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simon pasieka, painting on canvas, arpeggio, 2007, courtesy...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 04:08:00 -0400

simon pasieka, painting on canvas, arpeggio, 2007, courtesy oehmen collection, …i love how he works with light.

for black and white paintings on paper i found a nice collection here galerie beckers

simon pasieka, “aurora”, painting from 2005, on...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 03:56:20 -0400

simon pasieka, “aurora”, painting from 2005, on canvas, 180 x 270 cm

“In the spring of 2013 Moderna Museet is dedicating a...

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 03:17:00 -0400

“In the spring of 2013 Moderna Museet is dedicating a major exhibition to the pioneering Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944), featuring many works that have never before been shown in public. This retrospective exhibition is Moderna Museet´s tribute to Hilma af Klint as one of the greatest Swedish artists.

Like Vassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich, who have previously been regarded as the main protagonists of abstract art, Hilma af Klint was influenced by contemporary spiritual movements, such as spiritism, theosophy and, later, anthroposophy. Hilma af Klint’s oeuvre builds on the awareness of a spiritual dimension of consciousness, an aspect that was being marginalised in an increasingly materialistic world. When she painted, she believed that a higher consciousness was speaking through her. In her astonishing works she combines geometric shapes and symbols with ornamentation. Her multifaceted imagery strives to give insights into the different dimensions of existence, where microcosm and macrocosm reflect one another.   Hilma af Klint left more than 1,000 paintings, watercolours and sketches. Although she exhibited her early, representational works, she refused to show her abstract paintings during her lifetime. In her will, she stipulated that these groundbreaking works must not be shown publicly until 20 years after her death. She was convinced that only then would the world be fully and completely ready to understand their significance.   Moderna Museet’s retrospective exhibition presents Hilma af Klint’s most important abstract works, as well as paintings and works on paper that have never before been presented publicly, enhancing our understanding of her oeuvre. Her extensive diaries and notebooks have been included in the research for this exhibition, which comprises some 200 paintings and works on paper and will tour internationally in 2013-2015.”

wheat and wormwood - hilma af klint

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 12:00:28 -0500

wheat and wormwood - hilma af klint

hiddenarchive: installation view of hilma af klint - a pioneer...

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 06:11:33 -0500

hiddenarchive:

installation view of hilma af klint - a pioneer of abstraction, 2013
© stiftelsen hilma af klints verk. photo: asa lundén/moderna museet

art21: “I spend a lot of time trying to perfect my line work...

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 04:46:45 -0500

art21:

“I spend a lot of time trying to perfect my line work and my hand, but my hand will always be imperfect because it’s human. From a distance, it might look straight, but when you get close up, you can always see the line waver. And I think that’s where the beauty is.”
—Margaret Kilgallen

Margaret Kilgallen (1967–2001), our current 100 Artists featured artist, is shown here working on an installation at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, in 2000. This scene is featured in the Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 1 episode, Place (2001).

The artist draws references from American folk tradition, printmaking, letterpress, and street art. Kilgallen had a love of “things that show the evidence of the human hand.” Painting directly on the wall, Kilgallen created room-size murals that recall a time when personal craft and handmade signs were the dominant aesthetic.

WATCH: Barry McGee & Margaret Kilgallen in “Place” [available in the U.S. only]

margaret kilgallen: heroines | “exclusive” |...

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 04:36:00 -0500

margaret kilgallen: heroines | “exclusive” | art21

1967-2001

additional information about margaret kilgallens death: though diagnosed with breast cancer, margaret kilgallen opted to forgo chemotherapy so that she might carry a pregnancy to term. she died in 2001, at age 33, three weeks after the birth of asha, her daughter with her husband and collaborator barry mcgee. kilgallen has since been the subject of several posthumous retrospectives. text from wiki page.

sarah-rhiannon: gouache, A4

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:26:47 -0500

sarah-rhiannon:

gouache, A4

industry voices: iwona blazwick (by...

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:11:00 -0500

industry voices: iwona blazwick (by creativechoices)

“…i realised i was really a bad artist…”

close encounters: maxmara art prize. as andrea büttner is...

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:32:00 -0500

close encounters: maxmara art prize. as andrea büttner is announced as the winner of the max mara art prize for women, laura mclean-ferris talks to her and to iwona blazwick, chair of the jury, and director of the whitechapel gallery in london, where the prize is hosted.

jeanette winterson in conversation with curator dr. patricia...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 04:58:00 -0500

jeanette winterson in conversation with curator dr. patricia allmer. angels of anarchy: women artists and surrealism (by thecreativetourist)

a wonderful portrait…

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 04:55:00 -0500

a wonderful portrait…

ann hamilton at park avenue armory (by BLOUIN ARTINFO) artist...

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:05:18 -0500

ann hamilton at park avenue armory (by BLOUIN ARTINFO)

artist talk: ann hamilton and kristy edmunds: link

eva hesse’s materials and eva hesse on impermanence (by...

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:52:45 -0500

eva hesse’s materials and eva hesse on impermanence (by sfmoma)

a lecture by painter dana schutz (by bu)

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 11:50:00 -0500

a lecture by painter dana schutz (by bu)

mariko mori

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:33:42 -0500

mariko mori

at the sydney opera house for the sydney writers’...

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 16:33:00 -0500

at the sydney opera house for the sydney writers’ festival, jeanette winterson reads from her new memoir why be happy when you could be normal? and talks about books, life, love, death, madness and creativity.

jeanette winterson obe is the author of 10 novels including oranges are not the only fruit, the passion and sexing the cherry; a book of short stories, the world and other places; a collection of essays, art objects, as well as many other works including children’s books, screenplays and journalism.

presented by sydney writers’ festival, may 2012

nhk documentary. yayoi kusama: the unstoppable polka dot...

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:58:00 -0500

nhk documentary. yayoi kusama: the unstoppable polka dot princess (by nhkdocumentaries)

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Fri, 21 Dec 2012 11:10:00 -0500

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