Many times I have laughed about the holiness feeling, the candles, the dim light, the smell of incense, accompanied by the art and expression
of great painters who were more atheist that many of us here yet their work of art are hung on famous temples or cathedrals around the world.
In the same tradition
of great painters who settled in the Hamptons during the winter months to work without interruption and take advantage of the large spaces and one of the most beautiful lights of the Northeast (Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Robert Motherwell are just a few who come to mind), Kawai and her husband, photographer Justin Waldron, set camp in a modernist - style home and adjacent studio in East Hampton.
Barnett Newman is one
of the great painters who backs the show at the Whitney as the quintessence of American creativity.
Not exact matches
Did Vincent Van Gogh — one
of, if not the,
greatest painter in history — paint Doctor's
Who» s preferred method
of transportation into one
of his impressionistic landscapes?
Ask any
great song writer, author,
painter anybody
who creates ANYTHING and they will tell you, we do our best work when motivated by love (or pain - but that's usually because
of love - so it's the same thing!).
However, for those familiar with the
great painter's works, as well as the prevailing spirit
of the Era
of Enlightenment and the style
of the other
great artists
of various mediums
who used their craft to comment on the blights
of the world around them, Goya's Ghosts speaks on a level that transcends just the story
of two men looking after the welfare
of a young, unfortunate woman caught up in the hysteria
of power that marked the end
of the Spanish Inquisition's stranglehold
of power, as well as the outrageous hypocrisy in their manner
of governance.
Though it's visually arresting, this film is not quite as deep as the source novel, a speculative piece
of historical fiction about Johannes Vermeer's famous painting, but Johansson shines as the girl
who inspires the
great painter played by Colin Firth.
Stephen the
Great was a religious and cultural man, and it was his influence that gave rise to a school
of native
painters who have bequeathed some true masterpieces
of the fresco technique found on the 16th and 17th - century painted monasteries
of Bucovina.
Having been immediately hailed by European critics as one
of his era's
greatest painters, Soutine,
who was based in France for much
of his career, was largely ignored in America until the Museum
of Modern Art in New York hosted a small exhibition
of his work in 1950.
If you just want to be the socialite darling, if that's what's driving you, I think your likelihood
of being Truman Capote is
greater; or Salvador Dali,
who was an extraordinarily gifted
painter in his 20s, but then hit his 30s and became a parody
of himself.
Frequently pigeonholed as the last
great English romantic
painter in the vein
of Constable and Turner, Hodgkin is more incendiary than that — a sunburst
of an artist
who exploded counterintuitively from a British visual culture temperamentally uneasy at depicting sensuality or expressing intellectual thoughts.
These essays have
great importance for modern representational
painters but for those
of us
who aren't connected to an art school or university these essays are likely to be hard or impossible to find.
This exhibition tracks the transitional period
of the
great twentieth century
painter Arshile Gorky,
who moved from figuration to abstraction with his drippy, brightly colored oil on canvases.
There he endured almost a decade
of struggle before finding a few patrons, most notably Albert C. Barnes, the
great Philadelphia collector,
who catapulted Soutine to fame and fortune when he bought every canvas in the
painter's studio in 1922.
• Tony Smith (1912 — 1980), sculptor
who bridged AbEx and minimalism (dad
of Kiki) Mel Kendrick (b. 1949), formalist process - based sculptor Chris Wilmarth (1943 — 1987), sculptor
of steel, bronze, and etched glass Joel Shapiro (b. 1941), minimalist sculptor
who flirts with figuration Christopher Wool (b. 1955), Neo-AbExer with a taste for graffiti and repetition Alex Hubbard (b. 1975), rising master
of painterly materials and abstract coloration Josh Smith (b. 1976), Factory - like
painter of great expressive volume Jacob Kassay (b. 1984), mirrored - painting - wunderkind - turned - sackcloth artist • Andy Warhol (1928 — 1987), Pop maestro and appropriationist world - changer David Robbins (b. 1957), artist and «Concrete Comedy» theorist David LaChapelle (b. 1963), lush photographer
of celebrity decadence Ronnie Cutrone (1948 — 2013), Factory personality and East Village cult figure George Condo (b. 1957), Neo-Picassian
painter of the grotesque Mark Dagley (b. 1957), Op abstractionist • Richard Serra (b. 1939), grand master
of process art and the post-industrial sublime Grégoire Müller (b. 1947),
painter of current - event appropriations Philip Glass (b. 1937), «Einstein on the Beach» composer Lawrence Chandler (b. 1951), composer, musician, and sound artist • Sol LeWitt (1928 — 2007), father
of conceptual art, multitasking artistic outsourcer Adrian Piper (b. 1948), performance art innovator Mark Williams (b. 1950), monochromatic minimalist
painter
It is almost impossible to see how the artist
who made the Charred Journal Firewritten series
of 1951 could have become a
great painter.
It was also Baldwin
who taught me to consider connections between different forms
of art through his relationship with the
great painter Beauford Delaney, an artist whose work I would eventually own.
Hans Burkhardt Hans Burkhardt in Mexico Jack Rutberg Fine Arts September 23 - December 23, 2017 Widely regarded as one
of the
great Mexican
painters of all time is Hans Burkhardt,
who, oddly, was a Swiss - born
painter who grew up in Los Angeles.
Yes, this is critical, and yes, this is long overdue but Marshall,
who grew up in Birmingham Ala. 1955 during the Civil Rights Movement and then moved to Los Angeles in 1965 when Watts went up in flames, has absorbed both American history and African American history to become one
of the
greatest history
painters of our time.
The American
painter and ceramicist is in the process
of being «rediscovered,» which is
great news for anyone
who loves a good abstract painting.
British
painter Lucian Freud is a
great figurative artist with an immense following
who was always going in and out
of style in his 70 years
of working.
The exhibition is offered as a tribute to Woodmere's longtime trustee, Frances M. Maguire, a
painter and sculptor
who works in the tradition
of the Carles legacy and continues to be one
of the
great champions
of the arts
of our city.
Considered one
of the 20th century's
great still - life
painters, Chaim Soutine,
who died in 1943, was a double outsider — an immigrant Jew living in Paris and a modernist.
By showing him alongside his many imitators, this exhibition cast Caravaggio in a league
of his own, and was a rare instance
of a female
painter — in this case Artemisia Gentileschi — being acknowledged as one
of the very few
who came close to matching the
great master.
And he closes with an appreciation
of «the
greatest American
painter of the twentieth century»
who was «intimately concerned with the bleakness
of our spirituality in the absence
of God» namely, Mark Rothko.
We were also interested in the fascinating connection Alex Katz has had to poetry since the «50s, working with John Ashbury and Frank O'Hara, so that's why we paired him with Etel Adnan,
who is not only a
great poet but also a wonderful
painter who puts a sort
of energy and magnetism into her little paintings and leporello notebooks.
Now, however, we live in such a hybrid time
of figuration and abstraction that Cecily Brown or Marilyn Minter,
who are the
great figure
painters of today, are always borrowing techniques, looks, feelings, and scale from abstraction.
David Reed is a grandmaster — no
painter has contributed as much in terms
of expanding the vocabulary
of abstract painting and maintaining its relevance during this era
of marginalization, although there are many in New York
who currently enjoy
greater status.
Speaking
of hope, one
of the
great developments
of the past half - decade has been a broad effort among curators to look back into history and recuperate artists, often
painters,
who had been left out
of the official narrative due to their race, gender, sexuality, nationality, or otherwise outsider status.
Think
of Ed Paschke, the
great American
painter who died in 2004, was a formalist in wolf's clothing, or the most abstract
of Photo Realists.
The artist,
who died in 2011, was possibly the
greatest realist
painter of his time.
Three formidable realist
painters — two
of them well - known modern artists and a third
who's currently active in the East End art community — bring the
great outdoors into the inviting llle Arts gallery space in a summer show that prompts a happy response.
He defined himself as a figurative artist
who went through Abstract Expressionism, Geometric Abstraction and a number
of other styles
of painting, but
who had always been a figurative
painter because his
greatest interest was in people.
Duccio, Botticelli, Crivelli — just three
of the
great Renaissance
painters who placed architecture at the heart
of their works.
Inspired by the hand scrolls and painted screens
of early 17th Century Japanese artist Tawaraya Sōtatsu,
who combined the traditional themes
of the indigenous school
of Japanese narrative scroll painting with the bold, decorative designs
of the
great screen
painters of the Azuchi - Momoyama period.
At the time
of the original Bacchus exhibition, Twombly often referred to Giulio Romano, the
great Renaissance
painter who made a room
of the giants in Mantua at the Palazzo Te.
Who knows if someday, a
great painter, looking with scorn on the often brutal game
of supposed colorists and taking the seven colors back to the primordial white unity that encompasses them all, will not exhibit completely white canvases, with nothing, absolutely nothing on them.
Josef Albers was a renowned German abstract
painter and color theorist, one
of the most prominent and influential pioneers
of 20th - century modernism,
who dedicated a
great deal
of his life to art — either teaching it or producing it.
He was a
great painter who produced a significant body
of work over six decades, until his death in 1980, but his often vitriolic personality and self - imposed outsider status — he mostly refused to sign with a gallery — meant that he has always been seen as a secondary figure.
You decide upon the spot that you will join the
great tradition
of plein - air
painters, following in the revolutionary footsteps
of John Constable,
who first left his studio to approach a landscape painting in glorious nature herself.
At the contemporary art annexe to the Kunstmuseum — Museum fur Gegenwartskunst there is an exhibition
of the polymath conceptual artist filmmaker,
painter and musician Rodney Graham [16-1-49] Canadian born artist
who is a
great narrative inventor
of personas which can literally turn the world on its head — witness his upside down tree photos — this museum is a wonderful place within a stones throw
of the Rhine
At the Gagosian Gallery in King's Cross, one Hans - Georg Bruno Kern,
who changed his name to Baselitz after the Saxon village
of Deutschbaselitz where he was born in 1938, also presents Farewell Bill, a suite
of impressively large and loose self - portraits in honour
of the
great Abstract Expressionist
painter Willem de Kooning.
He tried to move the debate from the old binary positions
of previous decades, declaring that «the true
painter, will be he
who can wring from contemporary life its epic aspect and make us see and understand, with colour or in drawing, how
great and poetic we are in our cravats and our polished boots».
Considered one
of the
greatest and most famous American
painters, Jackson Pollock was a performer
of sorts, an artist
who dripped and smeared his paint onto the laying canvas through a series
of movements and gestures, thus giving life to Action Painting.
Albers worked in a discipline traditionally viewed as feminine, she was a student and ardent admirer
of South American weaving, thought
of as a niche interest in the US («I will be accused
of crass one - sidedness in my feeling
of awe for the textile arts
of Peru») and she was married to Josef Albers,
who achieved
great fame as a
painter in the post-war era ---- all these things perhaps contributed to her relative neglect towards the end
of the twentieth century.
In the early part
of 1958, along with Philip Johnson,
who had recently been told by Alfred Barr that Rothko was «the
greatest living
painter,» Lambert commissioned Rothko to produce a series
of paintings for the smaller
of two planned dining rooms at the Four Seasons Restaurant.»
She stands out among contemporary
painters as one
who created
great loveliness on canvas with imagination and a fineness
of sheer painting quality which is a joy to study.
This early judgment
of the French «Impressionists» was not soundly based, in that it did not consider the fact that those
great painters,
who gave to the world a new translation
of light and color, still «held true» to the basic principles
of art.
And perhaps — it occurs to me now, I never thought about it in these terms, one role that I played was that I formed another kind
of bridge between Europe and the American
painters: I seemed to be the only European actually - although I didn't have any official position, I was just a man about town — the only European really
who seems to have understood them, and not only understood them, but really they were my
great enthusiasm.
It garnered the attention
of the renown art critic Clement Greenberg,
who said later, «I took one look at Mural and I knew Jackson was the
greatest painter this country had produced.»