(Dancing Two People)
Artist Suh Se Ok, Pillar of Korean Contemporary Painting, Dies at 91
Effie Gray, Portrait of Ruskin, & Bronte Sisters
Effie Gray wiki – scripted by Emma Thompson
“Effie Gray is more than just an ordinary costume drama”
Portrait of John Ruskin by Millais
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.
Noguchi Sculpture for White House Rose Garden
Noguchi Sculpture for the White House Rose Garden
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!
RIP Aldo Tambellini, Pioneered Electric Intermedia
Aldo TambelliniHe pioneered electronic intermedia, and is a painter, sculptor, and poet. He died at age 90, in 2020.
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
Pioneer of Electronic Sculpture, Alan Rath (1959–2020)
Irrational Exuberance – Alan Rath (See more here)
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.
(Alan Rath – First work)
Robert Bechtle Bay Area Photorealist Dies at 88
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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
Kenzo Takada Fashion Designer, Portrait Painter Dies of Coronavirus
Tomboy and Eyeless Girls – Celine Sciamma & Helene Delmaire
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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Helene Delmaire (homepage)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyRhwHkEmzQ
Siah Armajani – Architect Designer from Tehran (1939-2020)
Siah Arnahani – Glass front porch for Walter Benjamin
(Read about Walter Benjamin’s tragic life from previous post)
Iranian-American artist Siah Armajani, whose work across media bridged architecture, democracy, mathematics, and the commons, has died of heart failure in Minneapolis.
Siah Armajani, Ceaselessly Imaginative Artist with a Belief in the Power of Public Art, Is Dead at 81
Photo courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Fraught and Fabulous: Art That Shows a Passion for Democracy
Tyranny of Design? Or Chairs as Characters
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.
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
Lugar Column 2016
Artists from Brazil
My photos of New Mexico Las Vegas Hotel Lobby –
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10200375751789872&set=a.1035527341921&type=3&theater
(Ikea – photo by Fung Lin Hall)
Weather and Warehouse
Ron Gorchov – (April 5,1930-August 18, 2020)
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.
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
Hans Haacke is 84 Today – 2020
Hans Haacke at Museo Reina Sofia
Venice: Hans Haacke at the Central Pavilion
The art of good business – Hans Haacke (Goes after Koch)