Love of Artists

[Greco]

Half Past Autumn: The Life and Work of Gordon Parks



Currently there is an exhibition of Mr. Gordon Parks's
art at the Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Center in NYC

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg was a Puerto Rican-
American who collected art throughout his life.

His mother was Mary Joseph from St. Croix, Virgin Islands,
and Carlos Schomberg, Puerto Rican of German descent.

He was a law a clerk, a Kappa Alpha Psi, a translator, a writer
and his collection has become the Schomburg Center in
Harlem, New York City.

Mr. Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, and Mr Gordon Parks
continue to be my mentors.

Greco

[Greco]

Folks, this is the Love of Artists thread.

I've made a mistake somehow, but the other will
be deleted as soon as the Admin can.

Enjoy these incredible artists.

Greco

[Greco]

Masters of photography - Diane Arbus (documentary, 1972)



Greco

[Greco]

Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye (1999)



Greco

[LaneyDoll]

Originally Posted by greco

Currently there is an exhibition of Mr. Gordon Parks's
art at the Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Center in NYC

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg was a Puerto Rican-
American who collected art throughout his life.

His mother was Mary Joseph from St. Croix, Virgin Islands,
and Carlos Schomberg, Puerto Rican of German descent.

He was a law a clerk, a Kappa Alpha Psi, a translator, a writer
and his collection has become the Schomburg Center in
Harlem, New York City.

Mr. Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, and Mr Gordon Parks
continue to be my mentors.

Greco

I love Gordon Parks. I once bought about a dozen copies of "A Star for Noon" and presented them to my closest friends.

"Now here in this place where spring has buried winter, the despair that threatened our Eden is a forgotten word. Having stolen Heaven from the Gods, I feel no guilt for it. If you would have a star for noon, it shall be yours."

[Greco]

Sebastiao Salgado (Brazilian photojournalist)



Sebastiao Salgado is a Paris based photojournalist, who has documented the lives of Latin American peasants, diamond mine workers in Brazil, and famine in Africa. His most recent books Migrations: Humanity in Transition and The Children: Refugees and Migrants illuminate the plight of migrants, refugees, and displaced persons all over the world. His previous books include An Uncertain Grace and Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age.

Greco

[Greco]

Outsider: The Life and Art of Judith Scott - preview




Judith Scott at The Museum of Everything (BBC Culture Show 2011)



Greco

[Greco]

Improvisations in Time: Eugene J. Martin and the Masur Museum of Art



The Masur Museum of Art in Monroe, Louisiana, celebrates the recent acquisition of twenty-four works of art from the estate of the artist Eugene J. Martin (1938-2005) with a solo exhibit entitled "Improvisations in Time: Eugene J. Martin and the Masur Museum of Art". The exhibit showcases ~70 graphite and pen & ink drawings, mixed media works and collages, paintings on paper and canvas, and photographs on loan from the Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge LA, and the Estate of Eugene J. Martin. All works were created in Washington D.C., Chapel N.C. and Lafayette LA between 1960's and 2003. The exhibit takes over the Museum's three floors.


visual artist Eugene J. Martin at work, 1992



Martin studied painting at the Corcoran School of Art and Design in Washington D.C. His often humorous and highly abstract paintings, collages, drawings, and photographs primarily deal with the concepts of time and memory. He has exhibited at the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art, MS; Louisiana State University Museum of Art, LA; Walter Anderson Museum of Art, MS; New Orleans African American Museum, LA; Lilly Gallery, Duke University; Michel Rooryck Gallery, Ghent, and Oudenaarde Town Hall, Belgium; and the Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette LA, among others. Martin's art also resides in the permanent collections of the Munich Museum of Modern Art, Munich, Germany; Ogden Museum of Southern Art, LA; University of Delaware Museums, DE; Schomburg Center for Black Culture, NY; Sheldon Museum of Art, NE; Stowitts Museum, CA; Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art, Savannah GA; Mobile Museum of Art, AL, among others.

Curator Benjam Hickey writes in the Exhibition's catalogue that "On the surface, Eugene J. Martin's work appears to be an after-the-fact riff on modernism driven abstraction. His work is related to this tradition, but is something more. Martin was an accomplished Jazz musician and incorporated his experience of rhythmic improvisation also associated with High Modernism or Abstract Expressionism as a means of illustrating the irregular, non-linear, but cyclical manner humans perceive, understand, and experience the world around them. He used biomorphic and quasi-mechanical abstractions to create this link with the physical perceived world, but warped them to reference the slipstream nature of consciousness as well. The improvisational language Martin ascribed to any moment or period of time plays back into how he considered his oeuvre. He conceived of it as fluid and let it be guided directly by variables such as access to art making materials dictated by his financial means, a passing interest in any given media or subject matter, and his mood. He would also muddle the chronology of his work by creating new work to add on to old pieces, dismantle a completed artwork and incorporate it into several works, or do the same with photographs of his art. This totally integrated art practice is what makes Martin stand apart from other artists; his improvisations were rigorous and permeated his entire decision making process."

Greco

[Sparkle]

Chris Ofili



infamous (in the US) for being the artist/exhibit that Giuliani tried to shut down at the Brooklyn Museum of Art because of his controversial Madonna.

i think that video was cut short, here's an interview given after a recent retrospective

[Reader]

Dan Rupe

I first saw this painter's work in Provincetown. I admire it even more than I did twenty years ago.

His canvasses are still so fresh and alive; the way he captures light is stunning. These jpegs might as well be done in tones of beige; they do his work no justice.

Seeing his paintings in person is like sitting in the front row of a live symphony performance as they perform your favorite piece.











http://gallerydriver.com/?method=Art...E291E1E9A3758D

[Sparkle]

One of my favorite museums in the world, The Tate Modern, is a renovated turbine hall; what was once a decrepit symbol of industrialism is now an icon in London and has some of the most unique and special exhibition spaces in the world. And like all museums in the UK, admission is free.



The actual Turbine Hall itself has housed some of my favorite exhibits

'The Weather Project' by Olafur Eliason



Eliason is the artist that created the Waterfalls in New York a few years ago, he's also has permanent pieces in SF MoMA among other great collections.

And I experienced one of my favorite sculptors Anish Kapoor in the Turbine Hall as well


This exhibit is more recent and in Paris at the Grand Palais


Kapoor created the very controversial red steel sculpture/structure outside of the Olympic stadium


and his work that is probably most recognized in the US is Cloud Gate in Chicago (colloquially known as "the bean")