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Impressionist Works by Matisse and Others Featured in Caen’s “Summer at the Seaside”

Friday, May 17th, 2013

The turn of the 19^th century introduced the masses to leisure and seaside holidays. Entire sections of society who had previously never imagined the word “vacation” were now spending summers on the coast. It wasn’t long before the art world started capturing this new facet of daily life, with the Impressionists paying special attention to the phenomenon.

The newest exhibit at Caen’s fine art museum, “Summer by the Seaside: Leisure Activities and Impressionism” seeks to illustrate the rise of leisure in society. Divided into four parts, the exhibit focuses on works centered around the sand, the sea, boats and sails, and the iconic sun bath. The exhibition in Caen features 67 art pieces, and runs until September 29^th…appropriately through the end of summer.

Works by Manet, Monet, and Degas are featured in “the sand” section of the exhibit. Once tiny fishing villages were transformed into bastions for beach going, and the impressionists often capture beach scenes in their work. “The sea” and the “boats and sails” categories depict the transformed coastlines and new perspectives provided by the sea and watercrafts. The last part of the exhibit, focused around sun bathing in the Mediterranean features the largest and most well-known pieces of the exhibit, with masterpieces by Degas, Renoir, and Cezanne.

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“Monet’s Garden” opens at the National Gallery of Victoria

Monday, May 13th, 2013

Some of Monet’s best-known works are coming to Australia for the first time, including a collection of big water lily paintings and the garden motifs that became his trademark later in life.

This might be a once in a lifetime opportunity to see the French impressionist master’s best works in Melbourne. See why Monet is considered to be the grand master of impressionism and why his works are among the most highly regarded and most well-loved in the art world.

The exhibit will also feature early photographs of Monet and of his garden. Visitors will be able to get a glimpse of the man behind the artist and get to know him in his early years.

The main exhibition, which will feature around 50 paintings from the Musee Marmottan Monet, as well as Monet’s masterpieces owned by various private collections and some of the world’s top museums, will be presented in two sections.

The first part will feature the paintings that Monet created when the garden was still being constructed, including the Parliament; the Reflections on the Thames, which was done in 1900; and the Field of Yellow Irises at Giverny, done in 1887.

The next part will feature paintings from the latter part of Monet’s life up to 1926.

In short, the exhibit will not only feature Monet’s best works, but it will also allow you to get a glimpse of his garden as the artist envisioned it and how he saw it. Visitors will also be able to see every aspect of the world-famous garden, including depictions of various flowers, of the weeping willow, and of the Japanese footbridge.

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Davyd Whaley’s “Heaven & Hell” Featured at UCLA Exhibit

Thursday, May 9th, 2013

Galerie Michael artist Davyd Whaley is being featured in UCLA’s “It’s Your Show 2013” with his piece, “Heaven & Hell.” The exhibit is going on now and runs through May 30^th. Davyd’s “Heaven & Hell” was given an Award of Distinction, so don’t miss out on this chance to show Davyd your support!

Davyd Whaley is one of the few living artists featured as part of Galerie Michael’s collection. He grew up in eastern Tennessee and started a career in electrical engineering after serving in the Navy. He rose up the ranks of engineering positions around the country, before finally settling in Los Angeles. Though he enjoyed engineering, the stress and corporate rigidity of his career lead to health complications making it difficult for him to continue in the field. It was then that he turned to his life-long passion: art. He started taking art classes in New York, and he was soon painting full time.

Davyd’s works draw upon dream imagery and the subconscious. Using large unstretched canvasses and vivid imagery, Davyd pieces together his subconscious into emotional artworks that captivate the viewer. Learn more about David and his work right here at Galerie Michael!

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300 Works by Andy Warhol Featured in Shanghai Exhibit

Wednesday, May 8th, 2013

The work of Andy Warhol has steadily been making it’s way across Asia in a 300 piece all inclusive exhibit powered by Pittsburgh’s Andy Warhol Museum. The show had already made stops in Singapore and Hong Kong and is slated to head to Beijing and Tokyo following Shanghai. The exhibit, titled “Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal” marks the first time a collection of this magnitude has traveled to Asia.

The exhibition is arranged by decade cataloging his work from the 1940s to the 1980s and includes iconic pieces such as “Campbell’s Soup” (1961), “Marilyn Monroe” (1963), and “Self-Portrait” (1986). In addition to his art work, the show also provides a glimpse into Warhol’s personal life with examples of some of his time capsules.

With China’s current art and museum boom, the city is on track to become a culture capital on par with the likes of Paris or New York. But critics argue that Shanghai will never become a true creative center due to government censorship. In that light, Warhol’s famous portraits of Chairman Mao which were scheduled to be part of the exhibit are not being shown in Shanghai.

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Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum Re-Opens with “Van Gogh at Work”

Monday, May 6th, 2013

After closing for a seven month renovation, Amsterdam’s famed Van Gogh Museum opened last week with an anniversary exhibition dedicated to Van Gogh’s best pieces, “Van Gogh at Work.” The show delves deep into Van Gogh’s process, giving visitors an in-depth look into the nitty gritty of the artist’s methods. The exhibition aims to show Van Gogh’s progression as a painter and his contributions to the art community.

Museum restorers hung Van Gogh’s “Self-portrait as a painter” as a symbol of the restoration’s completion, just moments before the museum was reopened. In addition to their own extensive collection, pieces from other collections around the world are featured in “Van Gogh at Work.” And works rarely seen next to each other are shown side by side to illustrate the relationship among Van Gogh’s paintings. Pieces from Van Gogh’s influences as well as work by artists influenced by Van Gogh will also be displayed, including work by Monet, Gauguin, and Seurat.

The show leads viewers chronologically through Van Gogh’s career, starting with his early drawings and going all the way up to his most famous works. The Van Gogh museum will be showing the exhibition through January 12.

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Matisse Cut Outs and Other Later Works Featured at LACMA

Thursday, May 2nd, 2013

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is paying homage to Henri Matisse’s later career and his final commission in “Henri Matisse: La Gerbe.” The display centers around Matisse’s final commission, a ceramic painting entitled “La Gerbe.” The piece has been on display at LACMA since 2010, but the new exhibit provides context through other works Matisse completed around that time, and the paper cut outs featured in his book Jazz, which inspired the design for “La Gerbe.”

Matisse was originally commissioned to create “La Gerbe” in the early 1950’s by Sydney and Francis Brody, Los Angeles fine art collectors. With a home designed by A. Quincy Jones and filled with works by Picasso, Braque, and Calder, the Brody’s were looking for Matisse to create a piece that could stand at the center of their articulate collection. When the Brody’s first approached Matisse, he was finishing up his book of paper cut outs, the inspiration for “La Gerbe’s” design. In 2010, the artwork was transported (in one piece!) from the Brody residence to the walls of LACMA.

“Heri Matisse: La Gerbe” will be on display at LACMA until September 8^th.

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Manet’s Early Paintings Are Explored in “Manet. Return to Venice”

Wednesday, May 1st, 2013

Nearly 80 paintings, drawings, and prints from Edouard Manet’s early career will be on display at Venice’s Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia in their new “Manet. Return to Venice” exhibit. The show was organized in collaboration with Paris’ Musee d’Orsay, which houses the largest number of Manet’s masterpieces.

The exhibit is centered around Manet’s formative years as a painter, with a special attention paid to the Italian Renaissance art that served as the inspiration of his early musings. Though Manet’s art would later be thought of as the pre-cursor to modern art, much of his early work was increasingly academic. Italian artists such as Titian, Tintoretto, and Lotto were the influence of much of Manet’s early career.

“Manet. Return to Venice” marks the most significant and critical Manet exhibit to take place in Italy. The exhibition will be on display in Venice through August 18^th.

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Comprehensive Dali Exhibit in Madrid Traces Career from Start to Finish

Monday, April 29th, 2013

Madrid’s Reina Sofia Museum opened a major retrospective exhibit dedicated to the life and works of surrealist painter, Salvador Dali. The exhibit stands at over 200 pieces strong, including works in painting, drawing, sculpture, writing, and film and television clips—all of which were chosen to show Dali’s influence on modern art in the early 20^th century. Titled, “Dali. All of the poetic suggestions and all of the plastic possibilities,” the exhibition is set to run April 27^th through September 2^nd.

The show catalogues Dali’s career from start to finish, beginning with works from his time as a student in Madrid. The exhibit follows Dali’s influential role in the formation of surrealism, his mystical and nuclear stages—where he focused on religious and scientific themes—and finally to the end of his career when he worked often in film, television, and set design. At the center of it all stands Dali’s most recognized piece, “The Persistence of Memory” featuring his iconic melting pocket watches.

Dali’s influence penetrates as deep as it does wide, with works ranging in a variety of mediums. Show curator Montse Aguer commented on Dali’s works saying, “Dali lived in an era when painting was inexorably destined to lose ground to other art forms like photography, cinema and conceptual art, and he dabbled in all of these.”

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Works by Andy Warhol Fill The MAC in Northern Ireland

Monday, April 22nd, 2013

The Metropolitan Arts Centre (The MAC) in Belfast is wrapping up a museum wide Andy Warhol exhibition chronicling the artist’s life and career. The exhibit features 232 works and marks the first time Northern Ireland has hosted a major exhibition dedicated to Any Warhol.

As visitors enter the museum, they’re greeted by Warhol’s “I think everybody should like everybody,”—an especially relevant quote for the Belfast setting. The entrance is covered with Warhol designed advertisements and posters, such as marketing materials he created for the Velvet Underground. The MAC chose to focus the exhibit on the fundamental human themes that penetrate Warhol’s body of work: the beauty and glamour of youth and fame, material culture, the passing of time, and the presence of death. Using then controversial techniques such as mass production and everyday objects, Warhol was able to blur the lines between fine art and popular culture.

In addition to the actual art works, The MAC is offering events, film screenings, and special “Andy Warhol experiences” all aimed at giving viewers a 360 degree view of all things Andy Warhol.

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“From Beckmann to Warhol: Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries” opens at Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin

Wednesday, April 17th, 2013

A comprehensive exhibit spanning two centuries and four major art movements, “From Beckmann to Warhol: Art of the 20^thand 21^st Centuries” opened at Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. The exhibit contains 240 works from 89 artists, including names such as Picasso, Miro, Warhol, Chagall, and many more.

The exhibit is divided into four major art movements from the 20^th and 21^st centuries. The first movement, German Expressionism, is covered by works from the likes of Max Beckmann and Emil Nolde. Modernism of the École de Paris, the movement of Paris’ artistic golden age in the late 19^th and early 20^th century is characterized by pieces from Marc Chagall, Joan Miro, and others. The final two categories are post-war art, with works by Ernst Nay, and contemporary art from the 70’s to today, which contains pieces from David Hockney, Sam Francis, and others.

The exhibit is open in Berlin until June 9^th. For more information, visit the exhibition page on the Martin-Gropius-Bau website.

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