The Walker Evans exhibition spreads across two large sections of the 3rd floor of SFMOMA – it would take more time than I had to really see it. His work captures the ordinary uniqueness of people and places. Some of his most well known work from assignments for the Farm Security Administration is difficult to […]
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Portrait – HOPE GANGLOFF
The broken brush strokes, bright colors and skewed perspectives in Hope Gangloff’s paintings not only suggest van Gogh, but also carry traces of Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt. Ms. Gangloff’s acrylic flat surfaces, however, look as if they’ve been drawn with felt pens, and her electric colors have the backlit brightness of liquid crystal displays. […]
Alice Aycock, Paper Chase – Park Ave., NY
Called “Park Avenue Paper Chase,” and stretching from 52nd Street to 66th, they are inspired variously by tornadoes, dance movements and drapery folds, and will be up until July 20 .
Making Pottery Art
Inspired by Art Nouveau and the British Arts and Crafts movement, these artists were trying to do for the decorative arts what Post-Impressionists like van Gogh and Cézanne and Symbolists like Moreau and Redon were doing for painting around the same time: rescuing their medium from stuffy, fussy and vapid forms of bourgeois gentility. […]
Ferran Adria, chef: Drawing Center, Plating Diagrams
Circles and sketchy colors make for an eye catching composition. These are plating diagrams from the chef.