Love of Artists

[Greco]

What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann - Part 1 of 3




What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann - Part 2 of 3




What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann - Part 3 of 3



Greco

[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

[Duchess]

[Genesis]

El regalo que ella trajo y dejo al folklore mexicano e a la juventud es un regalo inigualado.
The gift this lady brough to mexican folklore dancing and it's youth it's unparallel.

[Tommi]

[Genesis]

Albrecht Durer (1471 - 1528) was a German painter, printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg.
His still-famous works include the Apocalypse woodcuts, Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513), Saint Jerome in his Study (1514)
and Melencolia I (1514), which has been the subject of extensive analysis and interpretation.
His watercolours mark him as one of the first European landscape artists, while his ambitious woodcuts revolutionized the potential of that medium.
Durer's introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists,
have secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance.
This is reinforced by his theoretical treatise which involve principles of mathematics, perspective and ideal proportions.

His prints established his reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties,
and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Renaissance in Northern Europe ever since.

You can view his complete works HERE

[Genesis]

La primera vez que escuchas Andrea Motis te quedas maravillado. Algunos de sus videos superan las 200.000 reproducciones en YouTube.
Esta joven artista canta con una personalidad que no se veía en años, aunque también toca el saxo y la trompeta.
De ello tiene gran parte de responsabilidad su mentor, Joan Chamorro.
El trabajo que está haciendo este veterano del jazz catalán desde la Sant Andreu Jazz Band, la big band más joven de Europa, es sensacional.
Su trayectoria como saxofonista (entre otros instrumentos) es tan brillante y dilatada que sería inútil intentar glosar - en estas breves líneas.
Tete Montoliu, Slide Hampton, Bebo Valdés, Randy Brecker, The Manhattan Transfer, Stevie Wonder … El elenco de músicos con los que ha trabajado es impresionante.

Muy bien acompañados por Josep Traver a la guitarra y otras cuerdas, Ignasi Terraza al piano y Esteve Pi a la batería, el grupo de Andrea Motis & Joan Chamorro ya figuran en los carteles de los grandes festivales de jazz europeos.

Mas informacion AQUI

In English HERE

[Talon]