Art Foraging - The Latest Catch

Art foraging on the web...sometimes remarkable; always eclectic.

 Maryna Baranovka

Maryna Baranovka's work reminds me a bit of Linda's at Vulture Peak Muse

Rockwell seems out of place among these innovative, contemporary artists but I couldn't resist including this painting I'd either never seen before or never noticed. I love the perspective from above. When I see such great work from Norman Rockwell, I am reminded of what an amazing illustrator he really was. ~P.S.

 Ebb and Flow

 Sperone Westwater Gallery

 New York

 Richard Long: Flow and Ebb opens with an overwhelming and head-tilting painting on the gallery’s double-height, first floor wall. Created specifically for the space, the painting comprises an immense black circle, which is cut by an arc of light-brownish mud. Nearly spanning the entire wall, the work pushes the gallery-goer back on order to take it all in.  The rest is here at Art Culture.

Video art from Alex Bag 

 Alex Bag

Le Cruel e Curieux Vie Du La Salmonellapod

2000 video still

 (straaaaaaaange! As is much of the video art I've seen at MoMA and Mass MoCA)

 A Whore in the Kitchen

2011

Ryan McGinness

Aaron Morse
American (b. 1974)

Christy Langer
Canadian
Q & A Christy Langer

Artist Birthdays in February

At the beginning of this year I had a goal for the blog that I would try to post about artists' birthdays each month. So before the month of February (blasted February, I tell you) is over (can't wait),
Here are some artists, all American, who have birthdays this month. I am very patriotic about the arts, if not at all about most other things! 

One of my favorite American artists, Grant Wood's birthday was the 13th.  He was born in 1891.

American Gothic

1930

this one lives in Gallery 263,

The Art Institute of Chicago

Winslow Homer's birthday will be tomorrow, February 25. 

Sleigh Ride

1890-95

Sleigh Ride lives in my neck of the woods, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.


And another neighbor, Norman Rockwell, born in New York on February 3, 1894.

Another good Norman Rockwell bio here

The world of these men isn't anything like what I've experienced as a naturalized American. But having lived in The Berkshires (Norman Rockwell country), I can easily imagine the postcard quality of that era applied to the place.

Rockwell's son Jarvis does the Berkshires no justice but his artworks are mildly amusing.  Here is a video of Jarvis Rockwell playing with the small plastic toys which made a pyramid "sculpture" entitled Maya, at Mass MoCA. The Girls loved it! A collection, yes but art, hmmm, not sure!

On the Fourth Day of Christmas...

 

Norman Rockwell