Important Works on Paper exhibition Nov 17, 2009
This exhibition includes works by Sam Francis, Shane Guffogg, David Hockney, Wassily Kandinsky, Minjung Kim, Andr; Masson, Henry Moore, Robert Motherwell, Jules Pascin, Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro, Larry Rivers, Ed Ruscha, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Andy Warhol. The exhibition is generally divided between works by European masters, from impressionism through the mid twentieth century, and American masters from then onward to the present day. (AbsoluteArts.com)
New book puts a spotlight on the Bauhaus movement Oct 30, 2009
Filled with well-turned anecdotes and blissfully free from art-historical jargon, Weber's text follows the lives and careers of famed Bauhaus architects Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and of the painters Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. Weber also offers a truly touching portrait of the husband-and-wife team of Josef and Anni Albers, who befriended him during the 1970s, when he was a graduate student and they were teaching art in the United States. (Missourian Publishing, MO)
Read Indepth Article Oct 17, 2009
His monochrome canvas paintings are a further reduction of this language, and can be strongly linked with abstract modernism as well as Twentieth Century colour theorists Wassily Kandinsky and Josef Albers. While the grid paintings hold a structural rigidity through geometric design, the monochrome paintings are removed of all figurative and narrative constructs. (AbsoluteArts.com)
90 years on, Bauhaus becomes crowd magnet in Berlin Aug 5, 2009
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Landscape painting shaped the direction of art for a century, then all but vanished. What happened? Mar 1, 2009
Van Gogh, Gaugin, and Cezanne kept landscape in the vanguard of European art, and paved the way for painters like Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Piet Mondrian, who all took landscape even further from nature, and deeper into abstraction. In one illustrative incident, Kandinsky famously noticed that a painting of his, accidentally hung upside down, was powerful on its own terms - without representing anything at all. (Boston Globe)
Lucian Freud paints wine label for French chateau Feb 24, 2009
Later, luminaries such as Marc Chagall, Wassily Kandinsky and Francis Bacon contributed paintings. Freud's label for the 2006 vintage _ an image of a happy zebra head and a potted palm tree _ playfully echoes similar elements from his 1944 painting "The Painter's Room.". (Helena Independent Record, MT)
The communist touch Feb 8, 2009
s. Rodchenko's mentor, Wassily Kandinsky, taught at the Bauhaus art and design school in Germany after leaving Moscow in 1922, as did the Hungarian Constructivist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Their ideas were then disseminated by fellow Bauha. (International Herald Tribune)
