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Tag Archives: Robert Motherwell
eccentric patrons
By October 1942, Peggy Guggenheim was ready to open in New York a new gallery, Art of This Century, surely the most eccentric pleasure dome ever decreed for the inspection of art. Lights flashed on and off, with great rushes … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alexander Calder, Anton Gill, Edward Hopper, Frank Lloyd Wright, Glynis Bell, Grant Wood, Jackson Pollock, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mark Rothko, Mary V. Dearborn, Max Ernst, Museum of Non-Objective Art, Peggy Guggenheim, Robert Motherwell, Solomon Guggenheim, Thomas Hart Benton
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fine art “motorama”: hawk to the rubes
Guest blog by Art Chantry.Its a cheezy embarrassing system, one in which the squeaky wheel gets the grease. The most ruthless hustlers and self-promoting con-men become the wealthiest and most celebrated in the fine art world… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): When … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged adolph gottleib, Alberto Giacometti, Alexander Calder, Andrew Wyeth, Andy Warhol, arnold varga, art chantry, carnegie institute, dale chihuly, Damien Hirst, David Smith, ellsworth kelly, Francis Bacon, Jasper Johns, Jean Dubuffet, Josef Albers, Leonard Baskin, Mark Tobey, max bill, Pablo Picasso, Robert Motherwell
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HENRI SCISSORHANDS
It was the final flowering of Henri Matisse. He was ever simplifying, ever synthesizing, acting younger at eighty than he was at thirty. He sat in his wheel chair and put aside paintbrush for scissors, filling his sunset years with … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Diebenkorn, Edmond Variel, Elizabeth Murray, George Braziller, Greg Kucera, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, jack Flam, Jean Leymarie, Joan Miro, John Elderfield, Josephine Baker, Laura McPhee, Lydia Delectorskaya, Michelle Leight, Miles Davis, Picasso, Riva Castleman, Robert Motherwell, Teriade
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ABSTRACT PLEASURE, DEEP ROOTED EXPRESSIONISM
Surrealism remained a powerful element in bohemian art and culture long after it had lost its novelty, shine and new car smell. It remained an attractive option for leftist artists and writers who were ill at ease with the post-Trotsky … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Abstract expressionism, Action painting, Andre Breton, Andre masson, Charles Dickens, Courbet, D.H. Lawrence, Dali, Dominick LaCapra, Freud, Goya, goya Black paintings, Guardian Co. UK, Harold Rosenburg, Jackson Pollock, Joseph Conrad, Jung, Magritte, Mark Rothko, Richard Hughes, Robert Hughes, Robert Motherwell, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, Virginia Woolf, willem de Kooning
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