Chaim Gross - Exuberant Wood Carvings of Figures in MotionRobert Fishko
As director of Forum Gallery for the past three decades, Robert Fishko has led a Manhattan institution that represents more than two dozen contemporary artists. Robert Fishko also represents the estates of a number of noted artists, including the modernist sculptor Chaim Gross. An emigrant from Austria in the early 1920s, Gross achieved renown for his exuberant wood carvings that portrayed figures ranging from circus performers to mothers with their children.
Albrecht Durer - Northern Renaissance 2.0Jerry Daperro
Albrecht Durer was the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance. He experimented in many media, and is as well-known for his delicate watercolours of animal and plant life as for the dramatic woodcuts and exquisite engravings on religious themes, which brought him fame in his own to,e/ His art is blend of Northern and Southern traditions, profoundly influenced by the Venetian painting he saw during his visits to the city. Durer was an independent man, proud of his appearance and very sure of his talent. Intelligent and cultured, he mixed with humanists and scholars, while his patrons included the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I. A religious man throughout his life, in later years he became increasingly preoccupied with the advent of the Lutheran Reformation. He died in 1528 and was buried in his home town of Nuremberg.
Chaim Gross - Exuberant Wood Carvings of Figures in MotionRobert Fishko
As director of Forum Gallery for the past three decades, Robert Fishko has led a Manhattan institution that represents more than two dozen contemporary artists. Robert Fishko also represents the estates of a number of noted artists, including the modernist sculptor Chaim Gross. An emigrant from Austria in the early 1920s, Gross achieved renown for his exuberant wood carvings that portrayed figures ranging from circus performers to mothers with their children.
Albrecht Durer - Northern Renaissance 2.0Jerry Daperro
Albrecht Durer was the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance. He experimented in many media, and is as well-known for his delicate watercolours of animal and plant life as for the dramatic woodcuts and exquisite engravings on religious themes, which brought him fame in his own to,e/ His art is blend of Northern and Southern traditions, profoundly influenced by the Venetian painting he saw during his visits to the city. Durer was an independent man, proud of his appearance and very sure of his talent. Intelligent and cultured, he mixed with humanists and scholars, while his patrons included the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I. A religious man throughout his life, in later years he became increasingly preoccupied with the advent of the Lutheran Reformation. He died in 1528 and was buried in his home town of Nuremberg.
The life and works of Albrecht Durer (147-1528). The first self-conscious artistic genius in northern European art; painter, draughtsman, printmaker in both relief and intaglio, theoretician and would-be refromer of art. Through his woodcuts and engravings, most of them published by himself, he became an international figure, supplying iconographic models to artists throughout Europe and as far away as Persia, and setting new standards of technical mastery. From within his own German/Netherlandish Gothic heritage, with its interest in the particular, he sought to learn the general laws enshrined in Italian art; the laws of optics, the ‘rules’ of ideal beauty and harmony. His own work ultimately succeeded in synthesizing these two traditions….” The Yale Dictionary of Art & Artists.
Albrecht Durer was the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance. He experimented in many media, and is as well-known for his delicate watercolours of animal and plant life as for the dramatic woodcuts and exquisite engravings on religious themes, which brought him fame in his own to,e/ His art is blend of Northern and Southern traditions, profoundly influenced by the Venetian painting he saw during his visits to the city. Durer was an independent man, proud of his appearance and very sure of his talent. Intelligent and cultured, he mixed with humanists and scholars, while his patrons included the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I. A religious man throughout his life, in later years he became increasingly preoccupied with the advent of the Lutheran Reformation. He died in 1528 and was buried in his home town of Nuremberg. The Great Artist vol 3 p801.
Art and Psychological Well-Being: Linking the Brain to the Aesthetic Emotion. Empirical studies suggest that art improves health and well-being among individuals. However, how aesthetic appreciation affects our cognitive and emotional states to promote physical and psychological well-being is still unclear.
Part I of a series of posts exploring how 'love and music' is depicted in art history, with special reference to the iconography of Aphrodite-Venus, the Greek-Roman Goddess of Love. Music cannot be far away because 'music is the food of love'.
For a full discussion, see Blog 'Iconography in Art History'
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NIT Silchar Quiz Fest 2015 - Maut ka Kuan - The MELA Quiz - FinalsSandipan Goswami
Held on 3rd April 2015 at K.V. Auditorium NIT Silchar.
Winners:
1st - Anam Hilaly, Amlan Phukan, Nikhil Agarwal
2nd - Bedanga Kashyap Das, Aveek Baruah, Amit Oli
3rd - Tameem Salman, Ashish Dutta, Shrutimoy Das
Nature, and especially Light, is a theme throughout 20th Century American Art, even when artists focused on the city, or worked non-representationally. Figurative art merges with abstraction, until there are two distinct trends. But the trends come together repeatedly.
1. Self-Portrait (earlier known as Self-
Portrait at Twenty-Eight Years Old
Wearing a Coat with Fur Collar or
Self-Portrait in a Wig) is a painting
on wood panel by the German artist
Albrecht Durer. Painted early in 1500,
just before his 29th birthday, it is the
last of his three painted self-portraits.
It is considered the most personal,
iconic and complex of his self-
portraits, and the one that has
become fixed in the popular
imagination.
The self-portrait is most remarkable
because of its resemblance to many
earlier representations of Christ. Art
historians note the similarities with
the conventions of religious painting,
including its symmetry, dark tones
and the manner in which the artist
directly confronts the viewer and
raises his hands to the middle of his
chest as if in the act of blessing. It is
likely that Durer portrayed himself in
this way through a combination of
arrogance and a desire by a young
and ambitious artist to acknowledge
his talent as God given.
Self-Portrait (earlier known as Self-Portrait at Twenty-Eight Years Old Wearing a Coat with Fur Collar [1] or Self-Portrait in a Wig [2] ) is a painting on wood panel by the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Der . Painted early in 1500, just before his 29th birthday, it is the last of his three painted self-portraits. It is considered the most personal, iconic and complex of his self-portraits, and the one that has become fixed in the popular imagination. [3] The self-portrait is most remarkable because of its resemblance to many earlier representations of Christ. Art historians note the similarities with the conventions of religious painting, including its symmetry, dark tones and the manner in which the artist directly confronts the viewer and raises his hands to the middle of his chest as if in the act of blessing. It is likely that Der portrayed himself in this way through a combination of arrogance and a desire by a young and ambitious artist to acknowledge his talent as God given.
'Self-portrait with cut ear' by Vincent Van Gogh. 1889
The image of red and white silkscreen ink on canvas shows the artist with his hand to his mouth. It was executed in 1967, at the height of his career as the most important figure in American Pop Art.
last name exaggerated fourteen times vertically, 1967", by Bruce Nauman ,
Hannah Wilke: S.O.S.(Curlers),1975 Whitney Museum
Hannah Wilke. Intra Venus #4 . 1988 - 1993.
Image: Do - Ho Suh , Who am we ? (detail), 2000, four-color offset print on
Perfect Lovers), 1991. These two identical, adjacent, battery-operated clocks were initially set to the same time, but, with time, they will inevitably fall out of sync. By Felix Gonzalez-Torres .
Robert Gober, 填 ntitled � (1992-6)
The photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto is adept at making images that freeze time, and has in the past made portrait studies in wax museums. By freezing the motion of figures that never move, the large monochromes make them seem more animate, more potentially motile. A series of these is currently on show at Sudely Castle: Henry Viii and his six wives, in period setting. Details of the exhibition