”Many ways of thinking could coexist in one person.” He was ostracized by reactionary Fascist critics in Italy for his religion, sexual proclivity and internationalist perspective on art. An exhibition in NY brings together a dizzying array of work from the boundary-shattering life of Corrado Cagli.
image: Ctr for Italian Modern Art https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/07/arts/design/cima-italian-artist-corrado-cagli.html
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Crosswalks.... waiting for a sign, deciding where to go. A British photographer has turned "banal parts of urban infrastructure into cinematic scenes of people suspended in a rare moment of peace" amid the typically chaotic life of a bustling city. credit: Oli Kellett https://www.cnn.com/style/oli-kellett-photographer-crosswalks/index.html
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“Girl,” 1961, Cornelis Ruhtenberg (1923-2008), now available. Mesmerizing mid-century figurative. Ruhtenberg explored neither psychological insight nor the appearance of her subjects, seeking instead pure, essential meaning. She depicted her sitters caught in their own contemplative worlds. https://www.liveauctioneers.com/.../167360454_cornelis...
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"She believed that photographs could help change people's minds." It was the Great Depression that spurred Dorothea Lange to turn to documentary photography. Beginning her career as a studio photographer, she began to see people in need on the streets. "It was that experience of seeing something that was not right that made her go out and want to do something." Credit: Dorothea Lange https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20231203-dorothea-lange-10-of-the-uss-most-iconic-portraits
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"Five Nudes on Blue," Harold Frank (1917-1995), mid-century, now available. Mesmerizing Modern abstract created with Frank's signature quick expressive brushstrokes & lyrical lines. Variations on women became a theme for Frank, and he Frank found Abstract Expressionism the ideal means to explore the angst of his world. https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/166770662_harold-frank
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There's an alternate history of modern art to consider, and it's on display at the Georgia Museum of Art. With 100 or so works of art, the exhibition surveys the riches of a stylistic evolution during the early 20th century often buried in art history books. image: UNC Press https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/arts/design/southern-modern-georgia-museum.html
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He died more than a century ago. Yet Cezanne can feel perpetually new. "He was an artistic nomad," in and out of the Impressionist movement, shuttling between Paris and Aix-en-Provence. Yet after his death, his name became a rallying cry for the Modernist movement. Here are 10 key works selected by curators of a new retrospective. image: Sammlung Feilchenfeldt, Zurich https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/ten-essential-works-by-cezanne-1234637022/?fbclid=IwAR1t2fQY--oX7PisJ6hrz4DCfam170DP1Shp6ylddfR2hDO9OtgxnEXKRy0
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A major retrospective of Philip Evergood is long overdue. A leading Modernist of the 20th Century, Evergood combined abstraction & realism, with subjects in the 1930s that made him also one of the leading Social Realists of the period.
"Wonders of the Frog," 1960s, Philip Evergood (1901-1973). private collection.
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Pronouns are not a new thing. A Museum will now relabel its display & refer to the Roman emperor Elagabalus with the female pronouns of she and her, concluding that he was in fact a trans woman. image PHAS https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67484645
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John Singer Sargent, it seems, had a penchant for shocking the public. But then "he didn't find conventional, conservative English women very interesting. He liked very strong, often independent women." A new exhibition in Boston explores how this marriage portrait pushed boundaries. Image: Museum of Fine Arts Boston https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20231121-john-singer-sargents-portrait-of-ena-wertheimer-the-painting-that-challenged-sexual-norms
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He married "the crisp, clean lines of European modern art with an American commercial pop sensibility." But his work differed from other graphic designers, offering humor, wit, and humanity. George Tscherny saw himself as "a bridge between commerce and art." image Tscherny family. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/arts/design/george-tscherny-dead.html
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New York's transformation in the 20th Century into a vibrant, modern city is largely thanks to a cohort of radical women artists, a new book says. But that "transformation was largely thanks to a bold, taboo-busting cohort of women who pushed boundaries both creatively and socially—as artists, writers, salon hosts and patrons." image Library of Congress
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20231114-radicals-and-rogues-these-subversive-1910s-women-made-new-york-cool-but-were-written-out-of-history
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"Dancer in Pearl Grays," 1964, Philip Evergood (1901-1973), private collection. Portrait of Evergood's wife, JuJu. A major retrospective on Evergood is long overdue. A leading Modernist of the 20th Century, Evergood combined abstraction & realism, with subjects in the 1930s that made him also one of the leading Social Realists of the period.
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Was there a little remodeling of the cheekbones? (what did that cost? :)) Repeated small changes and rework by Hans Holbein the Younger gave the sitter even more chiseled features each time. image: Royal Collection Trust https://www.cnn.com/style/hans-holbein-painting-cheekbones-xray/index.html
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"Before WWI, Max Beckman was a neoconservative with no time for Matisse or Picasso." But the war brought on a nervous breakdown, and soon he was painting with nightmarish directness. A new exhibition showcases these formative years: "the real hell, for Beckmann, was the one to which survivors were condemned." image: Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; via Christie's Images
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/arts/design/max-beckmann-neue-galerie.html
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"The Bride," 1946, Philip Evergood (1901-1973), private collection.
Which museum is going to have the vision, foresight, resources —and guts— to do the long overdue Evergood retrospective? A leading Modernist of the 20th Century, Evergood combined abstraction & realism, with subjects in the 1930s that made him also one of the leading Social Realists of the period.
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In art history, Fauvism is often just a blur. But the Wild Beasts are getting their due as the Met narrows the field to Fauvism’s two leaders, Henri Matisse and André Derain. "Fauvism would become the underpinning of Matisse’s life’s work." image: Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris; via Galerie Philippe David, Zurich
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/09/arts/design/matisse-derain-fauvism-metropolitan-museum.html?fbclid=IwAR0VvD7XzF2fBavF7OaVWRxZgif88jGRrbjOpLJioaUvLDusEV_ZOpgMLXo
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11/22/63. "All eyes were on Jackie, who became an icon of a nation in mourning." Among those watching was Andy Warhol. His response? ‘Let's go to work!’ He had only begun his transformation from illustrator to renowned Pop artist; with the Jackie paintings he would solidify his status & "attain the pinnacle of his examination into the soul of America." Source image: Henri Dauman, 1963
https://www.christies.com/stories/andy-warhol-sixteen-jackies-0693da57e43947e6ba9894b1c70707d1?cid=EM_EMLcontent04144C65Section_A_Story_3_1&COSID=41687561&cid=DM498585&bid=375001059
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'Compotier et Guitare' holds profound connections to Picasso's relationships with Henri Matisse & Marie-Thérèse Walter, his muse. The "intricate array of colors, shapes, & emotions that unfold on the canvas are stories of love & competition which would define not only Picasso’s iconography, but the broader canon of Western art as a whole." [VIDEO: Christie's] https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/expert-voices-picassos-compotier-et-guitare?locale=en
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"Capturing the most significant female relationships of their lives, at their most intimate moments, at the same time." Tamara de Lempicka's portrait of her daughter and Frida Kahlo' work of her sister both capture the subjects on the cusp of womanhood, and "function on a psychological level, striking beyond the surface." (image: Christie's) https://www.christies.com/stories/tamara-de-lempicka-and-frida-kahlo-jerry-moss-collection-e91130d12d9e49b2b74be0710d19ea99?cid=EM_EMLcontent04144C65Section_A_Story_1_0&COSID=41687561&cid=DM498585&bid=375001059
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