Friday 29 June 2012

Exhibition at Tate Modern reassesses the work of Norwegian painter Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye is a major exhibition which reassesses the work of this Norwegian painter. It proposes a ground-breaking dialogue between the artist’s paintings and drawings made in the first half of the 20th century and his often overlooked interest in the rise of modern media, including photography, film and the re-birth of stage production.

Few other modern artists are better known and yet less understood than Munch (1863-1944). He is often presented primarily as a 19th century painter, a Symbolist or a pre-Expressionist, but this exhibition aims to show how he engaged emphatically with 20th century concerns that were thoroughly representative of the modernity of the age. Organised in close cooperation with the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Munch Museum in Oslo, it features over sixty carefully-selected paintings and fifty photographs, alongside his lesser-known filmic work. These reveal Munch’s interest in current affairs and how his paintings were inspired by scenes observed in the street or incidents reported in the media. Far from confining himself to the studio, he frequently worked outdoors to capture everyday life.

The show also examines how Munch often repeated a single motif over a long period of time in order to re-work it. It gathers together different versions of his most celebrated works, such as The Sick Child from 1907 and 1925 and The Girls on the Bridge from 1902 and 1907, and others from collections including the Gothenberg Konstmuseum and the Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo. Like other painters such as Bonnard and Vuillard, Munch adopted photography in the early years of the 20th century and his photographic activities were largely focused on self-portraiture, which he obsessively restaged and reworked. Self-portraits also lay at the heart of Munch’s painted oeuvre. In the 1930s he developed an eye disease and made poignant works which charted the effects of his degenerating sight. His last work, on display here, was one such self-portrait.

 Munch’s use of prominent foregrounds and strong diagonals reference the advancing technological developments in cinema and photography. Creating the illusion of actors moving towards the spectator, as if looming out from a cinema screen, this pictorial device can be seen in many of Munch’s most innovative works such as On the Operating Table 1902-03 and The Yellow Log 1912 from the Munch Museum. Munch was also keenly aware of the visual effects brought on by the introduction of electric lighting on theatre stages and used this to create ethereal drama in, for example, his 1907 Green Room series. The duality of presence and erasure is further explored in key works such as The Sun 1910-13 and Starry Night 1922-24, where matter takes on an ephemeral or ghostlike appearance. The exhibition was organised by the Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris, in cooperation with the Munch Museum, Oslo and in association with Tate Modern, London. It was curated by Angela Lampe and Clément Chéroux at the Centre Pompidou and by Nicholas Cullinan at Tate Modern assisted by Shoair Mavlian. A fully illustrated catalogue is available from Tate Publishing.

Friday 15 June 2012

The Wonderful Oil Paint Of Scottish Landscapes


The wonderful art of Francis e Jamieson pAair framed scottish oil landscapes 1910-40We offer this exceptional and large pair of framed Scottish beautiful landscapes by renowned artist Francis E Jamieson and oil painted between 1910 and 1940. Painted in oil on canvas one oil portrays a picture by a cottage next to a loch below a mountainous back drop while the other shows wonderful a waterfall set within a mountainous luxury's landscape. Both are signed FE Jamieson and both were framed in the 1960’s in frames contemporary of the a period.

The Excellent Cottage Cattle Watercolour Painting



This is an excellent English School water color dating from the during Victorian period.The wonderful art of painting cottage scene depicts a classic late nineteenth  Century antique Victorian period sweet 'chocolate box' study of a tatched cottage with leaded windows nestled beside huge mature trees in the rural English countryside. Two cows, one recumbent, bask in the sunshine as cute voices of birds fly in the blue clouded sky.

The 17th Century Of Oil Painting White Goat



This magnificent late 17th century oil painting of white goats, sheep and shepherd dogs on a mountainside is typical of the pastoral works of some Flemish and Dutch artists working in Italy in the late 17th century.

The great famous in Rome, these artists formed a society known as the Bentveughels ('Birds of a Feather'), known for its scandal as well as for its most intellectual life, which was active c. 1620-1720, and consisted of some 70 members, many with famous nicknames such as 'Scarecrow', 'the Ferret', 'Ugly Puppet', 'Sunflower', 'Adonis'. The wonderful present artist is likely to have worked within this orbit, specialising as a painter of animals in the same tradition as Frans Snyders (Antwerp 1579-1657 Antwerp), Snyders' brother-in-law Paul de Vos (Hulst 1591- 1678 Antwerp), Snyder's pupil Jan Fyt (Antwerp 1611-1661 Antwerp), Fyt's pupil David de Coninck (Antwerp 1644-1701 Brussels), and Rosa da Tivoli (Frankfurt am Main 1657-1706 Rome).

The drama of Italian landscape as well as the country's rich cultural heritage provided many such artists with the material for their works, and the present wonderful painting, whose grand scale suggests that it was commissioned for an aristocratic beautiful house, evidently draws on the strong Italianate pastoral tradition amongst Flemish artists.

Tuesday 5 June 2012

The Oil Paintings Of Southern State




The great Tanjore Painting is most a special, very old, minute type of painting named after the place Tanjore (Thanjavur in Tamil) in Tamil Nadu, a southern state of great INDIA. These oil paintings are made by the 'cover with golden and gem-set modern technique' a method where gold colored leaves & sparkling shining stones are used to emphasize certain aspects of the paintings like wonderful ornaments, colorful dresses etc. Tanjore wonderful Paintings are known for their art richness, vibrant colors and condensed most composition. Basically serving as devotional different symbols, the subject matters of most of these paintings are Hindu culture  Gods and Goddesses, Saints and Kings as well.

The oil paintings are the sights from the olden holy books of Hindu peoples religion. They are exceptional and rich in sequences of colors, designs, and most traditional techniques mixed with through attention to full details. High class gold foils brushes  are used to guarantee the oil paintings lasts decades and becomes treasures of the family.

The World Modern Technique Of Oil Paintings Portraits



A style of oil painting portraits and natural sceneries or else objects is oil painting. Oil painting is done with a special mixture of colorful paints known as blends to form an act6ual depiction of lively scenes of objects. As this kind of painting gives more natural and actual appeal to the wonderful painting, it is being widely used by the painting and portrait artists all over the painting world. The luster of the colors used in this king of painting is so appealing and the painting even looks like an wonderful original photo.

World most famous portraits, paintings and personalities photos have been reproduced into message of beautiful oil paintings. As the modern artists reproduce those spectacular oil painting marvels into more beautiful, appealing oil paintings. These oil painting reproductions seems to be more lustrous and appealing as they are compared to the original ones because of art of modern techniques of oil painting.