All Things Art & Photography
It’s not everyday that we get a new Van Gogh. Long thought to be a fake, Sunset at Montmajour has just been officially “discovered” as a Van Gogh original mostly because of new techniques the museums use to make these determinations. This one was painted by Vincent in Arles, in 1888 and is more of a traditional landscape composition but in terms of painting style is very much a Van Gogh.
via The NYTimes
My favorite Chinese artist’s don’t copy tired and old western styles of painting like Zhu Jinshi (who for some reason is a very successful painter). I like Chinese Artists who exhibit their Chinese DNA in their work.You can’t help but love these subversive self-portraits about Yue Minjun’s cynical take on the “new” China. The kind of artist you want to have a beer with.
Immediately humorous and sympathetic, Yue Minjun’s paintings offer a light-hearted approach to philosophical inquiry and contemplation of existence. Drawing connotations to the disparate images of the Laughing Buddha and the inane gap toothed grin of Alfred E. Newman, Yue’s self-portraits have been describe by theorist Li Xianting as “a self-ironic response to the spiritual vacuum and folly of modern-day China.”
via Galleri s . e
This should be a very good survey of Bartlett’s long and great career as one of our most intellectual and best living painters.
Interview with her by the painter Elizabeth Murry on Bomb here:
PAFA is pleased to present Jennifer Bartlett: History of the Universe —Works 1970-2011 organized by the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York. Jennifer Bartlett emerged in the 1970s as one of the leading American artists of her time and one of the first female painters of her generation to be both commercially successful and critically acclaimed. When her monumental painting Rhapsody was first shown in 1976, it was regarded as a tourdeforce postmodern pastiche of the history of modern art. In Rhapsody, Bartlett illustrated with unprecedented intellectual and visual acuity her groundbreaking vision, in which all painting styles and forms are equally valid and available for artistic appropriation. Often such early initial success will inevitably overshadow an artist’s subsequent development. In Bartlett’s case, however, Rhapsody became merely a point of departure for an exceptionally prolific and inventive career.
from the museum web site.
Run (don’t walk) to see one of the greatest living painters working today.
Anselm Kiefer / Morgenthau Plan
@ Gagosian Gallery
May 3 – June 8, 2013
via the gallery web site
Chuck Close paints big, methodical portraits and has always depended on photographs in his art making process. This exhibition (April 16 – May 24, 2013) at Eykyn/Maclean Gallery takes you deep into his methodology by showing you his decision-making process as they progress from photograph to paint. This looks to be a rare and great show that reminds us how, optics, photography and painting have walked hand in hand since before the invention of the Camera Lucida.
“That is the great thing about the maquettes. You see the decisions that I made, where those lines fall … And if someone were going to take a lot of time analyzing them I think they would find that there’s a method in the madness.”
–Chuck Close, 2013
via gallery web site