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Rumble in the Jungle by LeRoy Neiman
Posted: August 15, 2018 16:16 Last Updated: | Bill RauInspired by everyone from Leonardo da Vinci to Jackson Pollock, LeRoy Neiman’s paintings possess a significance and appeal that is far-reaching. In his own words, Neiman’s objective was always “to investigate life’s social strata from the workingman to the multimillionaire.” Alive with incomparable brilliance and covering a tremendous array of subjects, Neiman, regardless of focus, had the uncanny ability to render action and emotion, unlike any American artist in the second half of the 20th century. This amazing quality is ever so apparent in his sports depictions. Neiman’s relationship...
Dennis Doheny - California's Premier Realist Landscape Painter
Posted: August 01, 2018 16:16 Last Updated: | The Editorial Staff at William A. Karges Fine ArtA third-generation Californian, Dennis Doheny was raised in the Los Angeles area and currently resides in Santa Barbara. Instantly developing an innate love of art, he spent much of his childhood drawing and painting. Self-taught, Doheny ultimately began exhibiting his early works at the Petersen Gallery in Beverly Hills. From 1986 until 1996, Doheny focused on commercial art, until his passion for fine art painting prevailed. Over the past two decades, Doheny has cultivated a strong local and national following, enticing collectors who are drawn to his heroic renderings of the wester...
Art Call “Flowers, Plants & Gardens 2018” Prizes $1,625.00 in Cash and $6,500.00 in Marketing Prizes
Posted: July 27, 2018 21:35 Last Updated: | Edward BurkeArt-Competition.net is proud to announce the Art Call “Flowers, Plants & Gardens 2018.” There will be 7 Winners and 10 Honorable Mentions. This competition is open to all artists and photographers worldwide. The participant must be 18 years of age or older working in any still art medium, including: painting, drawing, collage, photography, digital art, and fiber art. Total Awards in Cash and Art Marketing Prize Value: $8,125.00. Our “Flowers, Plants & Gardens” curators are looking for art work that honors and reflects the beauty and calm dignity of nature as it is expr...
Minnesota's Largest Artisan Rugs Store
Posted: July 26, 2018 03:43 Last Updated: | Alex FarahanHandcrafted artisan rugs are timeless works of art that not only beautify our indoor spaces, but also transmit a long history of art and culture to our homes. To ensure that you’re making the best investment, it’s vital to seek the expertise of established rug dealers who maintain a careful selection of premium rugs from renowned designers and production centers. We offer this assurance of quality and more at Cyrus Artisan Rugs. The Most Trusted Retailer of Artisan Rugs For nearly 30 years, Cyrus Artisan Rugs has been a trusted retailer of authentic artisan rugs in Minneapolis and the ...
Comments on the Art Market, Volume 210
Posted: June 01, 2018 12:54 Last Updated: | Alyssa RehsWe just released Volume 210 of our Comments on the Art Market. In this issue, we cover the gallery’s hours for the month of June, Stocks, Tales from the Dark Side (there were some good ones this month), Really, and detailed coverage of the recent auctions in New York City: Rockefeller, Impressionist/Modern, Post-War/ Contemporary, 19th Century European and American. I will warn you, it is a long one! Use the links below to read Comments on the Art Market, Volume 210: Website: http://rehs.com/newsletterarchives.htm?newsletter_no=223 PDF: http://rehs.com/pdf/Q3drI1IWeTFCfdsxFyG...
New Art Call: "Dreams 2018," an exhibiting and art grant opportunity at Gallery 25N
Posted: May 30, 2018 22:38 Last Updated: | Edward BurkeNew Art Call: "Dreams 2018," an exhibiting and art grant opportunity at Gallery 25N Twenty artists will be selected for this new online group exhibit " "Dreams 2018.” The exhibit and its participating artists will be extensively marketed worldwide to over 26,000 people, including art buyers, gallery owners, curators, and collectors. One artist will receive the "Christopher E. Burke Fine Art Grant" of $500.00. This artist's creation will become the exhibition image and will be used on the invitation, video title screen, and all online marketing pertaining to the exhibit. In additi...
Tom Yost: At the Edge of Truth
Posted: May 02, 2018 10:44 Last Updated: | Louis M. Salerno, OwnerCompelling views of an inspiring and life-altering nature so close to home An Exhibition and Sale May 11–June 2, 2018 Hours: Monday–Friday 10–6, Saturday 10–5 and by appointment New York (April 26, 2018) – Questroyal Fine Art is pleased to present its second exhibition of paintings by Tom Yost. A highly respected art conservator practicing in Roxbury, Connecticut, Yost’s experience restoring fine oil paintings from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries has allowed him to translate the techniques of th...
MY 2 CENTS ON MUSEUM DEACCESSIONS
Posted: April 25, 2018 09:26 Last Updated: | Alyssa RehsThe decisions by the Berkshire Museum and La Salle University to sell off most of their major works of art for financial reasons has caused a real uproar. While I am a firm believer that museums should not sell their works to ‘pay the bills’, I do feel that many museums need to ‘clean house’. There are so many wonderful works in museum storage areas that will never see the light of day. So, why not do something so people can see and enjoy them? I would love to know when the last time Auguste Bonheur’s Environs of Fontainebleau: Woodland and Cattle (a 105 x 157 inch painting) was on displa...
How to Make Traditional Rugs Work for Your Modern Home
Posted: March 11, 2018 23:09 Last Updated: | Alex FarahanTraditional rugs may seem old-fashioned to many, but they are actually some of the best and most beautiful rugs you can buy. Many of them have withstood the test of time—both in terms of design and durability—and are still being used in many modern homes today. Modern collectors, designers, and decorators actually still turn to these luxury pieces when choosing textiles for living spaces. So when you’re looking for rugs to decorate and transform your modern home with, you don’t necessarily have stick to modern carpets. Here’s how you can make those beautiful traditional rugs work for...
One Hundred Years of De Stijl
Posted: December 28, 2017 20:32 Last Updated: | Regina Khidekel, PhDMore De Stijl-inspired: "Über die Darstellung definiter Formen als Summen von Quadraten" [On the representation of definite forms as sums of squares] 2017, ink on paper, 19 x 22¾ inches "This drawing is dancing in its father's skin" 2017, ink on paper, 22¾ x 20⅞ inches "On nothing and kindred subjects" 2017, ink on paper, 32⅝ x 13¾ inches Dmitry Borshch
One Hundred Years of De Stijl
Posted: December 28, 2017 20:17 Last Updated: | Regina Khidekel, PhDMore De Stijl-inspired: "A strong dose of myself" 2017, ink on paper, 16 x 21½ inches "The past won’t stay behind you" 2017, ink on paper, 13¾ x 32¼ inches "Coherent structures in turbulent flow" 2017, ink on paper, 17 x 32 inches Dmitry Borshch
One Hundred Years of De Stijl
Posted: December 28, 2017 19:47 Last Updated: | Regina Khidekel, PhD"De Stijl movement was founded in 1917. This year Rietveld and other De Stijl-ers – Mondrian, Van Doesburg, Vilmos Huszár – inspired me to produce a series of abstract drawings and sculptures. Only a few are displayed here: "Naked and Fiery Forms" 2017, hardwood, 22 x 45 x 5 inches "Submerged Symmetry and Surface Chaos" 2017, ink on paper, 21 x 12 inches "Space Filled with Moving" 2017, ink on paper, 21 x 12 inches I favor a compound approach to all visual problems that occupy me. By compound I mean multiform – I present my solution to a given problem in as many forms or through as man...
Five Important Considerations When Buying Fine Art
Posted: November 06, 2017 12:34 Last Updated: | Bill RauThe art market is a $45 billion global industry. With so much activity, in galleries, online, at fairs, and elsewhere, the act of collecting can be daunting. Whether you have eclectic taste or are assembling a highly curated collection, the five considerations below will help you build a collection with confidence. Provenance and Literature An artwork’s provenance, or chain of ownership, is crucial in establishing its authenticity and historical importance. It helps to trace the whereabouts of a work over time, backwards to the point it exited an artist’s studio. In addition to buildi...
3rd Annual "Figures & Faces" Art Competition Announced by Fusion Art
Posted: August 23, 2017 12:56 Last Updated: | Valerie HoffmanFusion Art is pleased to announce it is now accepting submissions for the 3rd Annual Figures & Faces international online art exhibition. For this competition, artists, worldwide, are encouraged to submit their best art and photography of the human form - both figures and faces. The artwork can range from realism to surrealism to abstraction and all artists over the age of 18, regardless of location or experience, are encouraged to submit their best representational and non-representational work. The exhibition will be hosted on Fusion Art’s website during the month of October 2017...
Fusion Art's International Online Photography Competition is Now Accepting Entries
Posted: August 23, 2017 12:54 Last Updated: | Valerie HoffmanFusion Art is pleased to announce it is now accepting submissions for its fourth quarterly online juried art competition. The theme for the competition is “Photography” only. The gallery invites photographers, worldwide, to submit their best work using analog, digital, digital manipulation and/or any alternative processes for a group exhibition on the Fusion Art website. For this open (no theme) competition all photographers over the age of 18, regardless of location or experience, are encouraged to submit their best representational and non-representational digital art and photography. ...
Chelsea International Fine Art Competition Exhibition: The Best of 2017
Posted: August 10, 2017 08:27 Last Updated: | Olga KuAgora Gallery is pleased to present the 2017 selected artists of the Chelsea International Fine Art Competition. Now in its 32nd year, the competition has a rich history of recognizing exciting new talent from all over the world. This year's participants display a growing social awareness, an eager curiosity of spatial and tonal questions, and outstanding technical skill. Included are several incisive photographers who document contemporary urban, exurban, and completely wild places with compassion and respect. One selected sculptor gives life to outsized and fantastic shapes. There is a...
Fusion Art's "Black & White" Art Exhibition Now Open
Posted: August 02, 2017 16:51 Last Updated: | Valerie HoffmanFusion Art is pleased to announce the opening of the “Black & White” International Online Art Exhibition for the month of August 2017. The exhibition is now available for viewing on the Fusion Art website and features awards in two categories: Traditional Art and Digital Art & Photography. For this exhibition artists were encouraged to share their artistic art and photography using black & white & the nuanced shades in between. The artwork could range from realism to surrealism to abstraction and all artists, regardless of location or experience, were encouraged to submit...
Fusion Art Announces "Skies" International Art Competition
Posted: July 25, 2017 14:53 Last Updated: | Valerie HoffmanFusion Art is pleased to announce it is now accepting submissions for the Skies international online art exhibition. For this competition, artists are encouraged to submit their best art and photography depicting the sky. The sky is everything that lies above the surface of the Earth, including the atmosphere and outer space. The artwork can range from realism to surrealism to abstraction and all artists over the age of 18, regardless of location or experience, are encouraged to submit. Fusion Art will host the exhibition on its website during the month of September 2017. The g...
Fusion Art Announces the Winners of the International "Nude" Art Exhibtion
Posted: July 15, 2017 09:20 Last Updated: | Valerie HoffmanFusion Art is pleased to announce the opening of the “Nude” International Online Juried Art Exhibition. The exhibition is now available for viewing on the Fusion Art website. For this exhibition, artists worldwide were invited to submit their best art and photography depicting the human figure, with an emphasis on, but not exclusive to, the nude figure. The work could range from realism to surrealism to abstraction and all artists, regardless of location or experience, were encouraged to submit their best representational and nonrepresentational art, and photography. Twenty-eight winne...
Sensorial Realities: Voyages Onward
Posted: June 29, 2017 09:59 Last Updated: | Olga KuIn Sensorial Realities, Agora Gallery's new group exhibition, every canvas on the wall is a portal to a different world. The ten artists featured here offer some of the most seductive alternative universes a viewer can hope for, whether it's a reinterpretation of Gilded Age portraiture or a compression of twenty-first century concerns into a surreal landscape. They create spaces out of oil, acrylic, stone, ceramic, and mixed media which break down barriers and open up new ideas. Some pieces on display are outright landscapes. There are stripped-down paintings of endless plains, which ...
Gay marriage is two years old
Posted: June 26, 2017 16:00 Last Updated: | Regina Khidekel, PhDSame-sex marriage is legal in all states, Washington, DC, and all US territories except American Samoa, but not on all Indian lands, since June 26, 2015 when the US Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that state-level bans on same-sex marriage are unconstitutional. The Court ruled that the denial of marriage licenses to same-sex couples and the refusal to recognize such marriages performed in other jurisdictions violate the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Ely Bielutin's Birthday
Posted: June 09, 2017 17:58 Last Updated: | Regina Khidekel, PhD"I became aware of the drawing technique of three chalks (à trois crayons), employed here by Watteau, when Ely Mikhailovich Bielutin (1925 - 2012) mentioned it to me in 1990. A Soviet Nonconformist who authored "Основы изобразительной грамоты" and co-authored "Педагогическая система Академии художеств XVIII века", among other books, he enjoyed sharing his knowledge with beginners like me. I never joined Bielutin's studio, The New Reality, preferring to study independently, but he guided some of my early artistic efforts." Dmitry Borshch Основы изобразительной грамоты ≈ Fundamentals of Vi...
Inigo Online
Posted: June 09, 2017 17:28 Last Updated: | Regina Khidekel, PhDhttps://inigoonline.com/ https://inigoonline.com/2017/04/20/featured-artist-dmitry-borshch/ The drawings belong to two related series, first of which I describe thus, "'Exiled from Truth: Nine Allegories by Dmitry Borshch' is the title under which some allegorical pictures are collected, possibly more than nine: the series continues to develop. They are united by color, style, and technique, so I view them as a homogeneous collection of drawings. Allegory, drawn or written, is a product of that mind which regards truth as existing-in-absence: it does exist yet is absent from our view. A...
Pilgrimage: Ink and White Space
Posted: June 09, 2017 17:06 Last Updated: | Regina Khidekel, PhDhttp://archive.is/trz8f A little over three years ago, I attended an ekphrastic workshop at the Smithsonian in Washington DC. It was organized by Letras Latinas and inspired by the exhibit, “Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art.” The exhibit and workshop traveled to other cities, letting the poets study, view, and then write poems inspired by the art, which went on to be published in several literary magazines. Fred Arroyo’s “Patio Dreams” is a product of this workshop and the collaborative spirit that brought together different communities and writers across the country. Eve...
Early California Painters of the Monterey Peninsula
Posted: April 13, 2017 15:08 Last Updated: | The Editorial Staff at William A. Karges Fine ArtBy Rob Pierce, Associate Director, William A. Karges Fine Art, Santa Monica Since the beginning of the 20th century, the climactic landscape of the Monterey Peninsula has attracted artists from around the world, eager to try their hand at capturing the spirit of the dramatic shoreline. Over the ensuing century, hundreds of artists produced thousands of works, each a unique interpretation of the region’s natural beauty. After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the region was inundated with musicians, writers, painters and other artists who established an artist colony after th...
60x60_c.jpg "Myung Urso. Composition, 2014, Canvas, linen, hanji( Korean mulberry paper), Asian ink, thread, resin, plastic beads, Image courtesy of the artist")
