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The Davis Museum

1/13/2019

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Over the past few months, I had the opportunity to participate in a three-part series of talks with the curators of the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, located in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

I saw a variety of prints created from the 14th century through present day.  I also learned about the printmaking process, and using woodblock engraving to create prints.

Christiane Baumgartner's prints were featured through this past December in an exhibit titled "Another Country" which was really amazing.
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Christiane Baumgatner is a German artist, and this was her first museum exhibition in the United States.  The work on view featured these large, amazing woodcuts, as well as photoengravings, aquatints, and photogravures.  She works with images from television and film.  She would take photographs of her television screen, often of war documentaries and use them as a starting point for her woodcuts.   The helicopter image below is her artwork called "Manhattan Transfer," which was my favorite.
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"Manhattan Transfer", Woodcut on Kozo Paper by Christiane Baumgartner. 4 Detail Shots are Below.
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Detail of the Helicopter's Rear Wheel/Landing Gear
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 I also had the opportunity to view some of the Davis Museum's permanent collection of wonderful artwork from artists such as Andy Warhol, Louise Nevelson, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, and Al Held.
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"Woman Springs" 1966, Oil on hollow core wooden door, by Willem de Kooning
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"Brillo Box," 1964 and "Campbell's Tomato Juice," 1964, Synthetic polymer paint and screen print ink on wood. By Andy Warhol
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Louise Nevelson's "Dream House V" 1972, Wood painted black.
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"Quattro Centric XII" 1990 by Al Held
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"Untitled", 1951 by Lee Krasner.
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"Untitled (Small Composition)", 1949 by Jackson Pollock.
I'd definitely recommend a visit to The Davis Museum, located on the campus of Wellesley College.  for more information, please visit their website:  www.wellesley.edu/davismuseum
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Downtown Los Angeles-An Arts Destination

4/3/2018

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It's been many years since I've lived in Los Angeles, but I was amazed on how much has changed over the past 20 years in Los Angeles's Downtown area.  I decided to spend the day visiting some of Downtown LA's art museums.  I really wanted to see one of LA's newest art museum, The Broad.  I also wanted to visit the Museum of Contemporary Art, also located in Downtown LA.  What I discovered was that Downtown Los Angeles has become a true Arts Destination in recent years!  In this blog, I'll share my thoughts and experiences at these museums as well as some amazing architecture in the area.
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Check out some of my other posts about Los Angeles!
  • The Getty Center
  • Hollywood Concept Art
  • The Los Angeles County Museum Of Art
  • The Hammer Museum
The Museum of Contemporary Art is actually comprised of three locations.  The first is the MOCA Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood; the second is the MOCA on Grand Avenue; and the newest location is the Geffen Contemporary.  There is actually a fourth location in Nevada.  Yes! Nevada.  The artist, Michael Heizer's artwork titled, "Double Negative" is a work of land art located in the Moapa Valley on Mormon Mesa near Overton, Nevada and was acquired into MOCA's permanent collection in 1985. If the artist's name rings a bell, it's because I recently wrote about his other monumental piece of artwork at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; CLICK HERE TO READ THE BLOG ARTICLE.  I should note that time didn't permit me to visit the Pacific Design Center, or the Geffen Contemporary (or visit Nevada), so this post will only include my visit to the MOCA on Grand Avenue.  I also visited the Broad Museum (Read On & See Below.)  The Geffen Contemporary is just a 15-20 minute walk from MOCA Grand and admission to one museum grants you admission to the other museum.
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"Cubi III" by David Smith, Stainless Steel, 1961.
I really like Lee Krasner's artwork on so many levels.  I love the emotion, and appreciate the influence Jackson Pollock had on her work, and vice versa.  Krasner's oil on canvas painting shown here, "Primeval Resurgence" was on exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art Grand Avenue.  Painted in 1961, it is a wonderful example of abstract expressionism.  The painting attempts to define itself through the brushstrokes as a direct expression of the artist's innermost feelings.  Similar to Jackson Pollock's techniques of drips and splatters, the paint in "Primeval Resurgence" includes streaks, scribbles, sprayed paint, etc.  Also important to note is the large size of the painting, the fact that the paint goes to all edges of the canvas, and the focus is on a singular plane, the flat surface of the painting.
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Lee Krasner's "Primeval Resurgence" Oil on Canvas, 1961.
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Alberto Giacometti's "Tall Figure II" & "Tall Figure III", both bronze made in 1960.
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"Monitor" Oil on Canvas, 1956, by Franz Kline
Franz Kline created gestural compositions, as shown here in these two works of art.  These are wonderful examples of the bold, free-form gestures and compositions associated with abstract expressionism.  I learned that while these paintings seem very improvised, Kline created these artworks after perfecting dozens of preparatory sketches for each painting.  
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"Black Iris" Oil on Canvas, 1961, by Franz Kline
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"3 Arbes (Chataignier) Empaquets (Projet pour la Fondation Maeght-St. Paul de Vence)" Pencil, Polyethylene, ropes, twine, cardboard, paint, and wax crayon mounted on wood, 1967, by Christo.
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"Pepsi-Cola Sign" Muslin soaked in plaster over wire frame, painted with enamel, 1961, by Claes Oldenburg.
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"White Cigarette" Oil on Canvas, 1961, by James Rosenquist.
Andy Warhol ranks pretty high up among my favorite artists.  Here is "Telephone" painted in 1961; it is Acrylic on Canvas with pencil.  I love how it is such a modern take on a very old-fashioned, antique telephone.  Below is Warhol's painting, "Flowers" from 1964.  He created these flowers using a synthetic polymer and silkscreen inks on canvas.  I'm including a close up shot of the edge of the painting because I found it kind of amusing to see the exposed staples used to secure the canvas to the stretcher bars along the side of the canvas.  For my artwork, I go to great length to use back-stapled canvas, and pay particular attention to the finished gallery-wrapped edges, making sure they are neat, clean, and professional.
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Jim Dine's "Drag - Johnson and Mao", Etching, 1967.
The MOCA on Grand Avenue housed an entire gallery room with Mark Rothko paintings.  While I can appreciate Rothko's artwork and acknowledge its importance in art history, his paintings are not my favorite.  I do love all the colors, and I also love the shapes, however, there is ambiguity, blurring of lines, that doesn't hit me the right way.  Rothko wanted viewers to stand close to his paintings to see the vertically stacked bands of color seem to float upon colored grounds.
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I'm a fan of Morris Louis who created many paintings similar to this one shown here titled, "Pillar of Delay" painted in 1961.  Louis stained his canvases with thinned-down paint and opted to paint without the use of the traditional brush, palette, and easel.  Instead, he used gravity as his instrument to create his masterpieces.  He created these striped pictures by pouring streaks of diluted paint fro the top of raw, un-primed canvas to create bands or stripes of color that often overlapped each other.  Looking at his artwork, you can almost feel a sense of slow motion.












​In the artwork below and the detail to the right, the artist, Joseph Kosuth, used etched aluminum.
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Ed Ruscha's "Fountain, Sunset, Hollywood" Acrylic on Canvas, 1999.
This large painting on two panels is by the artist, Njideka Akunyili Crosby.  It's called "Garden, Thriving" and was completed in 2016.  Her artwork was quite fascinating to see in person and I've included a detailed photograph of the two-panel painting.  Originally from Nigeria, the artist layers photographic imagery within the chairs' fabric and the plant leaves.  The images are pictures of Nigerian pop stars, models, military dictators, celebrities, and the artist's own personal photographs.  To create this artwork, she uses acrylic paint, transfers, colored pencils, and collage on paper.  There is so much to see in this painting, you could look at it for 10-20 minutes, or longer!

I should also mention that the mural that is wrapped around the exterior of the museum is by this same artist!
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I love Jackson Pollock's work.  The exhibit at the MOCA Grand was centered around the conservation process for Pollock's "Number 1, 1949".  The painting was donated to the museum in 1989.  I learned that over time, the painting's surface has accumulated a layer of dust, dulling the colors, discoloring the raw exposed canvas, and spoiling the unique juxtaposition of matte colors against glossy colors.  During the course of the exhibition, a conservator cleans the painting on a regular basis.  Although my visit was on a day that the conservator was not there, it was still fascinating to see an exhibition for the public to understand the importance of conservation.  On select Thursdays, the conservator leads a Q&A session with the public from 11:30 am-12 pm and 5:30-6 pm.
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Three other works by Jackson Pollock from MOCA’s permanent collection, were also on view.  These were great examples of the diversity and range of materials Pollock used in his artwork from watercolor to collage. 

​Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, California
This building is simply spectacular.  Frank Ghery is one of my favorite architects and this is a perfect example of why that's the case.  (In addition to all the awards he has won for his incredible architectural design).  Frank Gehry was asked to devise a new home for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Walt Disney Concert Hall opened in 2003. Reflecting Gehry’s longtime passion for sailing, the structure’s exterior features are expanses of stainless steel that hover above Grand Avenue.  Frank Gehry has devoted his career to disrupt the very meaning of design within architecture. From the iconic Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, and now the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Frank Gehry has proven time and again the beautiful magic of his whimsical, cutting-edge design.
The Broad Museum
My visit to the Broad Museum was absolutely incredible.  First the architecture of the building is superb, and second the permanent collection on view was perhaps one of the best collections of representative work from the post-modern and contemporary art periods.  And on top of that, there was an incredible in-depth retrospective exhibit of Jasper Johns' artwork.  There's so much to include in this blog it is crazy!
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The Broad is one of the finest contemporary art museums I have ever visited.  Founded by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad, the museum houses more than 2,000 works of art and holds one of the most prominent collections of postwar and contemporary art worldwide.  

The Broad's third floor galleries show a rotating selection of artwork and, best of all, it is free!  The first floor galleries are for special exhibitions, like the Jasper Johns exhibit "Something Resembling Truth" that runs through May 13, 2018.  
So let's talk about the beautifully designed building...  It's often called "The Veil and the Vault" because the building has gallery space as well as an extensive storage facility.  In contrast with the neighboring Walt Disney Concert Hall, The Broad was designed to be porous and absorptive.  There are wonderful olive trees that were planted in the plaza next to the museum.  
There were a number of artworks by Jeff Koons at The Broad.  "Balloon Dog (Blue)" is perhaps one of his series of works that is most famous.  The artwork is made of stainless steel and wights 2,000 pounds.  It was created as part of his Celebration Series, a group of paintings and sculptures that memorialize rituals, icons, and images related to birthdays, holidays, and other celebratory parties or occasions.
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View of Jeff Joons' "Rabbit" with Balloon Dog and inside view of the architectural framework of the building.
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"Michael Jackson and Bubbles" by Jeff Koons, Porcelain, 1988.
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"Tulips" by Jeff Koons
The artwork below is by the artist Mark Bradford and is titled, "Yellow Bird", 2012.  It is Mixed Media Collage On Canvas.  When it comes to his process, it is quite fascinating.  Bradford takes papers and layers it down on canvas.  He sands it down, revealing various layers.  His work frequently looks like a map looking down from above.  He tries to give you an idea of a place without telling you specifically where.  Bradford represented the United States at the Venice Biennale and worked with women in a Venice prison to help them create products to sell to earn money.
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This Silkscreen on Linen is by artist, Christopher Wool. Untitled, 2015.
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"Red Room" by Keith Haring. Acrylic on Canvas, 1988.
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Another work by Keith Haring. "Untitled, 1984" Acrylic on four Muslin Panels.
Jean-Michel Basquiat uses bold colors and expressive markings to show emotion and energy in his artwork.  Many of his paintings are autobiographical.   I learned that his painting is supposed to resemble a self-portrait and at the same time, a skull-mask.
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"Untitled, 1981" by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Acrylic and Oilstick on Canvas
"Under The Table" by artist Robert Therrien is gigantic replica of his kitchen table.  I learned that even the distressed parts of the table and chairs are the same.  He is known for using memories from his childhood to create his artwork. Visitors often walk under the table, which conjures memories of what it was like to do so as a child.  
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Mark Tansey, Wake" 2003, Oil on Canvas.
The artwork below is by artist Takashi Murakami, titled "Hustle 'N' Punch By Kaikai And Kiki". 

​The artist uses cute characters to express the entire range of possible emotions; almost like a variety of emojis.
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Roy Lichtenstein is one of my all-time favorite pop artists.  He was one of the founders of Pop Art in the 1960s and used tiny dots in his artwork, similar to the printing style of comic-books.  The dots were placed in such a way to create an image, imitating the way comic-books and newspapers were printed.
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"Live Ammo (Bang)" 1962, Oil and Magna on Canvas, by Roy Lichtenstein
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"Interior With African Mask" by Roy Lichtenstein, Oil and Magna on Canvas, 1991.
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"Mirror #1" by Roy Lichtenstein, Oil and Magna on Canvas, 1969
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"Reflections on 'Interior with Girl Drawing'," 1990, Oil and Magna on Canvas by Roy Lichtenstein.
In addition to borrowing or seeking inspiration from newspaper ads, commercials, and comic books, Roy Lichtenstein also was inspired by some of his favorite artists like Picasso and Mondrian.  See the two images below.
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"Non-Objective I" 1964, Oil and Magna on Canvas, by Roy Lichtenstein
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"Femme d'Alger" 1963, Oil on Canvas, by Roy Lichtenstein
Here is a sculpture by Roy Lichtenstein, "Goldfish Bowl" created in 1977.  It is painted and patinated bronze.  On the right is a detailed view, showing that the sculpture is very two-dimensional, despite it looking 3-D.
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"Rouen Cathedral, Set 3" 1968-69, Oil and Magna on Five Canvas Panels, by Roy Lichtensttein. These Paintings were inspired by Claude Monet's famous paintings of Rouen Cathedral. Unlike Monet, Lichtenstein did not paint the Cathedrals on-site.
I always love seeing paintings by Chuck Close.  Chuck Close is known for his detailed paintings of faces, and later he was known for the deconstruction of that detailed portraiture.  He explores portraiture and created this photo-realist painting called "John", painted in 1971-72.  I included a detailed shot showing the incredible painting technique.
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Robert Rauschenberg, "Untitled" 1963, Oil and Silkscreen on Canvas.
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Edward Ruscha, "Norm's La Cienega, on Fire" 1964.
​John Baldessari, "Tips for Artists Who Want to Sell" 1966-68, Acrylic on Canvas.  John Baldessari never touched this painting, didn't paint it, didn't write the text.  Here, it's the role of the artist as the facilitator of the artwork; creating the concept.  The humor is that the view is shown the paintings message, but the message is text taken from an art magazine with tips on what art should be.
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Another one of my all-time favorite artists is Andy Warhol.  A short time after Marilyn Monroe died in 1962, Andy Warhol started to create silkscreen images of Marilyn.  I learned that Warhol had recently just learned how to silkscreen, so this was a somewhat new process for him!  In the painting above, titled, "Two Marilyns" created in 1962, Warhol captures the terrible fact of Marilyn's death, as if he was reporting the news.  With silkscreens, the images deteriorate with each printing, which I believe is symbolic of her presence and then her fading into history with her death.  It can also be interpreted as the volatility of fame and celebrity.  I'm not sure how many versions of "Two Marilyns" were created, but I learned that the one pictured above from The Broad Museum was the 27th version of the silkscreen created.
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Two of Warhol's Cambell's Soup Cans and "Single Elvis" Silkscreen ink and spray paint on linen, 1963.
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"Twenty Jackies" Silkscreen Ink on Linen, 1964, by Andy Warhol.
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Ellsworth Kelly worked with shapes and solid colors.  The painting below, "Green Blue Red" created in 1963, uses colors and shapes to create contrast and bring attention to edges.  In the above image on the left, the green rectangle and blue oval are vibrantly displayed against the red background.  His composition almost goes against the principal of design of balance.  Below, Kelly's oil on canvas painting, "Green Relief with Blue" was completed in 2011.  It's actually two conjoined canvases and I've posted the photo of the same painting as seen from different angles.  It almost acts like a 2 dimensional painting trying to be a sculpture, with different views from different angles.
Jasper Johns:  "Something Resembling Truth"
A Special Exhibition at The Broad (Through May 13, 2018)

While The Broad Museum's main collection has free admission, this special exhibition required a special ticket with a timed entry.  The exhibit was one of the best I've ever seen.  The exhibit covered over 6 decades of artistic achievement from this iconic American artist.  The comprehensive exhibit features more than 120 extraordinary paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures, by Jasper Johns and draws upon works from within The Broad's permanent collection as well as from loans from over 50 international public and private sources.

The imagery he used in his artwork were common items such as American flags, numbers, letters, targets, and light bulbs.  Perhaps Johns’ most famous painting, "Flag (1954–55)" and is a fairly accurate representation of the American flag, in encaustic on collaged paper and fabric.
In the 1950s, Jasper Johns' flags, targets, letters, and numbers created a new artistic vocabulary.  They were actual things that represented something.  If you think about it, you can identify states on his maps, aim something at his targets, and say the "Pledge of Allegiance" to the flag.  Jasper Johns was successful at using recognizable signs and symbols to make the familiar unfamiliar.  



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When I reflect on some of my own artwork, I too employ these same principals.  Here is some of my artwork that also make you look closely at something you already know.
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"American Flag" Acrylic on Canvas by Eddie Bruckner
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"AABCDEEF" Acrylic on Canvas by Eddie Bruckner
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"10,9,8,7,6" Acrylic on Canvas by Eddie Bruckner
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"5,4,3,2,1" Acrylic on Canvas by Eddie Bruckner
The American Flad is a geometric composition that has a strong sentimental and patriotic value in society.  Jasper Johns' flags ofent trick the eye, or blur the lines between perception, reality, and illusion.  
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"Two Flags," 1959, Acrylic on Canvas, by Jasper Johns
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Detail of "Two Flags," 1959, Acrylic on Canvas, by Jasper Johns
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"Three Flags," 1958, Encaustic on Canvas, by Jasper Johns. (On loan from The Whitney Museum of American Art). Shows how the size of objects impacts perception.
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"White Flag," 1960, Oil and Newspaper over Lithograph, by Jasper Johns
I absolutely love this painting shown here below.  The flags here are presented so that the viewer can experience an optical illusion.  If you stare at the white dot for several seconds and then stare at the black dot on the gray flag below, you will experience an amazing illusion.  The green, black, and orange colors generate their complementary colors of red, white, and blue in your eyes.  Try it yourself! It works from the photograph here too!
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"Flags," 1965, Oil on Canvas with Object, by Jasper Johns.
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"Gray Alphabets," 1956, Encaustic and Collage on Canvas, by Jasper Johns
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"Numbers" 1960-71, Ten Lithographs reworked with acrylic paint and oil paint, fabric, paper collage, and felt pen, by Jasper Johns
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"Target" 1961, Encaustic and Collage on Canvas, by Jasper Johns
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Detail of "Target" 1961, Encaustic and Collage on Canvas, by Jasper Johns
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"Map" 1962-63, Encaustic and Collage on Canvas, by Jasper Johns. He used brushmarks to render the map of the United States of America, complete with abstract drips, scrapes, gestures, and a stenciled label for each state.
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"Numbers" 2007 (Cast 2008), Aluminum, by Jasper Johns. This is a full-scale replica of the work that was commissioned for the NY State Theater at Lincoln Center in 1964. Below are detailed shots.
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"Star" 1954, Encaustic and Collage on Canvas with Glass and Painted Wood, by Jasper Johns
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"False Start" 1959, Oil on Canvas, by Jasper Johns. This painting demonstrates the shift from a more constrained approach to artwork, to a more open and gestural approach. He uses stencils (like in my paintings above!).
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"Between The Clock And The Bed" 1981, Oil on Three Canvas Panels, by Jasper Johns
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LEFT: "Corpse and Mirror II" 1974-75, Oil and Sand on Canvas, by Jasper Johns; and RIGHT: "Dancers on a Plane" 1980, Oil on Canvas with Painted Bronze Frame, by Jasper Johns. Detail is to the Right.
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Jasper Johns began to incorporate objects and tools used in his artwork directly into the artwork's creation.  Things like paintbrushes, color charts, and rulers.  In the painting below, the "R" of "Red" is a neon light and wooden letters protrude outward from the canvas.
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"Field Painting" 1963-64, Oil on Canvas with Objects, by Jasper Johns. Detailed, Side view is shown on the right.
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"Bridge," 1997, Oil on Canvas with Objects, by Jasper Johns.
I highly recommend you to experience the Jasper John Exhibit if you can! 

​Also on the first floor was a very unique art installation by artist, Yayoi Kusama, titled "Infinity Mirrored Room--The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away."  It is a mirror-lined room that includes LED lights that reflect endlessly in the mirrored space.  It doesn't sound like much, but it is quite amazing to see.  You need a separate timed ticket, which is free, and only one person can enter the room at a time for a duration of 45 seconds.  
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As you can see, the Broad Museum is quite an amazing experience.  I highly recommend you visit The Broad in Los Angeles and experience the art scene in Downtown LA.  For more information about The Broad, please visit their website:  www.thebroad.org
Check out some of my other posts about Los Angeles!
  • The Getty Center
  • Hollywood Concept Art
  • The Los Angeles County Museum Of Art
  • The Hammer Museum
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The Los Angeles County Museum Of Art-LACMA

4/1/2018

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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, or LACMA, is the largest art museum in the Western United States.  LACMA boasts a permanent collection of over 130,000 pieces of art.  There are various buildings to explore as well as outdoor areas with sculpture.  It is located adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits, so you can perhaps schedule a visit to both for the same day.  It's also a block away from the Peterson Automotive Museum.

At the time of my visit, a number of exhibitions were turning over, so I was only able to see a small sampling of what LACMA has to offer.  For visitors information, please check their website:  ​www.lacma.org/.
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Here's a photo of me at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in front of Chris Burden's sculpture, "Urban Light" installed in 2008.  Burden restored over 200 cast-iron streetlamps to create this work of art.  Burden was fascinated with urban life and how streetlamps are one of the fundamental building blocks of an urban metropolis.  I found it interesting that the streetlamps were recently converted to LEDs, reducing the installations's annual energy consumption by 90%.  The conversion to LEDs was funded by the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation this year.  Chris Burden was commissioned by Brandeis University's Rose Art Museum to create a similarly themed sculpture.  You can see it by CLICKING HERE in an older blog article about the Rose Art Museum.
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Chis Burden's "Metropolis II" depicts an urban landscape.  Burden created "Metropolis I" seven years before "Metropolis II".  The earlier work featured eighty Hot Wheels cars zooming around a model city.  This work is much larger and includes 1,100 custom designed cars, 18 highways, and a vast array of buildings and structures. The artwork runs on select days and times, so plan ahead!
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Jeff Koon's, "Balloon Monkey (Orange)", Mirror-Polished Stainless Steel with Transparent Color Coating, 2006-13. This is one of five unique versions.
Richard Serra's "Band" is a massive sculpture that fills a huge exhibition hall from top to bottom, from front to back.  The sculpture took two and a half years to develop.  Made from over 200 tons of steel, it measures 12 feet high and over 70 feet in length.  
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Below are two views of the same sculpture, titled "Phoenix" by Alexander Liberman, created in 1974-75.  I love how a different view of this sculpture creates an entirely new image, a new feeling, a new perspective.  
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"Levitated Mass" (Shown below) was conceived by artist, Michael Heizer, in 1969, but only realized in 2012.   "Levitated Mass" is a 456-foot-long concrete pathway, over which sits a 340-ton granite boulder. As you walk down the pathway, it descends to fifteen feet in depth, directly underneath the massive boulder before ascending back up.
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Below are two views of the same Alexander Calder sculpture created in 1964 titled, "Three Quintains (Hello Girls)."  It is made from sheet metal and paint with motor.  To me, it appeared to be moved by the wind, but apparently it has a motor that moves the mobile sculpture.  
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Matisse in the Studio and the MFA Boston

5/1/2017

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I had the pleasure of visiting the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, which is always an incredible experience.  There are always new exhibits to see as well as a chance to see some of one's favorite works of art since visiting last.  

Henri Matisse, perhaps one of the most famous artists in the world, was the subject of a fascinating exhibit.  The "Matisse in the Studio" exhibit pushed the limits of how one experiences Matisse's work.  Having seen his artwork countless of times at museums all over the world, including visiting the Matisse Museum in the south of France, I've never quite have seen artwork presented in this unique format.

Henri Matisse was an artist who revolutionized 20th Century art.  This international exhibition examines the critical importance of the objects in Matisse's studio and how they influenced his creative process and finished artwork.

The exhibit has a number of thematic sections that each focus on different stages of his career as an artist. Matisse didn't limit his work to one medium like painting or sculpture, but also did many drawings, cut-outs, collages, prints, and more.  What makes this exhibit particularly fascinating is that the artwork is presented next to the objects that helped inspire Matisse's creativity and served as subject matter for much of his work.  Matisse found inspiration everywhere:  In sculpture, in a chocolate pot, textiles, furniture.
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In the painting here to the left, "Goldfish and Sculpture," Matisse presents  the bronze sculpture below of a quintessential feminine pose from the history of European sculpture.
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Below, the pewter jug served as inspiration for the painting below.  You can see how the curved lines of the jug, the waviness, are imitated in the lines of the background tapestry, the woman's robe, and the actual jug he painted as a vase of flowers.  As you can see in the close-up photos below, the wavy lines are not painted on, but Matisse rather scratched the paint off the surface of the canvas.  This reminds me of how I used this technique in some of my artwork.  You can see some of those paintings here and here.
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Show above is a table that appears in the painting to the left.  And below is a female torso Roman sculpture that Matisse used to create the "Formes, Plate IX" for the illustrated book "Jazz".  Matisse used cut paper as its own medium.  He also uses Guache paint on paper that he cut and pasted on canvas to create "Mimosa" and "Panel with Mask".  The movie, "A Model for Matisse" discussed the relationship between Matisse and his longtime friend and nun, Sister Jacques-Marie.  Their relationship began when she started working for him as his nurse, but later she often served as a model for Matisse's most famous artworks.  The nun also helped paint the paper that Matisse used for his cutouts.  The sister was instrumental in helping Matisse design the Vence Chapel (the Chapelle du Rosaire), one of his greatest accomplishments in his career as an artist.  The two large cutouts were designs for the robes that the priests were to wear while celebrating Catholic Mass.  
The "Matisse in the Studio" exhibit runs from April 9, 2017 to July 9, 2017.  For more information, please visit www.mfa.org.
Make Way for Ducklings
Another special, but smaller (one room) exhibit that runs through June 18, 2017 features the art of Robert McCloskey.  Anyone who has visited the Boston Public Garden or has read the beloved children's book set in Boston, "Make Way for Ducklings," knows Robert McCloskey's artwork quite well.  This unique and very "Boston" exhibit is a retrospective of his beautiful illustration work for "Make Way For Ducklings" as well as other famous children's books such as,  "Blueberries for Sal," "Time of Wonder," and many more. 

"Make Way For Ducklings" is a story about a family of ducks who stopped Boston traffic by making their way to the Public Garden.  Originally, McCloskey wanted to illustrate the book in color, as shown in the colored pencil draing below, however due to the high costs of color printing at the time, the editor chose to print the book with brown ink.

There is a beautiful bronze sculpture model on exhibit (Shown in the photo to the right).  Commissioned in 1985, artist Nancy Schon created the full-sized Make Way For Ducklings sculpture that has been delighting visitors of all ages at the entrance of the Boston Public Garden at the intersection of Charles St. and Beacon St.

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Art of the Americas. Level 3
Below is just a few snapshots I took during this visit to the MFA, some of my old favorites as well as some new favorites.  Below from are some wonderful photos of Piet Mondrian's work, "Composition with Blue, Yellow, and Red," Georgia O'Keefe's "White Rose with Larkspur No. 2," Joseph Stella's "Old Brooklyn Bridge" large, oil on canvas painting, Pablo Picasso's sculpture, and his "The Bull" series completed in 1945 and 1946.  

Also below are two of Jackson Pollock's incredible paintings, along with a close up shot of his drip-work, splattering, etc.  and lastly, I've included a piece by Charles Sheeler titled "On a Shaker Theme" and an incredible work of art by Stuart Davis, "Apples and Jug" where he takes the traditional still-life and transforms it into his modernist universe, with elements of cubism and even of advertising imagery.
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Charles Sheeler, "On a Shaker Theme" Oil on Canvas 1956
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Stuart Davis, "Apples and Jug" Oil on Composition Board, 1923
Contemporary Art
In the Contemporary Art galleries, two pieces struck me on this visit.  One is Carmen Herrera's, "Blanco y Verde (#1)", Acrylic on Canvas.  Originally from Havana, Cuba, Herrera studied painting in New York.  The simplicity of the forms here was really striking.  I love the exactness of her straight lines, and her minimal use of color.  We don't know if there is a background or a foreground, and we almost lose our-self within the painting completely.  Carmen Herrera recently had a retrospective exhibit of her work a the Whitney Museum of American Art a few months ago.
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Andy Warhol's beautiful and dark statement with his silkscreen on two canvas panels called, "Red Disaster."  I've included a close up, so the image that is reproduced multiple times on the right canvas panel is clear.  You will see that it is a photograph of an electric chair at New York's Sing Sing Prison, that was originally published in newspapers around the time of the Cold War and accusations of treason against people at that time.  His repetition is often accredited to his feeling that people spend their lives seeing things, but not really observing them.  ​
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Memory Unearthed:  The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross
This powerful exhibit recently opened in March and will be on view through July 30, 2017.

“Memory Unearthed” is a very moving exhibit that provides a rare glimpse of life during the Holocaust.  Holocaust Survivor, Henryk Ross took this incredible display of photographs of life inside the Lodz Ghetto from 1940 to 1944.

Henryk Ross was confined to the Lodz ghetto in 1940 and enlisted by the Nazi regime as a bureaucratic photographer taking photos for Jewish identification cards, for propaganda materials, etc. Secretly, Henryk Ross documented the horrible living conditions and persecution of the Jews under the Nazis.   Ross his the photos and negatives before the last of the Jews were sent from the ghetto to the Auschwitz and Chelmno death camps. The photos seen in this exhibit survived because Ross buried the photos and negatives hoping to provide a historical record of the persecution of the Jews.
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All the photos were very powerful to see.  However, there was one piece of artwork that I found completely incredible and breathtaking from an artistic perspective.  I've included the photo below.  It is actually a modern print from an original 35mm negative, depicting Ghetto police escorting residents for deportation.  The image itself and the unfortunate and horrifying circumstances in the photo are very compelling.  But beyond the face value of what is happening in the photo, you can see that the negative is partially destroyed, burned, or deteriorating.  From one perspective, the visual piece of artwork is quite beautiful and striking.  And from another perspective, it is quite ugly, off-putting, sad, and even symbolic.  ​ This exhibit helps us Never Forget the horrors of the Holocaust and its victims of persecution and death.
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Overall, this was an incredible visit to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.  With every visit, there are new things to see, experience, learn, and explore.
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Museum of Modern Art, New York

2/15/2017

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Every time I visit New York City, I always try to make it to the Museum of Modern Art.  Each visit exposes me to exciting new exhibits, while at the same time, I really enjoy seeing art that is regularly on view like Van Gogh's Starry Night and Picasso's guitar sculpture (among many others).  Seeing these familiar works of art is almost like being reunited with an old friend.  So for this blog post, I'll focus on the new as well as the old (at least to me) when I visited the Museum of Modern Art this past December.
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I love this Sol LeWitt "Wall Drawing #1144 Broken Bands of Color in Four Directions." Synthetic polymer paint on wall.
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I was excited to see the Francis Picabia exhibition, "Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round So Our Thoughts Can Change Direction," which runs through March 19, 2017.  Picabia lived from 1889 to 1953.  
Just recently, on February 14th, I came across an editorial article on Artsy.net by Isaac Kaplan entitled, "Do Francis Picabia's Anti-Semitic Remarks Tarnish his MoMA Retrospective?" After reading the article I learned about Picabia's anti-Jewish feelings (and womanizing behaviors).  MoMA's exhibit apparently does address this part of Picabia's character; however, I must have missed this as I walked through the gallery.  To answer Kaplan's question personally.  I think it does, in fact, tarnish his reputation.  I really enjoyed his artwork during my visit to the MoMA.  But after learning more about the artist, I can't say that I can admire him.  Famous artists are people that I want to look up to and admire.  They are people that I want the next generation of artists to look up to.  And so, while I can appreciate his artwork at face value and his artistic technique, learning about his anti-Semitic behavior does take him down several notches in my book.  Similarly, just like we want our kids to admire our professional sports players, it's hard to have our kids look up to them if they do drugs, treat women badly, are anti-gay, or are anti-Jewish, or discriminate in any way.  So, I'm kind of let down after my great experience viewing his work in the gallery.  But for this blog article, I will continue to proceed sharing my thoughts on the exhibit as if I hadn't learned of his anti-Semitic feelings and behavior.  

​Here is the link to the article for your information:  
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-francis-picabias-anti-semitic-remarks-tarnish-moma-retrospective
As I walked though the gallery rooms, the one thing that struck me the most was how his artistic style changed throughout his lifetime.  Picabia was an artist of many genres, and his body of work lacks consistency and categorization. He shifted styles over time.  The exhibit highlights his impressionist landscapes, abstract works, paintings, photo-based nudes, etc. 

​Here are some photos from the exhibit.
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These two Picabia paintings shown below reminded me of one of my own paintings that I painted earlier this past year, "Woof Woof! Gotta Get My Bone."  All three works utilize black lines in a similar fashion. I should note that my painting was created without ever seeing Picabia's work; I am just noting the coincidence in how we both used these lines in the same fashion.
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Woof Woof! Gotta Get My Bone, 10" x 20", Acrylic on Canvas by Eddie Bruckner
"Revolutionary Impulse: the Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde" was another wonderful temporary exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art that runs through March 12, 2017.  The fact that all the artwork on display comes directly from MOMA's permanent collection, demonstrates how wonderful MOMA is and how impressive their permanent collection is.  Of all the artwork on view, there were two artists whose work caught my eye.  

The two photos below are from the Russian artist Alexandra Exter. The oil on canvas painting on the left, called "Theatrical Composition" was very intriguing to me.  I loved the colors, shapes, and overall composition of the painting.  The other smaller works, pictured to the right are six designs from various stage sets like The Merchant of Venice, Othello, and others.
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The second artist, whose work I found very unique was the Russian artist, El Lissitzky. the painting shown below (along with a detailed close-up photo) is of the painting "Proun 19D"  It is painted on plywood and uses a variety of media such as gesso, oil, varnish, crayon, colored papers, graph paper, sandpaper, cardboard, metallic paint, and metal foil.
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To photograph all the well-know paintings from all the famous artists would be a huge undertaking.  So I'm including a small selection of some of my favorite pieces along with some detailed close-up photos from the following artists:  Georges Seurat, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Jasper Johns, Henri Matisse, Fernand Leger, Jim Dine, Andy Warhol, Edward Ruscha, Josef Albers, James Rosenquist, Robert Rauschenberg, and Sol LeWitt.  I have the close-up photos to show the brushstrokes, the detailed use of color, and a glimpse into what the artist was focused on while painting their masterpiece.  
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Georges Seurat
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Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night"
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Jasper Johns' "Flag"
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Robert Rauschenberg's "Sky Garden" from "Stoned Moon Series"
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Pablo Picasso's Guitar Sculpture (3 views), and below, "Vase of Flowers" & "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
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Henri Matisse "The Piano Lesson"
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Fernand Leger, "The Mirror"
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Jim Dine
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Edward Ruscha, "OOF"
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Josef Albers, "Day and Night: Homage to the Square"
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Andy Warhol, "Water Heater"
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James Rosenquist, "F-111" Oil on Canvas with aluminum, 23 Sections on 4 walls.
I highly recommend visiting the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.  More information about the museum can be found on their website:  www.moma.org.
PS: If you liked this article, you might like these other articles on my artistic travels:
Kennebunkport, Maine
Los Angeles, California
New York City Street Art
Napa Valley, California
Park City, Utah
Barcelona, Spain
Caribbean Art
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Visiting Two Great Art Institutions in Greater Boston

6/16/2016

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This past week I had the pleasure of visiting two of my favorite Art Museums in the Boston area.  What I love about art museums is the special combination of new temporary exhibitions and spectacular permanent collections. 

The Rose Art Museum
The first museum I’ll write about is the Rose Art Museum, located in Waltham, Massachusetts.  On a personal note, the Rose Art Museum is special to me because it is part of Brandeis University, my alma mater.  As part of my art education at Brandeis university, I had the unique opportunity to tour the Rose’s amazing permanent collection—however, not exhibited on the walls of the museum, but rather in the museum’s storage vault.  In the mid-1990s, I saw incredible works from the collection from Roy Lichtenstein to Andy Warhol to Willem de Kooning to Jasper Johns.  With over 8,000 works of art, mostly from American Artists from the 1960s and 1970s, the Rose Art Museum is one of the leading art museums in the world.  Use the following link to see the digital collection:  http://rosecollection.brandeis.edu/
 
This week the Rose Art Museum was exhibiting a temporary retrospective exhibit on the artist Rosalyn Drexler. The exhibit, “Rosalyn Drexler:  Who does She Think She Is?” recently closed, but I believe it is traveling to other museums in the coming months.
It was very exciting to look at the career of an artist from the 1960s; Drexler’s work was really relevant at that time in history.  She was part of the pop art movement, knew Andy Warhol, and although her work is really relevant, for various reasons, she wasn’t a central figure in the art world at that time. Walking around the museum and looking at her artwork was really fascinating.  The themes of the show explored issues of love and violence and her interest in pop media, film posters, magazines, etc.  There were also depictions of violence towards women, which she picked out from the images in the mass media and used them as her subject matter.  She’s telling us that this is what is in our mass media and we should be thinking about it.  Some of her artwork feels very “Hollywood.” 
 
The one thing that was very exciting to see in her artwork is how you get to understand and experience her creative process.  For example, Andy Warhol literally took images from mass media, made a screen print of it and used it as his own on his canvas.  And pop artist Roy Lichtenstein often took an image, typically from a cartoon or comic book, and projected it on his canvas and then hand painted what it looked like. Rosalyn Drexler would do something in between, where she would find an image from the mass media and she would use a mimeograph machine (an early photocopier) to enlarge it and paste those enlargements directly on the canvas and painting right over it.  On a number of the paintings, if you looked closely, you could see this collage'd element.  She is using found material directly on the works.  The exhibit also featured from the original source material of the mass media materials she used for her artwork. ​​
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Also on permanent view just outside the museum is Chris Burden’s “Light of Reason” sculpture shown here, which was specifically commissioned for the Rose Art Museum and Brandeis University.  I had the pleasure of attending the dedication ceremony in 2014.  A similar work of his also featuring found Los Angeles street lamps can be seen at the entrance of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
http://www.brandeis.edu/rose/
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It was wonderful to see this retrospective exhibit.  Seeing all of an artist’s work together sheds new light on how significant her work was at the time.

​I also enjoyed a new permanent exhibit that was commissioned from the artist Mark Dion.  He turned a small space in the museum into an exhibit called “The Undisciplined Collector” and is staged as if it were a collector’s home office from 1961, the year of the Rose Art Museum’s founding.  The furniture is from that era and a record player was even playing in the background.  Works from the Rose’s permanent collection from 1961 were hanging on the wall.  In the drawers were prints and photographs from early exhibitions at the Rose.  It just opened this past fall and the room will remain on permanent view. 
The Museum of Fine Arts Boston
The following day I had the opportunity to visit the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, which houses one of the world’s best and diverse collections of fine art including contemporary art, art of Asia, Oceana, Africa, Europe the Americas, art of the ancient world, and jewelry, musical instruments, prints, drawings, and photographs.  Although I didn’t get to see everything in the museum, I was able to see some of my favorite works of art again as well as see some new things and very cool new temporary exhibits.
 
And while I’m more of a contemporary and modern art kind of guy, I was particularly impressed with the story behind a 13-foot-tall statue of a classical sculpture of Juno.  The Roman marble lady is the largest Classical sculpture in any museum in the United States.  But perhaps even more fascinating was where the statue was found; It was found in the backyard of a Brookline, Massachusetts home (a suburb of Boston).  The statue that is dated to about the year 1633 was purchased at the end of the 19th Century in Rome and brought to Brookline, Massachusetts to be placed as part of a formal garden.
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I also encountered an amazing Vincent Van Gogh painting, called “Ravine,” painted in 1889, one year before his passing in 1890. The painting, pictured here along with a close up, is amazing!  From afar, the colors blend together to form a visual picture of a spectacular and breathtaking ravine in France, near the town of Saint Remy.  But as you draw closer to the painting, you see individual brushstrokes, globs of paint on top of paint, on top of even more paint.  The texture and thickness is very cool.  And yet, up close, you can’t even tell what the painting’s subject is at all.  Up close, it simply looks like brushstrokes of color in a random, haphazard fashion.  So what I love about this painting, is that the beauty of this painting is its uniqueness, partly because of this magical illusion; that when seeing the painting up close, we’re being tricked to think these brushstrokes don’t have meaning, when in fact they most certainly do.
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Two works that I loved seeing were Frank Stella’s 1966 painting, “Cinema de Pepsi” and Ellsworth Kelly’s 1968 huge, uniquely shaped painting, “Blue Green Yellow Orange Red”.  These two artists used color in fascinating ways, which I really love and admire. ​
Another American artist, named Spencer Finch, exhibited a spectacular work of art using florescent light fixtures and filters to create his 2014 work entitled, “Shield of Achilles (Dawn, Troy, 10/27/02).  Finch’s work observes colors of a given landscape at a precise day and time; This work is arranged in the shape of a shield, inspired by Homer’s Illiad.  
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The Danish artist, Jeppe Hein’s work entitled “PLEASE…” is a neon light installation from 2008.  Hein is fascinated with the relationship between the viewer and his artwork and the art really isn’t complete without the viewer’s participation.  I really can relate with Jeppe Hein and his work because some of my artwork also has a similar element to it.  My paintings entitled “Close Your Eyes” and “You Have To Read This” come to mind when thinking about Hein’s work.  With “Close Your Eyes” I’m trying to convey to viewers a bit of edginess or something to make you think twice about what you are seeing.  I really enjoy the irony of creating art that is visual, and then the message of the painting instructs you not to look at it.  “Close Your Eyes” was selected in the prestigious Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts Annual Juried Art Exhibit a few years ago.  The six works of art are pictured here.  http://www.jeppehein.net/
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Throughout the museum (and around the Museum and even in Faneuil Hall in Boston) is the Megacities Asia exhibit, which runs until July 17, 2016.  Megacities are cities with populations of more than ten million. These megacities are increasing in numbers and changes the lives of so many people.  I was really impressed with the works of the artists Ai Weiwei and Choi Jeong Hwa.  Choi Jeong Hwa’s “Breathing Flower” located just outside the museum was very moving. http://aiweiwei.com/
  http://choijeonghwa.com/
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And lastly, the temporary exhibit called “#techstyle” was really quite amazing to see.  It’s on view through July 10, 2016, so be sure to get to the MFA soon!  The exhibit shows how emerging technologies are shaping fashion design now and in the future.  The exhibit highlighted 3d printed shoes (shown here), electronics, lights, lasers, etc.  Here is a photo of a dress made with a programmable LED display with changing patterns and colors.
 
For more information, go to www.mfa.org
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