Her unprecedented
piece Rhapsody (1975 — 76, collection Museum of Modern Art), a painting on 987 gridded, enameled steel plates, reads as a lyrical conversation between mathematical abstraction and painterly figuration.
In the Addresses series, Bartlett reinterprets the square - and - triangle house icon, which is one of the four figurative elements of her monumental
piece Rhapsody, 1976 *.
Her monumental 987 - plate
piece Rhapsody (1975 - 76) was on view earlier this summer at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Not exact matches
If you're wondering why there are shouts of jubilation from film buffs and aficionados of pre-swing-era music it's because the Criterion Collection has released a beautiful Blu - ray and DVD of King of Jazz (1930), The movie features Bing Crosby's first appearance onscreen, as part of the Rhythm Boys trio, jazz giants Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang, and a spectacular rendition of George Gershwin's «
Rhapsody in Blue» by Paul Whiteman, the orchestra leader who commissioned the
piece just six years earlier.
The two concert
pieces included at the end of disc two are a real boon (particularly the «
Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra»); and while this album as a whole ought to disprove any notion that this score is all about its famous main theme, these two
pieces serve as a reminder of just how good that theme is.
King of Jazz (John Murray Anderson, Pál Fejös, 1930) This newly restored two - colour Technicolor treat is a revelatory combination of Art Deco surrealist set -
pieces, acrobatic choreography and démodé trick photography bouncing off extremely dated but charmingly goofy humour and jazz which could scarcely be any more trad (notwithstanding that Gershwin's glorious «
Rhapsody in Blue», written for the «King of Jazz» himself, bandleader Paul Whiteman, and used prominently in the film, was a pointer to certain new directions).
Inon Zur's classical remix of Bohemian
Rhapsody may be one of the most beautiful
pieces of music I've ever heard.
The garish nature of global capitalism is the subject of this
piece, Venetian
Rhapsody (2017).
The colored lines running across the canvases bring to mind similar line work in her abstract steel plate
pieces and passages in her iconic
Rhapsody (1975 - 76, collection of MoMA) and the finale of Recitative (2009 - 10).
One of the most critically acclaimed artists of the 1970s, Jennifer Bartlett developed a signature grid - based approach to creating monumental modular paintings — often built out of graph - paper - gridded steel - and - enamel plates that she would then compose on in enamel — that achieved The Clock - like success in the form of
Rhapsody, a nearly 1,000 - plate
piece that debuted at Paula Cooper in 1976.
Filling the entire second floor of Locks Gallery, Song creates a panorama reminiscent of Bartlett's epic plate
piece,
Rhapsody (1975 - 76).
Bartlett's first major exhibition, a single but monumental
piece,
Rhapsody (1976) astounded critics with its encyclopedic demonstration of painting as a subject.
The exterior of the Korea Pavilion in the Giardini, with CODY CHOI's neon signage
piece Venetian
Rhapsody (2017) on the roof.
Jennifer Bartlett —
Rhapsody Sherrie Levine — After Walker Evans Barbara Kruger — your gaze hits the side of my face Jenny Holzer — truisms Pat Steir — The Brueghel Series (A Vanitas of Style) Anne Truitt — Knights Heritage Georgia O'Keefe — Abstraction Blue Susan Rothenberg — Butterfly Judy Pfaff — Painted Forms: Recent Metal Sculpture, Installation, Whitney 1978 Lee Krasner — white squares Joan Mitchell — Chord IIV Magdalena Abakanowicz — Four on a bench Alice Aycock — Low Building with Dirt Roof Nancy Holt — Sun Tunnels Cindy Sherman — Untitled Film Stills Gorilla girls — Do women have to be naked... Maya Lin — Vietnam Memorial Alice Neal — Portrait of Andy Laurie Anderson — America Parts I — IV Rachel Whiteread — House Diane Arbus — Twins Nan Goldin — The Ballad of Sexual Dependency Sally Mann — Immediate Family Agnes Martin — Untitled Kiki Smith — Standing Linda Benglis — Artforum Advertisement Kara Walker — My Complement, My Oppressor, My Enemy, My Love Louise Bourgeois — spider Helen Frankenthaler — Mountains and Sea Jo Baer — Rook Jackie Winsor — Burnt
Piece Eva Hesse — Repetition Nineteen
Thus there are the Spanish Lady, the Swedish
Rhapsody (for the
piece of music that introduces the number strings) and The Lincolnshire Poacher (again, for the intro music).