Tag Archives: Robert Motherwell

eccentric patrons

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Dave

By October 1942, Peggy Guggenheim was ready to open in New York a new gallery, Art of This Century, surely the most eccentric pleasure dome ever decreed for the inspection of art. Lights flashed on and off, with great rushes … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alexander Calder, Anton Gill, Edward Hopper, Frank Lloyd Wright, Glynis Bell, Grant Wood, Jackson Pollock, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mark Rothko, Mary V. Dearborn, Max Ernst, Museum of Non-Objective Art, Peggy Guggenheim, Robert Motherwell, Solomon Guggenheim, Thomas Hart Benton | Leave a comment

fine art “motorama”: hawk to the rubes

Posted on May 29, 2011 by Art

Guest blog by Art Chantry.Its a cheezy embarrassing system, one in which the squeaky wheel gets the grease. The most ruthless hustlers and self-promoting con-men become the wealthiest and most celebrated in the fine art world… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): When … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged adolph gottleib, Alberto Giacometti, Alexander Calder, Andrew Wyeth, Andy Warhol, arnold varga, art chantry, carnegie institute, dale chihuly, Damien Hirst, David Smith, ellsworth kelly, Francis Bacon, Jasper Johns, Jean Dubuffet, Josef Albers, Leonard Baskin, Mark Tobey, max bill, Pablo Picasso, Robert Motherwell | Leave a comment

HENRI SCISSORHANDS

Posted on December 27, 2010 by Dave

It was the final flowering of Henri Matisse. He was ever simplifying, ever synthesizing, acting younger at eighty than he was at thirty. He sat in his wheel chair and put aside paintbrush for scissors, filling his sunset years with … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Diebenkorn, Edmond Variel, Elizabeth Murray, George Braziller, Greg Kucera, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, jack Flam, Jean Leymarie, Joan Miro, John Elderfield, Josephine Baker, Laura McPhee, Lydia Delectorskaya, Michelle Leight, Miles Davis, Picasso, Riva Castleman, Robert Motherwell, Teriade | Leave a comment

ABSTRACT PLEASURE, DEEP ROOTED EXPRESSIONISM

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Dave

Surrealism remained a powerful element in bohemian art and culture long after it had lost its novelty, shine and new car smell. It remained an attractive option for leftist artists and writers who were ill at ease with the post-Trotsky … Continue reading →