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Matisse the Deconstructionist

Thursday, September 9, 2010

The exhibit “Matisse: Radical Invention 1913-1917” is on view through October 11, 2010 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.  The show features work from a brief period in the middle of Henri Matisse’s long career, roughly coinciding with the first World War.  It shows the artist engaged in a heroic struggle to [...]

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Stories in the Round

Friday, April 16, 2010

Sculpture practice involves working in the round.  A traditional figurative sculpture studio has rotating platforms for the work and for the model, so both can be observed from all angles.  A sculptor must also consider the work from an engineering standpoint, analyzing weight distribution, compression, tension, torque and shear, especially when the work is large.  [...]

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Womb of Art: Paleolithic Masterpieces

Thursday, February 18, 2010

These lions look so full of life they might at any moment pounce on their prey.  This is a small detail from the “Lion Panel”, an expansive composition featuring dozens of animals, discovered in 1994 in a cave in southeastern France.  Across a huge cave wall with a niche in the center, the lions appear [...]

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Light and Stone

Monday, December 7, 2009

Thomas William Brown is an art therapist and a stone carver.  Many of his works, like those seen above in a detail from an installation of sculptures shown in an exhibit last year at the gallery of the Art Students’ Leage of New York, are based on architectural motifs.  When he talks about his process, [...]

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Biomorphic Glass: Chihuly in the Bronx

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Dale Chihuly is one of those artists who’s a little too popular to be cool, the Tiffany of our time.  But his work is stunning in its scale and originality, and it particularly shines when it’s exhibited in a biological context, as it was in the summer of 2006 at the New York Botanical Garden [...]

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