The Cleveland Museum of Art is hosting an exhibition entitled Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse now through January 5, 2016. The exhibition, organized by CMA and the Royal Academy of Arts in London, looks at the role of gardens to artists such as Claude Monet, who was also a horticulturist.
Kehinde Wiley,
Napoleon Leading the Army Over the Alps (Self-Portrait),
Oil on canvas, 2005
Artist
will speak at
Cleveland Museum of Art’s Gartner Auditorium, Saturday August 29th
at 2:00. His beautiful work harks back to an earlier style while creating very modern portraits. Wiley’s recent one man exhibition at the
was very well received by the art world and the public, alike. The Cleveland lecture is part of the
Cleveland Public Library’s The Lockwood Thompson Dialogues
.
Kehinde Wiley
Triple Portrait of Charles I
, oil and enamel on canvas. Triptych, 2007,
The houses are all roughly a hundred years old and the last few years have been less then their best years. They are filled with character, beautiful wood, built-in china cabinets, window seats, etc., but what the artists focus on, for the most part, are that the houses are also filled with the lives of their former occupants. The houses sheltered people whose lives cry out to be celebrated before the tangible evidence of their exsistence is gone forever. We as a society, especially one hard hit by its changes like Cleveland’s Slavic Village, are too quick to erase the past as we rush toward the future and we often don’t realize what has been lost until it is no longer there. “Rooms to Let” stops us in our tracks and makes us look at these places, see the beauty, enjoy some music, laugh and talk with people, honor these structures and the families who lived and loved in them.
Having become blighted and a burden on the neighborhood, the city has no choice but to tear them down. This has been the story for many rust belt cities who deal with a loss of population and aging housing stock. For one more weekend though, people filled rooms, created music, gathered around them and enjoyed life. It was a celebration of the service of the houses as dwellings and the lives of the people who lived in them.
Portrait if
and his son, Robert Kelso Cassatt
by
,1884-85,
The Philadelphia Museum of Art
, the Impressionist artist, is well known for using her family as models in her artwork (men and boys are seen less often) as she spent a lot of her time around the women of the family. In this portrait we see
father and her brother sharing an intimate moment. Her father was a railroad man and probably not around the house as often, or willing to sit still for very long (pure conjecture on my part). Happy Father’s Day – perhaps you can capture an image of your father today?
Currently, there is an exhibition of the same name taking place in New York at the Piers which highlights art of the 20th and 21st centuries and is primarily a venue to buy and sell. However, if you have the opportunity, it is also a chance to see works by famous and unknown artists in the same locations.
During the closing ceremonies of the Olympics in Sochi last night, reference was made to Ukrainian artist Kazimir Malevich, but not much else was said about him. He is one of the most important artists of the 20th century, less famous than Picasso, but no less important. This is considered to be one of the most important pieces of 20th century art and in his treatise of 1916 Malevich explained that he wanted to concentrate on color and texture and to move beyond traditional representation.
“Art has saved my life on a regular basis. I wanted to offer that experience to children, to enlist them, to show them the possibilities that are in the arts, to persuade them to pursue it for both their own personal salvation and for changing the way we are understood.” Carrie Mae Weems
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