Sunday, November 2, 2008

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Sunday, October 19, 2008



Painting by Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890) Adeline Ravoux, 1890.
Oil on fabric; 50.2 x 50.5 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr. 1958.31.

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Thursday, October 9, 2008

Dear John Lennon...Happy Birthday


Starting Thursday night, some of that art - including a few pieces never seen before - will be put on display at a Manhattan gallery by Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono.
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Friday, September 19, 2008

The Dead Sea, Ein Gedi & Judean Wilderness

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Monday, September 8, 2008

Vienna Shows Van Gogh as Draughtsman in EU3 Billion Exhibition




This is a handout of Vincent van Gogh's reed pen and ink drawing "Portrait of Joseph Roulin," released to the media on Friday, September 5, 2008.




Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) -- ``Van Gogh, Drawn Lines,'' a new exhibition at Vienna's Albertina, promotes itself with a list of superlatives -- the most expensive exhibition ever in Austria and the first Vincent van Gogh show in Vienna for 50 years.
More daring, though, is its claim to shed new light on a painter who must be the world's favorite, if the number of reproductions is a guide. The exhibition, open since Sept. 5, sets out to show Van Gogh as a great draughtsman whose skills with line played a decisive role in the success of his painting.
The Albertina, whose own collection is primarily of sketches, has amassed an array of 140 Van Gogh paintings and drawings from museums and private collectors in 16 countries. The
Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the Kroller-Muller Museum in Otterlo have loaned so many works, you have to wonder whether they are left with blank walls. The whole show is insured for an inconceivable 3 billion euros ($4.2 billion).
There are cases where the drawing is on show but not the painting to go with it, or vice versa. Still, there are also canvases and drawings that were unfamiliar to me because they are in private collections or far-flung museums such as Detroit or Honolulu. Among those rarely on public view is ``Garden in Auvers,'' painted in the last weeks of the artist's life, an extravagantly dotted canvas with purple and red flowerbeds tilted at odd angles.
Dark Landscapes
The show spans Van Gogh's short career, starting with the early years in the Netherlands, where he focused on depicting peasant life and dark landscapes in charcoal drawings and oils with the kind of muted colors typical of the old Dutch masters.
It then breaks out in a burst of color, the period when Van Gogh went to Paris and first encountered the work of the impressionists. He realized that his own palette was old-fashioned and conventional in comparison with this vibrant new style. Perhaps the best-known painting on display from that era is his self-portrait in a straw hat.
The last rooms cover the wheatfields, cypresses and olive groves of his two years in Provence, where he suffered increasing sickness and insanity, eventually leading to his suicide in Auvers-sur-Oise near Paris, in 1890 at the age of 37.
Van Gogh first went to Provence in search of the brilliant light and landscape of Japan. He was a big admirer of Japanese colored woodcuts, which are the inspiration for the dots, dashes and squiggles of his drawings. The magical reed pen-and-ink drawing of ``Boats at Sea'' (1888) is comprised of meticulous spots, swirls and curved short lines in varying shades.
Windswept Wheatfield
Reed pen-and-ink drawings like this and ``The Sower'' (1888) were created from the painting he had produced earlier, proof that Van Gogh valued his drawings in their own right, not merely as templates for a painting. Painted during a fierce mistral, ``The Sower'' shows a brilliant sun above a windswept wheatfield.
The drawing Van Gogh produced for Theo has, if anything, more drama and intensity than the painting, even without the penetrating colors. The sun is bigger in the sky, the lines of the wildly disheveled field more heavily accentuated, and the sower himself looks more purposeful.
Where the exhibition at the Albertina works best is in showing that each line of Van Gogh's, whether in the drawings or paintings, was disciplined, exact and planned.
Seeing the two juxtaposed, it becomes clear that no matter how thick his paint, how intense his colors or how tumultuous and fizzing with wild energy his fields and skies can be, Van Gogh's bold brushstrokes are not the product of uncontrolled madness. The precision of his drawing is there in his paintings, too.
His creeping mental illness may have affected his way of perceiving the world, but in no way did it impair his control over the meticulous execution of his work.
Anyone planning a special trip to Vienna to see the Van Gogh exhibition may want to wait until October, when a show that promises to be equally worth the journey opens at the Belvedere. ``Gustav Klimt und die Kunstschau 1908,'' an exhibition that partially reconstructs Klimt's show 100 years later, opens on Oct. 1.

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Saturday, September 6, 2008

Apples

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Lily of Peace


Yayoi Kusama (B. 1929)


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Friday, June 6, 2008

Diego Velasquez Painter


Portrait of Philip IV, 1632

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (June 6, 1599August 6, 1660), commonly referred to as Diego Velázquez, was a Spanish painter who was the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary baroque period, important as a portrait artist. In addition to numerous renditions of scenes of historical and cultural significance, he painted scores of portraits of the Spanish royal family, other notable European figures, and commoners, culminating in the production of his masterpiece Las Meninas (1656)Read more on wiki...Spanish Painter

Friday, May 23, 2008

Back on display

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"It was a challenge because we didn't know anything about what these two
paintings had been through." Mette Havrevold Restoration expert.

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Saturday, May 10, 2008

Texas Root Beer Bandits


This photo was taken at the Dallas Arboretum [Botanical Garden]on April 25, 2008.
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Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Art Works

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Thursday, April 10, 2008

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Van Cliburn

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 | 7:30pm @ Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth, Texas.



Sunday, February 24, 2008

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Unfinished Symphony#5







Oh, yeah! I'm not through painting. I ran out of paints! Crud!

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Forged Art on eBay

Man accused of selling at least $300K worth of forged art on Ebay
The Associated Press
Article Launched: 02/06/2008 02:55:20 AM PST

IRVINE, Calif.—Police have arrested a 42-year-old man who they say made at least $300,000 auctioning off art forgeries on eBay.

Forty-two-year-old Vincent Lopreto is accused of selling imitations of works by English artist Damien Hirst that would be worth up to $20,000 apiece if authentic.

Lt. Rick Handfield said detectives have confirmed $300,000 in sales of bogus works by Lopreto, but they suspect he has bilked many more online customers, giving them fraudulent certificates of authenticity along with the fake art.

Lopreto was booked at the Orange County Jail on Tuesday and held in lieu of $350,000 bail.

Friday, January 25, 2008


We Will Never Forget