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Cityscape gallery 1. Description and prise list.
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Title: Warm evening. Naples. Italian street scene. Cityscape oil painting.Oil painting on canvas size: 60 x 40 cm. |
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Title: Cafe Esperanto. New York City. street scene cityscape oil painting.Oil painting on canvas size: 41 x 33 cm. |
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Title: Playground. Zagarolo. Italian street scane.Oil painting on canvas size: 60 x 40 cm. |
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Title: Last Customers, Restaurant Chez la Mere CatherineOil painting on canvas size: 46 x 37 cm. |
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Title: Promenad # 1. Provence. Narrow street. France.Oil painting on canvas size: 55 x 36 cm. |
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Title: Walking in the rain. Rome Street scene.Oil painting on canvas size: 60 x 50 cm. |
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Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes
This exhibition is the first in the United States devoted to the Mantuan sculptor and goldsmith Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, known as Antico (c. 1455-1528) for his expertise in classical antiquity. Antico also developed and refined the technology for producing bronzes in multiples. His exquisite bronze reductions of ancient Roman sculptures such as the Apollo Belvedere (c. AD 120-140) are enlivened with gilding and silvering. Antico’s bronzes are so rare that the nearly 40 works–including medals, reliefs, busts, and the renowned statuettes–constitute more than three quarters of the sculptor’s extant oeuvre.
Organization: Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in association with the Frick Collection, New York.Sponsor: The exhibition is made possible by the generous support of Robert H. and Clarice Smith.
It is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
Mel Bochner
For some 45 years Mel Bochner has explored the intersections of linguistic and visual representation. As one of the pioneers of conceptual art during the 1960s, Bochner developed an art that causes us to read and see simultaneously–to “think” as we look. The exhibition will present 43 thesaurus-inspired paintings and drawings that span Bochner’s career, including the thesaurus paintings Money, Die, Useless, Obscene, and Sputter; a new monochrome painting (Blah, Blah, Blah); and four major diptychs that have never before been exhibited (Master of the Universe, Oh Well, Amazing!, and Babble). The exhibition will also feature the artist’s Portraits series of the 1960s, including several works on view for the first time.
Organization: Organized by the National Gallery of Art.
Sponsor: The exhibition is made possible through the generous support of Suzanne F. Cohen and The Kraus Family Foundation. Additional support provided by Judith Racht and Irving Stenn Jr., The Exhibition Circle, and The Tower Project.
Philadelphia Museum of Art. Van Gogh Up Close
For the holidays, the Museum has produced a beautifully packaged Van Gogh Up Close gift ticket, decorated in the imagery of van Gogh’s 1890 masterpiece, Almond Blossom . With Philadelphia as the only United States venue for this majortraveling exhibition, Van Gogh Up Close tickets, , are a unique and memorable gift experience.
Van Gogh Up Close presents many of the artist’s most daring and innovative works that broke with the past and dramatically altered the course of modern painting. This major exhibition includes more than 40 landscapes and still lifes, seen together here for the first time with a new evaluation of the importance
of nature and scale in van Gogh’s artistic achievement.
For all flower enthusiasts, the Museum has teamed up with the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society to offer a special discounted gift ticket combo package for Van Gogh Up Close and Philadelphia International Flower Show, Hawaii: Islands of Aloha.
Earth Cycles, Sarrita King
Drawing on the teachings of her influential father, William King Jungala, Sarrita recalls the philosophy he taught her – the connection between people and the world around them is ongoing. Sarrita echoes her father’s depiction of the Earth Cycles with the repetition of concentric circles across the canvas. The circles and dots identify the connections and relationships found throughout life. Sarrita dots her circles with a stick heavily laden with paint. The paint is so thick that the dots hold form and often
contain peaks where the stick left the canvas. The result is prickly, textural and 3-D. Sarrita usually only uses white and another bold colour, such as red, that slowly bleeds its way across the canvas. True to their title, these paintings are full of youthfulness and provide a sharp contemporary aesthetic.
Medium: Acrylic on Belgian Linen
Landscapes of the Heart
Renato Muccillo, the Canadian-born son of Italian immigrants, has had a fits-and-starts path to a full-time art career. Though driven to draw and paint from an early age, his career has been interrupted and punctuated by “more practical” approaches to making a living, from his years training as a cook and working for banks to time spent working for the Law Society of British Columbia. Today, the Vancouver-based artist creates emotionally charged landscapes mirroring his upper-Northwest.
The editors of the Pastel Journal, The Artist’s Magazine, and Watercolor Artist bring together some of the most talented artists working in the acrylic medium today to bring you this second issue of Acrylic
Artist. Inside you’ll meet Katherine Chang Liu, Alastair Adams, Carol Staub, and more, and discover their preferred materials, their working methods, and what inspires them. Acrylic Artist also includes plenty of practical instruction, expert tips, and more innovative ideas to bring new dimension to your art.
The January issue of Southwest Art explores figurative art, one of the most lauded forms of art throughout the ages, from Michelangelo and Caravaggio to Degas and Renoir to the more recent Wyeths and Edward Hopper. With the recent return to, and renewed appreciation for, representational art, more figurative artists are emerging from American ateliers and universities. As part of this rich tradition, we introduce you to 32 artists adding their brushwork and sculptural forms to the mix, such as R.E. Roberts, whose THE MATHEMATICIAN is shown here these artists celebrating the beauty of the human form.
The 27th Chelsea International Fine Art Competition
The Chelsea International Fine Art Competition 2012 will be open soon! The contest will be accepting entries from February 7 , so start looking through your portfolio now to choose your images. The prizes for selected artists are specifically chosen to enhance and promote careers in fine art. The juror this year is Ira Goldberg, the Executive Director of the well-known Arts Students League of New York.
Agora Gallery director Angela Di Bello feels strongly that there is more to be gained from entering competitions than prizes and awards. She states: In addition to providing a valuable career building experience, fine art competitions challenge professional artists as well as art students to create some of their most innovative and finest work. The excitement generated by simply entering a competition and “thinking outside the box” leads to numerous new possibilities and to opening doors that may otherwise remain shut. You must fearlessly take control of your own destiny and experience a quantum leap into the future.
Opening Reception
On the evening of December 29, 2011 Agora Gallery was full of bustling life during the opening reception for [3] Born of Fire: Carlo Proietto a Solo Exhibition and for The Odyssey Within, the annual exhibition featuring the work of talented Greek and Italian artists. Artists, gallery staff and the large and lively crowd threw themselves into an appreciation of the art on display. There was an extra frisson of excitement in the air as it was just after Christmas, when decorations are still up and gleaming all around, and so close to New Year Eve many of the artists who were visiting the city for their reception had plans to go to Times Square, or to see the fireworks, making the absolute most of their time in New York.
Solo exhibit artist Carlo Proietto communicated his passion for his work and method and an infective energy to the many guests who admired his art and wanted to talk to him. Talking via a translator and through the images in his books, there was much animated discussion and many beaming faces. He was even asked to sign catalogs by some of those who had been most impressed by his creations and the stories they told!
Visitors also showed great enthusiasm for the works presented in The Odyssey Within, particularly those of Greek artist Maria Kavvou Vlataki and Italian artist Paola Guerra, who was back for her second exhibition at Agora Gallery. In addition, the geometric patterns of Mara Fabbro and the striking visions of Ermeti Martina came in for much discussion, as did the inventive compositions of Maurizio Giarnetti and the elegant calligraphic ink-and-brush works of Floriana Rigo. The beguiling symbolic creations of Fausto Arrighi also formed a center of much interest, as well as the compelling sculptures of Perry Bianchini and the art of Armida Pupa Nardi, which is inspired by the natural world. Luciano Primavera explained an extra level of poignant meaning behind his work Maiella Madre 2, which shows the mountain in which several people, including his father, hid during World War II.
