin's doorstep alone; he had two men with him. After Rantin told the men to come back later, he feared they would break into his home, where his children were playing computer games, the attorney said. Ravenell said Rantin went inside, retrieved the shotgun from the basement and came back.
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When a man is alleged to have cut in front of him in line at a crab cake joint, Keith Anthony Rantin Jr. pulled a knife to start Knife painting. When a man came to his house to retrieve some commercial painting equipment, the Baltimore man pulled a gun.A Baltimore jury this week convicted Rantin, 33, on three misdemeanor charges in the shooting of Kelly Myers. In acquitting Rantin of the most serious charge against him - attempted murder the jury sided with Rantin's attorney, who argued that his client acted self-defense when he shot the acrylic painting contractor in the face and back with a shotgun. The verdict came 18 months after Rantin pleaded guilty in the 2006 stabbing of Jeffrey Rites at the G&M Restaurant and Lounge in Linthicum Heights.In the crab-cake and painting-equipment incidents, attorney Kenneth Ravenell argued that the victims were armed and provoked Rantin. Also in both cases, prosecutors argued that the victims did little if anything to warrant the attacks.
In the crab-cake case, video showed that after an exchange of insults and shoves, the unarmed victim turned away from the dispute. Rantin then approached from behind, took a knife from his pocket and stabbed Rites in the side, said oil painting technique, who prosecuted the stabbing case.In the second case, prosecutor Nicole Lomartire told a jury that all Myers did was show up at the house about 9 p.m. April 5, 2007, asking for his paint sprayer back. Myers and a team of painters had been working on Rantin's house in the 1400 block of W. Pratt St. and had left the paint gun there.
"This is not the wild, wild West," Lomartire said in closing arguments. "You can't go out and shoot somebody for knocking on your door. ... You especially don't go downstairs and get your shotgun and shoot it at an unarmed man."Dunty, of the Anne Arundel County state's attorney's office, said it is clear that Rantin has problems controlling his temper."It's pretty safe to say that anyone involved with stabbing someone from behind over a food order has anger-management issues," he said. But Baltimore prosecutors could not tell the jury about the dispute over cutting in line at G&M, or about the other assault convictions on Rantin's record. In almost all Figure painting, the state must prove each charge beyond a reasonable doubt on the facts of that case alone - rather than establish a pattern of violence.
And Ravenell was able to convince a jury that Myers or someone who was with him may have fired a Modern oil painting first. Ravenell argued that Myers did not arrive at Rantin's doorstep alone; he had two men with him. After Rantin told the men to come back later, he feared they would break into his home, where his children were playing computer games, the attorney said. Ravenell said Rantin went inside, retrieved the shotgun from the basement and came back.
2009年2月2日星期一
Hand painted oil paintings
Hand painted oil paintings
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ST. PETERSBURG — Eluster Richardson's start as an artist came with a great deal of pressure. As a precocious third-grader, he enlisted his older sister to draw a class project for him.
When he handed in the assignment, the teacher gave him a stern look and asked whether it was actually his work. "Yes, ma'am," he answered timidly about hand painted oil paintings .
She said she would hang on to it and asked whether he could replicate the piece. Nervously he began to scribble away.The teacher was sold, and he was shocked to discover that he was as good at oil painting artist as his sister. Later he made his first art sale with a painting to his seventh-grade principal.Richardson, now 57, is having some of his work displayed at the Dr. Carter G. Woodson African American Museum.
Most of the pieces will have a family theme. He draws on a tradition of art in his family.
Richardson's 94-year-old mother, Amanda, still makes handmade patchwork quilts. A number of his paintings involve her or his daughter Jasmine, 17, modeling her quilts. The blankets have rich colors in mauve-blue and bright red.
"Watching him paint the family really draws everyone together," said his cousin, Jeffrey Moore, 48, who lives in Lakeland. "Throughout the years we've enjoyed it at family reunions and other get-togethers."
Richardson, who specializes in watercolors and oils, said that one reason he tends to use family members as art subjects is that he knows their personalities and the intricacies that contribute to capturing a particular mood.
For instance, the painting Humm captures his mother sitting on a sofa in his house with her chin in her hand.
"I know that it was one of those 'I wonder' moments," Richardson said.
A piece called Attitude captures his daughter during her tween years.
"You know how kids at that age want to be cool. This is that," he said.
In it she wears a pair of pink sunglasses tilted down over her nose with her normally straight hair combed out into an Afro.He also paints a variety of landscape portraits that show forestry and wildlife in his native Tallahassee.Richardson admires artists like the late Norman Rockwell.
His tribute to Rockwell is a painting of two children of family friends as they washed off a soccer ball."It looked so much like one of his works," he said, referring to Rockwell. "I just had to start painting as they went along."Richardson's favorite work was painted this year for an exhibit themed "Soul Mates" in Tallahassee. He plays a few tricks on the eye in the painting, drawing the observer in a style similar to Diego Velazquez's masterpiece, Las Meninas. The oil painting shows Richardson, embedded in the painting, working on a portrait oil paintings of himself with his wife and daughter looking over his shoulder.
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ST. PETERSBURG — Eluster Richardson's start as an artist came with a great deal of pressure. As a precocious third-grader, he enlisted his older sister to draw a class project for him.
When he handed in the assignment, the teacher gave him a stern look and asked whether it was actually his work. "Yes, ma'am," he answered timidly about hand painted oil paintings .
She said she would hang on to it and asked whether he could replicate the piece. Nervously he began to scribble away.The teacher was sold, and he was shocked to discover that he was as good at oil painting artist as his sister. Later he made his first art sale with a painting to his seventh-grade principal.Richardson, now 57, is having some of his work displayed at the Dr. Carter G. Woodson African American Museum.
Most of the pieces will have a family theme. He draws on a tradition of art in his family.
Richardson's 94-year-old mother, Amanda, still makes handmade patchwork quilts. A number of his paintings involve her or his daughter Jasmine, 17, modeling her quilts. The blankets have rich colors in mauve-blue and bright red.
"Watching him paint the family really draws everyone together," said his cousin, Jeffrey Moore, 48, who lives in Lakeland. "Throughout the years we've enjoyed it at family reunions and other get-togethers."
Richardson, who specializes in watercolors and oils, said that one reason he tends to use family members as art subjects is that he knows their personalities and the intricacies that contribute to capturing a particular mood.
For instance, the painting Humm captures his mother sitting on a sofa in his house with her chin in her hand.
"I know that it was one of those 'I wonder' moments," Richardson said.
A piece called Attitude captures his daughter during her tween years.
"You know how kids at that age want to be cool. This is that," he said.
In it she wears a pair of pink sunglasses tilted down over her nose with her normally straight hair combed out into an Afro.He also paints a variety of landscape portraits that show forestry and wildlife in his native Tallahassee.Richardson admires artists like the late Norman Rockwell.
His tribute to Rockwell is a painting of two children of family friends as they washed off a soccer ball."It looked so much like one of his works," he said, referring to Rockwell. "I just had to start painting as they went along."Richardson's favorite work was painted this year for an exhibit themed "Soul Mates" in Tallahassee. He plays a few tricks on the eye in the painting, drawing the observer in a style similar to Diego Velazquez's masterpiece, Las Meninas. The oil painting shows Richardson, embedded in the painting, working on a portrait oil paintings of himself with his wife and daughter looking over his shoulder.
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Still life oil painting
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The Monterey County HeraldOPENINGS.
New Abstract oil painting by Johnny Apodaca. Opening reception from 6-8p.m. Friday, Feb. 13, at Sweet Elena's Bakery, 465 Olympia Ave., Sand City. Exhibit runs through April 15. 393-2063.
Early pastel and color sketches by Mary DeNeale Morgan. Exhibiting a collection of Morgan's sketches depicting the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake aftermath through June at the Pacific Grove Public Library, 550 Central Ave., Pacific Grove. On display during normal library hours. Free. 648-5762.
"Form & Freedom," an exhibition of sculpture by Michael St. Mary. Opening reception from 4-7p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31, at Lysakov Art Company Gallery, 305 Forest Ave., Pacific Grove. Featuring 10 sculptures by St. Mary, created over a period of 27 years from walnut and pecan woods, Napoleon marble and cement. Refreshments will be served. Exhibit runs through March 7. Open from 10a.m.-4p.m. Tuesday-Friday. 375-7100 or Classical oil painting .
"Mexico Lindo," photographs and poems from San Miguel de Allende by Mary Anne Anderson. Reception from 3-6p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31, at The Works Cafe, 667 Lighthouse Ave., Pacific Grove. Featuring Anderson's poems and more than 100 photographs taken by the oil painting artist in central Mexico. Also exhibiting photographs taken by children from the now impoverished silver mining community of Pozos, with sales benefiting.
New Still life oil painting by Wendy Angel. Opening reception from 12:30-2p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5, at the Monterey Peninsula College Art Gallery, 980 Fremont St., Monterey. Exhibiting new Paintings by Angel Feb. 3 through March 6. The gallery is open Tuesday through Friday from 10a.m.-3p.m. or by appointment at 646-3060. Free. Parking is four quarters Monday through Friday.
"Metalmorphosis," a photographic exhibition by Bert Ihlenfeld. Opens Feb. 4 at the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Monterey Peninsula, 490 Aguajito Road, Carmel. "Metalmorphosis" features large format giclées and new works on canvas by Pacific Grove oil painting artist Bert Ihlenfeld. Exhibit runs through March 8. Open Monday through Friday from 9a.m.-5p.m. 624-7404.
"Romance, Romance, Romance," group show by Artists Equity. Gala opening from 5-7p.m. Friday, Feb. 6, in the Marjorie Evan's Gallery at the Sunset Center, San Carlos Street and Ninth Avenue, Carmel. Featuring work by Mary Aline, Jody Royee, Emy Ledbetter, Michael Duffy, Ann Victoria Ellwanger, Dan Beck, Hand painted oil paintings Trish Sullivan, Julie Terflinger, Barbara Svetlik, Vanila Helm, Kathy Sharpe, Noel Mapstead, Jonanne Radcliffe, Frances Minglana, Sally Smith, Evelyn Klein, Nita Flammini, Gretchen Taylor, Elise Chezem and Patricia Colman exhibiting Feb. 4-26. Gretchen Taylor will play violin at the free gala opening. Michael Duffy at 659-5003 .
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The Monterey County HeraldOPENINGS.
New Abstract oil painting by Johnny Apodaca. Opening reception from 6-8p.m. Friday, Feb. 13, at Sweet Elena's Bakery, 465 Olympia Ave., Sand City. Exhibit runs through April 15. 393-2063.
Early pastel and color sketches by Mary DeNeale Morgan. Exhibiting a collection of Morgan's sketches depicting the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake aftermath through June at the Pacific Grove Public Library, 550 Central Ave., Pacific Grove. On display during normal library hours. Free. 648-5762.
"Form & Freedom," an exhibition of sculpture by Michael St. Mary. Opening reception from 4-7p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31, at Lysakov Art Company Gallery, 305 Forest Ave., Pacific Grove. Featuring 10 sculptures by St. Mary, created over a period of 27 years from walnut and pecan woods, Napoleon marble and cement. Refreshments will be served. Exhibit runs through March 7. Open from 10a.m.-4p.m. Tuesday-Friday. 375-7100 or Classical oil painting .
"Mexico Lindo," photographs and poems from San Miguel de Allende by Mary Anne Anderson. Reception from 3-6p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31, at The Works Cafe, 667 Lighthouse Ave., Pacific Grove. Featuring Anderson's poems and more than 100 photographs taken by the oil painting artist in central Mexico. Also exhibiting photographs taken by children from the now impoverished silver mining community of Pozos, with sales benefiting.
New Still life oil painting by Wendy Angel. Opening reception from 12:30-2p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5, at the Monterey Peninsula College Art Gallery, 980 Fremont St., Monterey. Exhibiting new Paintings by Angel Feb. 3 through March 6. The gallery is open Tuesday through Friday from 10a.m.-3p.m. or by appointment at 646-3060. Free. Parking is four quarters Monday through Friday.
"Metalmorphosis," a photographic exhibition by Bert Ihlenfeld. Opens Feb. 4 at the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Monterey Peninsula, 490 Aguajito Road, Carmel. "Metalmorphosis" features large format giclées and new works on canvas by Pacific Grove oil painting artist Bert Ihlenfeld. Exhibit runs through March 8. Open Monday through Friday from 9a.m.-5p.m. 624-7404.
"Romance, Romance, Romance," group show by Artists Equity. Gala opening from 5-7p.m. Friday, Feb. 6, in the Marjorie Evan's Gallery at the Sunset Center, San Carlos Street and Ninth Avenue, Carmel. Featuring work by Mary Aline, Jody Royee, Emy Ledbetter, Michael Duffy, Ann Victoria Ellwanger, Dan Beck, Hand painted oil paintings Trish Sullivan, Julie Terflinger, Barbara Svetlik, Vanila Helm, Kathy Sharpe, Noel Mapstead, Jonanne Radcliffe, Frances Minglana, Sally Smith, Evelyn Klein, Nita Flammini, Gretchen Taylor, Elise Chezem and Patricia Colman exhibiting Feb. 4-26. Gretchen Taylor will play violin at the free gala opening. Michael Duffy at 659-5003 .
2009年1月19日星期一
oil painting artist
oil painting artist
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Andrew Wyeth, whose evocations of a timeless rural present along the Maine coast and in Pennsylvania farm country made him America's most popular living oil painting artist and whose 1948 painting "Christina's World" became one of the most famous Portrait painting of the 20th century, died today.Discuss ,COMMENTS ,Wyeth, who was 91, died in his home in Chadds Ford, Pa., after a brief illness, the Brandywine River Museum said in a statement.
Perhaps no American Famous painting has ever had as strong a hold on the popular imagination as Mr. Wyeth did over the course of his seven-decade career. As the critic Brian O'Doherty once noted, "Wyeth communicates with his audience, numbered in millions, with an ease and fluency that amounts to a kind of genius."One mark of Mr. Wyeth's special status is how often he was summoned to the White House. He was the first artist to receive the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1963. Richard Nixon held an exhibition of his paintings and dinner in his honor in 1970. In 1990, he was the first artist to receive the Congressional Gold Medal. President George H. W. Bush, presenting the award, noted that Mr. Wyeth's work "caught the heart of America."Yet Mr. Wyeth's popularity never translated into critical acclaim. Although rarely dismissed outright, Mr. Wyeth was seen as a peripheral figure, at best, and an artistic anachronism. "They are just sort of colored drawings," the critic Hilton Kramer once wrote of Mr.
Wyeth's paintings, "illustrated dreams that enable people who don't like art to fantasize about not living in the twentieth century."Mr. Wyeth's shaky standing with the art establishment was underscored in 1986 when it was revealed he had spent 15 years secretly painting a neighbor, Helga Testorf. News of "the Helga Paintings" made the covers of both Time and Newsweek. Time's art critic, Robert Hughes, voiced the art-world consensus when he mocked "the great Helga hype" and dismissed the resulting exhibition of the artworks as "an avalanche of Styrofoam and saccharin."Mr. Wyeth was the most famous member of one of America's most renowned artistic families: His father, N. C. Wyeth was a noted muralist and book illustrator; his son, Jamie, is a highly regarded realist painter.
Jamie Wyeth once likened his father's work to that of the poet Robert Frost. "At one level, it's all snowy woods and stone walls. oil painting artist at another, it's terrifying. He exists at both levels. He is a very odd painter."Much of that oddness had to do with a kind of self-imposed mutedness: of tonality, emotion, subject. Mr. Wyeth once described his approach to art as "seeing a lot in nothing." There is a sense of almost-palpable Famous painting reproduction to his work, of a sought-after narrowing of visual possibility.Continued...That narrowing begins with locale. All of his work is set in the vicinity of two places: Chadds Ford, where Mr. Wyeth was born, grew up, and as an adult lived seven months of the year; and Cushing, Maine, where for most of his life he summered.
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Andrew Wyeth, whose evocations of a timeless rural present along the Maine coast and in Pennsylvania farm country made him America's most popular living oil painting artist and whose 1948 painting "Christina's World" became one of the most famous Portrait painting of the 20th century, died today.Discuss ,COMMENTS ,Wyeth, who was 91, died in his home in Chadds Ford, Pa., after a brief illness, the Brandywine River Museum said in a statement.
Perhaps no American Famous painting has ever had as strong a hold on the popular imagination as Mr. Wyeth did over the course of his seven-decade career. As the critic Brian O'Doherty once noted, "Wyeth communicates with his audience, numbered in millions, with an ease and fluency that amounts to a kind of genius."One mark of Mr. Wyeth's special status is how often he was summoned to the White House. He was the first artist to receive the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1963. Richard Nixon held an exhibition of his paintings and dinner in his honor in 1970. In 1990, he was the first artist to receive the Congressional Gold Medal. President George H. W. Bush, presenting the award, noted that Mr. Wyeth's work "caught the heart of America."Yet Mr. Wyeth's popularity never translated into critical acclaim. Although rarely dismissed outright, Mr. Wyeth was seen as a peripheral figure, at best, and an artistic anachronism. "They are just sort of colored drawings," the critic Hilton Kramer once wrote of Mr.
Wyeth's paintings, "illustrated dreams that enable people who don't like art to fantasize about not living in the twentieth century."Mr. Wyeth's shaky standing with the art establishment was underscored in 1986 when it was revealed he had spent 15 years secretly painting a neighbor, Helga Testorf. News of "the Helga Paintings" made the covers of both Time and Newsweek. Time's art critic, Robert Hughes, voiced the art-world consensus when he mocked "the great Helga hype" and dismissed the resulting exhibition of the artworks as "an avalanche of Styrofoam and saccharin."Mr. Wyeth was the most famous member of one of America's most renowned artistic families: His father, N. C. Wyeth was a noted muralist and book illustrator; his son, Jamie, is a highly regarded realist painter.
Jamie Wyeth once likened his father's work to that of the poet Robert Frost. "At one level, it's all snowy woods and stone walls. oil painting artist at another, it's terrifying. He exists at both levels. He is a very odd painter."Much of that oddness had to do with a kind of self-imposed mutedness: of tonality, emotion, subject. Mr. Wyeth once described his approach to art as "seeing a lot in nothing." There is a sense of almost-palpable Famous painting reproduction to his work, of a sought-after narrowing of visual possibility.Continued...That narrowing begins with locale. All of his work is set in the vicinity of two places: Chadds Ford, where Mr. Wyeth was born, grew up, and as an adult lived seven months of the year; and Cushing, Maine, where for most of his life he summered.
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Digital photo frame specific media processorSamsung Electronics has released a new series of media processors designed specifically for the digital photo frame (DPF) market. The S5L2010 series of cost-effective, high-performance processors enables DPF developers to offer compelling next-generation multimedia functionality to optimize the photo and video viewing experience.
Samsung's new S5L2010 media processors will be on display at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show in meeting room N238 on the second floor of the North Hall in the Las Vegas Convention Center."Digital photo frames are fast becoming a must-buy gift for sharing memories with family and friends," said Dr. Yiwan Wong, vice president of marketing for Samsung's System LSI Division. "We believe this new series of processors for the DPF market has raised the bar on consumer experience with regards to performance and available features."
Working closely with OEM and ODM customers to develop the performance requirements for entry to mid-tier DPFs, Samsung's new S5L2010 media processors include powerful hardware accelerators for computation-intensive tasks. For example, Pet portrait performance tests show that Samsung's S5L2010 processors are able to display 15Mpixel JPEG images in less than 3 seconds including reading the file from embedded NAND, JPEG decoding, scaling and drawing to the LCD. This is significantly faster than any other competitive product on the market.
In addition, DPFs that incorporate Samsung's new S5L2010 processors have the capability to quickly and efficiently decode video and audio in a variety of multimedia formats including Unframe painting MPEG-1/2/4, Xvid, Motion JPEG, MP3, WMA, OGG and AAC.
These new media processors also integrate additional features including an ADC for touch screen control, SLC/ MLC NAND booting, built-in RTC, a LED PWM driver for the LCD backlight, an audio PWM 2 channel output, TV-Out, and DVB-T interface which reduces bill-of-material costs. The S5L2010 media photo frame processor is housed in a quad flat package.
Manufactured using 65 nanometer CMOS process technology and built on an ARM9 core, Samsung's new S5L2010 media processors feature a SoC chip with a display controller that can support either analog or digital LCDs up to XGA resolution. Other features include an advanced memory interface for embedded memory and all major memory card formats pet portrait oil painting including SD/MMC/SM/MS/CF/xD, advanced graphics capabilities, USB 2.0 OTG, infrared input and real-time operating system support.
Samsung's S5L2010 media processor is sampling now and will be linen canvas in mass production in the first quarter of 2009.
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Digital photo frame specific media processorSamsung Electronics has released a new series of media processors designed specifically for the digital photo frame (DPF) market. The S5L2010 series of cost-effective, high-performance processors enables DPF developers to offer compelling next-generation multimedia functionality to optimize the photo and video viewing experience.
Samsung's new S5L2010 media processors will be on display at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show in meeting room N238 on the second floor of the North Hall in the Las Vegas Convention Center."Digital photo frames are fast becoming a must-buy gift for sharing memories with family and friends," said Dr. Yiwan Wong, vice president of marketing for Samsung's System LSI Division. "We believe this new series of processors for the DPF market has raised the bar on consumer experience with regards to performance and available features."
Working closely with OEM and ODM customers to develop the performance requirements for entry to mid-tier DPFs, Samsung's new S5L2010 media processors include powerful hardware accelerators for computation-intensive tasks. For example, Pet portrait performance tests show that Samsung's S5L2010 processors are able to display 15Mpixel JPEG images in less than 3 seconds including reading the file from embedded NAND, JPEG decoding, scaling and drawing to the LCD. This is significantly faster than any other competitive product on the market.
In addition, DPFs that incorporate Samsung's new S5L2010 processors have the capability to quickly and efficiently decode video and audio in a variety of multimedia formats including Unframe painting MPEG-1/2/4, Xvid, Motion JPEG, MP3, WMA, OGG and AAC.
These new media processors also integrate additional features including an ADC for touch screen control, SLC/ MLC NAND booting, built-in RTC, a LED PWM driver for the LCD backlight, an audio PWM 2 channel output, TV-Out, and DVB-T interface which reduces bill-of-material costs. The S5L2010 media photo frame processor is housed in a quad flat package.
Manufactured using 65 nanometer CMOS process technology and built on an ARM9 core, Samsung's new S5L2010 media processors feature a SoC chip with a display controller that can support either analog or digital LCDs up to XGA resolution. Other features include an advanced memory interface for embedded memory and all major memory card formats pet portrait oil painting including SD/MMC/SM/MS/CF/xD, advanced graphics capabilities, USB 2.0 OTG, infrared input and real-time operating system support.
Samsung's S5L2010 media processor is sampling now and will be linen canvas in mass production in the first quarter of 2009.
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oil painting artist
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Andrew Wyeth, whose evocations of a timeless rural present along the Maine coast and in Pennsylvania farm country made him America's most popular living oil painting artist and whose 1948 painting "Christina's World" became one of the most famous Portrait painting of the 20th century, died today.Discuss ,COMMENTS ,Wyeth, who was 91, died in his home in Chadds Ford, Pa., after a brief illness, the Brandywine River Museum said in a statement.
Perhaps no American Famous painting has ever had as strong a hold on the popular imagination as Mr. Wyeth did over the course of his seven-decade career. As the critic Brian O'Doherty once noted, "Wyeth communicates with his audience, numbered in millions, with an ease and fluency that amounts to a kind of genius."One mark of Mr. Wyeth's special status is how often he was summoned to the White House. He was the first artist to receive the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1963. Richard Nixon held an exhibition of his paintings and dinner in his honor in 1970. In 1990, he was the first artist to receive the Congressional Gold Medal. President George H. W. Bush, presenting the award, noted that Mr. Wyeth's work "caught the heart of America."Yet Mr. Wyeth's popularity never translated into critical acclaim. Although rarely dismissed outright, Mr. Wyeth was seen as a peripheral figure, at best, and an artistic anachronism. "They are just sort of colored drawings," the critic Hilton Kramer once wrote of Mr.
Wyeth's paintings, "illustrated dreams that enable people who don't like art to fantasize about not living in the twentieth century."Mr. Wyeth's shaky standing with the art establishment was underscored in 1986 when it was revealed he had spent 15 years secretly painting a neighbor, Helga Testorf. News of "the Helga Paintings" made the covers of both Time and Newsweek. Time's art critic, Robert Hughes, voiced the art-world consensus when he mocked "the great Helga hype" and dismissed the resulting exhibition of the artworks as "an avalanche of Styrofoam and saccharin."Mr. Wyeth was the most famous member of one of America's most renowned artistic families: His father, N. C. Wyeth was a noted muralist and book illustrator; his son, Jamie, is a highly regarded realist painter.
Jamie Wyeth once likened his father's work to that of the poet Robert Frost. "At one level, it's all snowy woods and stone walls. oil painting artist at another, it's terrifying. He exists at both levels. He is a very odd painter."Much of that oddness had to do with a kind of self-imposed mutedness: of tonality, emotion, subject. Mr. Wyeth once described his approach to art as "seeing a lot in nothing." There is a sense of almost-palpable Famous painting reproduction to his work, of a sought-after narrowing of visual possibility.Continued...That narrowing begins with locale. All of his work is set in the vicinity of two places: Chadds Ford, where Mr. Wyeth was born, grew up, and as an adult lived seven months of the year; and Cushing, Maine, where for most of his life he summered.
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Andrew Wyeth, whose evocations of a timeless rural present along the Maine coast and in Pennsylvania farm country made him America's most popular living oil painting artist and whose 1948 painting "Christina's World" became one of the most famous Portrait painting of the 20th century, died today.Discuss ,COMMENTS ,Wyeth, who was 91, died in his home in Chadds Ford, Pa., after a brief illness, the Brandywine River Museum said in a statement.
Perhaps no American Famous painting has ever had as strong a hold on the popular imagination as Mr. Wyeth did over the course of his seven-decade career. As the critic Brian O'Doherty once noted, "Wyeth communicates with his audience, numbered in millions, with an ease and fluency that amounts to a kind of genius."One mark of Mr. Wyeth's special status is how often he was summoned to the White House. He was the first artist to receive the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1963. Richard Nixon held an exhibition of his paintings and dinner in his honor in 1970. In 1990, he was the first artist to receive the Congressional Gold Medal. President George H. W. Bush, presenting the award, noted that Mr. Wyeth's work "caught the heart of America."Yet Mr. Wyeth's popularity never translated into critical acclaim. Although rarely dismissed outright, Mr. Wyeth was seen as a peripheral figure, at best, and an artistic anachronism. "They are just sort of colored drawings," the critic Hilton Kramer once wrote of Mr.
Wyeth's paintings, "illustrated dreams that enable people who don't like art to fantasize about not living in the twentieth century."Mr. Wyeth's shaky standing with the art establishment was underscored in 1986 when it was revealed he had spent 15 years secretly painting a neighbor, Helga Testorf. News of "the Helga Paintings" made the covers of both Time and Newsweek. Time's art critic, Robert Hughes, voiced the art-world consensus when he mocked "the great Helga hype" and dismissed the resulting exhibition of the artworks as "an avalanche of Styrofoam and saccharin."Mr. Wyeth was the most famous member of one of America's most renowned artistic families: His father, N. C. Wyeth was a noted muralist and book illustrator; his son, Jamie, is a highly regarded realist painter.
Jamie Wyeth once likened his father's work to that of the poet Robert Frost. "At one level, it's all snowy woods and stone walls. oil painting artist at another, it's terrifying. He exists at both levels. He is a very odd painter."Much of that oddness had to do with a kind of self-imposed mutedness: of tonality, emotion, subject. Mr. Wyeth once described his approach to art as "seeing a lot in nothing." There is a sense of almost-palpable Famous painting reproduction to his work, of a sought-after narrowing of visual possibility.Continued...That narrowing begins with locale. All of his work is set in the vicinity of two places: Chadds Ford, where Mr. Wyeth was born, grew up, and as an adult lived seven months of the year; and Cushing, Maine, where for most of his life he summered.
2009年1月18日星期日
Oil painting reproductions
Oil painting reproductions
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The latest exhibit in the Community Artists' League's continuing series features a combination of oil paintings on canvas and hand-dyed silken fabrics.Artists Mary Lou Flatt and Lizz Harris joined forces to present the CAL exhibit for January. The exhibit is on display in the Goldie Mayfield Gallery at E.G. Fisher Public Library in Athens.Harris said it was Flatt's idea to exhibit their artwork together, and they coordinated the pieces side-by-side.I hung hers and then she hung mine," Harris said. "I think it all sort of came together.""We both thought it would be neat to do what we have done in this show," Flatt added.Flatt's first painting in the exhibit dates to 1992. Her later works are not dated, an oversight she plans to remedy."That was one of my first ones," Flatt said, pointing out an oval-framed painting of her granddaughter playing in a fountain.
She mainly paints from portrait oil painting, but also occasionally takes her inspiration from still lifes. Her painting of a blue-crested bird was inspired by a photo she saw in a book."My favorite (subjects) are birds," she said.Flatt said her grandchildren inspired her to paint and it was a neighbor, the late Helen Barham, who taught her to work with oils."We would paint together and she would teach me ... everything that was important in a painting," she said.Flatt learned to paint using oils and it remains her favored medium."Oils are forgiving," she said, adding you can correct errors easily. "It takes a week, at least, for an oil painting to dry."The exhibit includes Flatt's paintings of four of her seven grandchildren: Rachel, Steven, Kevin and Shannon. Her other grandchildren - Jennifer, David and Brian - have also been the subjects of other paintings.One photo in the exhibit shows Kevin wading in the creek on her farm alongside Flatt's dog, Gypsy
Although many of her paintings are large, Flatt displays them at her home in the Sanford community south of Riceville."My walls look bare right now," she said.Flatt has been a CAL member since 1992."It's been a great opportunity for me to meet fellow artists," she said. "This I do for myself."Flatt retired from her full-time teaching job in 1990 after years of teaching special education classes at Riceville, Calhoun and Rogers Creek elementary schools. She now works part-time as a substitute teacher for Athens City Schools."I started out doing it for a friend and it mushroomed," she said, adding she now substitutes for all classes. "I love the variety."Flatt prefers to paint during early morning hours and she has been known to spend all day working on a piece. She begins each painting with a sketch and applies paint over top.Flatt and her husband, Jerry,have
three sons, Dr. James Flatt of Huntsville, Ala., Joel Flatt of Dothan, Ala., and Jeff Flatt ofMcMinnville. Harris said that Oil painting reproductions of the exhibit features a few framed art pieces, but mainly her fabric art."I'm taking this concept and working it into my scarves," she said of the framed pieces, which feature quotations.In addition to scarves, Harris's art on display includes kimonos and caftans. She said her fabric art "is all about feeling good and having a sense of fun."
That "sense of fun" is inspired, in part, by a color therapy class Harris took several years ago.In addition to creating her own art, Harris teaches at The Arts Center, Wellington Place Assisted Living of Athens and NHC Health Care of Athens. Oil painting reproductions the senior citizens she works with seem especially uplifted by the artistic experience.
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The latest exhibit in the Community Artists' League's continuing series features a combination of oil paintings on canvas and hand-dyed silken fabrics.Artists Mary Lou Flatt and Lizz Harris joined forces to present the CAL exhibit for January. The exhibit is on display in the Goldie Mayfield Gallery at E.G. Fisher Public Library in Athens.Harris said it was Flatt's idea to exhibit their artwork together, and they coordinated the pieces side-by-side.I hung hers and then she hung mine," Harris said. "I think it all sort of came together.""We both thought it would be neat to do what we have done in this show," Flatt added.Flatt's first painting in the exhibit dates to 1992. Her later works are not dated, an oversight she plans to remedy."That was one of my first ones," Flatt said, pointing out an oval-framed painting of her granddaughter playing in a fountain.
She mainly paints from portrait oil painting, but also occasionally takes her inspiration from still lifes. Her painting of a blue-crested bird was inspired by a photo she saw in a book."My favorite (subjects) are birds," she said.Flatt said her grandchildren inspired her to paint and it was a neighbor, the late Helen Barham, who taught her to work with oils."We would paint together and she would teach me ... everything that was important in a painting," she said.Flatt learned to paint using oils and it remains her favored medium."Oils are forgiving," she said, adding you can correct errors easily. "It takes a week, at least, for an oil painting to dry."The exhibit includes Flatt's paintings of four of her seven grandchildren: Rachel, Steven, Kevin and Shannon. Her other grandchildren - Jennifer, David and Brian - have also been the subjects of other paintings.One photo in the exhibit shows Kevin wading in the creek on her farm alongside Flatt's dog, Gypsy
Although many of her paintings are large, Flatt displays them at her home in the Sanford community south of Riceville."My walls look bare right now," she said.Flatt has been a CAL member since 1992."It's been a great opportunity for me to meet fellow artists," she said. "This I do for myself."Flatt retired from her full-time teaching job in 1990 after years of teaching special education classes at Riceville, Calhoun and Rogers Creek elementary schools. She now works part-time as a substitute teacher for Athens City Schools."I started out doing it for a friend and it mushroomed," she said, adding she now substitutes for all classes. "I love the variety."Flatt prefers to paint during early morning hours and she has been known to spend all day working on a piece. She begins each painting with a sketch and applies paint over top.Flatt and her husband, Jerry,have
three sons, Dr. James Flatt of Huntsville, Ala., Joel Flatt of Dothan, Ala., and Jeff Flatt ofMcMinnville. Harris said that Oil painting reproductions of the exhibit features a few framed art pieces, but mainly her fabric art."I'm taking this concept and working it into my scarves," she said of the framed pieces, which feature quotations.In addition to scarves, Harris's art on display includes kimonos and caftans. She said her fabric art "is all about feeling good and having a sense of fun."
That "sense of fun" is inspired, in part, by a color therapy class Harris took several years ago.In addition to creating her own art, Harris teaches at The Arts Center, Wellington Place Assisted Living of Athens and NHC Health Care of Athens. Oil painting reproductions the senior citizens she works with seem especially uplifted by the artistic experience.
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Sotheby's To Sell Rediscovered Masterwork By Lucio Fontana - Concetto spaziale, 1961
Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) Concetto spaziale of 1961. Estimated at £5-7 million ($7,650,000-10,700,000). © Sotheby’s London.LONDON.- Sotheby’s announced that it will offer such as oil painting for sale the recently rediscovered, museum-quality painting Concetto spaziale of 1961, by Italy’s foremost Contemporary artist Lucio Fontana** (1899-1968). From the artist’s celebrated Venezia Series, Concetto spaziale is completely fresh to the market and has been hidden from public view for almost 50 years. The painting Frame on canvas will be included in the London Contemporary Art Evening auction on Thursday, February 5, 2009 and is estimated at £5-7 million ($7,650,000-10,700,000).
Commenting on this masterwork, Cheyenne Westphal, Chairman Contemporary Art Europe and Oliver Barker, Senior International Specialist, Contemporary Art, said: “We are thrilled to be offering for sale such a remarkable work by Italy’s most important Contemporary artist, Lucio Fontana, from his most sought after series. Concetto spaziale is not only stunningly beautiful, it is one of the most prized works from his entire output and testament to the artist's genius and tireless innovation. The painting is one of the most successfully conceived and executed paintings in the Venezia cycle and its sale will provide collectors with the unparalleled opportunity to acquire a masterpiece of 20th-century European abstract oil painting.”
Concetto spaziale, which was acquired directly from the artist in the 1960s, has resided in the same private collection for over 45 years and the compelling appeal of this museum-quality work is that it has been unseen virtually since its creation. In the three generations of Enrico Crispolti's catalogue raisonné for Fontana's oeuvre, Concetto Spaziale features as a legendary enigma among the Venezia cycle, the same black and white photograph that reappeared in each of the 1974, 1986 and 2006 editions. The painting has not been seen in public since it was exhibited in the 1960s and the re-emergence of this outstanding work on the market represents an historic event in the exhibition of Fontana's art and a milestone for the scholarship of his work.
This sublime painting, which belongs to Fontana’s extremely rare and very short Venezia cycle of 22 paintings from 1961, each in this unusually large square format, measuring 150 by 150 cm (59 by 59 inches), was inspired by and dedicated to Venice. The gallery oil painting for sale In this series, the artist sought to capture the city’s intoxicating beauty, its transcendental atmosphere and its unique marriage of architecture and water in an abstract oil painting language consistent with his evolving conceptual project known as Spatialism. Fontana was invited to contribute to the Arte e Contemplazione exhibition at the Centro Internazionale delle Arti e del Costume of the Palazzo Grassi (owned by the entrepreneur and patron Paolo Marinotti) and painted the 22 one and-a-half metre square paintings dedicated to Venice in the first half of 1961.
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Sotheby's To Sell Rediscovered Masterwork By Lucio Fontana - Concetto spaziale, 1961
Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) Concetto spaziale of 1961. Estimated at £5-7 million ($7,650,000-10,700,000). © Sotheby’s London.LONDON.- Sotheby’s announced that it will offer such as oil painting for sale the recently rediscovered, museum-quality painting Concetto spaziale of 1961, by Italy’s foremost Contemporary artist Lucio Fontana** (1899-1968). From the artist’s celebrated Venezia Series, Concetto spaziale is completely fresh to the market and has been hidden from public view for almost 50 years. The painting Frame on canvas will be included in the London Contemporary Art Evening auction on Thursday, February 5, 2009 and is estimated at £5-7 million ($7,650,000-10,700,000).
Commenting on this masterwork, Cheyenne Westphal, Chairman Contemporary Art Europe and Oliver Barker, Senior International Specialist, Contemporary Art, said: “We are thrilled to be offering for sale such a remarkable work by Italy’s most important Contemporary artist, Lucio Fontana, from his most sought after series. Concetto spaziale is not only stunningly beautiful, it is one of the most prized works from his entire output and testament to the artist's genius and tireless innovation. The painting is one of the most successfully conceived and executed paintings in the Venezia cycle and its sale will provide collectors with the unparalleled opportunity to acquire a masterpiece of 20th-century European abstract oil painting.”
Concetto spaziale, which was acquired directly from the artist in the 1960s, has resided in the same private collection for over 45 years and the compelling appeal of this museum-quality work is that it has been unseen virtually since its creation. In the three generations of Enrico Crispolti's catalogue raisonné for Fontana's oeuvre, Concetto Spaziale features as a legendary enigma among the Venezia cycle, the same black and white photograph that reappeared in each of the 1974, 1986 and 2006 editions. The painting has not been seen in public since it was exhibited in the 1960s and the re-emergence of this outstanding work on the market represents an historic event in the exhibition of Fontana's art and a milestone for the scholarship of his work.
This sublime painting, which belongs to Fontana’s extremely rare and very short Venezia cycle of 22 paintings from 1961, each in this unusually large square format, measuring 150 by 150 cm (59 by 59 inches), was inspired by and dedicated to Venice. The gallery oil painting for sale In this series, the artist sought to capture the city’s intoxicating beauty, its transcendental atmosphere and its unique marriage of architecture and water in an abstract oil painting language consistent with his evolving conceptual project known as Spatialism. Fontana was invited to contribute to the Arte e Contemplazione exhibition at the Centro Internazionale delle Arti e del Costume of the Palazzo Grassi (owned by the entrepreneur and patron Paolo Marinotti) and painted the 22 one and-a-half metre square paintings dedicated to Venice in the first half of 1961.
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