Sculptor Tony Feher displays one of his Aquapod pieces
“Tony Feher’s messages in bottles—along with a spectrum of works from the last 25 years—launch a traveling retrospective.”
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Sculptor Tony Feher emerged in the 1990s, inspired by minimalism and daily objects. Using a variety of materials, Feher (born 1956) turns his attention to the sculptural qualities of the mundane. Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Feher now lives and works in New York.
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière - 1806 - Oil on canvas, 100 x 70 cm - Musée du Louvre, Paris. The painting was exhibited at the Salon of 1806. (click photo for larger image)French painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique (J.A.D.) Ingres (1780-1867) was an icon of cultural conservatism in 19th-century France. He became the principal proponent of Neoclassical painting, following the death of his mentor, Jacques-Louis David. The cool, meticulously drawn works of Ingres were a complete antithesis of the emotionalism and colorism of the Romanticism that sought to challenge it. Many found the movement to be old-fashioned. However, the spatial and anatomical distortions embedded in Ingres’ portraits and nudes most definitely anticipate some of the boldest formal experiments that would be taken by 20th-century Modernists.]]>
Edward Coley Burne-Jones, The Sleep of King Arthur in Avalon, 1881–98. Oil on canvas (click photo for larger image)
“A spectacular chapter in the history of artistic obsessions awaits visitors in the Museo de Arte de Ponce, where the medieval legend of King Arthur comes alive in the new exhibit The Art of the Empire: Three Centuries of British Art.”
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Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833–1898) was one of the leading painters and designers of late 19th-century England. His romantic paintings using medieval imagery were among the last creations of the Pre-Raphaelite style. A more significant influence stems from his dedication to the revival of the “artist-craftsman” ideal, which was so critical to the development of 20th-century industrial design.
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Basquiat's Dustheads sold for $48.8 million (click photo for larger image)
“With a Jackson Pollock and Jean-Michel Basquiat breaking auction records, Christies enjoyed the most lucrative auction in history.”
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This is a photo of Marcel Duchamp taken at the Walker Art Center in 1965, three years before the artist’s death. Photo: Eric Sutherland for the Walker Art Center
Marcel Duchamp - The Passage from Virgin to Bride - 1912 - oil on canvas - 23 3/8 x 21 1/4" (59.4 x 54 cm) - Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) New York, NY (click photo for larger image)“I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do...” These word were spoken by French born American artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) who is most closely associated with Cubism (a movement in which subject matter is broken up, analyzed and reassembled) and Dadaism (a movement which ridiculed contemporary culture and traditional art forms).
“To coincide with a current exhibition on Marcel Duchamp at the Barbican, London (until 9 June), here is an interview with the artist from the March 1993 issue of The Art Newspaper, until then unpublished.”
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An Image of a Louis Vuitton and Yayoi Kusama Concept Store, Summer 2012
“While the crossover of fashion and art is hardly a new phenomenon, the nature of today’s partnerships differ greatly from those of the past.”
READ MORE in an article by Meredith Blechman that reviews how the relationship between fashion and art has evolved.
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Claudio Bravo, Morteros / Mortars, 2001. Oil on canvas, 31 1/2 x 39 3/8 in., 80 x 100 cm. © The Estate of Claudio Bravo, courtesy Marlborough Gallery, New York (click photo for larger image)
“Marlborough Gallery announces an exhibition of paintings by the preeminent realist painter, Claudio Bravo. This is the artist’s first show since his untimely demise in 2011....”
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Bravo (1936-2011) was a realist of major proportions, from Chile. He was influenced by Renaissance and Baroque painters, as well as by such Surrealists as Salvador Dali.
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The gifted artist, Nathan Walsh, at work
Nathan Walsh - A Finished Product (click photo for larger image)
“Nathan Walsh (born 1972) is an English realist painter who specializes in urban landscapes. He pays tribute to some of the world’s most beautiful cities, like New York, Chicago or London, through photo-realistic paintings of various urban locations.”
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This artist goes through a lengthy, meticulous process to create his wonderful works--and feels that process is far superior to working from photographs. The process becomes an “experience” in Walsh’s view.
Source: Detailed Urban Landscape Images Are Actually Ultra-Realistic Paintings (http://www.odditycentral.com/art/detailed-urban-landscape-images-are-actually-ultra-realistic-paintings.html)
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“A visitor looks at a collection of postards depicting nudes, from 1900 at the "The Naked Truth and More Besides - Nude photography around 1900" exhibition at Berlin's Photography Museum May 2, 2013. The exhibition "presents the astonishing diversity of photographic depictions of the disrobed human body that existed around 1900". The exhibition will open from May 3 to August 25, 2013. AFP PHOTO / JOHN MACDOUGALL.” (click photo for larger image)
"At the dawn of the last century, photographs of nudes could be found everywhere. The exhibition The Naked Truth and More Besides presents the astonishing diversity of photographic depictions of the disrobed human body that existed around this time.”
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Source: Exhibition of nude photography from around 1900 on view at Berlin's Photography Museum (http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=62317#.UYW9w78Z74_)
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“Elizabeth I - A powerful, no nonsense leader, Elizabeth would likely have straightened her striking red hair in a short, cropped style...” (click photo for larger image)
“Several of the world’s most historic figures have been given a 21st century make-over via a new art project.”
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Click on the “View Gallery” link to peruse the makeovers of other famous figures. It’s a lot of fun!
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