Upcoming Gallery and Museum Shows, continuing thread

link to exhibition

this is an interesting show at a London major gallery - I loved some of the work on the links. (Elemental North)

Nice website. I think my computer is slow today (I have to weed out some of the many links I save) and after about twenty minutes I still haven't seen all the names' works.
I'm not drawn myself to any of the work I've seen so far - except for one and it was only on the screen a second and I didn't find it again.

I'll check the site again later after I do some more trimming of my files.

if you click on the names one image shows and off to the right is a pull down bar which makes the others by that artist come up larger There were a couple I liked particularly - the seascapes was one (unsurprisingly! but i love the light and emptiness and the compositions)



The work of Peter Pargison and Len Tabner appealed to me

I hope the site behaves for you

I didn't get to them. I can work the site, but the transitions are very slow for my computer.

that's a shame

is it any better if I post a direct link to the 2 I like?

Peter P

and

len t

I think it would be a memory-hungry site



Portal has posted a thread

asking for advice when she talks to a gallery she's seeing - I said you'd be good - can you advise her?

link

I'll check.
I'm getting low memory notices all over the place today - and I don't want to buy new memory, I want to buy a new computer, but not this week.

I'm not bowled over by Peter P today, for whatever reasons, but Tabner does interest me generally; this is the piece I had seen for a second and hadn't found -
http://www.messums.com/sub_paintings.ink?productid=3309

I like it - he generally works pretty big as well so they are really lovely and loose and gestural when you see them in real life.

I too would love a new computer

checking in.

The NYTimes reported that there was a good Fra Angelico exhibit opening at the Metropolitan Museum. October 26, 2005-January 29, 2006

Includes 75 of his works plus "forty-five additional works by his assistants and closest followers."

http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Fra_Angelico/more.asp

Oops, missed this thread

So, posting here again:


Another exhibition noted in my time schedule:

As from autumn 2005, the Kunstsammlung NRW will show a selection of exquisite loans from internationally renowned museums - such as the important collections of modern art in London, New York, Paris, St. Petersburg and from private collectors. This big exhibition of works from Matisse, the first in a German-speaking country since more than twenty years, will show about eighty paintings, supplemented by high-quality drawings and sculptures.


Henri Matisse: Figure Colour Space (kind of slide show on that site)



My state's gallery:
North Rhine-Westphalia's Art Collection - Kunstsammlung NRW

Location: Duesseldorf

In its forty year history the Kunstsammlung NRW has established its own unmistakable profile as a museum for 20th century art, and has long been recognised internationally for its outstanding collection of paintings, including works by Picasso, Braque, Ernst, Chagall, Léger, Klee.

Since 2002 its collection expanded into a new museum and building, called "K 21". Here the work that the Kunstsammlung has carried out so successfully in the past enters a new era, with international contemporary art and art of the 21st century.

Piffka, that sounds like such a great show - I had read the article. I'm quite keen on him myself..

Thank you, Walter!

Are you going to see the Matisse show, Walter?

Most-most probably 'yes'.

Samuel Palmer

This exhibition will be the first major retrospective of Samuel Palmer since 1926, when many artists were captivated by Palmer's poetic vision rooted in a desire to reclaim the spiritual element in landscape composition. The deliberate ?'primitivism' of his early work, associated with his famous ?'Valley of Vision' at Shoreham in Kent, owed much to the inspiration of William Blake, the Bible, Milton and Bunyan, and to his study of the sixteenth-century engravings of Dürer and Lucas van Leyden. From the mid-1860s Palmer's poetic intensity revived in response to a commission from John Ruskin's solicitor for a series of watercolours arising from ?'his inner sympathies'. Through the watercolours and etchings based on the minor poems of Milton and the Epilogues of Virgil, among others, Palmer's work became known to a new generation of artists and writers including W.B. Yeats.

UK, London, British Museum
October 21, 2005 - January 22, 2006

Website at the British Museum

Thanks. I don't know of him, this is a nice introduction.

Harvest Moon


When I saw this painting in Manchester about a year ago in the City Gallery, it reminded me a lot of German romantic painters (due to my German teacher, we did a lot of various studies in romantism at school).





The Waterfalls, Pistil Mawddach, North Wales 1835-6


I really like this one



A Hilly Scene

This magnificent exhibition is devoted to the artistic and cultural riches of Imperial China. Spanning the reigns of three Emperors, Kangxi (1662?-1722), Yongzheng (1723?-35) and Qianlong (1736?-95), it focuses on the most powerful rulers of China's last dynasty: the Qing. Each Emperor employed the greatest artists and workshops of his day to glorify his rule.

China: The Three Emperors, 1662?-1795 features over 370 treasures, including precious robes and palace furnishings, paintings and painted scrolls, weapons and ceremonial armour, clocks and astronomical instruments, antique jades and bronzes, ingenious scientific instruments, the finest porcelain, carvings and lacquer ware, elegant furniture, a sedan chair and an imperial throne.

More and link to the exhibition China: The Three Emperors, 1662?-1795

wow - interesting links Walter, I like Samuel Palmer and a friend loves his work, so I must tell her about this.

The RA looks fascinating as well.