This exhibition features the abstract photography works of Edward Steichen, Francesca Woodman, and Tommy Nease. The title refers to how isolation is a major part of modern society, where people feel like unseen "wallflowers" in others' lives. Steichen was an influential early 20th century fashion photographer and museum director known for his moody black and white images. Woodman explored themes of gender equality and identity through her blurry nude self-portraits. Nease creates a ghostly mood through experimental techniques with exposure and sharpness. The curators hope the exhibition expresses the theme of isolation in different ways and that visitors enjoy and are thought-provoked by the works.
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AGNY Study Pack # 1
Tenth Street Studios,
51 West 10th 1857-1956
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The Heart of the Andes, 1859 Frederic Edwin Church
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William Merritt Chase, Interior of the Artist’s Studio, 1882
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, ca. 1875
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Cassatt, Little Girl in a Blue Armchair, 1878
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Tanner, View of the Seine Looking Toward Nôtre Dame, 1896
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Romaine Brooks,
Self-Portrait, 1922
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Hopper, Steps in Paris, 1906
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Edward Hopper: The Paris YearsFebruary 22 - June 1, 2003ハEdward Hopper was the J.D. Salinger of American painters, an extremely private man who granted few interviews. Much of what scholars know about his work comes from his wife Jo Nivison-Hopper's journals. Edward Hopper: The Paris Years, organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art of New York, provides a tantalizing look at the early work of one of America's best known figurative painters. The exhibition of 45 paintings and 10 works on paper opens at Charlotte, NC's Mint Museum of Art on February 22 and runs through June 1, 2003. (left: Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Steps in Paris, 1906, oil on wood, 13 x 9 3/16 inches, Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, from a 1970 bequest from Josephine N. Hopper)Hopper said little about even his most accomplished paintings, believing the work should speak for itself. Scholars have been left to speculate on influences on his career, from his realist art instructors Robert Henri, William Merritt Chase andKenneth Hayes Miller at the New York School of Art to the psychological reaction of a young man raised in a small town coming to grips with isolation and loss of community in the urban modern age that was New York City at the turn of the century. The answer may be found in Paris, in verse rather than on canvas. (right: Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Notre Dame, No. 2, 1907, oil on canvas, 23 1/2 x 28 3/4 inches, Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, from a 1970 bequest from Josephine N. Hopper)Edward Hopper's early talent for drawing and painting was encouraged by his mother Elizabeth. The family's middle class concern for his future financial security influenced Edward to attend The New York School of Illustrating before transferring to the New York School of Art. Hopper would work more than fifteen years as a commercial illustrator, work that he despised. His skill at painting watercolors, however, is attributed to the years spent as an illustrator. He was able to master strokes with the brush and had a remarkable eye for being able to adjust a composition to where it would have the most immediate anddramatic impact on the viewer.After six years of study at the New York School of Art, Hopper left for France in October, 1906. His Paris studies coincided with an exciting era in the history of the Modern movement. Hopper, however, was untouched by Fauvist and Cubist art popular at the time, continuing instead to follow.
1. Exhibition -
Modern Day
Frankenstein
FREE ADMISSION
1st Nov – 29th Dec
Hamiltons
Gallery
13 Carlos Place
London
W1K 2EU
U.K.
Contact us at :
art@hamiltonsgallery.com
Tel – 0207 499 9493/4
FREE ADMISSION
Location
This exhibition looks at
several pieces of work from
Edward Steichen, Francesca
Woodman and Tommy Nease.
The images would be put
under the genre of abstract
photography, but it is up to
you the viewer to make your
own interpretation of these
works.
The title came from the idea
that isolation plays a major
role in todays society. This
idea we are all wall flowers
looking on other peoples lives
going unnoticed. We feel
these works express this title
in many different forms.
I hope you enjoy this
exhibition and thank you for
taking the time to read this
leaflet
Kind Regards The Curators of
2. Tommy Nease – Phantasm Edward Steichen Francesca Woodman
His variety of ghostly and gothic
images conveyed through the
silver tones and large depth of
field. Neases experimentation
with exposure and sharpness's
creates a phantasmal mood within
Steichen was born 27th March 1879
he was an American photographer,
painter and art gallery curator. He
was considered one of the first
published fashion photographers of
the early 20th century. He had work
featured in Vogue and Vanity Fair.
After WW2 He then went on to be
director of the department of
Photography at the New York
Museum of Modern Art until 1962 .
He died 25th March 1973.
Nease is a young American
photography who work has
recently become more popular
online.
Steichen's images perfectly
convey this gothic style with the
de-saturated colours and rich
tones in the black and white
images. He creates a gloomy
mood, but the objects and
Francesca Woodmen was an American
photographer she was born 3rd April 1958 .
Her most well known work is black and
white images with nude ladies with in
them. She wanted to express her views on
gender equality and how she viewed
herself. She studied at the Rhode Island
School of Art and Design. Woodman
committed suicide on 19th January 1981
aged 23. Although she lived her short life
her memories live on through her
spectacular work. Woodman
experimented with exposure and
movement within her images. The single
figures in most of her images facial
expressions are obscured, creating an
expressionless being. I feel that
Woodman’s work really conveys a feeling
of isolation and creates this feeling that the
figures are insane.