Showing posts with label ART. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ART. Show all posts
ART: Ferdinand Kriwet
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- Ferdinand Kriwet is a multimedia artist who has engaged with text, language and concrete poetry since the 1960s.
- Kriwet's circular use of text also has strong associations with the mandala, an Indian form imbued with spiritual significance in Buddhism and Hinduism. Moreover, it has the function of disrupting the linear process of writing, as words and names join together or are juxtaposed to suggest a clashing and fusing of ideas.
In Praise Of: The Stenberg Brothers
I admit it: I am kind of obsessed with the movie posters designed by Georgii and Vladimir Stenberg in the 1920's. I have lived with two of the posters (custom and excellent reproductions) for the last 3 years...and my eyes (and senses) continue to be dazzled. The brothers succeeded in creating some of the most innovative and striking graphic design (a/k/a ART) I have ever seen.
Many of the posters are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in NYC. Sadly, the collection is not as comprehensive as (I believe) it should be.
"Museum Identifies New Van Gogh Painting in Amsterdam"
- “For the first time in the history of the [Van Gogh] museum, that is in the past 40 years, a substantial capital new work of van Gogh has been discovered that was completely unknown in the literature,” said the museum’s director, Axel Rüger, in an interview.
- “We always think we’ve seen everything and we know everything, and now we’re able to add a significant new work to his oeuvre.”
- He added, “It is a work from the most important period of his life, when he created his substantial masterpieces, like ‘The Sunflowers,’ ‘The Yellow House’ and ‘The Bedroom.'”
Learn more here.
"Romanian’s Tale Has Art World Fearing the Worst"
To Olga Dogaru, a lifelong resident of the tiny Romanian village of Carcaliu, the strangely beautiful artworks her son had brought home in a suitcase four months earlier had become a curse.
No matter, she said, that the works — seven in all — were signed by Picasso, Matisse, Monet, Gauguin, Lucian Freud and Meyer de Haan. Her son had just been arrested on suspicion of orchestrating the art robbery of the century: stealing masterpieces in a brazen October-night theft from the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
But if the paintings and drawings no longer existed...her son, could be free from prosecution, she reasoned. So Mrs. Dogaru told the police that on a freezing night in February, she placed all seven works ... in a wood-burning stove used to heat saunas and incinerated them.
Read the full (NY Times) article here.
Pictured above: Woman With Eyes Closed (2002) by Lucian Freud, one of the stolen works.
"Sleek and Sexy Bus Concepts from the Future that Never Was"
- Our mass transit future looked much cooler in the mid-20th century, with these slick bus designs. Just imagine taking to the roads in these retrofuturistic buses.
See many more here.
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