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Nicolas de Staël - January 5th, 1914
2008-01-05 13:19:00 Nicolas de Staël was born on January 5, 1914 in the family of a Russian Lieutenant General, Baron Vladimir Stael von Holstein, (a member of the Staël von Holstein family, and the last Commandant of the Peter and Paul Fortress) and his wife, Olga Sakhanskaya. De Staël’s family was forced to emigrate to Poland in 1919 because of the Russian Revolution. Both, his father and stepmother, would die in Poland and the orphaned Nicolas de Staël would be sent with his older sister Marina to Brussels to live with a Russian family (1922). Figure by the Sea He eventually studied art at the Brussels Académie royale des beaux-arts (1932). In the 1930s, he traveled throughout Europe, lived in Paris (1934) and in Morocco (1936) (where he first met his companion Jeannine Guillou, also a painter and who would appear in some of his paintings from 1941-1942) and Algeria. In 1936 he had his first exhibition of Byzantine style icons and watercolors at the Galerie Dietrich et Cie, Brussels. H... More About: Nicolas , Nico
Marsden Hartley-Born today 1877
2008-01-03 21:27:00 A leading practitioner of American modernism, Marsden Hartley created some of the most uniquely powerful modernist expressions by any American artist. Hartley (who was baptized Edmund Hartley) was born on January 4, l877, in Lewiston, Maine, to working class English immigrant parents. His bleak childhood was lightened by the family’s relocation to Cleveland, Ohio, a move that gave the young man the opportunity to attend the Cleveland School of Art. In 1896, Hartley took private art lessons with John Semon, a follower of the French Barbizon School. In the summer of 1898, he enrolled in an out-of-doors painting class conducted by Cullen Yates, a local, Paris-trained Impressionist. At the end of the summer session, ... More About: Today
How the profit of Banksy was finally recognised
2007-12-31 13:19:00 In the name of Christian forgiveness, Bethlehem residents are resurrecting a piece of graffiti by the British street artist Banksy after a misunderstanding left his artwork covered in white paint. Banksy’s Bethlehem graffiti was meant to promote tourism but Palestinian residents had difficulty with the satirical images. Just before Christmas a small group of incensed locals painted over a Banksy image of a soldier asking a donkey for identification papers in the belief that it compared Palestinians to donkeys. Word soon spread that Banksy had intended to convey the plight of the Palestinians in Bethlehem, whose city is encircled by the separation barrier and Israeli military checkpoints – and that the image could be worth thousands of pounds. Residents are now trying to restore it by using paint removers and scrapers to peel back the white paint and reveal the original piece. “We are working to bring back the art in the Christmas spirit of forgiveness and turning the other ch... More About: Profit , Finally
Japanese New Year - Art of the New Year
2007-12-28 13:57:00 Without question, New Year ’s (o-shogatsu) was, and to this day remains, the most important holiday within the Japanese festival calendar. Traditionally, New Year’s Day meant much more than just the beginning of another arbitrary yearly round, as it does in the modern West. The author, Dan McKee is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Japanese literature program at Cornell University, NY. He has a Master of the Fine Arts degree from Syracuse University, as well as an M.A. from Cornell. Dan McKee is presently writing a dissertation on “surimono as a literary practice in nineteenth century Edo.” The New Year’s Festival and Japanese Prints Indeed, New Year’s marked the rebirth of nature itself, as it was thought of as the first day of spring. And, due to the traditional manner of figuring age, by which one counted the yearly cycles one had been a part of, New Year’s was a “birthday” of sorts for everyone, the day on whic...
Japanese New Year - Art of the New Year
2007-12-28 13:57:00 Without question, New Year ’s (o-shogatsu) was, and to this day remains, the most important holiday within the Japanese festival calendar. Traditionally, New Year’s Day meant much more than just the beginning of another arbitrary yearly round, as it does in the modern West. The author, Dan McKee is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Japanese literature program at Cornell University, NY. He has a Master of the Fine Arts degree from Syracuse University, as well as an M.A. from Cornell. Dan McKee is presently writing a dissertation on “surimono as a literary practice in nineteenth century Edo.” The New Year’s Festival and Japanese Prints Indeed, New Year’s marked the rebirth of nature itself, as it was thought of as the first day of spring. And, due to the traditional manner of figuring age, by which one counted the yearly cycles one had been a part of, New Year’s was a “birthday” of sorts for everyone, the day on whic...
Kazuya Akimoto Art Museum
2007-12-28 13:27:00 In the spirit of Christmas I found this great abstract from the Kazuya Akimoto Art Museum . Great to see something different which also happens to be abstract expressionism. I also had a look at the blog and there is a section on Christmas. Very interesting artworks, somewhat morbid but I still enjoyed the creativity. Check it out for yourselves: Kazuya Akimoto Art Blog0 “Christmas Dots” Here is the artist’s statement, deep stuff: Every art has a kind of language and its logic. In music, it is very clear. Of course, to use this language correctly in artwork doesn’t necessarily mean that the art is superb, or worth appreciating. There are far too many pieces of music which are correct in grammar that cannot attract our aesthetical attention. But artwork without including any language is not art, but chaos or only confusion which cannot be appreciated at least by human intellect, because we humanity get the understanding and the meaning of our surround...
Kazuya Akimoto Art Museum
2007-12-28 13:27:00 In the spirit of Christmas I found this great abstract from the Kazuya Akimoto Art Museum . Great to see something different which also happens to be abstract expressionism. I also had a look at the blog and there is a section on Christmas. Very interesting artworks, somewhat morbid but I still enjoyed the creativity. Check it out for yourselves: Kazuya Akimoto Art Blog0 “Christmas Dots” Here is the artist’s statement, deep stuff: Every art has a kind of language and its logic. In music, it is very clear. Of course, to use this language correctly in artwork doesn’t necessarily mean that the art is superb, or worth appreciating. There are far too many pieces of music which are correct in grammar that cannot attract our aesthetical attention. But artwork without including any language is not art, but chaos or only confusion which cannot be appreciated at least by human intellect, because we humanity get the understanding and the meaning of our surround...
Who am I? James Presley
2007-12-28 00:58:00 To all the Pollocks the Bollocks fans that have visited my site, I am finally going to reveal my true identity. I started doing this blog in August and have had a tremendous success with it. Not only that but I have enjoyed doing it so much and I will continue to do so. I have sort of run out of abstract expressionists to blog about but would appreciate any ideas and I am sure I will think of more, but I intend to keep writing about abstract art, maybe not biographies all the time but whatever I can lay my hands on and I hope my faithful readers will keep coming back. Guitarras que hacen amor 2005 © James Presley So who am I? My name is James Presley and I started painting about 5 years ago and have passionate about it ever since. I love to express myself and don’t feel at home doing landscapes, figurative art, or or anything like that. I never used to be able to understand abstract art and what the artist was trying to say until I saw ‘Pollock’, the mov...
Who am I? James Presley
2007-12-28 00:58:00 To all the Pollocks the Bollocks fans that have visited my site, I am finally going to reveal my true identity. I started doing this blog in August and have had a tremendous success with it. Not only that but I have enjoyed doing it so much and I will continue to do so. I have sort of run out of abstract expressionists to blog about but would appreciate any ideas and I am sure I will think of more, but I intend to keep writing about abstract art, maybe not biographies all the time but whatever I can lay my hands on and I hope my faithful readers will keep coming back. Guitarras que hacen amor 2005 © James Presley So who am I? My name is James Presley and I started painting about 5 years ago and have passionate about it ever since. I love to express myself and don’t feel at home doing landscapes, figurative art, or or anything like that. I never used to be able to understand abstract art and what the artist was trying to say until I saw ‘Pollock’, the mov...
Harvard gets Barnett Newman cache
2007-12-19 18:50:00 The Centre for the Technical Study of Modern Art, a research division of the Harvard University Art Museums, has been given Barnet t Newman’s studio materials and related ephemera. The Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation donated the materials to assist scholars in the collection, study and conservation of Newman’s paintings. The gift complements the University’s existing archive of Newman’s correspondence and works of art previously donated by his wife Annalee. A leading member of the Abstract Expressionist movement, Newman’s monochromatic paintings, marked by single vertical bands which he called “zips”, have proven difficult to restore. In 1977 a team of conservators investigated Newman’s materials and painting techniques after a visitor to the Stedelijk Museum made five large slashes in the canvas of Cathedra (1951). The gift, which includes discarded paint trials, notes, unpublished sketches, and cardboard models of his best-kno... More About: Cache
Harvard gets Barnett Newman cache
2007-12-19 18:50:00 The Centre for the Technical Study of Modern Art, a research division of the Harvard University Art Museums, has been given Barnet t Newman’s studio materials and related ephemera. The Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation donated the materials to assist scholars in the collection, study and conservation of Newman’s paintings. The gift complements the University’s existing archive of Newman’s correspondence and works of art previously donated by his wife Annalee. A leading member of the Abstract Expressionist movement, Newman’s monochromatic paintings, marked by single vertical bands which he called “zips”, have proven difficult to restore. In 1977 a team of conservators investigated Newman’s materials and painting techniques after a visitor to the Stedelijk Museum made five large slashes in the canvas of Cathedra (1951). The gift, which includes discarded paint trials, notes, unpublished sketches, and cardboard models of his best-kno... More About: Cache
Yan Pei-Ming gives portraits of Resistance leader to France
2007-12-16 10:30:00 The Chinese artist Yan Pei-Ming , who has lived in Paris for the last 20 years, has given three portraits of the French Resistance hero Guy Môquet to France . He was asked to make the works by President Sarkozy. Yan Pei Ming, Portrait de la Tante YYZ, 1999, Oil on canvas, 79 x 79 inches One is going to the Lycée Carnot, Môquet’s former Paris college, a second is currently on display in the office of the French Prime Minister, François Fillon (right), and will then go to the office of President Sarkozy, according to a spokeswoman for the French Culture Ministry. The third will go to the Culture Ministry and may then be displayed at the Musée de la Résistance in Champigny-sur-Marne. Môquet, a communist resistance fighter, was shot dead by Nazi soldiers in 1941, aged 17. In his inaugural address in May, President Sarkozy referred to a letter written by Môquet which will be read out in French schools at the start of each new year. The artist’s London dealer, Opera Gallery, sa... More About: Portraits , Leader
Yan Pei-Ming gives portraits of Resistance leader to France
2007-12-16 10:30:00 The Chinese artist Yan Pei-Ming , who has lived in Paris for the last 20 years, has given three portraits of the French Resistance hero Guy Môquet to France . He was asked to make the works by President Sarkozy. Yan Pei Ming, Portrait de la Tante YYZ, 1999, Oil on canvas, 79 x 79 inches One is going to the Lycée Carnot, Môquet’s former Paris college, a second is currently on display in the office of the French Prime Minister, François Fillon (right), and will then go to the office of President Sarkozy, according to a spokeswoman for the French Culture Ministry. The third will go to the Culture Ministry and may then be displayed at the Musée de la Résistance in Champigny-sur-Marne. Môquet, a communist resistance fighter, was shot dead by Nazi soldiers in 1941, aged 17. In his inaugural address in May, President Sarkozy referred to a letter written by Môquet which will be read out in French schools at the start of each new year. The artist’s London dealer, Opera Gallery, sa... More About: Portraits , Leader
Nazi Art on Display at Grohmann Museum
2007-12-16 10:23:00 Nazi associations of collection “not relevant” says founder of new museum The art on show includes works by artists collected by Hitler and displayed in exhibitions sponsored by the Third Reich In praise of workers: the Grohmann Museum with its nine-foot sculptures of labourers on the roof and the “Kaiserdom” inspired by Sir Norman Foster’s addition to the Reichstag in Berlin NEW YORK. The new Grohmann Museum, which is dedicated to art showing “the evolution of human work”, has been called to account for failing to display any information about the art’s association with the Nazi regime. The institution opened in October at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). While the school celebrated the opening of its first cultural asset, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel asked why works of art produced under the Third Reich are displayed without texts explaining their historical background. The museum houses more than 700 paintings and sculptur... More About: Display , Nazi
Nazi Art on Display at Grohmann Museum
2007-12-16 10:23:00 Nazi associations of collection “not relevant” says founder of new museum The art on show includes works by artists collected by Hitler and displayed in exhibitions sponsored by the Third Reich In praise of workers: the Grohmann Museum with its nine-foot sculptures of labourers on the roof and the “Kaiserdom” inspired by Sir Norman Foster’s addition to the Reichstag in Berlin NEW YORK. The new Grohmann Museum, which is dedicated to art showing “the evolution of human work”, has been called to account for failing to display any information about the art’s association with the Nazi regime. The institution opened in October at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). While the school celebrated the opening of its first cultural asset, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel asked why works of art produced under the Third Reich are displayed without texts explaining their historical background. The museum houses more than 700 paintings and sculptur... More About: Display , Nazi
“Larry Gagosian has always expanded in a recession”
2007-12-14 20:26:00 Why is the most successful contemporary art dealer in the world opening a branch in Rome this month? The invitation for the opening of the new gallery in Rome “Rome is a sleeping giant,” says Larry Gagosian, and on 15 December the art world’s most successful contemporary art dealer will attempt to bring it to life by opening a new gallery in the heart of city. The 700 square-metre space is in an ornate 1920s palazzo just round the corner from the Spanish steps. Its elaborate exterior houses a high-tech minimalist exhibition space designed by London architect Adam Caruso with the Roman Firouz Galdo. The inaugural exhibition is of paintings and sculptures by Cy Twombly, and the artist, who has a studio in the city, is rumoured to be cutting the opening ribbon (Gagosian Gallery in New York is also hosting a Cy Twombly show, until 22 December). The new venture seems far from a guaranteed money-earner. In Italy, the market for contemporary art has traditionally been focused in...
“Larry Gagosian has always expanded in a recession”
2007-12-14 20:26:00 Why is the most successful contemporary art dealer in the world opening a branch in Rome this month? The invitation for the opening of the new gallery in Rome “Rome is a sleeping giant,” says Larry Gagosian, and on 15 December the art world’s most successful contemporary art dealer will attempt to bring it to life by opening a new gallery in the heart of city. The 700 square-metre space is in an ornate 1920s palazzo just round the corner from the Spanish steps. Its elaborate exterior houses a high-tech minimalist exhibition space designed by London architect Adam Caruso with the Roman Firouz Galdo. The inaugural exhibition is of paintings and sculptures by Cy Twombly, and the artist, who has a studio in the city, is rumoured to be cutting the opening ribbon (Gagosian Gallery in New York is also hosting a Cy Twombly show, until 22 December). The new venture seems far from a guaranteed money-earner. In Italy, the market for contemporary art has traditionally been focused in...
Revealed: Art Institute of Chicago Gauguin sculpture is fake
2007-12-12 20:59:00 The Art Newspaper revealed today that a Gauguin sculpture bought by the Art Institute of Chicago ten years ago and described by the museum as a major rediscovery and one of its most important acquisitions of the last 20 years, is a fake. The work was made recently in the north of England. Last month three members of the Greenhalgh family based in Bolton, Greater Manchester, were sentenced over charges relating to the forgery of the Egyptian Amarna Princess sculpture, bought by Bolton Museum in 2003. Shaun Greenhalgh, aged 46, was sentenced to 4 years and 8 months. His mother Olive, 82, received a suspended sentence, and his wheelchair-bound father George, 84, will be sentenced after medical reports. On 26 November Scotland Yard told The Art Newspaper that a forged Gauguin ceramic of The Faun had also been sold by the Greenhalgh family. The police said that the Gauguin’s “current whereabouts are unknown”. We then tracked it down to Chicago. The Faun had been consigned to Sot... More About: Fake , Sculpture
Revealed: Art Institute of Chicago Gauguin sculpture is fake
2007-12-12 20:59:00 The Art Newspaper revealed today that a Gauguin sculpture bought by the Art Institute of Chicago ten years ago and described by the museum as a major rediscovery and one of its most important acquisitions of the last 20 years, is a fake. The work was made recently in the north of England. Last month three members of the Greenhalgh family based in Bolton, Greater Manchester, were sentenced over charges relating to the forgery of the Egyptian Amarna Princess sculpture, bought by Bolton Museum in 2003. Shaun Greenhalgh, aged 46, was sentenced to 4 years and 8 months. His mother Olive, 82, received a suspended sentence, and his wheelchair-bound father George, 84, will be sentenced after medical reports. On 26 November Scotland Yard told The Art Newspaper that a forged Gauguin ceramic of The Faun had also been sold by the Greenhalgh family. The police said that the Gauguin’s “current whereabouts are unknown”. We then tracked it down to Chicago. The Faun had been consigned to Sot... More About: Fake , Sculpture
Jackson Pollock - Before Blue Poles
2007-12-11 19:52:00 Jackson Pollock ‘Blue Poles: Number 11, 1952′ enamel and aluminium paint with glass on canvas, Collection of the National Gallery of Australia © Jackson Pollock, 1952/ARS. Licensed by VISCOPY, Sydney 2002 The abstract paintings of the American artist Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) are among the highest achievements of 20th-century art. During an unparalleled period of creativity from the late 1940s to the early 50s, Pollock abandoned the conventional tools and methods of the painter, putting aside brushes, artist’s paint and traditional composition, and poured and flung house paint directly onto large canvases placed on the floor. Inspired by the work of earlier modern artists that he admired such as Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró, Pollock’s painting has had an enormous impact on contemporary art up to the present day. Pollock’s life story is no less startling than his art. From humble beginnings in a family of Wyoming farmers, he struggled for years to overco... More About: Jackson
Jackson Pollock - Before Blue Poles
2007-12-11 19:52:00 Jackson Pollock ‘Blue Poles: Number 11, 1952′ enamel and aluminium paint with glass on canvas, Collection of the National Gallery of Australia © Jackson Pollock, 1952/ARS. Licensed by VISCOPY, Sydney 2002 The abstract paintings of the American artist Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) are among the highest achievements of 20th-century art. During an unparalleled period of creativity from the late 1940s to the early 50s, Pollock abandoned the conventional tools and methods of the painter, putting aside brushes, artist’s paint and traditional composition, and poured and flung house paint directly onto large canvases placed on the floor. Inspired by the work of earlier modern artists that he admired such as Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró, Pollock’s painting has had an enormous impact on contemporary art up to the present day. Pollock’s life story is no less startling than his art. From humble beginnings in a family of Wyoming farmers, he struggled for years to overco... More About: Jackson
Warhol’s Factory without Drugs
2007-12-06 21:54:00 Performance artist Marina Abramovic has acquired a large theatre in Hudson, a village about two hours north of Manhattan, where she plans to establish a nonprofit foundation dedicated to performance art. “I want it to function as a research centre for performance,” she told The Art Newspaper, describing plans for artist workshops, courses for the public, a library, and a grants programme. The 1930s building (in recent decades used as an indoor tennis centre and a storage facility) must be completely renovated, but she hopes to mount programmes in the raw 20,000 sq ft space as early as summer 2008. To fund the $950,000 purchase she sold the property in Amsterdam where she lived before moving to New York. She expects to take possession of the Hudson building on 1 December and to incorporate the Marina Abramovic Foundation for Preservation of Performance Art in spring 2008. “The big dream in my life was to make a foundation for the preservation of performance art,” says the Yug... More About: Drugs , Factory , Warhol
Warhol’s Factory without Drugs
2007-12-06 21:54:00 Performance artist Marina Abramovic has acquired a large theatre in Hudson, a village about two hours north of Manhattan, where she plans to establish a nonprofit foundation dedicated to performance art. “I want it to function as a research centre for performance,” she told The Art Newspaper, describing plans for artist workshops, courses for the public, a library, and a grants programme. The 1930s building (in recent decades used as an indoor tennis centre and a storage facility) must be completely renovated, but she hopes to mount programmes in the raw 20,000 sq ft space as early as summer 2008. To fund the $950,000 purchase she sold the property in Amsterdam where she lived before moving to New York. She expects to take possession of the Hudson building on 1 December and to incorporate the Marina Abramovic Foundation for Preservation of Performance Art in spring 2008. “The big dream in my life was to make a foundation for the preservation of performance art,” says the Yug... More About: Drugs , Factory , Warhol
Paul Gauguin
2007-11-10 09:38:00 Paul Gauguin ’s famous guise as the original Western savage was his own embellishment upon reality. No mere bohemianism, that persona was, for him, the modern sequel to the “natural man” constructed by his idol, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). Gauguin’s rejection of the industrialized West for an earthly paradise embraced, in artistic terms, all handmade arts and crafts as equivalent creative endeavors. As his own ideal artist-artisan, he produced an abundant, cross-fertilizing body of work in many media, dissolving the traditional boundaries between high art and decoration. Portrait of Vincent Van Gogh Painting Sunflowers, Arles 1888 The artist and his older sister Marie were born in Paris (he in 1848) to highly literate upper-middle-class parents from France and Peru. Gauguin’s early life was shaped by his family’s liberal political activism and their blood ties spanning the Old and New Worlds. His father was a republican journalist; his mate... More About: Paul , Guin
Huang Yongping - Bat Project
2007-11-09 08:33:00 Very interesting story of how art and politics can cross paths In 1986, Huang Yongping formed the Xiamen Dada group, aiming to bring Dadaist principles to Chinese art. Following his participation in the 1989 exhibition Magiciens de la Terre at the Centre Pompidou and the political upheavals in China of the same year, Huang moved to Paris, where he now lives and works. In his work, Huang often deals with current events, history and reality by means of deconstruction and irony. In his installation ‘A History of Chinese Painting’ and ‘A Concise History of Modern Painting’ Washed in a Washing Machine for Two Minutes (1987 / 1993), the artist blended a Chinese and a Western art text into a messy pile of pulp. Other works raise the issue of illegal immigrants and post-colonial migration. ... More About: Project
Geng Jianyi
2007-11-08 09:06:00 “I used to think that a completed artwork was like the completed act of taking a piss: when it’s finished it’s finished - you don’t go carrying the contents of the chamber pot around with you. But now things are different, you can’t just take a piss whenever you like anymore and be done with it. There are special bathrooms, like museums and art galleries, that want to expose you in your most basic acts. And doesn’t everybody now accept this situation as normal? The people going in for a look are all very interested, companing who is big and who is small. How is it that I was born in this age of organisation? and how is it that I want to be proclaimed the champ? It’s really a shame.” “I am interested in our awareness of what has happened, what is taking place, what will unfold; and our part in the process.” Geng Jianyi Face is washed away (black) In 1994, after eigh...
Xu Bing
2007-11-07 14:48:00 Xu Bing was born in Chongqing, China in 1955 and grew up in Beijing. In 1975 he was relocated to the countryside for two years during the Cultural Revolution. In 1977 he enrolled in the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing where he studied printmaking. He received an MFA from the Central Academy in 1987. In 1990 he moved to the United States and he still lives there today, making his home in Brooklyn, New York. Magic Carpet His work as been shown in the 45th Venice Biennial; MOMA, New York; Museum Ludwig, Koln; The Reina Sofia Museum (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia), Madrid; V&A, London; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Sydney Biennial; Kwangju Biennial, Korea; Johannesburg Biennial, South Africa; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA); Nationa...
Wang Guangyi
2007-11-06 09:07:00 In the mid-1980s, Wang Guangyi espoused a humanist vision of art for post-Mao China. His series of paintings entitled “Frozen North Pole” sought to evoke, in the artist’s words, “a kind of beauty of sublime reason which contains constant, harmonious feelings of humanity.” Abstract human figures placed in orderly, grid-like arrangements face uniformly forward, as if moving toward an auspicious future. The message is utopian and optimistic: these humans are evolved creatures of rationality and feeling who are ready for an ideal world. Great Castigation Series: Coca-Cola, 1993 Three years later Wang’s art and ethos had undergone a complete reversal — his new aim was “to liquidate the enthusiasm of humanism.” Shifting to a cut-and-paste method and deploying Warhol-inspired references to mass culture, Wang began to produce Political Pop art rife with irony. He saw irony as a necessary tactic in the tense atmosphere that preceded the 1989...
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art Opens in Beijing
2007-11-05 19:40:00 The interior of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in 798 District, Dashanzi here in northeast Beijing and the exterior of the UCCA featuring a large brick chimney soaring through the building to 164 feet above the ground which is a highly visible landmark and beacon for the arts district. / Courtesy of UCCA By Chung Ah-young BEIJING ― The saying “Except for money and big studios, Chinese artists have everything they need,” is indicative of Chinese artists who suffered turbulent times in the 1980s with the birth of contemporary arts. But now Chinese artists seem to have everything “including money and big studios” at least in 798 District, Dashanzi here in northeast Beijing. With the growing international presence here, the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) opened Monday in a transformed Bauhaus-style electronics factory in the flourishing 798 art zone. Factory 798, a former military electronics complex designed by East German architect... More About: Temp
Robert Rauschenberg
More articles from this author:2007-11-04 11:28:00 Robert Rauschenberg studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Académie Julian in Paris, France, before enrolling in 1948 at the legendary Black Mountain College in North Carolina. Robert Rauschenberg ,Untitled, ca. 1954 As a young artist Rauschenberg married the painter Susan Weil. The two met while attending the Academie Julian in Paris, and in 1948 both decided to attend Black Mountain College in North Carolina to study under Josef Albers. Robert Rauschenberg and Susan Weil were married in the summer of 1950. Their son, Christopher was born on July 16, 1951. The two separated in June 1952. At Black Mountain his painting instructor was the renowned Bauhaus figure Josef Albers, whose rigid discipline and sense of method inspired Rauschenberg, as he once said, to do “exactly the reverse” of what Albers taught him. 1986 BMW 635 CSi Art Car by Robert Rauschenberg Co... More About: Robert , Robe , Berg 1, 2, 3 |
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