Some of my favorite works by artist Vija Celmins.
Hiroshima, 1968. Vija Celmins
Untitled (Big Sea #2). Vija Celmins
Exhibitions
If you happen to be in New York (or close to it) head on over to The Center for Photography at Woodstock tonight for the opening of Photography Now 2009. The show is juried by Charlotte Cotton and will include works by Alex Aristei, Clint Baclawski, Shane Lavalette, Yijun Liao, Betsy Seder, Lacey Terrell, Stacey Tyrell and Toshihiro Yashiro.
If you happen to be near Quimper (Kemper), France, tomorrow is your last day to catch Sculpteurs de trottoir. Autour de Raymond Hains 2. at the le Quartier Centre d’art contemporain de Quimper. The show includes sculpture, installation, photography, drawing and video work by Raymond Hains, Cécile Paris, Philippe Richard, Franck Scurti, Olivier Soulerin and Morgane Tschiember. I was able to go yesterday and was pleased with the work as well as the presentation.
Island in Island, 2006. Franck Scurti
Gustav Klimt
There is something so pleasing about the women in Klimt’s paintings. The turned faces, rosy cheeks, innocent gestures, and the twisted, erotic fashion of the human forms.
Mother and Child. Gustav Klimt
The Girlfriends. Gustav Klimt
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele
At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.
- Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele
the irresolute character of the figures, conceived as bowed and bent, the bodies of men tired of life, suicides, yet still the bodies of people alert to sensation
- Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele
A handful of my favorite works by Schiele.
Robert Bechtle
Photorealism at it’s best.
I am interested in how things look; I am also interested in painting that is based upon how things look. I like to see things the way they are rather than thinking how they can be changed. The richness and range of the visual world constantly thrills and amazes me. I am most particularly interested in using the part of our world which we seem to notice least…that is, our everyday surroundings as we live day to day. Thus, I have painted friends and family, familiar houses, streets and neighborhoods. The paintings are on one level, about middle class American life as experienced in California. On another, they are about reconciling that subject matter with concerns about formal painting issues (the use of color and light, design, and the kinds of marks one must make to replicate appearances). They are, in that sense, a part of a long tradition of European and American painting which has sought to find significance in the details of the commonplace.
- Robert Bechtle, 1990, OK Harris
Sunset Garage, 1994. Robert Bechtle
Covered Car - Near Otis Drive, 2003. Robert Bechtle
While I do find his paintings and drawings of the ‘everyday’ objects beautiful, there is a quality to his self-portraits that is unforgettable. They are poignant yet somehow ephemeral.
Westport Garage, 1996. Robert Bechtle
Portero Night, 2005. Robert Bechtle
Potrero Table, 1994. Robert Bechtle
North Adams Studio III, 2005. Robert Bechtle
Andrew Wyeth
Braids, 1979. Andrew Wyeth
Master Bedroom. Andrew Wyeth
Spring Beauty, 1943. Andrew Wyeth
Crows, 1944. Andrew Wyeth