Art Deco Exposition - Paris 1925
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October 31, 1925 - It was at the International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Art, in Paris, where Art Deco was born. The initial movement was called Style Moderne. The term Art Deco was derived from the Exposition of 1925, though it wasn't until the late 1960s that this term was coined by art historian Bevis Hillier, and popularized by his 1968 book Art Deco of the 20s and 30s. In the summer of 1969, Hillier conceived organizing an exhibition called Art Deco at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, which took place from July to September 1971. After this, interest in Art Deco peaked with the publication of Hillier's 1971 book The World of Art Deco, a record of the exhibition. Art Deco is characterized by use of materials such as aluminium, stainless steel, lacquer, inlaid wood, sharkskin (shagreen), and zebraskin. The bold use of stepped forms and sweeping curves (unlike the sinuous, natural curves of the Art Nouveau), chevron patterns, and the sunburst motif are typical of Art Deco. Some of these motifs were ubiquitous - for example, sunburst motifs were used in such varied contexts as ladies' shoes, radiator grilles, the auditorium of the Radio City Music Hall, and the spire of the Chrysler Building. (www.wikipedia.org)
October 28, 1697 - Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto, was born in Venice. Much of Canaletto's early artwork was painted 'from nature', differing from the then customary practice of completing paintings in the studio. Some of his later works do revert to this custom, as suggested by the tendency of distant figures to be painted as blobs of colour - an effect produced by using a camera obscura, which blurs farther-away objects. However, his paintings are always notable for their accuracy: he recorded the seasonal submerging of Venice in water and ice.Canaletto's early works remain his most coveted and, according to many authorities, his best. One of his finest early pieces is The Stonemason's Yard (1729, London, the National Gallery) which depicts a humble working area of the city. Later Canaletto became known for his grand scenes of the canals of Venice and the Doge's Palace. His large-scale landscapes portrayed the city's famed pageantry and waning traditions, making innovative use of atmospheric effects and strong local colors. For these qualities, his works may be said to have anticipated Impressionism. (www.wikipedia.org)
October 27, 1923 - Prominente American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York City. His work borrowed heavily from popular advertising and comic book styles, which he himself described as being "as artificial as possible". Rather than attempt to reproduce his subjects, his work tackles the way mass media portrays them. When his work was first released, many art critics of the time wrote about the originality. More often than not they were making no attempt to be positive. In addition to paintings, he also made sculptures in metal and plastic including some notable public sculptures such as Lamp in St. Mary’s, Georgia in 1978, and over 300 prints, mostly in screenprinting. His painting Torpedo...Los! sold at Christie's for $5.5 million in 1989, a record sum at the time, making him one of only three living artists to have attracted such huge sums. In 1996 the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC became the largest single repository of the artist's work when he donated 154 prints and 2 books. In total there are some 4,500 works thought to be in circulation. He died of pneumonia in 1997 at New York University Medical Center. Twice married, he was survived by his wife, Dorothy, whom he wed in 1968, and by his sons, David and Mitchell, from his first marriage. The DreamWorks Records logo was his last completed project. (www.wikipedia.org)
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (October 25, 1881 – April 8, 1973), often referred to simply as Picasso, was a Spanish painter and sculptor. His full name is Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Clito Ruiz y Picasso.One of the most recognized figures in 20th century art, he is best known as the co-founder, along with Georges Braque, of cubism. Pablo Picasso was born in Málaga, Spain, the first child of José Ruiz y Blasco and María Picasso y López. He was christened with the names Pablo, Diego, José, Francisco de Paula, Juan Nepomuceno, Maria de los Remedios, and Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad. Picasso's father was a painter whose specialty was the naturalistic depiction of birds and who for most of his life was also a professor of art at the School of Crafts and a curator of a local museum. The young Picasso showed a passion and a skill for drawing from an early age; according to his mother, his first word was "piz," a shortening of lápiz, the Spanish word for pencil. It was from his father that Picasso had his first formal academic art training, such as figure drawing and painting in oil. Although Picasso attended art schools throughout his childhood, often those where his father taught, he never finished his college-level course of study at the Academy of Arts (Academia de San Fernando) in Madrid, leaving after less than a year. (More info: www.Wikipedia.org )
October 24, 1931 - The bridge was dedicated on on this day and opened to traffic the following day. Initially named the "Hudson River Bridge," the bridge is named in honor of George Washington, the first President of the United States. Groundbreaking for the new bridge began in October 1927, a project of the Port of New York Authority. Its chief engineer was Othmar Ammann, with Cass Gilbert as architect. The bridge contains two levels, an upper level with four lanes in each direction and a lower level with three lanes in each direction, for a total of 14 lanes of travel. Additionally, the bridge houses a path on each side of the bridge for pedestrian traffic. The speed limit on the bridge is 45 mph (70 km/h), though heavy traffic is common and frequently makes it difficult to reach such speeds. When it opened, the bridge had the longest main span in the world; at 1,067 m (3,500 ft), it nearly doubled the previous record of 564 m (1,850 ft), which had been held by the Ambassador Bridge. (The record has since been exceeded numerous times.) The total length of the bridge is 1,451 m (4,760 ft). (www.wikipedia.org)
October 23, 1954 - Academy Award–winning film director from Taiwan, Ang Lee, was born. Many of Ang Lee's films have focused on the interactions between modernity and tradition. Some of his films have also had a light-hearted comic tone which marks a break from the tragic historical realism which characterized Taiwanese filmmaking after the end of the martial law period in 1987. Lee's films also tend to draw on deep secrets and internal torment that come to the surface, such as in the gay-themed films The Wedding Banquet (1993) and Brokeback Mountain (2005) (won the Academy Award for Best Director), the martial arts epic Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) (nominated for Academy Award for Best Director), and the comic book adaptation Hulk (2003). Lee's film Brokeback Mountain (2005) won the Golden Lion (best film) award at the Venice International Film Festival and was named 2005's best film by the Los Angeles, New York, Boston, and London film critics. It also won best picture at the 2005 Broadcast Film Critics Association, Directors Guild of America, Writers Guild of America (Adapted Screenplay), Producers Guild of America and the Independent Spirit Awards as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture — Drama, with Lee winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. Brokeback also won Best Film and Best Director at the 2006 British Academy Awards (BAFTA). In January 2006, Brokeback scored a leading eight Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best Director, which Lee won. He is the first Asian director to do so. (www.wikipedia.org)
October 22, 1925 - Robert Rauschenberg an American artist who came to prominence in the 1950s transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art, was born in Port Arthur, Texas. Rauschenberg is perhaps most famous for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations. While the Combines are both painting and sculpture, Rauschenberg has also worked with photography, printmaking, papermaking, and performance. Rauschenberg's approach was sometimes called "Neo-Dada," a label he shared with the painter and his lover for six years, Jasper Johns. Rauschenberg's oft-repeated quote that he wanted to work "in the gap between art and life" suggested a questioning of the distinction between art objects and everyday objects, reminiscent of the issues raised by the notorious "Fountain" of Dada pioneer Marcel Duchamp. At the same time, Johns' paintings of numerals, flags, and the like, were reprising Duchamp's message of the role of the observer in creating art's meaning. Robert Rauschenberg lives and works in New York City and on Captiva Island, Florida. (www.wikipedia.org)
October 21, 1959 - The museum moved to its present location, at the corners of 89th Street and Fifth Avenue (overlooking Central Park). It opened in 1959, when Frank Lloyd Wright's design for the site was completed. The distinctive building, Wright's last major work, instantly polarized architecture critics,[1] though today it is widely revered.[2] From the street, the building looks approximately like a white ribbon curled into a cylindrical stack, slightly wider at the top than the bottom. Its appearance is in sharp contrast to the more typically boxy Manhattan buildings that surround it, a fact relished by Wright who claimed that his museum would make the nearby Metropolitan Museum of Art "look like a Protestant barn." Internally, the viewing gallery forms a gentle spiral from the ground level up to the top of the building. Paintings are displayed along the walls of the spiral and also in viewing rooms found at stages along the way. (www.wikipedia.org)
October 20, 1938 - Iain MacMillan, Abbey Road photographer, was born. He was a British photographer best known for taking the cover of The Beatles' Abbey Road, easily one of the most recognizable album covers in music history. MacMillan shot the famous Abbey Road album cover at 10 AM on August 8, 1969. John Lennon offered the job of photographing the album cover to MacMillan. The photographer, who balanced himself on a stepladder in the middle of the street to take the photo, had only ten minutes in which to take the photo. The Beatles crossed back and forth across the crosswalk and a number of photographs were taken. The Beatles themselves chose their favorite for use on the record sleeve. MacMillan would again work with members of the Beatles after their breakup on at least two occasions. Once to help design artwork for John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Happy Xmas (War Is Over) single. MacMillan also shot Paul McCartney's Paul is Live album, which featured a remake of the classic Abbey Road image. In this photo, McCartney is shown being pulled across the Abbey Road crosswalk by an Old English Sheep Dog. MacMillan died (May 8, 2006) in Scotland after a long battle with cancer. (www.wikipedia.org)
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Barbara Schwartz Cut Diamond #7 2004-2005. painted wood, cut and glued, 34 x 34 inches. Courtesy The Artist, Photo by Kevin Noble.
MANHATTAN, N.Y.-Abstract artist Barbara Schwartz, 58, died in Mahattan due to leukemia. She got her BFA at Carnegie Mellon University. She was last represented by the Andre Zarre Gallery in New York. She has exhibitions at: Williard Gallery; Hirschl & Adler Modern; Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami; Dart Gallery, Chicago; Morris Gallery, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Her art work is in the collection of Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY; Cincinnati Museum of Fine Arts; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; and New York Public Library. She had been married and divorced to artists Bill Jensen and Art Schade.
