tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61259332151315823592024-02-20T11:45:11.700-05:00Paint BigChris Barnardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11502527653251105422noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125933215131582359.post-68976772764989233412007-12-08T19:57:00.000-05:002007-12-08T20:16:12.784-05:00Walker Painted/Sillhouetted Big<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-OQXL7moDVEauZTWehm3fibjWeB7hIjpXEYM2QFI87R7xh7LAvABs60I5-rASVuTwkfSjduWEovihj-_zMsLdtl0GzSF0WPbLKaOaaFSmD_KCB6P_xn6BlJcviaGr9Xs3ytXisSfKSw/s1600-h/Picture+20+%283%29.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-OQXL7moDVEauZTWehm3fibjWeB7hIjpXEYM2QFI87R7xh7LAvABs60I5-rASVuTwkfSjduWEovihj-_zMsLdtl0GzSF0WPbLKaOaaFSmD_KCB6P_xn6BlJcviaGr9Xs3ytXisSfKSw/s320/Picture+20+%283%29.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5141774625220099922" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijU7XbuAEkR2Kfcan1nfb8Cwe4CjWQ5X6ICOlrDigCAxSgtbno-qC8CTQGg6Fe_3NRQ0czDZuFs5mXao-hY4TuvB1m_h4xSDTZ8p0a0YdCZjA3Q5Ux6bLz6vsHJ4nTr4BGcGjwTNuG7A/s1600-h/walker2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVhKe52jHqpnRKaLDly_S1AxrLuWfzGvkEIQFJrgcvDugSJ4lkb0tNhBf_PMUCIYwuD7yzenEJybRI6Ik57XSbexTrizCq2YyYZ2fy7Ap5H96RQBbHp7gT82B2Q2MCji1QYOHIAADoRg/s320/Picture+19+%282%29.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5141772898643246898" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHyIGWEyLrF2q3N3mdqJ1ev8_eRV8xMdYbfP14oEI4zDq8E5KxUsSJSb8t7TM2EaF3Peu32gVnLIpyPkpSx8Og13u1Bbh9rsE_-khXx59aHHCJVEU7Tyn5-Uec1JkHjsarOjvRGPUjxQ/s1600-h/walker2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHyIGWEyLrF2q3N3mdqJ1ev8_eRV8xMdYbfP14oEI4zDq8E5KxUsSJSb8t7TM2EaF3Peu32gVnLIpyPkpSx8Og13u1Bbh9rsE_-khXx59aHHCJVEU7Tyn5-Uec1JkHjsarOjvRGPUjxQ/s320/walker2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5141772898643246914" border="0" /></a><br /> <p class="MsoNormal">Kara Walker was born in <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Stockton</st1:City>, <st1:state st="on">California</st1:State></st1:place> in 1969. At the age of 13 she moved to <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Atlanta</st1:City>, <st1:country-region st="on">Georgia</st1:country-region></st1:place> the pronounced racial division had a major impact on her and ultimately informed her work. She received a BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in 1991 and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994. In 1997 at the age of 27 <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Walker</st1:place></st1:City> became <span style="">the youngest recipient of the <a href="http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.855229/k.CC2B/Home.htm"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's</span></a> "genius" grant. She has</span> exhibited at the <st1:placetype st="on">Museum</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:placename st="on">Modern Art</st1:PlaceName>, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Solomon</st1:PlaceName> <st1:placename st="on">R.</st1:PlaceName> <st1:placename st="on">Guggenheim</st1:PlaceName> <st1:placetype st="on">Museum</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. <span style="">The 2007 Walker Art Center–organized exhibition <i style="">Kara Walker: My Complement, My Oppressor, My Enemy, My Love</i> is the artist's first full-scale <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> museum survey. She currently lives in <st1:state st="on">New York</st1:State>, where she is a professor of visual arts in the MFA program at <a href="http://wwwapp.cc.columbia.edu/art/app/arts/visual_arts/index.jsp"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Columbia University</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span style=""> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Times-Roman;"><span style=""> </span><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Walker</st1:place></st1:City> utilizes various techniques and media including painting and drawing, light projection and written text, to her well-known cut-paper silhouette installations, video and performances, like in <i style="">Cut</i>. Through her </span>silhouetted figures<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Times-Roman;"> she explores the </span>representation and stereotypes of race, gender, sexuality and identity, as well as, her own place and connection to these issues. To create a silhouette <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Walker</st1:place></st1:City> draws the image with a pencil and cuts the paper with an X-Acto knife and the images are adhered to paper, canvas, wood or directly to the wall with wax. The silhouettes are often part of a larger mural that creates a narrative that surrounds viewers on a life-size scale, like her piece <i style="">Slavery! Slavery!</i> The murals create a panoramic all-encompassing effect that is similar to technology that was popular at the end of the 19<sup>th</sup> century. In recent works like <i style="">Darkytown Rebellion</i>, <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Walker</st1:place></st1:City> uses overhead projectors to cast color onto the walls and her silhouetted figures. When the viewer walks into the room, their body casts a shadow onto the walls becoming part of <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Walker</st1:place></st1:City>’s narrative. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on"><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Times-Roman;">Walker</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Times-Roman;">’s work confronts the subject of race and racial stereotypes prevalent in society. For example, in <i style="">Endless Conundrum, An African Anonymous Adventuress </i>her precise and often exaggerated drawings of facial features, body shapes, and costume use line and form to signify the ethnicity of her subjects and comment on the way race is used to define, categorize and other individuals<i style="">. </i><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Walker</st1:place></st1:City> uses black paper on white walls, thus eliminating the need for her to create skin tones. This plays upon well-established stereotypical images in the collective mind of viewers that allow the race of characters to be identifiable through caricature. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Times-Roman;"><span style=""> </span>Through her work Walker presents a complex exploration of taboo issues of sexuality, desire, pleasure, violence and shame. Work like <i style="">Allegory</i> and scenes within her larger narrative murals have elements or images dealing with such taboo issues. Sexually explicit behavior and violence are presented with meticulous clear imagery; which has created controversy around her work. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Times-Roman;"><span style=""> </span>The historical setting for much of Walker’s work is the American pre—Civil War antebellum South. She often draws upon or references literature of the time period and minstrel shows of the 1830s-40s. The combination of the realism of slavery and its history and the fictional space created in her references to historical romance novels complicated Walker’s depiction of history. In much of her work, for example, <i style="">Gone, An Historical Romance of a Civil War as it Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart </i>fact, fiction, and fantasy are intertwined; exaggerated truths and fictionalized events are presented as history lessons that viewers must sort out and decide which elements are true. Through this decoding of the truth Walker comments on the way that official history is just as constructed as her stories. Issues and questions of power are raised, such as, who has the power to write history and who has the power to write others out of history? Whose voices are left out of the re-telling of history?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Times-Roman;"><span style=""> </span>Walker’s tone in very satirical and critical which is evident in her use of language in the titles of her work. The titles also show the refernces to literature like <i style="">Gone With the Wind</i> or <i style="">Uncle Tom’s Cabin.</i> In <i style="">The End of Uncle Tom and the Grand Allegorical Tableau of Eva in Heaven </i>she draws upon a popular novel and re-tells the narrative to expose the complex, ambiguous and unsettling subject of racial representation and the history of slavery and racism in the U.S. She explores the complexity of race, gender and sexuality with critical commentary that forces the viewer to question and re-evaluate representation and history. <o:p></o:p></span></p>alysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01408667025638275732noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125933215131582359.post-51639144764835708312007-12-08T19:45:00.000-05:002007-12-08T19:50:04.789-05:00Ritchie Painted Big<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8isEiCzRqS40vtLglngvCKPNiA0CarVg4BzZi9YriR9y_Hx295-srNEuWZqdCUCdfla6TCL46U2NdY00-eCP466Chmvy1DZePJUD2353S6KT7fU29V3poVdxF1z4XYieXMEh3aWMf1g/s1600-h/4-Ritchie2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8isEiCzRqS40vtLglngvCKPNiA0CarVg4BzZi9YriR9y_Hx295-srNEuWZqdCUCdfla6TCL46U2NdY00-eCP466Chmvy1DZePJUD2353S6KT7fU29V3poVdxF1z4XYieXMEh3aWMf1g/s320/4-Ritchie2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5141769024582745858" border="0" /></a><br /> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 200%;">Matthew Ritchie was born in <st1:city st="on">London</st1:city> in 1964, but he has lived in <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:state> for much of his adult life and has been very active in the art scene there. He attended the Camberwell School of Art in <st1:city st="on">London</st1:city>, and then <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Boston</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>. He is often categorized as a painter, but Ritchie also makes light-box drawings, floor-to-wall installations, freestanding sculpture, web sites, and short stories. Drawing is central to his work. He scans his drawings into the computer, and then he blows them up, takes them apart, changes their size and shape, or turns them into digital games. Since his drawings are transformed into digital images, they can also be shared and executed by others.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 200%;">Through his art, Ritchie works to describe the universe’s formation and the “attempts and limits of human consciousness to comprehend its vastness.” Much of his work is expressive of information (as subject), and in particular he deals with the idea of information existing on the surface of things. When asked what his work is ultimately about, Ritchie has replied simply, “life is as complicated as it appears.”</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 200%;">I think his work clearly expresses the overwhelming, sublime, complicatedness of the world. The way he works with many layers and clusters of forms that all seem different, but interweave to create a cohesive entity, is descriptive of this notion. His style has an explosive quality to it, and I think of Ritchie’s work as being at the forefront of a growing contemporary aesthetic. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">LINKS:</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">Matthew Ritchie on ART 21: </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><a href="http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/ritchie/index.html">http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/ritchie/index.html</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">“The Hard Way”:</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><a href="http://www.adaweb.com/influx/hardway/">http://www.adaweb.com/influx/hardway/</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="" lang="FR">“Proposition: Player”:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><a href="http://newplace.projects.sfmoma.org/mockUp1204/"><span style="" lang="FR">http://newplace.projects.sfmoma.org/mockUp1204/</span></a><a href="http://newplace.projects.sfmoma.org/mockUp1204/"><span style="" lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></a></p>alysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01408667025638275732noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125933215131582359.post-76707520747985011152007-11-26T00:55:00.001-05:002007-11-26T01:07:34.748-05:00Mehretu Painted Big<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">Julie Mehretu was born in 1970 in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Ethiopia</st1:place></st1:country-region>. She was raised in <st1:state st="on">Michigan</st1:State> and was educated at <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Kalamazoo</st1:PlaceName> <st1:placetype st="on">College</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> and at Rhode Island School of Design. She now lives and works in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:City> where she shares her studio with her partner, who also an artist, Jessica Rankin.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style=""> </span>Mehretu uses signs and symbols and pairs them with architectural imagery to create her elaborate paintings. Mehretu's work combines maps, urban-planning grids, and architectural forms to convey historical narratives and fictional landscapes. Mehretu creates paintings that combine abstract forms with the familiar, such as the Roman Coliseum and floor plans from international airports. She is simultaneously engaged with the formal concerns of color and line and the social concerns of power, history, globalism, and personal narrative. According to Mehretu, she is interested in "the multifaceted layers of place, space, and time that impact the formation of personal and communal identity." </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style=""> </span>The underlying structure of her work consists of socially charged public spaces, such as, government buildings, museums, stadiums, schools, and airports, all drawn in the form of maps and diagrams. After building a base of several layers of these structures, Mehretu maps out her large swirling clouds. Much like the human population of a geographical area, these large areas of marks are comprised of individuals – individuals who are capable of social change. These clouds become tribes, nations, and entire cultures capable of growth, trade, movement, conflict or extinction.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style=""> </span>What the viewer can appreciate about the work is that in spite of its complexity, Mehretu strives to give her viewer some sort of entry point - whether it is an architectural element or a specific color or shape. The “Stadia” series does just that. The architectural elements in the “Stadia” triptych are tracings of every stadium imaginable – from ancient amphitheaters to the most recently constructed sports arenas. These structures are capable of housing an infinitely large audience and serves as the theater for some super spectacle. Because the stadium renderings are renderings not technical drawings, the Stadia series begins as literally a collection of viewpoints. Strung across the open fields are rows and rows of pennants, flags and abstract shapes and colors that reference elements from the flag of every nation on earth. There is something for all spectators regardless of city or country of origin. Somewhere in these rows of colors, there is an element or structure a spectator can recognize and relate to.</p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizDbV0Oa3GpTUygWEdOqNyeeIxJJJvmjiBI-7iyWg34icJtcqVd-Fz5IN9jeOMCmdtsTSaoRMmtlzLaaiAg8tscgNQ649mh0D8dQWvC_ot-pwlpNFFNpoYaD0XdSlOqs3gykzBrBLuEQ/s1600-h/istanbul.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizDbV0Oa3GpTUygWEdOqNyeeIxJJJvmjiBI-7iyWg34icJtcqVd-Fz5IN9jeOMCmdtsTSaoRMmtlzLaaiAg8tscgNQ649mh0D8dQWvC_ot-pwlpNFFNpoYaD0XdSlOqs3gykzBrBLuEQ/s320/istanbul.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137024431171557810" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Istanbul</span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA2vfz1FxWTaGB_iNBgLH_lrENYHXiPBBGTbdxGQwzE0-pcsezS4I1cEealRRaWSl-IJ8mWv_ue7wYDalw2rva1Stq8mNdSqUNeNYPa6VoFPsx_Wtww4zhf9WeArNqq0wlJ0jI6rpLcg/s1600-h/mehretu2p.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiePhS_lCp55TiBaBaYs9gqujMwx8vXNijpPYFgjJysa8zcK2ugXt_CZuWauHcEy6VpAKQ7wXQDj6UKl-CUlBxWdMgQJe1wBsj2no3zBmp5663pfzG-XnCUQNRjKeXg7rh4qO-EYVNl9Q/s320/renegade_excavation.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137024448351427042" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Renegade Excavation<br /></span></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3bwuPl7Zh3DRxEGydXaTxIphK70n7EbmEt8el94wj52MQvDFOY3aCOb_BtjQUyciQwytqkrLQK8yQQBdDvHn8tRt5059eF7j8HWsRJhROo7EPxvlQhqjARvLsyVnTfyGccDQnJIIBFw/s1600-h/stadia1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3bwuPl7Zh3DRxEGydXaTxIphK70n7EbmEt8el94wj52MQvDFOY3aCOb_BtjQUyciQwytqkrLQK8yQQBdDvHn8tRt5059eF7j8HWsRJhROo7EPxvlQhqjARvLsyVnTfyGccDQnJIIBFw/s320/stadia1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137024461236328946" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Stadia 1</span><br /></div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi27eFKhtt-QUiyiVdU_Za1fUjhOwtcS0zATKOuWvalKqKcgnowyKI1JbLGopIhqZpwkiNECtnK_6JXI1oyIqY3a-BpsKJHRmKkhQavmJ4dL2JBIFAxok7qlYzab-y0GPkffyWeRo_sHw/s1600-h/stadia2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi27eFKhtt-QUiyiVdU_Za1fUjhOwtcS0zATKOuWvalKqKcgnowyKI1JbLGopIhqZpwkiNECtnK_6JXI1oyIqY3a-BpsKJHRmKkhQavmJ4dL2JBIFAxok7qlYzab-y0GPkffyWeRo_sHw/s320/stadia2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137024873553189378" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:78%;">Stadia 2</span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIoLs_olvGiiG4FLxJB_vOX6ZUU_mb2vAo2zniuxwcZP-n4C0pH9abxd0fyhnBkBvJJ4PVZZy7hfZgERvQPZV8-Ck0r6tPLlRQKWkRbFRdSGWRZGwuod5Ffe4SsT6VnjcEu0WtMuWtaQ/s1600-h/stadia3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIoLs_olvGiiG4FLxJB_vOX6ZUU_mb2vAo2zniuxwcZP-n4C0pH9abxd0fyhnBkBvJJ4PVZZy7hfZgERvQPZV8-Ck0r6tPLlRQKWkRbFRdSGWRZGwuod5Ffe4SsT6VnjcEu0WtMuWtaQ/s320/stadia3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137024877848156690" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Stadia 3<br /></span></div>alysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01408667025638275732noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125933215131582359.post-60316952941829418742007-11-20T22:34:00.000-05:002007-11-21T19:25:50.560-05:00Saville Painted Big<div align="left">Jenny Saville was born in Cambridge, England in 1970. She earned her BA in Fine Art from Glasgow School of Art in Scotland in 1992. During this time she was awarded a scholarship to study at the University of Cincinnati. She has been featured in multiple group exhibitions, including the Young British Artists III at the Saatchi Gallery in London and solo shows in New York. Her paintings are often of the body in some state of vulnerability, whether a nude or the body after a physical trauma. These works are monumental in scale and confront the viewer with images that contest conventional ideals of beauty, conventions of sexuality, transformation, mutilation and violence to the body. Saville states, “I like the spaces that a large scale offers. The different space of encountering a painting from a distance to being very close up to a painting, the physical relationship of your body to that scale of object and mark – making.” Looking at her work close – up the physical application of the paint can be seen. The sculptural layering of paint and color is dense and thick in certain areas as it corresponds to the density of the flesh of the subject. The marks are made in patchy and blotchy strokes that create volume and weight to the images.<br /> The body, specifically the female body, is prevalent in her paintings. In Branded and Plan she confronts the issues of body image, gender and questions the standards of beauty in society. In Plan she uses her own body as subject with contour lines draw on the surface. The lines are to resemble the marks drawn on before the body a surgical procedure, such as, liposuction. The vulnerability of and ability to alter the body are highlighted in this work. By depicting physical imperfections Saville challenges the idea of beauty, as it is associated with the male ideal of the female form and how imperfections and individualism can be beautiful.<br /> Saville works from photographs, textbook illustrations, forensic science books and other sources that include watching surgical procedures. She studies how the body is composed in order to paint it more accurately. In later work, Saville focuses on issues and imagery of trauma, violence, disease and death like in Knead and Reverse where the body has endured an act of trauma and Torso 2 where a carcass is seen as an example of violence that has ended in death. She paints the flesh as it has been mutilated, bloodied and bruised. The images are very intimate depicting the body in a state of vulnerability. The graphic depiction and large scale nature of the work adds to the images being aggressive and disturbing by being so large and unavoidable.<br /> Saville also explores the body being in a state of in between-ness. In between gender like in Passage where the subject is a Transvestite and where gender is not fixed but negotiable and fluid. Also, in the Knead and Reverse the body is in a state of being in between life and death.<br /> There is a parallel between Saville’s choice of imagery of bodies that have been altered or manipulated and the way in which she manipulates the paint to create the physicality of the body and flesh. Saville is able to use paint to create a sensory quality to her work, as well as, uses the images to explore larger themes and ideas.<br /><br /></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVAXKuRIULZpYiMvqPhHuZBo7UR7pkUPplA69ic5Jm_9uLH600kgthBW-JHUutQrKe0bloCwbhpirKyv_JLRa0moyMBm_i5JLjYD48bNwGuwSfrplcU-zL1C-PIv343a6iOBw4dD0x7Q/s1600-h/plan.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135132592566950194" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVAXKuRIULZpYiMvqPhHuZBo7UR7pkUPplA69ic5Jm_9uLH600kgthBW-JHUutQrKe0bloCwbhpirKyv_JLRa0moyMBm_i5JLjYD48bNwGuwSfrplcU-zL1C-PIv343a6iOBw4dD0x7Q/s320/plan.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div><div align="center"><em>Plan</em></div><div align="center"><br /></div><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm1fJR9j5JWqeGV8mkAAVVDgju8mx0kpq_rzIo9k9z87pxIdRokSpEAifQjS98CpGfkA94ufDLYraspTaxmZaEYB4WuTN09IBSnf6F2WQ83RAe3hkrWv6fTzt6utKVvkAkO1pgjkVW2A/s1600-h/strategy.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135132592566950210" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm1fJR9j5JWqeGV8mkAAVVDgju8mx0kpq_rzIo9k9z87pxIdRokSpEAifQjS98CpGfkA94ufDLYraspTaxmZaEYB4WuTN09IBSnf6F2WQ83RAe3hkrWv6fTzt6utKVvkAkO1pgjkVW2A/s320/strategy.jpg" border="0" /></a> <em>Strategy</em></p><div align="center"><br /></div><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135133258286881106" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9-6kFqYjXX8rW1em_VvC5oxViWRkKXbPtJJ-ZduhY9m_mI5n9B4n2RIYD5xLkCTib8Y-WZNQKYk4TnZ7gA1nvY7lxuI0lE5uZZXx3BmgXiWhfCZU-GLoEHRnb4Jj9BhPb3JKowjWU-w/s320/knead.jpg" border="0" /></p><p align="center"><em>Knead</em></p><p align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135133266876815714" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIsa1vyJJZ92dHcvQFAAc_IRDbr2POpKymc9p054auTJPwmWeQ1FLNrAA_3tYIFChTBLbgDKOvguIVw2X5c2AqbFLN-fl5TTSx2wCmiGTjDk20GjDdGXUUwiFpAbbxbZ3VbgdVXstTFA/s320/reverse.jpg" border="0" /><br /><em>Reverse</em><br /></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135133266876815730" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7kbpl1qtnWW1pFFmBl5yBUsTC1XtuHFoqqsQz5AGK-rw9JTqD-WkzO3gbDnUWqJ60N6_3zDbqU9pgmf-jihKerVtomrd_dzozU8RDO9wC741Hwu7Ed3Ffs5M6lhK8KQlhYgKOB87ijQ/s320/passage.jpg" border="0" /><br /><p align="center"><em>Passage</em></p><p><br /></p><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135133653423872402" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFCJwYrBWlAfeFbhqO8mp9hSVQC1CqqDBNxNgeIlggrVEQKMF5nYDYR12HlgD5Q9jEPj4tLwBj5aSW32jAAWIB1T8lZZWAE-bZFolUpfTGa17UlmF1yMSJNzEv27mouXgoAGyOT6HZbQ/s320/host.jpg" border="0" /></p><p align="center"><em>Host</em></p><p><br /></p><p align="right"></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135134070035700130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY9gOk5W9EvzNMLYq-rElyOGLsHB9AkB1PUnIgnv6nPGb67L2VwUCBn30JOea1yqRgx-GAimcorTfRcMN1RKA_s95beGBABwPzwZ6jmmaHZhho-JD9qU0C0SC4sx5TapDpgANAgA5JyQ/s320/torso.jpg" border="0" /><br /><p align="right"></p><p align="center"><em>Torso</em><br /></p><p></p>alysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01408667025638275732noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125933215131582359.post-31598281662082534142007-11-20T17:24:00.000-05:002007-11-20T22:22:12.062-05:00Kiefer Painted BigAnselm Kiefer was born on March 8, 1945, in Donaueschingen, Germany, during the final days of the collapse of the Third Reich. Being a boy growing up in postwar Germany, he would then use these feelings and influences of the German burden of the Nazi legacy in his work. As a young man, he studied French and law, but then persued art as an academic study in Freiburg in the late 1960’s. He is well-known for a favorite technique of pouring a blob of melted lead onto an ashen canvas to heighten suggestions of incineration, and in making works in attempt to process the past, he has been liked to the movement called New Symbolism.<br />One of Kiefer’s most controversial of works is a series called Occupations, in which he portrayed himself dressed in a military uniform giving the Nazi salute. It was unsure whether Kiefer was alluding to the past with nostalgia or satirizing dreams for the Nazi empire. Kiefer says, “I do not identify with Nero or Hitler, but I have to reenact what they did just a little bit in order to understand the madness. That is why I make these attempts to become a fascist.” Occupations signaled Kiefer’s endeavor to use his vocation as an artist to explore his own identity and heritage, which is prevalent in most of his works.<br /><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135053689722755170" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrI-sey5zVTDK_vTQs6eM5yEAf6uQoxQWrmndwmYdOI2PD5pwz_0BzQsU-8mMXxShymZkBwgLtT0Hpe0hooySpjVSfRcoioZOnC-GLw-ihSn4Dbq77M4-pijGWtztZont2-DLoPkFNjw/s320/Picture1.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Winter Landscape</em>, 1970</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">Watercolor on paper, 16 15/16 x 14 3/16"</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;"></span> </div><div align="center"> </div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135053694017722482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWVDMjD6J_96P9lRidEJRa2Hr6WY-tY3jbGAietlyXEjSr1arrZtjnhlsA0wEN5NM8BbXI-H-vhuc2BHq0ciKRZzyTEWOhT0VasPCJ1-3aPQpygjrLw-Fw6KTy9aGVEO4RkW3Q-85HWg/s320/Picture2.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div align="center"> <span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Heroic Symbols</em>, 1969</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">Watercolor and gouache on paper, 6 1/2 x 6 3/8"</span></div><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135053694017722498" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUP1OTS1eJcX674zanaApvOdFEoC3YGhxxM_9s6l_8CQ1F7PlRa5mhSkmyd3PLJsZHo58halE9nuCygMOKKcFpVsp4oZ7iv4HVqkuAeFfJm1qKEOodD2ukTmv_cRDHCEjAeXbTg5D8sg/s320/Picture3.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Heroic Symbols</em>, 1969</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">Watercolor and gouache on paper, 22 x 16 1/2"</span></div><br />Kiefer’s early watercolors were an exploration of his identity, and a representation of his own human suffering and loneliness. Heroic Symbols consists of a self-portrait of Keifer giving the Nazi salute pasted on the same sheet as an image of the sky “wounded by shots.” Winter Landscape depicts a human head over a winter scene stained in blood. It was meant to represent the land stained by events in human history, perhaps also portraying Keifer’s painful personal guilt.<br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135053698312689810" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN-Oc84fsZ51g4rKPQY9OxnraaJYvllUqx_EjUNE0wMpbPxOV2owsg0BHz_ZUhz6Hsh7jbDMb7-42aLJLeNt6I-MYpzLgwGsyy_TTSCOPwDR_j6FZxEZk5ZQKdy88oI1PHCoUjeiNzYw/s320/Picture4.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Father, Son, Holy Ghost</em>, 1973</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">Oil and Charcoal on burlap, 114 x 74 3/4"</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;"></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;"></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;"></span><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135053698312689826" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRmOixCaIz_StkTIUFCpRLN9T-oKOOK5j2lnz7lIEoujWxxAn43M0kXjchucnWJGGvrCoNFqz-ze_viinNKpXwdrvAxdNDXjYgAvGb8fTAKKyYMpvZxykQ3WGc9ckgaoLEWLIoTh-WBg/s320/Picture5.jpg" border="0" /><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Ressurexit</em>, 1973</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">Oil, acrylic, and charcoal on burlap, 114 3/16 x 70 7/8"</span></div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">In 1972 and 1973, Keifer then started moving away from forest themes to taking up the physical surrounding of his studio as a motif. In Father, Son, Holy Ghost, He uses the structure of the attic or schoolhouse. The burning chairs are meant to represent the holy trinity. The spaces depicted in works such as are very psychologically charged and are a metaphor for the artist’s mind, where “conflict and contradiction are resolved through creation.”<br />Kiefer studied with Joseph Beuys in the 1970’s, and from him he learned the art of transforming materials such as straw, clay, lead, and shellac. Beuys also influenced Kiefer’s desire to create a dialogue with history and to employ myths, metaphors, and symbols as a means to engage and understand. </div><div align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135055162896537778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2sh0UKJ50i1tRkkGp7lzQ8VSPI8SFwKFFfi9eehy7B-Kp-cXoqM8AVAssl5RT-Qk6sTRcN9KAVVHUCp0IkrAxi4D_UCgpvpL8gqtiPlRT_0-yAFC2LYnRFoQ2icY-FGLRG_qT7qxcaQ/s320/Picture6.jpg" border="0" /></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Your Golden Hair, Margarete</em>, 1981</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">Oil, Emulsion, and Straw on Canvas, 51 3/16 x 67"</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;"></span> </div><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135055167191505090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGvy7ZQyTzaFx94uzS0WRChyFWzBLm-qDo6vP6bQNLwly5-VZMML5cIFCUmQy5rj0kCP8Xj6pAtVQB2mH4b9FP6L01WcDs8q6cjuEPf9aJE4csEySojEPB5pQ_XwL3l4yqAYAX_DcY5A/s320/Picture7.jpg" border="0" /></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Margarete</em>, 1981</span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">Oil and Straw on Canvas, 110 x 149 5/8"</span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;"></span> </p><p align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135055171486472402" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrxKZhxQqUhsOkqFkykWyjj4KCger649wwA62xStRIUc06DZLtHkZGqxYwPK5Y2h-zK2dnHczwNrcDyjpbeOBlzHomGcEsKU7JSalTuq0ZppSqmUyd7TJipVDz_123MZgdRORCWnXUpw/s320/Picture8.jpg" border="0" /></p><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Shulamite</em>, 1983</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">Oil, acrylic, emulsion, shellac, straw on canvas with woodcut, 114 3/16 x 145 11/16</span></div><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135055171486472418" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeQntvKbQP0egVXWnRbWuibZLkE32tEZlgdZodAnbHNpnqSQFb3fCnuPjdgR4VIsTI0LiVBdPh2Vkes8-cswEb2LzSqGCQ70vM9C1c7Mzrf_58oTTs8YNNuLO1VbiIeoqBWjp3VYd1fw/s320/Picture9.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Interior</em>, 1981</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">Oil, acrylic, emulsion, straw, and shellac on canvas with woodcut, 113 x 122 7/16"</span></div><br />Kiefer also was very much influenced by Paul Celan’s writing, in terms of displaying German history and the horrors of the Holocaust. Celan’s “Death Fuge,” written in a Concentration Camp, was an influence for Kiefer’s work in the 1980’s, such as Margaret, Your Golden Hair, Margaret, and Shulamite. He would also write the titles large across the canvases in paintings such as these. The poem talks about the contrast between the blonde hair of the Aryan Margarete, and the dark ashen hair of the Jewish Shulamite. In Your Golden Hair, Margarete, straw is used to symbolize the German love of the land, but also to show the Nazi blonde ideal as grotesque. These natural elements also show fragility, which is in contrast to the stark subject matter. Shulamite shows a hellish environment of a Nazi memorial hall, the environment that consumed the girl Shulamite. Kiefer uses fire, both literally with the use of ashes, and representationally, in many of his works, as a theme as a destructive and redemptive force. In Interior, Kiefer painted the Mosaic room in Hitler’s Chancellery which has been charred with smoke, representing a direct descendant of the burned landscapes depicted in works such as Your Golden Hair, Margarete.<br />Kiefer has been compared to Jackson Pollock, in that his mature works were painted in an expressive style on a large scale. Margarete has been compared to Pollock’s Blue Poles (1952) in terms of composition.<br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135055175781439730" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhunWmzj8Pa2T51Cki5EhoM6F5qsoBSyiPA-Imu1AKQ8f4rHQaiR1a3CINO96p__vXU-ZuosiLcxomErR9VIzJabv9k7ZvS8pR58H1hgJfhWviTnr9b4XdhotCPaI-LZ3cJSsE9KE-xFQ/s320/Picture10.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;"></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Jerusalem</em>, 1986</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">Canvas (in two parts) with steel and lead, 150 x 220 1/2"</span></div><div align="center"> </div><br />Kiefer was interested in alchemy, or the attempting to change base materials such as lead into gold. Kiefer believed that the artist was an alchemist, with the ability to use raw materials such as paint and canvas to create profound and monumental works. After a visit to Israel, he painted Jerusalem, which can be seen as a metaphor for the city itself in that physically the painting has gone through many stages of life. Kiefer explained that he first created a “landscape painting” then covered areas with hot lead and more paint. He then peeled of much of the lead several months later, taking away color and leaving patches. The effect is of “skin that has been violently torn away in a fetishistic or even maniacal activity.” Iron skis come from the canvas symbolizing the “New World,” with gold leaf depicting the cosmos.<br />Jerusalem, with its use of gold leaf and allusion to the celestial and mythic, showed that by the mid-1980’s, he moved away from specifically German subject matter to more universal themes, such as the mythological.<br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135056034774898946" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOjPtNyVG3X38sv1MIWWlqu5QSzEWCzgOPaWCHUOwxMIMnewtaoVEDAPTEKZeBx8TJq_eKeZ79-i98Q75v0humG9go1Dc04oxwBxi3EdRKxVKfIsxZ6CeSWQQapdNi3ygNByy9u3b5GQ/s320/Picture11.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>To the Unknown Painter</em>, 1983</span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">Oil, emulsion, woodcut, shellac, latex, and straw on canvas</span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;"></span><br />"A complex critical engagement with history runs through Anselm Kiefer's work. His paintings as well as the sculptures of Georg Baselitz created an uproar at the 1980 Venice Biennale: the viewers had to decide whether the apparent Nazi motifs were meant ironically or whether the works were meant to convey actual fascist ideas. Kiefer worked with the conviction that art could heal a traumatized nation and a vexed, divided world. He created epic paintings on giant canvases that called up the history of German culture with the help of depictions of figures such as Richard Wagner or Goethe, thus continuing the historical tradition of painting as a medium of addressing the world. Only a few contemporary artists have such a pronounced sense of art's duty to engage the past and the ethical questions of the present, and are in the position to express the possibility of the absolution of guilt through human effort."<br /><br /></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135056039069866258" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiNdya5TxunX7Z2eQjyvFsr8SSCRvIqyyfo90ZKJ-3QKumN8pZdVvzZLfvmceR5H9rcja_VeS7g3N_dJdJMAdG-xf38rLR8qU9MzkZYW0WC_Md43e2VHc6g194J3twFeXAqII75ZatPQ/s320/Picture12.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Zim Zum</em>, 1990</span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">Acrylic, oil emulsion, shellac, ashes, and canvas on lead</span><br /></p>alysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01408667025638275732noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125933215131582359.post-60208852376594809772007-11-15T16:24:00.000-05:002007-11-26T01:31:54.453-05:00Rosenquist Painted Big<p class="MsoNormal">Rosenquist was considered an abstract painter, but not in the sense that we’ve been studying thus far. Early in his career, abstraction emerged as a sense of detachment, specifically the detachment that occurs in forgetting. Examples of his identity obscuring can be seen in <i style="">Marilyn Monroe I </i>and <i style="">President Elect.</i> Rosenquist believed that this process made his work both nonobjective and abstract, even though we was using imagery that was directly representational.<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Rosenquist was born in 1933 in the <st1:place st="on">Midwest</st1:place>, and grew up there most of his life. When he was a teenager, he was awarded a scholarship to study art at the Minneapolis School of Art at the Minneapolis Art Institute. From there he went on to the <st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:placename st="on">Minnesota</st1:PlaceName>, and received another scholarship to the Art Students League in <st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on">New York</st1:State></st1:place>.<br /><o:p></o:p><br />Rosenquist soon became bored with his classes, since he already had the technical capabilities. He began work painting billboards for the next three years in <st1:place st="on">Times Square</st1:place> and other areas of the city. This heavily influenced his work. Rosenquist had always believed he had an All-American background growing up, and this exposure to pop culture and the American economy runs through his body of work. It also allowed him to be comfortable working on such a large scale, generating some paintings that are over 86 feet long. (See <i style="">F-111</i>).<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Rosenquist’s paintings have been seen as social and political commentaries. The <i style="">President Elect</i> was painted when John Kennedy was running against Eisenhower—Rosenquist wanted to ask what Kennedy was offering the American public, juxtaposing his next to “middle class” imagery. <i style="">F-111</i> is often seen as an anti-war painting. <i style="">Joan Collins Says </i><span style=""> </span>is inspired by a personal encounter between the artist and the actress—she had promised a group of artist’s a show sponsored by Pepsi, and never followed through on it.<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">During the late sixties and early seventies, Rosenquist began creating full room installations deemed by some critics as “wrap around paintings”. He wanted to emphasize the mass of pop cultural images and advertisements we are bombarded with everyday. He also has an interest in sculptures, which he occasionally incorporates into his paintings, and is said to be a skilled printmaker as well.<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">In the 1980’s, Rosenquist transitioned into “crosshatched” paintings, which he saw as a more “collision-like” juxtaposition of images that his previous work. Partially inspired by Duchamp and <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Fontana</st1:place></st1:City>, who literally slashed their canvases, Rosenquist believed that this effect would similarly give the illusion of a three dimensional space.<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">James Rosenquist’s career began in the age of abstraction and transitioned into the pop art movement. 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB-W2kuUFfo5b8yBMdUKpbIU35merRH1_eiYc2ejycUm4wvHz5DDcgbD-rwy2NkFt25r5-JDGDSkFkPNQpX6M2uWMVE5Mlv_ZqO5naXXqBIgcf7UchR48nGoQ3cIpyPtj5W5hGMHftDw/s320/President+Elect.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5133181994514765906" border="0" /></a>alysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01408667025638275732noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125933215131582359.post-41851579601017722032007-11-13T16:01:00.000-05:002007-11-13T16:12:31.976-05:00Salle Painted Big<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkyJazlFoBkglONO80uo9levCb45w6mHerRf2U4fngEGmndb_nv7hcciv2lSUsOnFfS1GMfEEUFlsmUr85iN6_F18tYm1ch2A8HXXQjb_PiY0MBXEjFFH0-Fr3t1NLMWNo2WBRGdDW1A/s1600-h/old+bottles+1995+oil+and+acrylic+on+canvas+96x128.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkyJazlFoBkglONO80uo9levCb45w6mHerRf2U4fngEGmndb_nv7hcciv2lSUsOnFfS1GMfEEUFlsmUr85iN6_F18tYm1ch2A8HXXQjb_PiY0MBXEjFFH0-Fr3t1NLMWNo2WBRGdDW1A/s320/old+bottles+1995+oil+and+acrylic+on+canvas+96x128.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132434586357582450" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Old Bottles</span>, 1995<br />Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, 96 x 128"<br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizmXTwKLvJ4FZPslH9Mv8halNrZaVXrM88b7b0VCYq16UpaTmw5faesPp4_OCr85pq9hXzfI6940zMpMXkAUiqBGpzT6z6haCbNuu932VFE9CcoVTzv-OyTe7F1KLBBurLXSha1Xmgrw/s1600-h/picture+builder+1993+oil+and+acrylic+on+canvas+84x114.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizmXTwKLvJ4FZPslH9Mv8halNrZaVXrM88b7b0VCYq16UpaTmw5faesPp4_OCr85pq9hXzfI6940zMpMXkAUiqBGpzT6z6haCbNuu932VFE9CcoVTzv-OyTe7F1KLBBurLXSha1Xmgrw/s320/picture+builder+1993+oil+and+acrylic+on+canvas+84x114.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132433396651641378" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Picture Builder</span>, 1993</span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, 84 x 114"</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9HMuhz7Rj4xtGytK2OOV8zRkg2dMhyubK-DWT5S0FLdqFznpA5GrRHRL30_ORORyxIP-sgoqEGZCKArYJs6ZvMzHwP4xBASNILnMqzXXZ7tqWBsFeWsfdjbdDEeiyCH6h7IuvZt7EoA/s1600-h/angels+in+the+rain+1998+oil+and+acrylic+on+canvas+96x132.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9HMuhz7Rj4xtGytK2OOV8zRkg2dMhyubK-DWT5S0FLdqFznpA5GrRHRL30_ORORyxIP-sgoqEGZCKArYJs6ZvMzHwP4xBASNILnMqzXXZ7tqWBsFeWsfdjbdDEeiyCH6h7IuvZt7EoA/s320/angels+in+the+rain+1998+oil+and+acrylic+on+canvas+96x132.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132433645759744578" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Angels in the Rain</span>, 1998<br />Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, 96 x 132"<br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtpoaiC1zD4fd63prGnBFzdsFL1rU-XCJJJtaqsG1TiZpKT0zqZsHKQI5uw6sjTRFWmF39_Wniw4DUTnynFZJVqZ10rRgCet7YxkMF8bQsaWCXwy1noZxSTXaovcgR0HS1IrEzschSUw/s1600-h/angel+2001+oil+and+acrylic+on+canvas+and+linen+72x96.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtpoaiC1zD4fd63prGnBFzdsFL1rU-XCJJJtaqsG1TiZpKT0zqZsHKQI5uw6sjTRFWmF39_Wniw4DUTnynFZJVqZ10rRgCet7YxkMF8bQsaWCXwy1noZxSTXaovcgR0HS1IrEzschSUw/s320/angel+2001+oil+and+acrylic+on+canvas+and+linen+72x96.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132433650054711890" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Angel</span>, 2001<br />Oil and Acrylic on Canvas and Linen, 72 x 96"</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoiVbQCHLCi4J3buw1PAAHVgrs46mJ2TF9SkTNSL-wZ8Fxq3sPquE6XuHHkSWVZnuyijC2XYADJVDbNvYHY8w858nKRIXhqBv2BmNkoKGSYkumuQk_APPR3wlsGsJhKCzmtyQFbTmW_g/s1600-h/full+swing+2006-7+oil+on+linen+85x64.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoiVbQCHLCi4J3buw1PAAHVgrs46mJ2TF9SkTNSL-wZ8Fxq3sPquE6XuHHkSWVZnuyijC2XYADJVDbNvYHY8w858nKRIXhqBv2BmNkoKGSYkumuQk_APPR3wlsGsJhKCzmtyQFbTmW_g/s320/full+swing+2006-7+oil+on+linen+85x64.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132433654349679202" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"> <span style="font-style: italic;">Full Swing</span>, 2006-7<br />Oil on Linen, 85 x 64"</span><br /><br /></div>alysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01408667025638275732noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125933215131582359.post-73461330706365756432007-11-02T12:51:00.000-04:002007-11-02T13:10:27.286-04:00Bleckner Painted BigRoss Bleckner was born in New York on May 12th, 1949 and grew up on Long Island. He is the middle child and has two sisters. He began painting at the age of 18, because, “[He] was very introspective. It was a sadness that made [him] withdraw into [himself] which has never left” (Richards). Bleckner Earned his B.A. from NYU in 1971 and his M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts in 1973. In 1975, he was included in the Whitney Biennial.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhTmULZir92PRIql57WF0V01QT5y_8o9_w18FnTqLvnQ-t8mnYBy4kUoVvq2HLDiVBx3ry5LvB83RhV8M6tP_uJ6k40M3QB-7kdX0Cd7g-wZWo0oLrZPXHvaIOdxgw0kOOj149l2uRRQ/s1600-h/Picture+4.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhTmULZir92PRIql57WF0V01QT5y_8o9_w18FnTqLvnQ-t8mnYBy4kUoVvq2HLDiVBx3ry5LvB83RhV8M6tP_uJ6k40M3QB-7kdX0Cd7g-wZWo0oLrZPXHvaIOdxgw0kOOj149l2uRRQ/s320/Picture+4.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5128287508293835570" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br />Bleckner has been described as nervous, overwhelmed by self-doubt and insomniac. He is Jewish, gay, and an activist for AIDS organizations. Since about 1985 many of his paintings have addressed the subject of AIDS- both documenting it as a historical phenomenon and commemorating specific individuals who have died.<br /> His philanthropic efforts have enabled many community organizations to perform their vital work. Currently, Bleckner is president of Community Research Initiative on AIDS, a non-profit community-based AIDS research and treatment education center. Ross Bleckner currently lives in New York City.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBeqyBfAHrVHGiHFeulqj8ZB-NfYB2Itst_rhdg-4pk6i5IuD4LumFXST5UfrP-Z_EA5Y0t_wNBvWzAQpXZHPfuUXAvKY8QzfxYpgddqwnLlvY-bQIydouZnigM8fUQdO7bnicJI6A6A/s1600-h/Picture+6.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBeqyBfAHrVHGiHFeulqj8ZB-NfYB2Itst_rhdg-4pk6i5IuD4LumFXST5UfrP-Z_EA5Y0t_wNBvWzAQpXZHPfuUXAvKY8QzfxYpgddqwnLlvY-bQIydouZnigM8fUQdO7bnicJI6A6A/s320/Picture+6.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5128287933495597906" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Brothers' Sword, 1986, oil on canvas, 108 x 84 in.</span><br /></div><br /> Bleckner’s painting style is classified as Neo-Conceptualism. The idea fuels the process of production, but the resulting physical object is viewed more as documentation of the idea. By this definition, the purpose of the artwork is to engage the viewers' mind rather than their eye. Ross Bleckner's paintings blend abstraction with recognizable symbols to create mediation on perception, transcendence and loss.<br /><br />Bleckner using traditional oil-painting techniques manipulates the paints by using light over dark glazes to create transparencies, resulting in a three-dimensional viewing experience. This technique enhances his fixation with light by creating a dense and rich ground on which floating ambiguous forms suggest movement toward the identifiable. However, Bleckner has done some series in watercolor as well.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS7_bPgRyaOlGVCxFcFoA2MAjLF0YiPKlLutlRbo80Xrqr-OVX7668p3k9aFzoxvprhqle9CUkeuiq7NMBRpSj9MdR8h6st574w1pJz3igNjW9jQiJH-_EwnuxybGb76ZSc3JHH2jXbQ/s1600-h/Picture+5.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS7_bPgRyaOlGVCxFcFoA2MAjLF0YiPKlLutlRbo80Xrqr-OVX7668p3k9aFzoxvprhqle9CUkeuiq7NMBRpSj9MdR8h6st574w1pJz3igNjW9jQiJH-_EwnuxybGb76ZSc3JHH2jXbQ/s320/Picture+5.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5128287903430826818" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Memory of Larry, 1984, oil on canvas, 48 x 40 in.</span><br /></div><br /> Ross Bleckner's large-format pictures utilize both graphic designs and representational images such as flowers, birds, cells, drops of water, oceans and chandeliers. These are represented in front of an abstract background and he often uses flickering light to create challenging visual experiences. Bleckner gets inspiration from everything he looks at and a lot of his own work as well as his mistakes (Sussler).<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbZgfPTizFmwMlt0xvC4g2lWUieLHWrNMiZ0QMFnXXMpXo9Aim4f0vnJzDoCGO-J7UxuZf74JoCSn8VCH7m8lYGfLcqe6qTL_OVZkdriImV9_vtoMU1xiIWTcqKE_kTQ_EmXZX2qpk5g/s1600-h/Picture+7.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbZgfPTizFmwMlt0xvC4g2lWUieLHWrNMiZ0QMFnXXMpXo9Aim4f0vnJzDoCGO-J7UxuZf74JoCSn8VCH7m8lYGfLcqe6qTL_OVZkdriImV9_vtoMU1xiIWTcqKE_kTQ_EmXZX2qpk5g/s320/Picture+7.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5128289630007679842" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Throbbing Hearts, 1994, oil, powdered pigment, wax on canvas, 96 x 120 in.</span><br /></div><br />For Bleckner the canvas is "a place where countless different meanings cross and enter into relationship with one another." (Sussler)<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw5c5xkGcKWv4fOw6JzmqHZY5klpNqgZ45sQM1FuvZDMcAQlUWkUEAH3eIF8Xwo4ExDh3uAWdd-gOcmEADiolwhkeOiE8YjT3P5j5Ms41Yybfy1e8wHWazABbtU5g5bJ3fRu6Wo0Y8jw/s1600-h/Picture+8.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw5c5xkGcKWv4fOw6JzmqHZY5klpNqgZ45sQM1FuvZDMcAQlUWkUEAH3eIF8Xwo4ExDh3uAWdd-gOcmEADiolwhkeOiE8YjT3P5j5Ms41Yybfy1e8wHWazABbtU5g5bJ3fRu6Wo0Y8jw/s320/Picture+8.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5128289638597614450" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Tolerance, 1998, oil on linen, 120 x 108 in.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZCimdfswFpxhNZwZtfh1G7FzzwPyYtFXT0DeOEowODUsKWdi-xJKjR3c1Tu7nMcv4CVn4xYAjc-PkEhx1nP4JI1K6Zn0PhTtqh0XV_Rjm-Kky-OFaIj9c98Y4QlXXK8g_CBnLJKnTyw/s1600-h/Picture+9.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZCimdfswFpxhNZwZtfh1G7FzzwPyYtFXT0DeOEowODUsKWdi-xJKjR3c1Tu7nMcv4CVn4xYAjc-PkEhx1nP4JI1K6Zn0PhTtqh0XV_Rjm-Kky-OFaIj9c98Y4QlXXK8g_CBnLJKnTyw/s320/Picture+9.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5128289733086894978" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Overexpression, 1998, oil on linen, 84 x 72 in.</span></span><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></div><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7oK4zqqo5teQ1Zc_Mes62HtYUjtQddCDp2-mvz5p7Kp0M04C52pFFZj6_Q_w7BZ_re28YSdndTjDjUC5-rn1IfMG_FbFfW6xM8K18PwA0zoSnwNzH752QBsWSRL1c7TRIj1TyDDUkag/s1600-h/Picture+10.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7oK4zqqo5teQ1Zc_Mes62HtYUjtQddCDp2-mvz5p7Kp0M04C52pFFZj6_Q_w7BZ_re28YSdndTjDjUC5-rn1IfMG_FbFfW6xM8K18PwA0zoSnwNzH752QBsWSRL1c7TRIj1TyDDUkag/s320/Picture+10.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5128289810396306322" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Bird Installation, 1995 - 2003, oil on linen, variable sizes</span><br /></div>alysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01408667025638275732noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125933215131582359.post-44394702062799497062007-10-27T22:51:00.000-04:002007-10-27T23:11:48.383-04:00Marden Painted Big<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAtnTixYOOgMks_KFyXBIvmfACGswlV7EV0WxbVVi5XXTjMBtafDPdaJ_vzT_eKnaJZyQxsqWLniZGrV6XLQLOnX05uOBoSgB4vMyTZ2L5_uKOaOB4yU4TCC6fiBuSITKa3-EtysKQZx8Y/s1600-h/Brice+Marden+self+po"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPA7MqOppwjEqO1Ut1P7GA2_ZH5VvaiY7uQDQe5nZciJcPdD-iDkIUIHukkgCbbYUzERR8edWX6_uwi0ZrQqNWW4Cka24dJDA8SQijxvx6VMnXlyl3uT1L0qpZiVQiO2OKD9hH53NR5WFC/s320/city+landscape.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126213281158992610" border="0" /></a>City Landscape<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp3_7WY2MNGZlW8jnS5WyU8kSfaeZ6U0m9mEdSWuPzJkAqN6uQwCnHX3hycACQa6dk-hR4tidH4T0pK3FhnWi2L0WH7ixuEEoEbk03AA3jio9eArQ49lDy1A_74lT1zRKBt96KaLzx8J1c/s1600-h/mitchell_untitled_1958.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp3_7WY2MNGZlW8jnS5WyU8kSfaeZ6U0m9mEdSWuPzJkAqN6uQwCnHX3hycACQa6dk-hR4tidH4T0pK3FhnWi2L0WH7ixuEEoEbk03AA3jio9eArQ49lDy1A_74lT1zRKBt96KaLzx8J1c/s320/mitchell_untitled_1958.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126213049230758530" border="0" /></a>Untitled, 1958<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGJfw6CY80AIwu3ZisqWuHMj6LjkIZEpLY49YWEn8abNvHmgFS0SZ_g5AbApkLTwQC8jkvEFpZVrVsiZPI5x9xZ3UO-f-er3zbH9nRgAWvzxNcJhO-cmBU6ODTTa5iVXbzVbouZmLF4Z6o/s1600-h/hemlock.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGJfw6CY80AIwu3ZisqWuHMj6LjkIZEpLY49YWEn8abNvHmgFS0SZ_g5AbApkLTwQC8jkvEFpZVrVsiZPI5x9xZ3UO-f-er3zbH9nRgAWvzxNcJhO-cmBU6ODTTa5iVXbzVbouZmLF4Z6o/s320/hemlock.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126213281158992594" border="0" /></a>Hemlock<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWDNUTtnIIaQTW2WafDwXQd2HHLsJ_37tl9b1Cvlev-N6go3QBC_pQecImTebwyRdEzHd88CnZvOgi2oFdF7V0aqI765ICffIyr9J0ljnzQZY-sl4CqOi8u9P9PpnxM1gfB9Ewgyud8mBq/s1600-h/73rdStreet_ppt.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWDNUTtnIIaQTW2WafDwXQd2HHLsJ_37tl9b1Cvlev-N6go3QBC_pQecImTebwyRdEzHd88CnZvOgi2oFdF7V0aqI765ICffIyr9J0ljnzQZY-sl4CqOi8u9P9PpnxM1gfB9Ewgyud8mBq/s320/73rdStreet_ppt.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126213057820693138" border="0" /></a>Evening on 73rd Street<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUV4GTRHgmxINyNw9ctWalQVsBuDRChKEts7qV4RTIrvlCN1q9gvUPc1rBYfyel0XPIctvgzQPK4VhDe4O72RPtESL0vFUwuh91zIjCm2-ut5SBXJc0EwN15J_C4rbp9lL5vIq0EWhInrb/s1600-h/ladybug.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUV4GTRHgmxINyNw9ctWalQVsBuDRChKEts7qV4RTIrvlCN1q9gvUPc1rBYfyel0XPIctvgzQPK4VhDe4O72RPtESL0vFUwuh91zIjCm2-ut5SBXJc0EwN15J_C4rbp9lL5vIq0EWhInrb/s320/ladybug.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126213062115660450" border="0" /></a>Ladybug<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIriIgzJnsDuqla1OcUFeFaZOIxMnqusUBZmHR3VOZGrm5hZBhdEwGb_DghXs6p6Xr7Os-EDcMp22tLdAavlcRB001g17Y9VR0wr3rf4bK2WogHMrh9jr3dGnvRGrD3RIRcP7BhfW3Sfdb/s1600-h/Untitled.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIriIgzJnsDuqla1OcUFeFaZOIxMnqusUBZmHR3VOZGrm5hZBhdEwGb_DghXs6p6Xr7Os-EDcMp22tLdAavlcRB001g17Y9VR0wr3rf4bK2WogHMrh9jr3dGnvRGrD3RIRcP7BhfW3Sfdb/s320/Untitled.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126213066410627762" border="0" /></a>Untitled<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJCPc5TQzsrAfVr1wX9yoHmwa0B5GLs5PGWHXbUGowqWu_AsfiiX3tLSoOX9DReNnEf3qOjwlvBN0Umb4GZbA4CYIpbDiqc0Ls3vwW655vbNlG2JT1SutC9Q7ZUfQy1bJBa9_KN_Zd6WIX/s1600-h/mitchell_chord_vii.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJCPc5TQzsrAfVr1wX9yoHmwa0B5GLs5PGWHXbUGowqWu_AsfiiX3tLSoOX9DReNnEf3qOjwlvBN0Umb4GZbA4CYIpbDiqc0Ls3vwW655vbNlG2JT1SutC9Q7ZUfQy1bJBa9_KN_Zd6WIX/s320/mitchell_chord_vii.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126213049230758514" border="0" /></a>Chord VII<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJeJYMvfLBCXpUV9XpmpiteRSz0SepEeygf41Pmgieb1DKzfPP7ZMxoS9ntLxmpgWesxd7DfCEjv8JI3YJbGNZeCNQpoAx5NziP3oM_CEt5U7afJpdKLgXguFgI_taHPK5CvThzeBmNGq3/s1600-h/la+grande+vallee.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJeJYMvfLBCXpUV9XpmpiteRSz0SepEeygf41Pmgieb1DKzfPP7ZMxoS9ntLxmpgWesxd7DfCEjv8JI3YJbGNZeCNQpoAx5NziP3oM_CEt5U7afJpdKLgXguFgI_taHPK5CvThzeBmNGq3/s320/la+grande+vallee.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126213272569057986" border="0" /></a>La Grande Vallée<br /></div>Chris Barnardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11502527653251105422noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125933215131582359.post-77238244425257587472007-10-17T11:44:00.000-04:002007-10-19T13:26:34.719-04:00Rothko Painted BigNathalie writes:<br /><br />Mark Rothko created a new form of abstract painting that was characterized by his extreme attention to formal elements such as color, shape, balance, depth, composition, and scale; but still, he refused to consider his paintings solely in these terms. He explained: “It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.”<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFfG8rZOvJVcntAoWkbuImi40B4J1Svha4Ftx27kx8zrFFca_Oruy7ffL_2rJAR1phw3uoTJSNcVYFvuFQCWhTJzIxqYD9Qjyt8J-mze1vR21eaxqR8DHkj37ENvHMIqDG_c1CyZ1ZvjYk/s1600-h/untitled+(three+nudes).jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFfG8rZOvJVcntAoWkbuImi40B4J1Svha4Ftx27kx8zrFFca_Oruy7ffL_2rJAR1phw3uoTJSNcVYFvuFQCWhTJzIxqYD9Qjyt8J-mze1vR21eaxqR8DHkj37ENvHMIqDG_c1CyZ1ZvjYk/s320/untitled+(three+nudes).jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123095474241682210" /></a><br />By 1949 Rothko had introduced a compositional format that would be repeated throughout the remainder of his career. He would paint two, three, or four rectangular forms, vertically aligned and set within a colored field. By using these rectangles of color on large canvases he explored the expressive potential of color contrasts and modulations. The key term here is “expressive” as Rothko’s intention was for the viewer to have an emotional interaction with his art.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKBrHoxOeV2pw-0nAH5I2EZtcZ6DeuR8DChIBvA9mNFj5P32M_VIZQmCxW0_i4rgaGdYvIkszx5RDq_9HVZgjqDKdY8xOafEEOPwaJIjF5FPirPASMZgiCyOKIiS_nwc0Z8ZjgN9waP2hF/s1600-h/self-portrait.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKBrHoxOeV2pw-0nAH5I2EZtcZ6DeuR8DChIBvA9mNFj5P32M_VIZQmCxW0_i4rgaGdYvIkszx5RDq_9HVZgjqDKdY8xOafEEOPwaJIjF5FPirPASMZgiCyOKIiS_nwc0Z8ZjgN9waP2hF/s320/self-portrait.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123095474241682226" /></a><br />Rothko was born in Russia but came to the US with his family and attended school in Portland. He later went to Yale on a scholarship and began studying engineering and law, but dropped out and moved to New York City in the early 1920s. He spent the majority of his time working, teaching art to children in a Jewish school in Brooklyn. However, he still managed to produce a consistent flow of work from the late 1920s through the 1930s. <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0PhVks98UvtqI9CekkqWxFEwB_3QRlCtUQf8CqBI4r_GYlxheRxkRKiRRUBFl4rDE6YUbevOfo25tzm_uRfQgXFOnGyy1QUYPJ-I6-EN7nrxyDXyI5FVCNm9_aKyO_KF9vz02sy10Ti7Q/s1600-h/underground+fantasy+(subway).jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0PhVks98UvtqI9CekkqWxFEwB_3QRlCtUQf8CqBI4r_GYlxheRxkRKiRRUBFl4rDE6YUbevOfo25tzm_uRfQgXFOnGyy1QUYPJ-I6-EN7nrxyDXyI5FVCNm9_aKyO_KF9vz02sy10Ti7Q/s320/underground+fantasy+(subway).jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123095474241682242" /></a><br />During the 1940s Rothko's paintings because much more symbolic as a cause of the social anxiety surrounding the 1930s and the years of World War II. He believed that both new subjects and new ways of expressing them needed to come about so that art could express “the tragedy of the human condition”. He said, "It was with the utmost reluctance that I found the figure could not serve my purposes....But a time came when none of us could use the figure without mutilating it." Around this time he also began to work on a larger scale, starting with pieces such as Rites of Lilith.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB7Cp_12bT57H7izi8AUDvddIrbl_0TJM16vtpQd0LYZlnj9t5yUZDTC19kjDdx-_pxUQXIrscLZ2iKbeRfPqDnY5nwz6uFNlGmA1-A-Rf8HAfZIsJ02vg803jCV7NOlUC6tUo5eI5vJzE/s1600-h/rites+of+lilith.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB7Cp_12bT57H7izi8AUDvddIrbl_0TJM16vtpQd0LYZlnj9t5yUZDTC19kjDdx-_pxUQXIrscLZ2iKbeRfPqDnY5nwz6uFNlGmA1-A-Rf8HAfZIsJ02vg803jCV7NOlUC6tUo5eI5vJzE/s320/rites+of+lilith.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123095478536649554" /></a><br />It is said that Rothko stopped painting for about a year in 1940 to read philosophy and mythic literature, and that during this time he was struggling with depression. (He had to deal with bouts of depression throughout many time periods in his career).<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij6H-wni5g5KazbYrewbx2HCQAENfwpa0s2OlkMbgRIPRUk2JLuSn6Yz-jmxYXWpMAhxPGenOpg4DFnJCbI4ofiBVf8n46jgqKcYUEexcpUtJ6qw277CCd4oM9xbxnS9WzT2rPydAkCjw_/s1600-h/untitled+1949.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij6H-wni5g5KazbYrewbx2HCQAENfwpa0s2OlkMbgRIPRUk2JLuSn6Yz-jmxYXWpMAhxPGenOpg4DFnJCbI4ofiBVf8n46jgqKcYUEexcpUtJ6qw277CCd4oM9xbxnS9WzT2rPydAkCjw_/s320/untitled+1949.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123094284535741138" /></a><br />In the late 1940s Rothko stopped using almost any elements of surrealism or mythic imagery in his paintings, as well as representations of the figure and the natural world. His new works, the paintings of 1947-1949, are sometimes referred to as “multiforms” –these are paintings in which liquid paint soaks the canvas, leaving soft, indistinct edges, while whitish outlines surround some of the painted shapes. These new forms were Rothko’s vehicle for conveying emotion.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3bDsRa-PLqQ845Q4IDOSn66nqfds6_WGZ_P4pk-e4-23uOv854TKBEg7JNA7S0tLc6gceth8MsfSH1w1PozaAkwtYjpTOEE7v5A7IE4-1JGFZj8mvFJBOBtLQQI95b92IuNN5kUG0b7R4/s1600-h/untitled+(miultiform)+1948.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3bDsRa-PLqQ845Q4IDOSn66nqfds6_WGZ_P4pk-e4-23uOv854TKBEg7JNA7S0tLc6gceth8MsfSH1w1PozaAkwtYjpTOEE7v5A7IE4-1JGFZj8mvFJBOBtLQQI95b92IuNN5kUG0b7R4/s320/untitled+(miultiform)+1948.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123094284535741154" /></a><br />During the late 1940s, he described the notion of a painting in which "shapes"--or "performers"--first emerge as "an unknown adventure in an unknown space." He said that these "shapes have no direct association with any particular visible experience, but in them, one recognizes the principle and passion of organisms." <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2a-L7OnaBFppPSLAB1Ql6M7Tmit9meJiuIXJBFQavlWHs-P5IqwNp_RzeScRe11_S8_g1GTJ7luoSNBLE1RyG1ejxC4wVtKR4T6ymIxgGo6KpLHq_fmlcsib-bsq-sCNqOkK6MSKWlsDW/s1600-h/untitled+1948.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2a-L7OnaBFppPSLAB1Ql6M7Tmit9meJiuIXJBFQavlWHs-P5IqwNp_RzeScRe11_S8_g1GTJ7luoSNBLE1RyG1ejxC4wVtKR4T6ymIxgGo6KpLHq_fmlcsib-bsq-sCNqOkK6MSKWlsDW/s320/untitled+1948.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123094288830708466" /></a><br />Rothko stopped using conventional titles in 1947. Instead he would use numbers or colors in order to distinguish between paintings. With this, he also resisted explaining the meaning of his work. "Silence is so accurate," he said, meaning that words would give the viewer presuppositions coming into the work, which would pollute their ability to have a purely emotional experience from it.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvZ2k75ROHxz2kxVX8m9d3j7anCk_AAbGsewF8KLkhp_iFMKl-RUpwE4UTRRFK2OZK6uw13mDCjYLGsEL0cumtXgEAPn1uXcjfTKJ1mLLbZmzzGRyC3kHZSirVuerRHup05D2Fq_TDUBv2/s1600-h/underground+fantasy+(subway).jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvZ2k75ROHxz2kxVX8m9d3j7anCk_AAbGsewF8KLkhp_iFMKl-RUpwE4UTRRFK2OZK6uw13mDCjYLGsEL0cumtXgEAPn1uXcjfTKJ1mLLbZmzzGRyC3kHZSirVuerRHup05D2Fq_TDUBv2/s320/underground+fantasy+(subway).jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123094288830708498" /></a><br />In Rothko’s “signature” paintings, (those composed of vertically aligned floating rectangles) color and structure are inseparable: the forms themselves consist of color alone, and it is just their being translucent and layered that gives us a sense of depth. Space and color take on a strong presence of their own. And Rothko said that the large scale of these canvases was intended to contain or envelop the viewer--not to be "grandiose," but "intimate and human."<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOcxWIfpQLahxymeu7jxb7AQPFcqzs14sSaa3aVivaYAwAJeHLPyxfQRwMwHy4_tMydpS7epPgYfagjR2izp3oRlPYsIvKzR4ze_gHTbsBF6IDbzmXPLklinu98tdmaLALMxWL1W0jKmJX/s1600-h/hierarchical+birds.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOcxWIfpQLahxymeu7jxb7AQPFcqzs14sSaa3aVivaYAwAJeHLPyxfQRwMwHy4_tMydpS7epPgYfagjR2izp3oRlPYsIvKzR4ze_gHTbsBF6IDbzmXPLklinu98tdmaLALMxWL1W0jKmJX/s320/hierarchical+birds.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123094288830708482" /></a><br />In his words:<br /><br />”Since my pictures are large, colorful, and unframed, and since museum walls are usually immense and formidable, there is the danger that the pictures relate themselves as decorative areas to the walls. This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale. I have on occasion successfully dealt with this problem by tending to crowd the show rather than making it spare. By saturating the room with the feeling of the work, the walls are defeated and the poignancy of each single work. <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ3qGVe2IAVsH5Hex-Khus-M5fdR_EkRDvUbQ0DB-sPbcGrohdUJSxSmKnosv_xw5QfGpdPoFeLn-yfUGoV9f79spOAtF04TSBMyEsHNEkUljTU570BHdMKNoAKJB60dSRUrkzj3LGXsc1/s1600-h/No.+8+(Multiform).jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ3qGVe2IAVsH5Hex-Khus-M5fdR_EkRDvUbQ0DB-sPbcGrohdUJSxSmKnosv_xw5QfGpdPoFeLn-yfUGoV9f79spOAtF04TSBMyEsHNEkUljTU570BHdMKNoAKJB60dSRUrkzj3LGXsc1/s320/No.+8+(Multiform).jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123088606588975746" /></a><br />I also hang the largest pictures so that they must be first encountered at close quarters, so that the first experience is to be within the picture. I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted.” <br />--quotation courtesy The Art Institute of Chicago<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA6nbbP7NpTbfpS3cfCEV6NfWb7A6D4XKD7TDU4cAxgjL9OpweW8KpTnfog2Tnv1phJBcPRdaEQ2j4UUNdhAlbZRSpbKBK7wd_wnYbH2z7QT20yusc_mtSKE9NmXRvyqzdri0vtbCANpAr/s1600-h/No.+10.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA6nbbP7NpTbfpS3cfCEV6NfWb7A6D4XKD7TDU4cAxgjL9OpweW8KpTnfog2Tnv1phJBcPRdaEQ2j4UUNdhAlbZRSpbKBK7wd_wnYbH2z7QT20yusc_mtSKE9NmXRvyqzdri0vtbCANpAr/s320/No.+10.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123088606588975762" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPOq6hze8FcRmCywxds6rj1tHL-orQsT-k1S6GdQsh2vorZtPbN2eDzhjStLZAdr7p3NPWMmKqlvT5nx6-yiGnNipxSds1C5u2Yg21vjIXURrpRPiH3S2c8ttz84zWbdazCUwMKMoGwoLm/s1600-h/orange+brown.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPOq6hze8FcRmCywxds6rj1tHL-orQsT-k1S6GdQsh2vorZtPbN2eDzhjStLZAdr7p3NPWMmKqlvT5nx6-yiGnNipxSds1C5u2Yg21vjIXURrpRPiH3S2c8ttz84zWbdazCUwMKMoGwoLm/s320/orange+brown.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123088610883943074" /></a><br />Towards the end of Rothko’s career, the colors used in most of his paintings became much darker. He worked on pieces for the Four Seasons Restaurant in NYC, but also continued to produce his own work. He was ill during his final years- he suffered an aneurysm of the aorta, (a result of his high blood pressure), and ignoring doctor’s orders he continued to drink and smoke heavily. Then on February 25, 1970 Rothko’s assistant found him dead in his kitchen, where the artist had committed suicide. He was 66 years old.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZBd5LvZVd_bx3SsCDk_1T25dQH8vhmYFoN1ECBrj5WUg_BzjcqJ13L5JLqU6VUYPmpU6qZmMpWNQSRQaA71X4U673-XSf3xv7lQwLC5xbB1RTulSgNYibqJnUqKj2I47tIZI46oCSENug/s1600-h/yellow+and+gold.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZBd5LvZVd_bx3SsCDk_1T25dQH8vhmYFoN1ECBrj5WUg_BzjcqJ13L5JLqU6VUYPmpU6qZmMpWNQSRQaA71X4U673-XSf3xv7lQwLC5xbB1RTulSgNYibqJnUqKj2I47tIZI46oCSENug/s320/yellow+and+gold.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123088610883943090" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwBjoVsDAZAA5PRCw_GxsddQEXYU-AghxdoObOFXZsh3JWp0tFeUp9M9ZI1wM-d7cnH3zZNUA38eELGLYfhELwYTGrCjzBI7TCe45oTXZtBLN4Ksj0VsYzxV_oxoBxwcxQlvtQbPj7MNi1/s1600-h/white+center.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwBjoVsDAZAA5PRCw_GxsddQEXYU-AghxdoObOFXZsh3JWp0tFeUp9M9ZI1wM-d7cnH3zZNUA38eELGLYfhELwYTGrCjzBI7TCe45oTXZtBLN4Ksj0VsYzxV_oxoBxwcxQlvtQbPj7MNi1/s320/white+center.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123088615178910402" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnMF_48-MXB-gzbaEOgbWRUOqGyjzMpJkmFMJCNxYXkcHUYQqj5oVWgoU9LMHwr8TdDeJEBgCNYcdy5ZtSTXQ0zIiafOHRPhbtsTsO1jtrpp2PCPeasZ72U6VNIxRbiO1CJdxjpaTfVtEv/s1600-h/untitled+1969.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnMF_48-MXB-gzbaEOgbWRUOqGyjzMpJkmFMJCNxYXkcHUYQqj5oVWgoU9LMHwr8TdDeJEBgCNYcdy5ZtSTXQ0zIiafOHRPhbtsTsO1jtrpp2PCPeasZ72U6VNIxRbiO1CJdxjpaTfVtEv/s320/untitled+1969.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123088228631853618" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjFyKkkPBpqBJ_drh3bldf-eUXX60M2P3kqZNL1moD0AZPzu9dKmSozDT5hARV1EVaif1o-tr1vC34tahT7YQJ6bsnWEprwCFVlzW2XujujC3FCt2XfquoZxI0_5Je3B3gTHJ6mF3ngVEA/s1600-h/red+maroons.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjFyKkkPBpqBJ_drh3bldf-eUXX60M2P3kqZNL1moD0AZPzu9dKmSozDT5hARV1EVaif1o-tr1vC34tahT7YQJ6bsnWEprwCFVlzW2XujujC3FCt2XfquoZxI0_5Je3B3gTHJ6mF3ngVEA/s320/red+maroons.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123088228631853634" /></a><br />Viewers have taken much interest in Rothko’s striking style, and his ability to deviate from “the norm”- but above all, it should be understood that he was an artist who set out to express human emotion. He disliked having his work categorized, insisting. “… I’m not an abstractionist… I’m not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on. And the fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions… the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. And if you say you are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point.”<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioYikqV8Ve1EsWxPY3F8MqGZ_TGQ7NN9NlvtNOrSvr1NZH6NDeBS8tUy4BRVulKdutnn4G0bZW7EGZM_5eDi_snNdPBC5tF80F-QQNJ9UVJK4G24KPxgB2n4ZIUk6gRAMl55n7jiHzONiT/s1600-h/brown,+black+on+maroon.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioYikqV8Ve1EsWxPY3F8MqGZ_TGQ7NN9NlvtNOrSvr1NZH6NDeBS8tUy4BRVulKdutnn4G0bZW7EGZM_5eDi_snNdPBC5tF80F-QQNJ9UVJK4G24KPxgB2n4ZIUk6gRAMl55n7jiHzONiT/s320/brown,+black+on+maroon.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123088232926820946" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDEQGd9avMq1ueMtuTIS9j3Ha37lD7RU3lD-GGRx__uy6Q1rHs1cnL62XHzZw8Glv2GdVixhxyl6sENb1PNoDFmgkRqjA4pXMm9xFC7FeIbfRuFqbLrguHUJLSWZ4saqqaSRYLLjLnyuqh/s1600-h/black,+ochre,+red+over+red.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDEQGd9avMq1ueMtuTIS9j3Ha37lD7RU3lD-GGRx__uy6Q1rHs1cnL62XHzZw8Glv2GdVixhxyl6sENb1PNoDFmgkRqjA4pXMm9xFC7FeIbfRuFqbLrguHUJLSWZ4saqqaSRYLLjLnyuqh/s320/black,+ochre,+red+over+red.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123088232926820962" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF9IXa64K4yzhSnvFgFvRBiARXvK8tciXKjCKcRFWVqJPOumuG2DtUpiWvDpq-9MMAJeCnpSlrC7Ej9e-rtEWqdGDJMwx1HPMdE0nUHEZ38i-7awJL9cuhv9H3jHXJwFTqLCtDsKVj1waE/s1600-h/violet+and+yellow+on+rose.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF9IXa64K4yzhSnvFgFvRBiARXvK8tciXKjCKcRFWVqJPOumuG2DtUpiWvDpq-9MMAJeCnpSlrC7Ej9e-rtEWqdGDJMwx1HPMdE0nUHEZ38i-7awJL9cuhv9H3jHXJwFTqLCtDsKVj1waE/s320/violet+and+yellow+on+rose.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123088237221788274" /></a>Chris Barnardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11502527653251105422noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125933215131582359.post-25840690805736326022007-10-10T18:53:00.000-04:002007-10-10T20:51:11.841-04:00Pollock Painted Big<span style="font-size:78%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSRDhCr3hGjUyhLboA1m1bQkghFa6eznb_azkoWUMI26XmOhGywvZiVKh6RbVPRcdM-Si729XIhMy5ZVTKYiNZGqEXhCp4yun9_LHMoevU8wlrD2Xq-_y6JqrHxAFwAC6gpsmWPnJT1Ske/s1600-h/the+moon+woman.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSRDhCr3hGjUyhLboA1m1bQkghFa6eznb_azkoWUMI26XmOhGywvZiVKh6RbVPRcdM-Si729XIhMy5ZVTKYiNZGqEXhCp4yun9_LHMoevU8wlrD2Xq-_y6JqrHxAFwAC6gpsmWPnJT1Ske/s320/the+moon+woman.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119845553144011554" border="0" /></a><br /></span> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:78%;">Moon Woman, 1942, oil on canvas, 69x43 in.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVid-WP_Dn2c9cVcl1c0hBcLkQ7Sqg-lcbYVs5ICwEEO2K8NfSYdU4C5JbCrCAVH6rjugtDiVgQpN3IT5pcR45pCCz7fLpjYXI-nOtAlAyD5iJi7R7eZpm4-bdH6swqwsk82rJRveGAP-0/s1600-h/shimmering_sm.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVid-WP_Dn2c9cVcl1c0hBcLkQ7Sqg-lcbYVs5ICwEEO2K8NfSYdU4C5JbCrCAVH6rjugtDiVgQpN3IT5pcR45pCCz7fLpjYXI-nOtAlAyD5iJi7R7eZpm4-bdH6swqwsk82rJRveGAP-0/s320/shimmering_sm.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119853949805075378" border="0" /></a></span> <span style="font-size:78%;">Shimmering Substance, 1946, 30 x 24 in.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAPR_DtldV1BEaMv7p9GKoUmwTcAc7NoJzdi_9OATBCpFU5mFMKEgOVDG3bTqz3uS1GhK3r4E-jhnYywqdr0QE2iD1_YWTnPpR496NfZQZD0yknTrNdvG-FM-91HNb-0ejOP7wjhDobzb5/s1600-h/20_pollo_ja_083.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAPR_DtldV1BEaMv7p9GKoUmwTcAc7NoJzdi_9OATBCpFU5mFMKEgOVDG3bTqz3uS1GhK3r4E-jhnYywqdr0QE2iD1_YWTnPpR496NfZQZD0yknTrNdvG-FM-91HNb-0ejOP7wjhDobzb5/s320/20_pollo_ja_083.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119851862450969490" border="0" /></a><br /> Number One, 1948, oil on canvas, 68 x 104 in.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitjAV9itEQPP-uGCOMGfTPNhbHRdQGZ6a1Doxl6IIcLFJXpNCiQ4ZFkAk0SLsLrpQacb9xT6vyK_lThSUHNIIRkNE0ePWuTKc6SJyhCDgCaUYNbl2-9rrqW9Rp7enw516tIDd_uLO1J4Qr/s1600-h/20_pollo_ja_082.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitjAV9itEQPP-uGCOMGfTPNhbHRdQGZ6a1Doxl6IIcLFJXpNCiQ4ZFkAk0SLsLrpQacb9xT6vyK_lThSUHNIIRkNE0ePWuTKc6SJyhCDgCaUYNbl2-9rrqW9Rp7enw516tIDd_uLO1J4Qr/s320/20_pollo_ja_082.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119852218933255074" border="0" /></a><br /> DETAIL, Number One<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz9G2Kk7J8PCD2NUMDntI_aGDwG4Qb4QKUZhci1nSBTbThPeWs1riPl8C8ql0rSrCq8gdC1Y-YhXfzxq-OS-xu8wUfD6c4pvQ5hNSwW4nhg1I9dEi-WmF6sQrVqvkKA7xhrYBvAuI6ZDke/s1600-h/20_pollo_ja_091.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz9G2Kk7J8PCD2NUMDntI_aGDwG4Qb4QKUZhci1nSBTbThPeWs1riPl8C8ql0rSrCq8gdC1Y-YhXfzxq-OS-xu8wUfD6c4pvQ5hNSwW4nhg1I9dEi-WmF6sQrVqvkKA7xhrYBvAuI6ZDke/s320/20_pollo_ja_091.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119851621932800898" border="0" /></a><br /> One, 1950, oil on canvas, approx. 9 ft. x 17 ft.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEiK5CfHAvdxxrcwwnNvtGerWtgkRF7RXF6SRUZLkdLFWfV0gO0FpJAPJH6-dSky-ysViIaz4lwJ4K9scaJPCDgVSTDRriL_koB9IlPj5SgysXFd5jY0KYTKc2r9qGoalzq04SZzbyfi1A/s1600-h/20_pollo_ja_092.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEiK5CfHAvdxxrcwwnNvtGerWtgkRF7RXF6SRUZLkdLFWfV0gO0FpJAPJH6-dSky-ysViIaz4lwJ4K9scaJPCDgVSTDRriL_koB9IlPj5SgysXFd5jY0KYTKc2r9qGoalzq04SZzbyfi1A/s320/20_pollo_ja_092.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119851398594501490" border="0" /></a><br /> Autumn Rhythm, 1950, 105 x 207 in.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtkCoprwLWsvxLfX6H1fFeknkAkYe7Tp1pE1aktdM1K1FYaEBkH9J0nMcMSX1IMFVdazgtJiQTKcw2_PFkFOFWSBHt2fFP83f3mdU5EsQ6ynH2AtmKQEVIGlHV_eTLMx6Om062-uhkMmD9/s1600-h/lavender-mist.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtkCoprwLWsvxLfX6H1fFeknkAkYe7Tp1pE1aktdM1K1FYaEBkH9J0nMcMSX1IMFVdazgtJiQTKcw2_PFkFOFWSBHt2fFP83f3mdU5EsQ6ynH2AtmKQEVIGlHV_eTLMx6Om062-uhkMmD9/s320/lavender-mist.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119851196731038562" border="0" /></a><br /> Lavender Mist, 1950, approx. 7 ft. x 10 ft.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhetKlyg4AJaZrkJC7Ap8OSwvJOH2VWxuc_WvwZUeyxVXyOONOtSAFiaWuUbOGeLKaGIWcz_BjGwzWYH-jFmnGWLhOOf4dj2TrzttHHd3eMTdEXQvxYQ_t-2CxJySxsPBTrJbbvUkkdO-3K/s1600-h/BluePoles.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhetKlyg4AJaZrkJC7Ap8OSwvJOH2VWxuc_WvwZUeyxVXyOONOtSAFiaWuUbOGeLKaGIWcz_BjGwzWYH-jFmnGWLhOOf4dj2TrzttHHd3eMTdEXQvxYQ_t-2CxJySxsPBTrJbbvUkkdO-3K/s320/BluePoles.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119850526716140338" border="0" /></a><br /> Blue Poles, 1952, 7 ft. x 16 ft.<br /><br /><br /></span></div>Chris Barnardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11502527653251105422noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125933215131582359.post-59727977266790938482007-10-04T17:07:00.001-04:002007-10-04T17:29:21.859-04:00Picasso Painted Big<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8mGTyNr4XNzBb3wtMjpMry_vtLcfyJCDsdP5aiuXriKHgFueDXom2lv-B1LBa2H6jnHA8VdE8Zqpz5ckJBJ9pcqhv1q5mGIijFms22p-vzBTYvVesCwcU7OT5DFElwxCjpjpvvGgaTw8y/s1600-h/picasso_littlepicador_1892.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSzrcM-NHSwcMki0nREc5wSeLnX27csiYD8V9cwbU7VYYG49e3_DsxKmgYJ99UTprIjKDJ5NCxpJMt1FfFmqgLY6PCoiKNedQNfsu6BOGSkeBJIprE5uEdEvR8KvltaFVdFcRMhPKJl-ei/s320/picasso_foot_1894.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117591960456558818" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiziMN2_i5jTMKOgx30mYVvkJEqF3SaUBl1UBhto_5olusE3ICCCJx2NjuPm3HCoUiBRJ7JChvvekpK0rW836OEV4EwqThbxqYREB2HviRBEzar6tMHIHu18heSIJ4mGklPPPjHQVRQPWkK/s1600-h/picasso_girlwithbarefeet_1895.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiziMN2_i5jTMKOgx30mYVvkJEqF3SaUBl1UBhto_5olusE3ICCCJx2NjuPm3HCoUiBRJ7JChvvekpK0rW836OEV4EwqThbxqYREB2HviRBEzar6tMHIHu18heSIJ4mGklPPPjHQVRQPWkK/s320/picasso_girlwithbarefeet_1895.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117591973341460722" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKfEaQrJCcKnFxWVUrfvCtwtEWYdgOqpMqK55MpNLsiGzVSEpaxErndJgA4tgbKUlBUjxGgHRHwkjuQhZ5AOwXm8tIN6ciI92fPboMeUaSVGr0T-v0RwyUWP0_GRmhijOp3ZvgSuFHOK60/s1600-h/picasso_malenude_1896.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKfEaQrJCcKnFxWVUrfvCtwtEWYdgOqpMqK55MpNLsiGzVSEpaxErndJgA4tgbKUlBUjxGgHRHwkjuQhZ5AOwXm8tIN6ciI92fPboMeUaSVGr0T-v0RwyUWP0_GRmhijOp3ZvgSuFHOK60/s320/picasso_malenude_1896.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117591977636428034" border="0" /></a><br />Selene writes: <span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"><p>Picasso was born in Malaga Spain in 1881. At the early age of 4 he moved with his fatherto Barcelona where his father had been appointed to the faculty at the Barcelona Academy.Picasso took very early instruction from his father and then was accepted into the Academy at an early age too, where others may have waited years for entrance. It became apparent to his father and the Academy that he had astounding talent. At this time his father gave him his paints and brushes and said he himself would never paint again. Picasso at 15 mastered the conventions of the Academy as seen primarily in Girl With Barefeet. Other examples of his early talent are seen in the slides from age 11-16.<br /></p> <p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtynCAZ3K1UePx5PuhixJ8s4hN-CG7N6PFppz9LMSb0fNRK9xJEYYf-QgsE4hKt6L_9GrP1crR7AUB6sYnrc8hnFnHV5cn3Qgzc-NGZ_Dnz2IBKzbjdObMtKM_CPkxcTYBEBhWbaM8LEUw/s1600-h/picasso_entrancetothebullring_1900.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtynCAZ3K1UePx5PuhixJ8s4hN-CG7N6PFppz9LMSb0fNRK9xJEYYf-QgsE4hKt6L_9GrP1crR7AUB6sYnrc8hnFnHV5cn3Qgzc-NGZ_Dnz2IBKzbjdObMtKM_CPkxcTYBEBhWbaM8LEUw/s320/picasso_entrancetothebullring_1900.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117592944004069666" border="0" /></a>In 1900 at the age of 19 he moved to Paris. At this time he was very involved in the caf<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">é</span> society of intellectuals, musicians, actors, authors, artists. He was influenced by Toulous Lautrec when he finished the pastel Entrance To The Bullring. This was a period that his color pallette was very brilliant....maybe not to be repeated in the following decades.</p> <p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4RO0ZZYblTYKTZzn7xG8mA3MNV4zoKvja3LNUlX1hiMmJKHyc5v52P8eSdYHKyr-0iRtWPrdcwETjnU3WudjwukyGBCBIZ69-kMGh3AT8GdGfzyynfvPKNTzjFmiZIFpU0FrxXOJdCwYE/s1600-h/picasso_scienceandcharity_1897.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4RO0ZZYblTYKTZzn7xG8mA3MNV4zoKvja3LNUlX1hiMmJKHyc5v52P8eSdYHKyr-0iRtWPrdcwETjnU3WudjwukyGBCBIZ69-kMGh3AT8GdGfzyynfvPKNTzjFmiZIFpU0FrxXOJdCwYE/s320/picasso_scienceandcharity_1897.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117592939709102354" border="0" /></a>During 1904-07 were his Blue and Rose Periods. The Blue Period shows his own melancholy and despair. He had to move back to Spain because of poverty and lonliness. Some say he was too poor to buy other colors and some say he painted at night. No one really knows. Picasso as an artist never put anything down on paper about his works, or for that matter probably not about anyone elses.La Vie is perhaps his most famous from the Blue Period painted in l905.</p> <p>The Rose Period followed when he returned too Paris to live in l904, permanently. He was again influenced by the circus world and Toulous Lautrec. The colors are more lively and the subject matter somewhat happy. This might show his personal and professional success. The Harem 1906 describes this period in his life.The Family of Saltimbanques is again his fascination with other "entertainer" of the public and his connection with their emotional and financial sacrifices, painted in l905.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdnUgZo5-l0AhPb0m7mnYjoyKXX1-6DfdylVDPTHVst1OTZ-aQ4ukM4DB4EMZZNWC61a0AWatlJURYzYOb9GtL8Wn8WszbbJcwJjgEVviMeCdAhS3m6NnLuDNfiVDt5SJdiFMWEc2WEBQq/s1600-h/picasso_la_view_1903.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdnUgZo5-l0AhPb0m7mnYjoyKXX1-6DfdylVDPTHVst1OTZ-aQ4ukM4DB4EMZZNWC61a0AWatlJURYzYOb9GtL8Wn8WszbbJcwJjgEVviMeCdAhS3m6NnLuDNfiVDt5SJdiFMWEc2WEBQq/s320/picasso_la_view_1903.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117592952594004274" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1B_IcFsZcqGELouqkpPniPUnuwGbfC3HgEEoGSPUBuoqgn1zgsk0NGYKlAy3a3qJ7EgeeFCE6uKTHGZqaJEJMGpx2ptLVPSg01dMANPb5k0Vwxybo7j9RvVeyO8adqrDcC46xCOm36jw0/s1600-h/picasso_familyofsaltimbanques_1905.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1B_IcFsZcqGELouqkpPniPUnuwGbfC3HgEEoGSPUBuoqgn1zgsk0NGYKlAy3a3qJ7EgeeFCE6uKTHGZqaJEJMGpx2ptLVPSg01dMANPb5k0Vwxybo7j9RvVeyO8adqrDcC46xCOm36jw0/s320/picasso_familyofsaltimbanques_1905.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117594064990533986" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2uNft2R62MSUIeYD5rAHGU_vWML4KscU2rqR2uHXPKUzW3kkv7R_EgpHd1AAWMu5DasHQ507xbTM6F-3Mk9K4sJA0HyVQpcs8cDpQuD6jjgi2dINvEZk-73QooZl0I7BZmA_8PfiA1_9Q/s1600-h/picasso_harem_1906.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2uNft2R62MSUIeYD5rAHGU_vWML4KscU2rqR2uHXPKUzW3kkv7R_EgpHd1AAWMu5DasHQ507xbTM6F-3Mk9K4sJA0HyVQpcs8cDpQuD6jjgi2dINvEZk-73QooZl0I7BZmA_8PfiA1_9Q/s320/picasso_harem_1906.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117592965478906194" border="0" /></a><br /></p> <p>In l907 he met Georges Braque and the Movement of Modern Art is born for many decades.He and George lived in each others houses and wore each others clothes just to stay stimulated and amused. George was particularly influenced by Cezanne and his larger blocks of color, but in essence they both were smitten with what could be called Cezanne early cubism.Their alliance was monumental in setting the direction of Modern Art and informing the 20<sup>th</sup> century art world for the next 60 years.Picasso already was working on Les Demoiselles dAvignon (Museum of Modern Art NYC), painted at the age of 26, when he met Braque. It is one of his largest....8 ft by 7.8 ft.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv9mYNwdT0Ds5bOTJRYrkZD2IO70emZkmCCFtYp-JUDFRtJfkC3XMZk0IzhKECTqnIMT8KKFoY0S8l095m0JuHnhb58YDETzg9EeVwR-1FslpriCGutXn1-0UOoENY7Isoc6A4vNzNLING/s1600-h/picasso_lesdemoisellesdavignon_1907.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv9mYNwdT0Ds5bOTJRYrkZD2IO70emZkmCCFtYp-JUDFRtJfkC3XMZk0IzhKECTqnIMT8KKFoY0S8l095m0JuHnhb58YDETzg9EeVwR-1FslpriCGutXn1-0UOoENY7Isoc6A4vNzNLING/s320/picasso_lesdemoisellesdavignon_1907.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117594082170403202" border="0" /></a> For decades artist had been trying to move away from naturalistic and detailed paintings inspired by classical studies from earlier centuries. He and George devised that one could see a subject from all angles at one time.Picasso said, "I paint objects/subjects as I think them, not as I see them." Cubism totally discarded the principles governing Western Art since the Renaissance.Picassos second most famous painting is Guernica painted in Paris in l939 and also very large.It measures 11 ft by 29 ft, and hangs in the Prado in Madrid. The experience of the Nazi bombing of Guernica had a profound effect on Picassos personally and artistically for many, many years. He was asked to paint something for the 1937 World Fair in Paris by the exiled Spanish Republican government.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZC3-FVIcyi40r60DkeT-uOODe6wPasch2CHK4xp4FRT-A2gfbTx8vjsTQfXTUSHjPAMqLK__WZ5TFUNYHx4OOYPp1F5jrAC1HxhAOddhyphenhyphenTEytx3S18CpxFR9MFSD8JK-sDlmpINK9ljWa/s1600-h/picasso_guernica_1936.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZC3-FVIcyi40r60DkeT-uOODe6wPasch2CHK4xp4FRT-A2gfbTx8vjsTQfXTUSHjPAMqLK__WZ5TFUNYHx4OOYPp1F5jrAC1HxhAOddhyphenhyphenTEytx3S18CpxFR9MFSD8JK-sDlmpINK9ljWa/s320/picasso_guernica_1936.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117594086465370514" border="0" /></a>He painted it in 39 days and it hung in the front of the SpanishPavilion. It was painted when he was 58.Face Studies is a series from the Diego Velazquez painting Las Meninas 1656. These studies are all from 1957 when he was 76 years old. They depict to me, his voracious creativity, curiosity,intensity, and unrelenting pursuit of subject matter from different angles. Here shown also is his finished version of Las Meninas. The last one was in this show of slides was painted when he was 88 years old. Apparently he did not slow down one single time in his career. He created fully and ceaselessly from the beginning of his life to the very end, death coming at age 92. This piece is titled Man, Sword, and Flowers, l969.As he grew older it became harder to separate his works into categories. His produced so much volume the lines just blurred between clay, paint, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, collage, etc etc. When he was 89 he finished 350 drawings in one year and 150 oil paintings.</p> <p>An enormous career of characters, conversations, creativity, women, imagination, annoyance, viewing, sketching, living. 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVWWK1hnXeqz5AdwEdFSbAmy-ie9qhs4ASHflX0qMUW4qJvKrFf0tbGfOOGYHuYsSJtcm0C_GBpSRG0PBulyis-REh7usQQPYQfPLXHthDT7bXcWTAAhMlDgZJbO-SEwsUuS-ZLEqEPFgi/s320/The+Wounded+Man.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5114641903530465426" border="0" /></a>Gustave Courbet (Jean-Desiré-Gustave Courbet) was born into a prosperous farming family on June 10, 1819, in Ornans, France, a rugged area near the Swiss border. His father was a landowner with vineyards in Flagey, a small village about eight miles from Ornans. In 1831 Courbet began attending the Seminary in Ornans and then in the fall of 1837, Courbet was sent to the Collège Royal at Besançon. Here his father had hoped that he would complete his preparatory training for a law degree. While in Besançon he also attended courses at the Académie under Charles-Antoine Flageoulot, a former pupil of Jacques-Louis David, a major neo-classical painter.<br /></div> In 1839, under the assumption that Courbet was following law studies, he moved to Paris where he befriended Francois Bonvin, another young Realist artist, His exposure to the “little masters” of Dutch painting and to Spanish painters like Murillo, Velazquez, and Zurburan. The dark palettes of these artists influenced the early period of Courbet’s work.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9bIf0e8jVyCd3wjFv5p9ffeUCn2W85sU6IjFzTFHIHRL9sZkl-nX0BGyoMEyhs9AnoP0u2DBWTXOs_c09wh-akgZJCvKwyjuCxg_-vUr1SKHeBXFEQDssPfR8NHHRgYuY0jshsBYaTGHm/s1600-h/The+Sleeping+Spinner.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9bIf0e8jVyCd3wjFv5p9ffeUCn2W85sU6IjFzTFHIHRL9sZkl-nX0BGyoMEyhs9AnoP0u2DBWTXOs_c09wh-akgZJCvKwyjuCxg_-vUr1SKHeBXFEQDssPfR8NHHRgYuY0jshsBYaTGHm/s320/The+Sleeping+Spinner.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5114643247855229170" border="0" /></a><br />Rather than pursuing studies in law, Courbet began working in Suisse’s atelier. Unlike other ateliers there was no instruction or criticism given instead students were allowed to follow their own stylistic endeavors with an unrestrined sense of freedom. The atelier was very suitable to Courbet’s style of learning because he preferred not to work under a teacher, felt that art could not be taught. He soon left, preferring to develop his own style by studying Spanish, Flemish and French painters and painting copies of their work.<br /><br />Courbet’s completed many self portraits throughout his life, but a majority of them were done in the 1840s. He submitted one of these portraits his Autoportrait au Chien (Self Portrait with the Black Dog) to the 1844 Salon, where it was accepted while his self portrait entitled Man with a Pipe and other works were rejected. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF0_gJJEO8nIIETIYe3kvoGJy3ULxTp70Uh_gI2SQXknIiV1RXXC5M01pLDHhJU6D6BmRYs8UxJcv92BgMHeH3QAVyczAN13gXanl16mBm2N1BsWVASl0krQQz048bOlWg-Xj0sRf3xfNn/s1600-h/Man+with+a+Pipe.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF0_gJJEO8nIIETIYe3kvoGJy3ULxTp70Uh_gI2SQXknIiV1RXXC5M01pLDHhJU6D6BmRYs8UxJcv92BgMHeH3QAVyczAN13gXanl16mBm2N1BsWVASl0krQQz048bOlWg-Xj0sRf3xfNn/s320/Man+with+a+Pipe.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5114641903530465410" border="0" /></a><br />The fact that one of Courbet’s works was accepted can not be considered a triumph since. The juries at the Salon fluctuated greatly over the years. In 1841 it was very hard for even artists such as Jean-Dominique Ingres to have art accept for exhibition where as in 1844 the juried began to accept virtually every piece that was submitted.<br />Courbet would find that the selectiveness of the Salon jury would continually plague his establishment of a career.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha2Yw1BjQwuTMprSk0ugwnVUFKfZSy4zzlfY86HnmLcTOTJUJ4fqVPlhnmLjRQtC_U2kFxRdcPbyWJbbz__itt5vNFwBJnHTe9DrhC1N3zmUR6ORsQQC3jk57RqreGFYYh8AHcOEuz9mli/s1600-h/allegory.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha2Yw1BjQwuTMprSk0ugwnVUFKfZSy4zzlfY86HnmLcTOTJUJ4fqVPlhnmLjRQtC_U2kFxRdcPbyWJbbz__itt5vNFwBJnHTe9DrhC1N3zmUR6ORsQQC3jk57RqreGFYYh8AHcOEuz9mli/s320/allegory.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5114641907825432754" border="0" /></a><br />In 1847 Courbet sent a portrait and two other works to the Salon but they were all rejected. For some time Courbet had experienced his share of rejections he experienced the same problem that all progressive artists of the nineteenth century faced. In order to establish their careers with the public, they needed the Salon exhibitions<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjicgSMBL6FoD3MDozFccBF8xlCdpYruGcEj2QsZIBCxHqXKQ03D5b3-2YbY29aEcoYfM7HvrfU00pEzDNopoHSyqyycO4DUgLVxphrl0d-yxDjTM7HSe88ttf8gsuO-tIWyuo_AZa5wCPu/s1600-h/Courbet_stoneBreakers.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjicgSMBL6FoD3MDozFccBF8xlCdpYruGcEj2QsZIBCxHqXKQ03D5b3-2YbY29aEcoYfM7HvrfU00pEzDNopoHSyqyycO4DUgLVxphrl0d-yxDjTM7HSe88ttf8gsuO-tIWyuo_AZa5wCPu/s320/Courbet_stoneBreakers.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5114643252150196498" border="0" /></a><br />Courbet ignited his first major controversy at the Salon of 1850/51, Courbet exhibited Un Enterrement a Ornans (The Burial at Ornans), Les Paysans de Flagey (The Peasants of Flagey), and Les Casseurs de Pierre (The Stonebreakers). In 1853 the controversy was rekindled when he showed Les Baigneuses (The Bathers), La Fileuse Endormie (The Sleeping Spinner), and Les Lutteurs (The Wrestlers).<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO4FuCed-nFjz43o8nLD91Bbl54i5QMgCf7KI-70ciiIDaX9UaCIULdrsaGGWxks8jhBmhFt7ZrK3KdrsIkSpVqP_LhT5zqzsGPDdzpbKkFa_rbzAY3-xSKhH0HoiKJfNfsvTkwdSLfdpO/s1600-h/The+Bathers.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO4FuCed-nFjz43o8nLD91Bbl54i5QMgCf7KI-70ciiIDaX9UaCIULdrsaGGWxks8jhBmhFt7ZrK3KdrsIkSpVqP_LhT5zqzsGPDdzpbKkFa_rbzAY3-xSKhH0HoiKJfNfsvTkwdSLfdpO/s320/The+Bathers.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5114641912120400066" border="0" /></a><br />It is said that Napoleon was so disgusted with The Bathers that he hit the canvas with his riding crop and that Guichard, in Les Doctrines de G. Courbet of 1862 said that “The irritation got to the point that the police commissioner of the quarter wanted to drive it out of the Exhibition.<br /><br />Burial at Ornans is considered one of Courbet’s most important works. It was inspired by the actual funeral of his great uncle and became his first masterpiece in the Realist style. People who had actually attended the funeral were used as models for the painting. The result was a realistic presentation of the people, and of life, in Ornans.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQPFxH4HIbQb-E_lt5vpJyFLo5ilB4sR33HDuAstlS-31iB8knogQoBWqcppKVlx029NEQDKK0XVcwuRSlpMxM6rUID18fTUxYdVbv2pGkGEi6lzyOWWIfsTk_J6xPMnsUn2AQxsRE74kD/s1600-h/ornans.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQPFxH4HIbQb-E_lt5vpJyFLo5ilB4sR33HDuAstlS-31iB8knogQoBWqcppKVlx029NEQDKK0XVcwuRSlpMxM6rUID18fTUxYdVbv2pGkGEi6lzyOWWIfsTk_J6xPMnsUn2AQxsRE74kD/s320/ornans.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5114641907825432738" border="0" /></a><br />The painting caused quite a fuss with critics and the public. The scale of the painting, measuring 10 by 22 feet, depicted a mundane ritual on a scale which had previously been reserved for religious or royal subjects.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhehh3kHJGdECI98RMN7N1eralI32L-h5J7rj_LJEAsVuAnnpWO2IIaEnZI4xUpuF1icbJhghf1bw-QP8UkGczW0z6tOMeCRSRyqwsWhAv2oyHWBtAwb9vZQ9Fq7TjEhScxxrGBDFHvbeKR/s1600-h/The+Sleepers.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhehh3kHJGdECI98RMN7N1eralI32L-h5J7rj_LJEAsVuAnnpWO2IIaEnZI4xUpuF1icbJhghf1bw-QP8UkGczW0z6tOMeCRSRyqwsWhAv2oyHWBtAwb9vZQ9Fq7TjEhScxxrGBDFHvbeKR/s320/The+Sleepers.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5114643243560261858" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Towards the end of the 1860s, Courbet painted a series of increasingly erotic pieces, such as Woman with a Parrot, The Sleepers, featuring two women in bed, <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv3161v4HEZavExfuAJ3Gxh_8zMheC6Pep2A4az9-j3cthk6d4hVxPk24LXMJLRX825_X6nFuehSDy0aFgJM5TktXTpG23tnAIuu4WCiyp_4ywMTazj1IXxD1_O-HhyphenhyphenA-Oi8NiZ-w-hZ_E/s1600-h/Woman+with+a+Parrot.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv3161v4HEZavExfuAJ3Gxh_8zMheC6Pep2A4az9-j3cthk6d4hVxPk24LXMJLRX825_X6nFuehSDy0aFgJM5TktXTpG23tnAIuu4WCiyp_4ywMTazj1IXxD1_O-HhyphenhyphenA-Oi8NiZ-w-hZ_E/s320/Woman+with+a+Parrot.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5114643252150196482" border="0" /></a>and culminated with The Origin of the World (L’Origine du monde) (1866), depicting female genitalia. While banned from public display, the works only served to increase his notoriety.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvcDlwXL0fpA5n8eTrc0bMtX7cFPrp8JfmTDnHgqEEgSjchj-wY-aOkNDQSSQWfc7JnjzjGj9LSBDc3-qNuRaaCGCmI22hdGXaroIeA62sgmP_YyfOSjumTHqSC3UXO5hQQFOTIKYWhYPi/s1600-h/The+Origin+of+the+World.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvcDlwXL0fpA5n8eTrc0bMtX7cFPrp8JfmTDnHgqEEgSjchj-wY-aOkNDQSSQWfc7JnjzjGj9LSBDc3-qNuRaaCGCmI22hdGXaroIeA62sgmP_YyfOSjumTHqSC3UXO5hQQFOTIKYWhYPi/s320/The+Origin+of+the+World.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5114643243560261842" border="0" /></a><br /><br />On April 14, 1870, Courbet established the “Federation of Artists" (Fédération des artistes) for the free and uncensored expansion of art. Group members included Andre Gill, Honore Daumier, Jean-Batiste Camille Corot, Eugene Pottier, Jues Dlou, and Edourad Manet.<br /><br />After Courbet had made a name for himself as an artist he grew ambitious of other glory; he tried to promote democratic and social science, and under the Empire he wrote essays and dissertations. His refusal of the cross of the Legion of Honour, offered to him by Napoleon III, made him immensely popular. Despite Courbet’s refusal of the honor, the Commune government did appoint Courbet Chairman of the Arts Commission, whose sole duty was to protect the works of art in Paris from the siege. But what was to be done with monuments that represented imperialism and pillage, such as that symbolized by the hated Vendôme Column. It was decided that the column would be taken down, not by force, but by dismantlement.<br />The Commune was short-lived and in May of 1871 mass executions began and all Commune leaders, such as Courbet, were either executed or jailed. Courbet managed to escape by keeping a low profile; his personality was not one to flee from controversy, even if it meant going to prison.<br /><br />In September a council of war, before which he was tried, condemned him to pay the cost of restoring the column, 300,000 francs (£12,000). On July 23rd, 1873 Courbet, through the assistance of a few friends, fled France for Switzerland as he could not, nor did not want to pay his fines. With the atmosphere repellent in France, Courbet stayed in Switzerland for four years, growing weaker each year, and unwilling to submit himself to continual doctor’s visits and medicines. He died, without ever returning to France, of a liver disease aggravated by heavy drinking as an exile on December 31st, 1877.Chris Barnardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11502527653251105422noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125933215131582359.post-28454549138186167222007-09-25T11:02:00.000-04:002007-09-25T11:14:39.569-04:00Géricault Painted Big<p>Theodore Gericault was born in France in 1791. His family moved to Paris in 1796, where at the age of 17 he chose a career in art although his family was strongly opposed to his decision. He was influenced by Carle Vernet, who specialized in equestrian subjects. In 1810, Gericault was able to obtain a more serious education under Pierre Guérin. This course of studies lasted only six months due to impatience to learn. For the next four years he took it upon himself to take control of his education, and taught himself by copying works of the masters.</p><p>The Raft of the Medusa is one of Gericault’s best known works, and is now on display at the Louvre. It was painted in 1818-19, and it was painted on a huge canvas (4.19 x 7.16 m). In this painting, he emphasizes the struggle these men are facing, having been stranded in the middle of the ocean. Their suffering is very apparent in their facial expressions and body language. The moment being depicted is when the survivors have just noticed a ship in the distance, and are desperate for this ship to come save them.</p><p>Many of his other works have also have this disheartening mood, such as his painting The Wreck (1821-24). The image of a person, lying on a beach possibly dead after a storm, is very unsettling. He paints this picture using many dark, gloomy colors which suggest doom.</p><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOWlyOQMUHNREJrio2ZIzNzK1QnS31dgl_1bZD_4sx8pIXWfKLS1Mt06rnFEIfkCdSFfLV4a-Va-L910MNkHfssWUPB38JGHb_fptl3F4uGTgorRTBXIMiKLORr4XV1mrJAATRJqQZMQG4/s1600-h/gericault09wreck.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOWlyOQMUHNREJrio2ZIzNzK1QnS31dgl_1bZD_4sx8pIXWfKLS1Mt06rnFEIfkCdSFfLV4a-Va-L910MNkHfssWUPB38JGHb_fptl3F4uGTgorRTBXIMiKLORr4XV1mrJAATRJqQZMQG4/s320/gericault09wreck.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5114159389724563474" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidfbx9WEtm1taCWYXMRU1H52nqA5LDWcFvT_AE732dZW_wNLXmD_LAo0Uk5WiNRU27V_v4NsF96dyilQ14uwLNgQc6MT4hJg-56FLxJWZ7iux1hMQW9LeknGjmKFVGCmQnOtsXBH0_fNjP/s1600-h/raft_of_the_medusa.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGfQamJs13uT_R75CytDeIzK1pd0jc_oiOv5JbJbPT2ngVs_bAMZc78RhvfyL60bRxv9UqioEewABP7ag3bVNQV7SNezSbxLkvj3xPqH-q3Kp4VwiqMom92qfMmYuirlXlos5ODJvMiQSu/s320/tennisOath.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5114156920118368258" border="0" /></a>Chris Barnardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11502527653251105422noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125933215131582359.post-90175956022614640032007-09-17T18:46:00.000-04:002007-09-17T18:52:45.726-04:00Titian Painted GiorgioneHi Everyone,<br />Great comments so far. I'm glad to see this much participation, although we still need to hear from a few more of you. As a general point, please make sure you read the whole thread of comments in addition to posting your own.<br />Since many people mentioned that Titian's <span style="font-style: italic;">Venus of Urbino</span> is based on Giorgione's <span style="font-style: italic;">Sleeping Venus</span>, I thought I would post that as well (see below). Nathalie put forward a comparison between the two versions, asking which one seems more powerful or in control. How would you all compare them? Which woman seems more/less powerful?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizKwWiXw3AzgaDf4Nr95m2OX7DjwtfAy3tF4GrkmN_UXiTmWqLd8-A2_7r4Kv_8tL90vtGPw4LlUwExbbHFSvkdGYe6fNspw5IBHXkPiyjfrioZDhSw4N1FCuKqCiz3Kn0l_QFllD92ajx/s1600-h/venus.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizKwWiXw3AzgaDf4Nr95m2OX7DjwtfAy3tF4GrkmN_UXiTmWqLd8-A2_7r4Kv_8tL90vtGPw4LlUwExbbHFSvkdGYe6fNspw5IBHXkPiyjfrioZDhSw4N1FCuKqCiz3Kn0l_QFllD92ajx/s320/venus.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5111309316273317058" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><table class="infobox" style="float: right; text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: auto;"> <tbody><tr><td><b>Giorgione</b>, c. 1510</td> </tr> <tr> <td>oil on canvas</td> </tr> <tr> <td>108,5 × 175 cm ~ 43 x 69 in.<br /></td></tr></tbody> </table>Chris Barnardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11502527653251105422noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125933215131582359.post-51539602800201652492007-09-16T23:54:00.000-04:002007-09-17T00:18:56.451-04:00Tiepolo Painted BigCARROLL writes:<br /><br />Tiepolo is known for his history based frescos and large scale paintings, which he created all throughout Italy, and far beyond to places like Sweden and Germany. Words that can be, and are often associated with his work include: contorted, expressive, dynamic, emotive, and highly imaginative. <p>The man behind the artwork, fully identified as Giambattista Tiepolo, was born in the year 1690 in Venice. Tiepolo stayed in Italy for a large portion of his life, as his family raised him in Venice, he began his studies in painting in Venice, and later in his life he secured employment and lived within Italy.</p> <p>His first painting lessons were with a history painter named Lazzarini. Lazzarini was well read and knowledgeable in the subjects of both mythology and architecture. His work ethic, often described as slow and diligent, combined with his eye for detail and perspective made him a lasting model of the past well-trained and competent artists. Tiepolo was considered both an etcher and a draftsman before he became a trained painter, and drew a large variety of sketches because they allowed him to easily express his ideas. In contrast to Lazzarini’s slow, grounded approach to work, Tiepolo worked stretched possibilities, worked quickly and was highly intrigued by the expressive, colorful, full-bodied figures of Veronese (a well known Italian painter of the 16th century). Despite Lazzarini and Tiepolo’s differing approaches to creating works of art, Tiepolo’s time with Lazzarini provided him with a solid technical foundation, connections with some patronages, as well as knowledge of both mythology and history.</p> <p>Tiepolo’s knowledge of mythology and history stayed with him and he continued to paint large-scale paintings and frescos that depicted epic heroes or portions of history. His interest in Veronese was resonant in a lot of his work and he became known to some as “Veronese” reborn. Tiepolo was described as a man with a highly imaginative mind, a great sense of vigor and determination, prolific, and hard working. His imaginative mind can be seen in many of his works that depict larger than life scenes, far away lands, a great deal of humor and a wide range of color; however, despite his somewhat whimsical pieces they all mirrored what he saw in his common day realities. As an artist, he worked up until the day he died. He was constantly commissioned or determined to have a commission. His work, at first exclusive to Italy, in time extended to places like Sweden, Germany and Italy, and he eventually became an extensive traveler due to his commissions.</p> <p>His sons, known and Domenico and Lorenzo frequently helped his father, Tiepolo with his commissions. The two of them accompanied and helped Tiepolo with his what became is last commission in Spain, as it was during this commission that he died suddenly to sickness.</p> <p>Tiepolo’s highly imaginative, realistic, colorful, dynamic, large, history-preserving works are a core part of the art world and are terribly influential to the development of Western art.</p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXfEf90awfBIF18EhzAXT0NTgHTmLbQlzw1XiUPuVY0QCtLTb9vMjwvTNMe3A54Y_hIZR5z-4UvBKj814c9_b09iY4yE8thfRIUu8dpbct9-84rxBxltPHSn4j3L9kTXPLSngmvrdfvKUn/s1600-h/Adoration+of+the+Magi.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXfEf90awfBIF18EhzAXT0NTgHTmLbQlzw1XiUPuVY0QCtLTb9vMjwvTNMe3A54Y_hIZR5z-4UvBKj814c9_b09iY4yE8thfRIUu8dpbct9-84rxBxltPHSn4j3L9kTXPLSngmvrdfvKUn/s320/Adoration+of+the+Magi.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5111019852657435730" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The Adoration of the Magi, Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany<br />405 x 211cm, oil on canvas, 1753<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0DV7ml_HDEUSXlk34mtNchKVAF6ILichqROFzZh8ou4kMYGU7rN41XSdNkdElQrdKpld_Pl6H6Nqdsont1UmjnSbuFk3FKU85d3ozaK7KUBEegG0_W2yatYifqU92bY74fCWYWbImGK-S/s1600-h/Banquet+with+Cleopatra.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0DV7ml_HDEUSXlk34mtNchKVAF6ILichqROFzZh8ou4kMYGU7rN41XSdNkdElQrdKpld_Pl6H6Nqdsont1UmjnSbuFk3FKU85d3ozaK7KUBEegG0_W2yatYifqU92bY74fCWYWbImGK-S/s320/Banquet+with+Cleopatra.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5111020552737104994" border="0" /></a><br />Banquet of Cleopatra, Pallazo Labia, Venice<br />fresco, 1745-50, National Gallery of Victoria, on palace wall<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAtTptpUQ2wijn2l4zio0KeXB-iHBSLoqM3FeZ_XtVLjjyk7JUno5C6haP5Klopfd_ft_su_het2t6VQp3seuKmDLkL1p1pp5ON-kdc-bgBmwD9VxtqNyd4DdivWT_97GWTJd_eD9nLWSm/s1600-h/America.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAtTptpUQ2wijn2l4zio0KeXB-iHBSLoqM3FeZ_XtVLjjyk7JUno5C6haP5Klopfd_ft_su_het2t6VQp3seuKmDLkL1p1pp5ON-kdc-bgBmwD9VxtqNyd4DdivWT_97GWTJd_eD9nLWSm/s320/America.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5111020973643900018" border="0" /></a>America - Apollo and the Continents, Residenz, Wurzburg<br />Wurzburg: Residenz Palace Kaisersaal, mural painting/fresco<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlCvirFU57Qa2mKw4xT_bOnAY7qAtcaoKl8UkDXuXKy3hb5LgFsiMhhodks4_tcrmQ-0is0lghiRwox11azzc-ITd68uCWZqP2UV2k-mUpQXp9KiOBKxRfrRdNQGp9GT9sBSZSRd0At6NE/s1600-h/Tiepolo-Africa.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlCvirFU57Qa2mKw4xT_bOnAY7qAtcaoKl8UkDXuXKy3hb5LgFsiMhhodks4_tcrmQ-0is0lghiRwox11azzc-ITd68uCWZqP2UV2k-mUpQXp9KiOBKxRfrRdNQGp9GT9sBSZSRd0At6NE/s320/Tiepolo-Africa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5111021312946316434" border="0" /></a>Africa - Apollo and the Continents, Residenz, Wurzburg<br />Wurzburg: Residenz Palace Kaisersaal, mural painting/fresco<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUvWxkYnwYUncKX6gU-DXCSJcO23OPC3o8cFRFXUsfhBxI6vzmKkxnzPYRYQO-Ac_idqtZxyrXJPNF6LDMU2tkh7XsceRxwtkGj0SUDixBYlSUptgDcXQ1Tv9iaEecoWCxZx3YcAR76S-e/s1600-h/Europe.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUvWxkYnwYUncKX6gU-DXCSJcO23OPC3o8cFRFXUsfhBxI6vzmKkxnzPYRYQO-Ac_idqtZxyrXJPNF6LDMU2tkh7XsceRxwtkGj0SUDixBYlSUptgDcXQ1Tv9iaEecoWCxZx3YcAR76S-e/s320/Europe.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5111021227046970498" border="0" /></a>Europe - Apollo and the Continents, Residenz, Wurzburg<br />Wurzburg: Residenz Palace Kaisersaal, mural painting/fresco<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQrfGO14ryd2yg0ghbGJPWzB4yI7EEHGXb05mXyYbuwl24aoY4i3c5djD1BNveNvNYuJ44scknqWiwlQkehg6gWXsvjjZlpX_vRp_i8Td2ymA6hPo5of2UxRd7T3rdq3V2snlIrG_zEHmr/s1600-h/Rinaldo+Leaving+Armida.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQrfGO14ryd2yg0ghbGJPWzB4yI7EEHGXb05mXyYbuwl24aoY4i3c5djD1BNveNvNYuJ44scknqWiwlQkehg6gWXsvjjZlpX_vRp_i8Td2ymA6hPo5of2UxRd7T3rdq3V2snlIrG_zEHmr/s320/Rinaldo+Leaving+Armida.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5111021446090302626" border="0" /></a>Rinaldo leaving Armida, Villa Valmarana, Venice, fresco, 1757<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDWwQVjiVRu8p5HJtCxKLjpB87uMU5YFrOWCqDvIxLpM9lGyXzHzvo0Yk6k5sAowW7BoOx0Wg56kE6b_pw6jg34RzwHK38JowFreKhprNxNY_00zTMZKxkbiPtPXnBEzxX4bMCIAWvlsm7/s1600-h/Triumph+of+Spain.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDWwQVjiVRu8p5HJtCxKLjpB87uMU5YFrOWCqDvIxLpM9lGyXzHzvo0Yk6k5sAowW7BoOx0Wg56kE6b_pw6jg34RzwHK38JowFreKhprNxNY_00zTMZKxkbiPtPXnBEzxX4bMCIAWvlsm7/s320/Triumph+of+Spain.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5111021527694681266" border="0" /></a>Truimph of Spain (The Wealth and Benefits of the Spanish Monarchy)<br /> Royal Palace, Madrid/ Ceiling, Throne Room, Palacio Real (Palacio de Oriente), Madrid,<br />Spain 1764, fresco paintingChris Barnardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11502527653251105422noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125933215131582359.post-65875447389216654202007-09-12T16:04:00.001-04:002007-09-12T16:18:10.206-04:00Titian Painted BigAUDREY WRITES:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvhP4j9J9nMO-aAmH12OofnYjeQqPpONSvEb9zIwdE3BO-OCSQT9U0OlmH6yxzWBJ2XQC3XeF7kZJc3ks2fJnBMZb6Qmxnmn23_ooEJD9pDrKxqtPVLZIWQ1I38KRRF_I2Zdasnx64kt8o/s1600-h/titian_001.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvhP4j9J9nMO-aAmH12OofnYjeQqPpONSvEb9zIwdE3BO-OCSQT9U0OlmH6yxzWBJ2XQC3XeF7kZJc3ks2fJnBMZb6Qmxnmn23_ooEJD9pDrKxqtPVLZIWQ1I38KRRF_I2Zdasnx64kt8o/s320/titian_001.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109411146886915058" /></a><br />Born in 1485 in Pieve di Cadore, Tiziano Vecelli was one of the greatest 16th century Venetian painters. Better known as Titian, he was equally qualified at portraits, landscapes and religious and mythological subjects. He went through a period of drastic change while in his 40s, and his work had obvious results. Only his intense interest in color is maintained throughout all of the works in his life. <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq3G3_EiUbBDnOzpk47bgPzCaC8RLLp7810zinTSy7Q1WE7jQu6b0jxazAjxPZOxcGR2TdSSJQiwD4JipdVoVmwXQ-u0EPWa29hVb_dKwumuNNG-HMl_37CyJ-9dw5CYPJ9LdeMiwANE9r/s1600-h/titian_002.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq3G3_EiUbBDnOzpk47bgPzCaC8RLLp7810zinTSy7Q1WE7jQu6b0jxazAjxPZOxcGR2TdSSJQiwD4JipdVoVmwXQ-u0EPWa29hVb_dKwumuNNG-HMl_37CyJ-9dw5CYPJ9LdeMiwANE9r/s320/titian_002.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109411353045345282" /></a>Titians first major apprenticeship was with Giovanni Bellini, a leading artist in Venice at the time. However, Titian was soon equal to and perhaps surpassing his teacher, producing some tension between the two masters. After Bellini and a couple other prominent artists in Venice died around 1516, Titian was left unrivaled in the city of Venice for the next sixty years. This is when he began to undertake more complex subjects, moving forward in his mastery. <br><br><br><br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLGcvJA8E14lasY1ZLe7tLC0MztY5nMlGZNKklUKgLKgVh_l5svOFv3A_qBnCBKJcYRGdI_6MR0tEDFNol_gGD8E9ISeYVDdJ_N1v1LeIuncNyPZdi-OAEnR3npi8Ggp371-BZiuzc3oLH/s1600-h/titian_003.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLGcvJA8E14lasY1ZLe7tLC0MztY5nMlGZNKklUKgLKgVh_l5svOFv3A_qBnCBKJcYRGdI_6MR0tEDFNol_gGD8E9ISeYVDdJ_N1v1LeIuncNyPZdi-OAEnR3npi8Ggp371-BZiuzc3oLH/s320/titian_003.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109411516254102546" /></a><br />Around 1521 Titian reached the height of his fame, with large mythological scenes and half-length figures and busts of women. During the next period, he devoted himself to a more dramatic style of painting. In the 1540s his work was heavily influenced by Mannerism, a style of art characterized by stylized forms and the pursuit of a representation of idealized beauty. </p><br /><p>Near the end of his life, Titian became a perfectionist and incredibly self-critical.</p><br /><p>His last work of significance was the Pieta, made for his tomb. He accepted commissions until the end, dying on August 27 of 1576. </p><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglVsHWesWfX3KzMDmHodKZ1YihdAURbznlZdZdT8CK0MeqXiS3BR5cJEXNtHsodFDveO2-r4vKQEp6AqUAa0njy-OwYcWbOoTZx3r-US7jRsrVpOVo-zZi6eJvbK8GYTS2zO-m4MRMTBjr/s1600-h/titian_004.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglVsHWesWfX3KzMDmHodKZ1YihdAURbznlZdZdT8CK0MeqXiS3BR5cJEXNtHsodFDveO2-r4vKQEp6AqUAa0njy-OwYcWbOoTZx3r-US7jRsrVpOVo-zZi6eJvbK8GYTS2zO-m4MRMTBjr/s320/titian_004.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109411756772271138" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ9Ugkqk6vy22j4q2df5hpXmIl8JphvKrOKLEAoMsT2IkeHMkOOxk3o5DM9WS2zeBprxEoeeLn23prV6PXeOKplA1-CO3LqEgje3fC6EqaZ_No1RHsbtbvXXCSIxftiqKD-4H6Ub09Og7M/s1600-h/titian_005.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ9Ugkqk6vy22j4q2df5hpXmIl8JphvKrOKLEAoMsT2IkeHMkOOxk3o5DM9WS2zeBprxEoeeLn23prV6PXeOKplA1-CO3LqEgje3fC6EqaZ_No1RHsbtbvXXCSIxftiqKD-4H6Ub09Og7M/s320/titian_005.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109411950045799474" /></a>Chris Barnardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11502527653251105422noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125933215131582359.post-14505526928089738272007-08-18T12:42:00.000-04:002007-08-27T21:37:03.404-04:00Why Paint Big?<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeiajTOwMlafTFKFDO_zGdlcypScLM-6VEODe0vPBL6tXmtCmlcI5_5vMj9-OsKxjOGKWC9DH5R8Yaua1K-txee_UhPq3p2g0rRY9VftG7yzw-3HaqirAVMxjOtFDI0AHJkqtv33ykQ3tf/s1600-h/titian_assumption.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeiajTOwMlafTFKFDO_zGdlcypScLM-6VEODe0vPBL6tXmtCmlcI5_5vMj9-OsKxjOGKWC9DH5R8Yaua1K-txee_UhPq3p2g0rRY9VftG7yzw-3HaqirAVMxjOtFDI0AHJkqtv33ykQ3tf/s400/titian_assumption.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5100085681844783698" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Titian, </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Assumption of the Virgin</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, 1516-18, oil on wood, 630cm x 360cm (~ 272 in. x 142in. )</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-LAZZZ2B9l2Vrnoq_xOqgG37Pg-vjUzwjtuwRN21fHc9evaZWdSiR9E2SQj4prAmWw8qk-NfP_EpvRyhG_v6npj7P5SJ48A70LFhcxJLSJjbTAbuGpmBwGaf3BtUw5hMEiIqCEq96z78E/s1600-h/pollock_cathedrl.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-LAZZZ2B9l2Vrnoq_xOqgG37Pg-vjUzwjtuwRN21fHc9evaZWdSiR9E2SQj4prAmWw8qk-NfP_EpvRyhG_v6npj7P5SJ48A70LFhcxJLSJjbTAbuGpmBwGaf3BtUw5hMEiIqCEq96z78E/s400/pollock_cathedrl.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5100086055506938466" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Jackson Pollock, </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Cathedral</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, 1947, enamel and aluminum paint on canvas, 71.5 in. x 35 in.</span><br /></div>Chris Barnardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11502527653251105422noreply@blogger.com2