Vitro Nasu

(Dancing Two People)

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Sheep

Art News Obit

Artist Suh Se Ok, Pillar of Korean Contemporary Painting, Dies at 91

Effie Gray wiki – scripted by Emma Thompson

“Effie Gray is more than just an ordinary costume drama”

Ruskin Effie Marriage

Portrait of John Ruskin by Millais

Bronte family biography

Brontes Sisters

Brontes Sisters – Modern Family – art forum

Sensitive to the extreme limits the Brontë sisters faced owing to their sex, Téchiné is careful not to overdramatize the fact that Charlotte, Emily, and Anne all published, in 1847, their first novels under male pseudonyms (becoming, respectively, the “brothers” Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell). The director’s insistence on understatement—though never at the expense of diminishing the anguish and thwarted desire the sisters endured during their too-short lives (all died before reaching the age of forty)—clearly guided the performances as well.

Roland Barthes as an actor

Roland Barthes

Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi’s piece, titled “Floor Frame,” is displayed in the White House Rose Garden on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020, in Washington. Noguchi is the first Asian American artist to be featured in the White House collection, according to the first lady and the White House Historical Association. He died in 1988. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Noguchi Sculpture for the White House Rose Garden

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Isamu Noguchi’s American Story: How a Small Sculpture Made a Big Impact at the White House

Previous post (Isamu Noguchi, Yoshiko Yamaguchi, + tea ceremony with Charlie Chaplin etc)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Aldo TambelliniHe pioneered electronic intermedia, and is a painter, sculptor, and poet. He died at age 90, in 2020.

Art news Obit

Guardian Obit

Aldo Tambellini, the pioneering artist and film-maker who had an obsession with the colour black, has died aged 90. He will be remembered among other things for developing what he termed “electromedia” – the bringing together of multiple forms including strobes, dance, film, poetry and slide projection. “We have lost a titan,” said Stuart Comer, a curator at MoMA in New York.

Aldo Tambellini (born 29 April 1930) is an Italian American artist.

(R)evolution in Art & Physics: The All-Round Genius of Aldo Tambellini

We are the primitives of a new era -slideshow

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Irrational Exuberance – Alan Rath (See more here)

FIRST31B-C-26OCT01-DD-PC Sculptor/artist Alan Rath has created a series of sculptures using computer components and video screens which blink and wink at viewers. PAUL CHINN/S.F. CHRONICLE

Alan Rath, Bay Area Artist who pioneered electonic sculptures dies at 60

With a degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rath cited a wide range of inspiration, including Alexander Calder, David Smith, Jimi Hendrix, NASA and Robert Moog, who designed analog synthesizers.

In Memory of Alan Rath

(Alan Rath – First work)

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Robert Bechtle Bay Area photorealist dies at 88

Though Bechtle painted from photographs, he was so good that he could have done just as well from memory, said his contemporary and friend Wayne Thiebaud.
“Drawing is the basis of all painting, and Bob was a supreme draftsman,” said Thiebaud. “We had lots of good conversations and I respected him very much as a serious, probing painter.”

(Potrero Hill)

See more here, Gladstone Gallery

Fashion designer Kenzo Takada dies of Coronavirus

BBC obit

(Japanese fashion designer Kenzo Takada posing during a photo session in his home in Paris on January 9, 2019. AFP)
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Self Portrait

Trailer Tomboy

(The stars of Girlhood, from left, Marietou Toure, Karidja Toure and Assa Sylla, and Celine Sciamma)

Celine Sciamma – You have to be fearless

The French director of ‘Tomboy’ and ‘Girlhood’ enters adult territory with period romance ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’.

How Delmaire created Our Portrait of Lady on Fire Cover (Criterion)

Portraits at the heart of Portrait of a Lady on Fire

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The Eyeless Girls

Helene Delmaire (homepage)

Siah Arnahani – Glass front porch for Walter Benjamin

(Read about Walter Benjamin’s tragic life from previous post)

Artforum obit

Iranian-American artist Siah Armajani, whose work across media bridged architecture, democracy, mathematics, and the commons, has died of heart failure in Minneapolis.

Art News obit

Siah Armajani, Ceaselessly Imaginative Artist with a Belief in the Power of Public Art, Is Dead at 81

Siah Armajani at The Met Breuer press preview of Siah Armajani: Follow This Line February 19, 2019.
Photo courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Prayer

NYtimes

Fraught and Fabulous: Art That Shows a Passion for Democracy

The Tyranny of Chair Design

Most chairs aren’t designed to serve human bodies – but a better seat is possible. By Sara Hendren

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Tom Friedman
– his school chair, drilled into skeletal oblivion.

Chorus of Chairs

See a Dragon Chair sold for 28 Millions by Eileen Gray.

The unique and remarkable ‘Dragons’ armchair was acquired from Miss Gray by Suzanne Talbot, the first patron to provide her with an opportunity to create a complete environment. The exotic, symbolist character of the piece situates it conceptually within the first phase of Miss Gray’s creative cycle.
The Mad Tea Party (previous post)

Two chair design by Scott Burton

Elephant Chairs collection

Lugar Column 2016
Artists from Brazil

My photos of New Mexico Las Vegas Hotel Lobby –

(Ikea – photo by Fung Lin Hall)
Weather and Warehouse

John Cage sitting on a silent chair

The Repetition – Retribution

Art News obit

Ron Gorchov, Beloved Painter of Stripped-Down Canvases, Is Dead at 90

Ron Gorchov’s work ‘Victory’ was purchased at Sotheby’s auction in New York City for $118,750 in 2019.

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By stretching linen over curved stretcher bars, Gorchov achieves unique, concave surfaces which recall Bronze Age shields or sarcophagus masks. “I fell in love with Matisse’s way of using very little paint. I liked the elegance of using thin paint,” he explained.

Serapis via Vito Schnabel gallery (See more from here)

R. Gorchov

Ron Gorchov Brooklynrail org. In Conversation

Hans Haacke at Museo Reina Sofia

Venice: Hans Haacke at the Central Pavilion

Happy birthday Hans Haacke!

The art of good business – Hans Haacke (Goes after Koch)