Fountain Street Fine Art

The Art of Michelle Lougee and Bob Grignaffini,” at the Fountain Street Fine Art Gallery in Framingham try to make known their analysis of the world through shape and paint in a new exhibit: Work of art and Sculpture.

Sculptor Lougee of Cambridge and painter Grignaffini, formerly from Wellesley, aim to portray the delicate relationship between humans and nature using bright colors and defined shapes.

As an environmental sculptor and artist, Lougee forms colorful, spiritual sculptures to arrest the significance of humans’ responsibility to the earth and the notorious question of nature vs. technology. Her effortless, cellular figure depict the reality of the world and communicate a clear message to viewers: “What are we going to do?”

Lougee said that we are in a hazardous place right now. She also added that the way we live affects us in the future.

Grignaffini’s oil paintings reveal his views on places around the world. He captures the society and light that make a sight come to life using bright colors within solid forms. 

Paintings are a “celebration of color and form” within pastoral and small town landscapes, said Grignaffini. He also added that “Everything has spirit in it” and “I try to be honest with the way I’m laying the paint down.” Not all of his subjects are authentic.

Grignaffini - Pathway through a Garden - is intended to be an interactive section for viewers. He tempts us to stair into the painting with an extended staircase fleeting through a beautiful garden of bright greens, yellows and blues.

Both performers add inspiration from nature. Grignaffini’s paintings try to illustrate a sense of movement and life in otherwise stationary objects. Lougee loves the otherworldliness of the ocean and bases many of her figures on deep-sea life forms.

Paintings with Invisible Ink!

Late Brooklyn Art Star Basquiat marked the work of arts with Invisible Ink! The procedure of verifying the work of Brooklyn-born superstar artist Jean-Michel Basquiat has come under secure inspection in more than a few months, following not only a clash over an art on a Williamsburg bodega's door, but also the fresh choice by his estate—which his father Gerard manages—to break up its authentication committee. 

But that group, which gets the ultimate say on which members are deemed multi-million-dollar workings by the star of the 80s Downtown scene, might want to create a black light to its discussions: while prepping a Basquiat for sale, Sotheby's newly noticed that the artist had marked a painting in invisible ink.

It is noticeable that the artist's name and the date, 1982, appeared under ultraviolet light in the bottom-right-hand corner of "Orange Sports Figure," which is likely to put up for sale at the public sale house's London location for somewhere between $4.7 million and $6.3 million.

“Nobody else possibly ever knew about this unseen writing, and the scene that he might have missing other invisible writings on his researches that are only visible under ultraviolet light is very exciting," Sotheby’s Europe head of contemporary art Cheyenne Westphal told the Associated Press.

The autograph, which bizarrely features Basquiat's full name as opposed to one of his crowns or his long-time also known as SAMO, was actually made with the same type of marker used to authenticate paper currency. "Orange Sports Figure" was on the public sale block today, with no boost to its estimated price in light of the discovery. The sale house also didn't reveal how it happened upon the black light discovery in the first place.