"Thialf Iceskating." Arnhem Holland.
After a lovely but silent morning yesterday, I thought it would be nice to have some people around me as well on my painting, so up to the Skating Track. It was quite difficult to find but now I did I definitely going to return, they are even open in the evening, …
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"Thialf Iceskating." Arnhem Holland.
The last few weeks the New Yorker has been particularly rich with visual arts coverage, with an essay on Jan. 4 by Adam Gopnik about Van Gogh’s severed ear and now, in the upcoming Jan 11 issue, Louis Menand’s essay about Andy Warhol. Both essays make great reading each in its own way, with Gopnik fascination with van Gogh’s need for solitude but love of community; and Menand’s dissection of Warhol’s illusionism.
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Art writing outside the art niche
AJ LaGasse Anna Tikhomirova Andrew Orr Janice Warriner David Edwards Becky Joy Mark Webster Barbara Haviland Karla Nolan Justin Clayton Cheryl Pass Cheryl Ratcliff To purchase any painting, simply visit the artist’s blog for details!
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New Daily Paintings – Jan 6, 2010 – from Painting a Day Artists!
Still cold, indeed but much to beautiful to stay indoors. Tucked up real thick especially your feet and not going too far from a pub or other possible hot chocolate it’s a real treat to practice all those blueish grey tonals, especially when the sun is interfering than all becomes soooooo awesome, … “Heuvel af.” Arnhem, Holland.
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Still cold but heartwarming beautiful.
Andrew Orr Cheryl Pass Anna Tikhomirova David Edwards Barbara Haviland Justin Clayton Cheryl Ratcliff Mark Webster AJ LaGasse Janice Warriner Becky Joy Karla Nolan To purchase any painting, simply visit the artist’s blog for details!
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Painting a Day Artists – Daily Art Painters – Jan 5, 2010
AJ LaGasse Anna Tikhomirova Andrew Orr Janice Warriner David Edwards Becky Joy Mark Webster Barbara Haviland Karla Nolan Justin Clayton Cheryl Pass Cheryl Ratcliff To purchase any painting, simply visit the artist’s blog for details!
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Art for Sale Online – Daily Painters! Jan 3, 2010
First off all everybody who’s following this blog I wish a great painterly 2010, but in general I wish everybody A huge healthy peaceful and awesome year! For me it couldn’t started better we had snow on our vacation place and it was such a beautiful area you just walked from one Christmas card into the other. I’ll post three of the work I made over there but there are a few more, I have to tweak them first a little I think. “Driepaal” De lutte, Holland
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Chris Ofili Foreword by Peter Doig, conversation with Thelma Golden, contributions by David Adjaye, Carol Becker, Okwui Enwezor, Cameron Shaw and Kara Walker hardcover, 272 pages, 200 color images and b&w drawings, 2009 $85 Rizzoli New York This gorgeous coffee table book about the works of Afro-British artist Chris Ofili is a love affair from start to finish. Great photos of the works — in situ in gallery spaces and in amazing closeups of the rambunctious details — make for hours of satisfactory page-turning
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Book-stravaganza 2 – Monographs and show catalogs
Gerrie Congdon Sunset Composition 2009 The textile artist Gerrie Congdon produces work that deals with the elemental landscape. The natural world is such a large part of Congdon’s compositions that they set both the scene and the style of each piece. Her work forms a collage of experiences all of which are of the quiet, thoughtful and reflective variety, the best type when observing and representing the natural world.
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The Quiet Stillness of the Textile Work of Gerrie Congdon
Illustration: Margaret Macdonald border pattern Margaret Macdonald, the other but largely invisible half of the influential Mackintosh design duo, was known variously as both a help and hindrance to her husband, the major talent of the duo, or that of a vicious untalented manipulator. All of course are nonsense and we will probably never know fully what contribution either made to the design style that has become known as Mackintosh
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The Margaret Macdonald Rose
Nicolai Cikovsky, born in 1894 Russia, was known for his landscape and figure paintings. He began his studies at the Vilna Art School for four years followed by an additional four years at the Penza Royal Art School. After attending the Moscow High Tech Art Institute for two years he immigrated to America in 1923.
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Nicolai Cikovsky, born in 1894 Russia, was known for his landscape and figure paintings.
Post by Judith Stein If you have ever wondered about creativity and the zeitgeist, you will enjoy James Rosenquist ’s new autobiography, Painting Below Zero, Notes on a Life in Art . It is a richly colored account of one artist’s trajectory from the fifties to the present day, an engaging narrative that tracks his transformation from American country boy to international art star.
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Artist tussles with the zeitgeist–James Rosenquist’s new autobiography
I have been wondering lately “Where has the last month and a half gone?” I had what I thought was a very attainable and manageable goal of writing two to three blog posts a week. Seemed manageable enough, but ….. So, this posting is actually my attempt to not only get back on track, but also to acknowledge that I am just not getting out to see as much art as I would like to
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James Fowler’s Skin @ MADE and PieceWORK @ the Gladstone Hotel
Does food fit into this table? Here at Khymos I aim to cover things related to food and chemistry, and as I stumbled over a periodic table of cupcakes (with clickable “elements” linked to recipes) I couldn’t resist to dig a little deeper. And look what I found! The periodic table of elements is iconic, but the periodic table has also become an organizing metaphor for all sorts of things, including food .
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TGIF: Periodic tables of food
Spotty blogging for a while because I have been busy getting some of my work into an area gallery (finally), and because I have been working on a commissioned portrait. Since I don't have anything very earth-shaking to say today, I'll just leave you with the pictorial evidence of progress on my commission. The painting is from a photo provided by the patron, which is something I am happy to do if the photo is good enough to make a good painting.
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Commission in Progress
Text-Based September 18 – November 1, 2009 Reception: Friday September 25th 7 – 9 PM “Text-based” as a term is commonly associated with computer based applications where the primary input and outputs are text rather than graphics.
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New Exhibition at Brayham Contemporary Art — Text-Based: Brown, Campbell, Juliusson, Koester, Will & ArtEXCHANGE
As I was still installing the next exhibition in the gallery , I decided to take advantage of the fact that I was not open last Saturday and headed to the University of Toronto Art Centre to catch Fujiwara Takahiro’s artist talk. Fujiwara Takahiro attracted the attention and captured the imagination of thousands with his work Into the Blue exhibited in the Toronto Eaton Centre as one of the Scotia Bank Nuit Blanche Zone A exhibitions in 2008.
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Fujiwara Takahiro in Toronto & Kitchener
PETER OMPIR TIN TRAY SIGNED In the 1950s the Horn of Plenty Gift Shop in Sturbridge featured the work of Massachusetts’ resident artist Peter Ompir. Now, fifty years later, Ompir’s highly-collectible, distinctive, freehand painted items are still displayed in the antique shop located at that same site. Considered one of America’s premier folk artists, Peter Ompir has been christened many names—the “Dean of American Toleware,” the “Dean of Décor Painting” and the “Father of American Decorative Painting.” In an article written by Phillip C.
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Folk Art by Peter Ompir
[edit] History In A Peep at Christies’ (1796), James Gillray caricatured actress Elizabeth Farren and huntsman Lord Derby examining paintings appropriate to their tastes and heights.The official company literature states that founder James Christie conducted the first sale in London, England on 5 December 1766, [1] and the earliest auction catalogue the company retains is from December 1766. However, other sources note that James Christie rented auction rooms from 1762, and newspaper advertisements of Christie’s sales dating from 1759 have also been traced.[citation needed] Christie’s soon established a reputation as a leading auction house, and took advantage of London’s new found status as the major centre of the international art trade after the French Revolution. Christie’s was a public company, listed on the London Stock Exchange from 1973 to 1999, after which it was taken into private ownership by Frenchman François Pinault.
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Continued from here and here. When we left off yesterday , National Gallery of Art curator David Alan Brown was expressing skepticism that x-ray evidence and only x-ray evidence could demonstrate that Giorgione (or Titian) painted the NGA’s Portrait of a Venetian Gentleman. Brown pulled two x-rays out of a manila folder, showed them to me and told me that x-ray-pioneering art historian Alan Burroughs had said that the underpaint as revealed on these x-rays identified Giorgione as the author of the painting.
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The mystery of the Venetian gentleman, part three