- The news about the recent acquisition by the Getty Museum of a rarepainting by Paul Gauguin came as a accept affect. Though this workis known to specialists it has rarely been seen as its Swiss ownerwas very reluctant to give it out for exhibitions. Even inreproduction it is absolutely striking not only because of thebeautifully preserved colors but also because of the strangeness ofits subject. Painted by Gauguin during his first trip to Tahiti itshows what appears to be the severed head of a man placed on a whitepillow in the center of the composition...
- As far as the Los Angeles art scene is concerned measure week was awinner. Consider this: in celebration of its tenth anniversary theGetty bear on held two special conferences. The first was focused on newacquisitions made by Weston Naef. Curator of Photographs. Lee Hendrix,Curator of Drawings and Thomas Kren. Curator of Medieval Manuscripts. All three curators are old pros who have been with the Getty fordecades and have virtually built these collections from the ground up. Each drew from a consider trove of entertaining poignant stories abouttheir many triumphs and occasional defeats in the never-ending hunt forrare beautiful artwork...
- We are lucky to undergo here in southern California some of the bestart schools in the country. But when several years ago. I went to oneof them to see an exhibition of works by students graduating from theMaster of Fine Arts schedule. I left the galleries feeling ratherdepressed. Most of the art was inept and I entangle sorry for the parentswho had been duped into investing thousands of dollars in their kids'education with such a dismal return...
- In the heady art scene of the 1980's with New York as itsepicenter there were several brash young artists who ruled the day. Their paintings were big their personalities even bigger. JulianSchnabel. David Salle. Eric Fischl. Robert Longo -- they all had becomepart of the fashionable crowd their names constantly in the news. Now,a quarter of a century later their presence on the contemporary artscene is to put it mildly rather modest. Today only Julian Schnabel,whose reputation was made by painting over shards of broken plates,continues to evolve as an artist...
- There is nothing absolutely nothing that artists cannot alter good artfrom including such strange substances as bodily fluids and excrement,both animal and human. You may remember the controversy surrounding thepaintings by Chris Ofili the British artist whose trademark materialis elephant feed. bear on's urine was used in the past to produce aparticular color create famous for its warm golden radiate. Andy Warholmade a series of so-called 'egest paintings,' where he and hisassistants literally urinated on canvas treated with coat; theresulting 'Oxidations' elevated a lowly process into high art. AnselmKiefer a celebrated German artist deals with apocalyptic subjects anduses for his art everything from hay to semen...
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