Art & Culture

“SAM Wins Bet Over Denver Art Museum, Unveils Broncho Buster”

“SAM Wins Bet Over Denver Art Museum, Unveils Broncho Buster”

by Joshua Lewis via “Seattle Refined“

Before the Super Bowl, we told you about a bet between the Denver and Seattle Art Museums determining that whoever won the big game would have to loan one of their most precious pieces of art to the other museum for a period of time.

Well, we all know what happened that Sunday. So today, Denver Art Museum’s “Broncho Buster” has arrived and been unveiled at it’s new temporary home at SAM. In attendance to witness the glorious celebration were fifth graders from The Little School in Bellevue, fully decked out in their Seahawks and 12s gear.

Nothing to do on your lunch break? SAM is offering free admission to the museum to anyone wearing Hawks gear today.  . . . .”

Coming Exhibition: The Pollock Masterpiece

This one intrigues me because I am from Iowa City, where the Pollock originates.  I have worked with one of the art historians who specializes in the Poll0ck, and she is delighted about this!

Who: Getty Museum

What: Jackson Pollock’s famous work entitled “Mural“

–the work was commissioned by the amazing art collector/supporter Peggy Guggenheim (her collection is just unbelievable) for the entrance of her New York home in 1943. It has since become representative to many people of that century’s peak in American art.   After it suffered some decay, it was restored by the Getty and will be on exhibit for a short while before returning to its home at the University of Iowa.

When: March 11, 2014 – June 1, 2014

Where: West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center

How Much: Free!

Further Information: The Getty’s Website articles (1) and (2)

“Restored Pollock Masterpiece Goes On Display

At The Getty Museum”

via “CBS News Los Angeles“

 

“LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) — After a little nip here and a tuck there, “Mural,” Jackson Pollock’s brilliant, larger-than-life painting, is once again ready for its close-up.

The oil-on-canvas work, measuring more than 8 feet high and nearly 20 feet long, has been under wraps at the J. Paul Getty Museum for more than a year undergoing extensive restoration.

Officials of the Los Angeles museum showed the results Monday. The painting, which was commissioned in 1943 by New York Art Collector Peggy Guggenheim, goes on display to the general public Tuesday.

The work represents a key turning point in Pollock’s career. It marks his move away from symbolic, regional forms to the abstract expressionism he would become known for.

The painting, owned by the University of Iowa, will be on display at The J. Paul Getty Museum through June 1. . . . “

“A closer look at the Portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour”

“A closer look at the Portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour”

via “The Louvre“

Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, better known as the Marquise de Pompadour, was born in 1721 into a bourgeois family on its way up in the world thanks to its links to the world of finance. She received a refined, elegant education.

As a child, she studied music and dance with Rameau’s favorite singer, Jélyotte. Crébillon père introduced her to the theatre and the art of declamation. He was a great rival of Voltaire, who was later to become a great friend of hers. She was a young protégée of the farmer-general Le Normant de Tournehem, who may in fact have been her real father. At the age of twenty, she married his nephew Guillaume Le Normant d’Etiolles, also later to become a farmer-general. She was then in a position to be admitted to Louis XV’s court, and became the king’s official mistress in 1745.

As a well-educated young woman who had made an advantageous marriage, she was invited to . . . .

 

Nigerian Art: Chiekwe and Caro

“Chiekwe and Caro” by Ben Enwonwu

“Tessa Groshoff Finds Safety in Art”

Tessa Groshoff Finds Safety in Art

by Jennifer Larue via “The Spokesman Review“

“On a white sheet of paper, Tessa Groshoff spills her secrets.

She swirls, lines and scribbles to tell her stories in the universal language of art that words simply cannot convey.

“Art is my way of communicating,” she said. “I believe a person’s voice can be heard without words. Each stroke is a memory to be created or released, and each stroke has a purpose whether it is dark or light.” . . . .”