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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012
urformen der kunst
George Inness, Sunrise (detail), 1887, oil on canvas, 30" x 45.25" The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Anonymous gift in memory of Emile Thiele, 1954 (54.156)
Dolmen, lot on 13th Street between 1st & 2nd Avenue
NYC - 5 / 8 / o12
Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) was a German instructor of sculpture who used his remarkable photographs of plant studies to educate his students about design elements in nature. Self-taught in photography, he devoted himself to the study of nature, photographing nothing but flowers, buds and seed capsules for thirty-five years. He once said, "The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force compels everything to attain the highest artistic form."
Blossfeldt's photographs were made with a homemade camera that could magnify the subject up to thirty times its actual size. By doing so he revealed extraordinary details within the natural structure of the plants. In the process he created some of the most innovative photographic work of his time. The simple yet expressive forms captured on film affirmed his boundless artistic and intellectual ability.
Published in 1928 when Blossfeldt was sixty-three and a professor of applied art at the Berliner Kunsthochschule, Urformen der Kunst quickly became an international bestseller and in turn made Blossfeldt famous almost overnight. His contemporaries were enchanted by the abstract shapes and structures in nature that he revealed to the world. In 2001 Urformen der Kunst was included in "The Book of 101 Books" as one of the seminal photographic books of the Twentieth Century.
Music by Eno/Fripp, 'Lyra'.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Stonehenge in East Harlem:
El Museo del Barrio Series Takes Latino Art to the Streets
By Sarah McNaughton and Ines Perez on Nov 16th, 2011on Nov 16th, 2011
Rafael Sánchez and Kathleen White wanted to see a dolmen—the archetypal stone structure found at Stonehenge—and thought everyone else would, too, so they decided to build one that could travel. The Cuban and American artists erected their “Somewhat Portable Dolmen” on a knoll in East Harlem’s 103rd Street Community Garden for a few hours on a recent Saturday; then the wood-and-foamcore structure disappeared as quickly as it went up.
Sánchez and White’s urban dolmen is part of El Museo del Barrio’s (S) Files art series, which features the work of Latino, Caribbean and Latin American artists in New York City. In this, the sixth biennial series, a record 75 artists work in almost every medium, including performance, paintings and murals, multimedia and sculpture. Also known as the Street Files, the series began in June and continues into early January. (S) Files exhibits and performances have been hosted by galleries, museums and, in collaboration with the New York Restoration Project, community gardens across the city. Take a look at the Sánchez and White outdoor exhibit below:
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
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