Download or read book Piet Mondrian Barnett Newman Dan Flavin Ausstellung Kunstmuseum Basel 8 September 2013 19 Januar 2014 written by Simon Baier and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the three prominent modernist artists Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), Barnett Newman (1905-1970), and Dan Flavin (1933-1996) each belong to a different generation, all of them have devoted their creativity to abstract art in groundbreaking ways. Under various intellectual and social auspices they relied upon ascetics in their unheard-of radical dealings with art. Using pure color, concrete form, and new materials, they expanded the dimensions of art into the universal. This volume appears in conjunction with a large, special exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel, and features each of the three artists in chronological order, so that the sequencing gives rise to enlightening nexuses. The book presents masterpieces, while juxtaposing seldom-seen works. (English edition ISBN 978-3-7757-3685-5) Exhibition schedule: Kunstmuseum Basel, September 8, 2013-January 19, 2014
Download or read book Dan Flavin written by Tiffany Bell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "New scholarship and interpretation of Flavin's work also appears in the form of three critical essays by experts and an extensive chronology, comprehensive bibliography, and exhibition history. In addition, this book includes Flavin's text, "'...in daylight or cool white.' an autobiographical sketch," originally published in Artforum in 1965, and two interviews with the artist - one from 1972 and the other from 1982."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Dan Flavin written by Michael Govan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Light, considered the purest embodiment of the divine, is the basis of all art to one degree or another, so why not make art out of light? Dan Flavin (1933-96), an innovative and prolific American sculptor who can be considered an abstract, minimalist, and installation artist, chose as his medium commercial fluorescent tubes, and with these everyday lights created works of radiant and evocative beauty. Flavin had many major shows and created a number of permanent public installations; now his work is being celebrated in a magnificent retrospective exhibition that will travel across the country. This handsomely produced volume by Govan, director of the Dia Art Foundation, and Bell, who worked with Flavin, presents exquisite photographs of Flavin's seminal light compositions and expert biographical and critical assessments. Citing Byzantine icons, William Ockham, and Barnett Newman as influences, Flavin created ravishingly beautiful colors and profoundly nuanced constructions with seemingly banal industrial materials, transforming ordinary spaces into places of wonder. For a definitive catalog see Dan Flavin: The Complete Lights, 1961-1996
Download or read book Dan Flavin written by Jeffrey Weiss and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In making light his primary medium, Dan Flavin (1933-1996) established himself as one of the most innovative and significant artists of the minimalist movement. A new generation encountered Flavin’s work through the critically acclaimed exhibition Dan Flavin: A Retrospective, which opened in October 2004 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Dan Flavin: New Light includes essays that respond to this exhibition and to the renewed interest in Flavin’s work and its place in 20th-century art. In this volume, six leading scholars of contemporary art consider the ambiguities and multiple resonances of Flavin’s light works. Each addresses the ontological complexity of the work--object-based, yet "situational,” and painterly in its deployment of colored light--within the insistently sculptural world of minimalism. The book’s contributors interpret this tension by exploring Flavin’s early assemblages, the relationship of drawing to his installation practice, the specificity of his materials and their operation in actual space, and the openly ambivalent place of Flavin’s work within the history of late modernism. Also available from Yale University Press: DAN FLAVIN: A RETROSPECTIVE (ISBN 0-300-10632-7) DAN FLAVIN: THE COMPLETE LIGHTS (ISBN 0-300-10633-5)
Download or read book Henri Matisse Ellsworth Kelly written by Henri Matisse and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of work by Henri Matisse and Ellsworth Kelly is based on anxhibition of more than 100 rarely exhibited drawings organized by the Centreompidou in Paris. A comparative display, the exhibition focuses on the rolef drawing in the work of these two distinctly different 20th-century masters.Henri Matisse (1869-1954) is recognized for the lyrical form and decorativeesthetic seen in his paintings and colourful paper cut-outs. Ellsworth Kellyborn 1923) is known for the monumental abstract forms of his sculpture andhe bold colours of his hard-edge paintings. Yet both artists explored theironcepts in prolific studies of plants, often in series in which each drawingxisted on its own terms as well as part of an infinite process.
Download or read book Barnett Newman written by Barnett Newman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark book surveys the breadth of artist Newman's career, from his founding role in the New York School in the 1940s to his key influence on both minimalism and conceptual art in the 1960s. 3 8-page gatefolds. Over 300 illustrations.
Download or read book Aquarelle written by Günther Förg and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adventures in Art written by Arne Glimcher and published by . This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventures in Art is a magisterial volume that documents the story of Pace Gallery in New York. One of the most important 20th-century American galleries, the history of Pace is virtually the history post-war America art, and this book, with over 700 color images and nearly 700 pages, shows why. Arne Glimcher, founder of Pace Gallery, has not only been adept at spotting trends in art, but in encouraging new visions, and defining movements. Among the artists with whom he's had a close and enduring relationship are Robert Irwin, Louise Nevelson, Chuck Close, Donald Judd, Jean Dubuffet, and many others whose exhibitions are documented in Adventures in Art. The book includes chronological lists of the exhibitions and publications that have defined Pace Gallery since the early 1960s, and excerpts from reviews and catalogs by such prominent writers as Hilton Kramer, Lawrence Alloway, Rosalind Krauss, Peter Schjeldahl, Robert Rosenblum, and Calvin Tomkins.
Download or read book An Eye for Art written by National Gallery of Art and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of full-color images, this family-oriented art resource introduces children to more than 50 great artists and their work, with corresponding activities and explorations that inspire artistic development, focused looking, and creative writing. This treasure trove of artwork from the National Gallery of Art includes, among others, works by Raphael, Rembrandt, Georgia O’Keeffe, Henri Matisse, Chuck Close, Jacob Lawrence, Pablo Picasso, and Alexander Calder, representing a wide range of artistic styles and techniques. Written by museum educators with decades of hands-on experience in both art-making activities and making art relatable to children, the activities include sculpting a clay figure inspired by Edgar Degas; drawing an object from touch alone, inspired by Joan Miro’s experience as an art student; painting a double-sided portrait with one side reflecting physical traits and the other side personality traits, inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s Ginevra de' Benci; and creating a story based on a Mary Cassatt painting. Educators, homeschoolers, and families alike will find their creativity sparked by this art extravaganza.
Download or read book Dan Flavin written by Dan Flavin and published by Guggenheim Museum. This book was released on 1999 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book, published on the occasion of Dan Flavin: The Architecture of Light at the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, draws upon the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's extensive holdings of the artist's work.".
Download or read book G nther F rg written by Günther Förg and published by Snoeck Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back and Forth The 100 plus new abstract canvases, carefully reproduced in this book with its unusual format, are the result of one of the most intensive phases of work by Günther Förg in recent years, which took place between Autumn 2008 and Spring 2009. The artist places a sequence of calculated colour fields into a basic grid, which changes from format to format, each individual painting having its own tonal rhythm characterised in turn by a high degree of physical concentration. It is then no coincidence that Rudi Fuchs' linguistically stirring yet acutely observed text discerns an affinity between this work and Piet Mondrians's last und most unusual painting, »Victory Boogie Woogie«. However, the way the palette of colours is organised, supplemented by the structure of each individual colour field, substantially differentiates Günther Förg's endeavour from that his predecessor. In fact it is the free flow of the brushstrokes, the delicate upward and more forceful downward movement alongside the choice of colours, which together propel each individual composition beyond the scope of all previously known abstraction. Or as Rudi Fuch's puts it: »Whether he painted vibrating colour fields, irregular grids comprising raw, fibrous lines, he always had clever interruptive strategies in the implementation. Figuration had to give way in order to release the primordial energy of the brushstroke in its purest form: vigorous abstraction«.
Download or read book Stedelijk Collection Highlights written by Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum and published by Nai010 Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stedelijk Collection Highlights is a visually plentiful overview of the most important artists of the Stedelijk Museum The accessible publication Stedelijk Collection Highlights presents works by 150 leading Dutch and international artists and designers that are part of the renowned collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Stedelijk Collection Highlights complements the extensive presentation of the art and design collection with which the renovated and expanded Stedelijk Museum opened in September 2012. Stedelijk Collection Highlights features essential discussions of a selection of the most significant works in the collection of the largest museum for modern art and design in the Netherlands. This makes this guide not only a valuable supplement to a visit to the museum but also an inspiring source of information on fascinating artists for a wide and young audience. With work by Carl Andre, Eva Besnyö, Wim Crouwel, Rineke Dijkstra, Marlene Dumas, Mike Kelley, Willem de Kooning, Kazimir Malevich, Aernout Mik, Piet Mondrian, Gerrit Rietveld and many others.
Download or read book Modern Art in America 1908 68 written by William C. Agee and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical re-evaluation of American modernism through four generations of artists and their work – now in paperback. "That rarity of rarities, an opinionated but not eccentric scholarly history by a veteran museum curator whose every page crackles with original thinking and bears the stamp of a preternaturally sharp eye? Excellent reproductions and crisp typography complement the lucid prose." —Wall Street Journal Twentieth-century art in America has long been understood in two very separate distinct halves: pre-World War II, often considered as inferior and provincial; and the triumphant, international post-war work that made a complete break with everything that went before. Agee discovers exciting new connections between artists and artworks, which strongly suggest that 1945 was not such a dividing line in art history after all. His fresh research offers an innovative approach and a brilliant take on art history.
Download or read book Barnett Newman written by Anita Haldemann and published by Kerber Verlag Editions. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American artist Barnett Newman (1905-1970) was a prominent Abstract Expressionist. The Kunstmuseums Basel's Kupferstichkabinett (prints department) owns Newman's entire oeuvre of prints. As of 2014, it also owns his important drawings.The colour drawings from 1944/45 are surprising in their playfulness. The ensuing drawings in black ink and brush paved the way for the second phase of drawings from 1959/60.Questions about series and proportion are dealt with in the prints, which Newman began making in 1961. This is the first publication to provide an overview of the artist's entire oeuvre of prints.English text.
Download or read book The Structure of Art written by Jack Burnham and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Who s afraid of red yellow and blue written by Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and published by Walther Konig Verlag. This book was released on 2007 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curated by Karola Grasslin, this exhibition and the accompanying catalogue takes as its theme the beginings of minimalist art and the development of colour field painting. It represented a fundamental and at the same time radical enquiry into the traditional concept of the picture in painting.
