Though the District's fall art season doesn't rival last year's, there are still many arresting exhibitions to look forward to, among them the National Gallery of Art's sensational "Constable's Great Landscapes: The Six-Foot Paintings," considered to be John Constable's greatest works (Oct. 1-Dec. 31); the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden's "Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas: Recent Sculptures" (Oct. 26-Jan. 7); and the American University Art Museum's "Life After Death: New Leipzig Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection," works from the acclaimed East German artist group (through Oct. 29). The long-awaited "Manon Cleary: A Retrospective" at the Edison Place Gallery disproves the rule that museums exhibit the best art (PEPCO Building, Sept. 14-Oct. 27). One of the city's most r...
-- CONSTABLE IN L.A. The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in Pasadena, Calif., will display a landmark exhibit, "Constable's Great Landscapes: The Six-Foot Paintings," featuring the works of Englishman John Constable, from Feb. 3 to April 29. Six of his large landscapes will be paired with their full- size oil sketches. For information go to www.huntington.org. -- ROMANTIC GETAWAYS. According to the January/February issue of Coastal Living magazine, great places for a little R&R for just you and your special someone include Naples, Fla., New York City, Barbados, Sausalito, Calif., Niagara Falls, Ontario, Fairhope, Ala., Cannon Beach, Ore., St. Michaels, Md., La Jolla, Calif., and the Outer Banks, N.C.
It's rare that a museum transforms a major painter's reputation with a single show, but the National Gallery of Art has done just that with "Constable's Great Landscapes: The Six-Foot Paintings. Art aficionados know the English Romantic painter John Constable (1776-1837) for his academic, bucolic landscapes, but the exhibit shows him in a much different light.
Try this: Go to the Metropolitan Museum and take in some landscape paintings. Look at Claude Lorraine, the Dutch artists, Camille Corot, John Constable, the impressionists, Winslow Homer and George Inness. Pick the one that makes you happiest. Not the best or most majestic or even the prettiest, but the one that fills you with a good feeling, the one you would climb into if you could. Don't tell me what it is. I'll tell you.
Although she does show landscapes in her photographs, Sarah Pickering was not planning to add to the canon of picturesque English landscape artworks when she made a series of images at an abandoned RAF base in Lincolnshire. In each image, the rather ordinary terrain is enlivened by an explosion -- in Fuel Air Explosion, it's a bright fireball; in Landmine, she captured an eruption of trailing sparks; and in Artillery, a giant puff of smoke. The trio of Pickering photos appears in Manmade: Notions of Landscape From the Lannan Collection, an exhibit of about 40 works by nine artists that opens Friday, Oct. 9, at the New Mexico Museum of Art. Although landscape is an organizing theme for the exhibition, it's really just a stage for Pickering.
... think about British landscape and it's Constable paintings and the rolling countryside, whereas the...
With the National Gallery of Art's showing of John Constable's sketches for his "six-footers" in Constable's Great Landscapes: The Six-Foot Paintings, they've changed what has been thought of as the "Constable style." In 1818 the Englishman (1776-1837) saw he would have to enlarge his works to compete with other landscapists and invented his roughly painted, very modern-looking sketches. Anyone interested in the history of modernism should see this show. At the National Gallery of Art, Fourth Street and Constitution Avenue Northwest, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sundays through Dec. 31. Free. 202/737-4215. - Joanna Shaw-Eagle
Jill Fitterer's striking pair of iconic images entitled From "The Nomad's Discovery: Chamber of Icons," with their stately half-bird-half-man figures are right out of a pharaoh's tomb. They dramatically portray the yin-and-yang, the before and after, of the printmaker's art. On the left is the carved and inked birchwood wood block of the image which faces the resulting reverse image woodcut print, leaving the two figures confronting each other. Stephanie Bacon's Histories is a labor-intensive tapestry of printed and hand written text, commercial and found imagery and artifacts that is a layered commentary on where we are as a society. Even Bill Carmen has gotten brazen in this show. His normally subdued illustrative vignettes give way to a madcap sculptural piece featuring a crazed "car...
...Crazy. Richard Young's tondo paintings on wood panel are a departure for him in terms of ... and uninteresting, His canvas Constable Lane/Dance of the Cumulus is somehow totally devoi...
Weschler talks about his visit to painter David Hockney that has returned to the wide empty canvas and the oil-laden brush. Among other things, Hockney concludes that in order to convey space and spaciousness, rather than mere surface--and this is what have been realized with greater and greater force. Hockney averred as to how it had taken some time to get the hang of the process--that is, to get to the point where he could fashion a finished grid that didn't simply fall into a pell-mell jumble--and he'd had to draw on lessons from many of his other excursions from over the past several decades.
...Looking at the paintings of this period . . . you get the exhilarating feel..."I've been looking at Constable a lot recently," Hockney declared as he fumbled fo...
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...* John Constable: Oil Sketches From the Victoria & Albert Museum - ...A touring exhibit of Constable's oil paintings organized by London's Victoria and Albert Museum. ...
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