Fall Scenery

News From The Couch ….. New Work

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please contact agapistudos@hotmail.com for more information on NEW Work for fall.   All work shown is 14 x 17 done on hot press archival paper. 

Ahhh a little kitten sneak too

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Friday’s Famous Artist is …. Jackson Pollock

 

Imagine if you will a world filled with post renaissance work, Madonna and child, an eloquent Victorian lady in a scene  perhaps the illuminating painting of Monet or Van Gogh to seize upon.  

Fresh out of the war and into a new idea of American Importance comes Jackson Pollack, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell to name a few.    Flash forward here we are in American in the 1940’s fresh out of the depression to end all depressions and World War 2.    Enter Peggy Guggenheim. 

 

This is New York in 1942  where Peggy Guggenheim established the Museum of Modern Art named after her Uncle.  With a thrill for the unusual and a absolute passion for abstract art, New York became the entreated hub for the New form of work called Abstract Impressionism. 

 

“They worked large and they worked messily, recklessly. Pollock “broke the ice,” de Kooning would say.”

In fact Pollack was given supreme prestige for his work, a position garnered without the intense presence or nod from “the old school.”  America/Pollack, were creating their own identity and staking a claim on art that no other place in the world could.   For This Pollock earned a supreme and undeniable place in history. 

The great mystery of unlocking a door no person had ever unlocked in the art world … that honor went not only to his friends but also to Pollack who seized the essence of this unique form of expression and laid it down on the canvas.  In this process his friends and colleagues also imparted their own vision in the wake of knowledge unknown to artists before. 

 

Notorious for his drinking problem and his struggle with alcoholism, Pollock crashed his car August 11, 1956 and died near his New York home.

"Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was."  Jackson Pollock

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News From The Couch: The Master of Blue Jeans? …… A HOAX?

Article found on Foxnews internet with a source of AFP may be a hoax.   With no author given for the 10 supposed paintings going on exhibition in an unknown Paris show with no dates given and some strange connections to a reputable curator, Gerlinde Gruber, known for her expertise with Flemish art. 

Two well known artists of that time 1664, Michael Sweerts and Giacomo Ceruti are also mentioned in the article as sharing a show with this great unknown author who has now miraculously given blue jeans a record in history that up until this article had not been found. 

I am wondering if anyone can identify these paintings?  Is this the work of some well done photo shopping to make linen/cotton clothing look like the famed blue jean material? 

Here’s some links to the article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100920/lf_afp/lifestylefashionarthistory   and   http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/09/20/art-historians-uncovered-origin-blue-jeans/
And the paintings mentioned …..

Hmmm … pretty faded apron made out of blue jean material.

A quote from the article:
“Ten paintings have been attributed to the Italian artist, eight of which are on show in Paris alongside works by contemporaries such as Michael Sweerts or Giacomo Ceruti, loaned from museums and private collections in Rome and Vienna.”

You know how old that jacket would have to be to look like that and it’s not even faded? 
Hoax or Not?  What do you think … that’s the News from the couch, How’s your day going.

Fridays Famous Artist Is …..

Robert Motherwell …..

 

  

       

 

Robert Motherwell born Jan 1915 and living until July of 1991 was an American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker.  He was one of the youngest of the New York School which included Jackson Pollack, Mark Rothko, Willem De Kooning and Phillip Guston.

Robert’s gift for rhetoric and easy comfortable feeling around people is credited with placing him on the map.  Though others in his group who later became as famous, might not have been had Motherwell not been so engaging with groups.

His writing and three published books:

• The Dada Painters and Poets, R. Motherwell, New York, 1951.
• Robert Motherwell, The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell, University of California Press, 1999.
• Robert Motherwell translated to English Paul Signac's book, D'Eugène Delacroix au néo-impressionisme, 1938.

are all considered a credit to his ability to engage the average reader and not just the art critic. 

To me his gift as a printmaker served him very well as a painter and he was able to glean techniquest and improvise on the canvas creating almost cinamographic images with his paint.  His work is beautifully fluid and yet eloquently simple and moving at the same time.

News From The Couch … Hot Summers

 

 

I had the chance to find some new and interesting techniques for my blogging program and here is one of the resulting “reflections” options with a watermark.  What do you think?

I’ll be posting my new work all week.  Enjoy

How’s your day going?