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Striking a Balance
As her relationship with painting evolved, Springford’s style became ever more original By Cayla Blachman Vivian Springford (1913–2003) has earned an almost mythic reputation in the art world today. Often recalled as a 1932 New York City debutante, she has long evaded consideration as a serious artist. Born in Milwaukee, Springford was transplanted as a…
Real isms
“Art for the People: WPA-Era Paintings from the Djikstra Collection” Invites Reassessment of Terms Used to Define Movements in 20th-century American Art By James D. Balestrieri Henry Adams begins his fascinating essay in the catalogue that accompanies “Art for the People: WPA-Era Paintings from the Djikstra Collection,” on view at the Crocker Art Museum through…
Scandalously Beautiful
The Life and Art of Jacqueline Lamba Shed Extraordinary Light on a Female Surrealist’s Place in the World of Her Time By Salomon Grimberg About her painting In Spite of Everything, Spring, Jacqueline Lamba wrote: “The object is only a part of space created by light. Color is its non-arbitrary choice in transfiguration. Texture is…
An Endless Pursuit
Artist Robert Richenburg marched to the beat of his own drum exploring the possibilities of artistic style. By William Corwin Positioned between the mysterious shadows of Ad Reinhardt and the exuberant, frenetic, but controlled brushstrokes of Willem de Kooning, Robert Richenburg (1917-2006) found his sweet spot. He created intense fields of color that he then…
Staying Gold
The development of Gustav Klimt’s artistic style is studied in a new exhibition. By Gabriel Almeida Gustav Klimt is one of the foremost painters of fin-de-siecle Vienna, and his pictures are widely recognized today for their radical combination of physical realism, technical virtuosity and exploration of a world of instincts and emotions. A prodigious student…
Preserving the Past
The Albuquerque Museum of Art gives visitors an inside look of the life an artist with its exhibition Thomas Cole’s Studio: Memory and Inspiration. By James D. Balestrieri If an artist’s studio is an extension of the artist’s creative mind—the space where the artist’s art is conceived, worked out and brought to fruition—then preserving and…
Forever Katz
The artwork from Alez Katz’s eight-decade career chronicles moments of life as they were and are now. By Lilly Wei Alex Katz turned 95 this past July. That’s hard to believe when looking at the artist and his work since both are characterized by an energy and presence that a 30-year-old might envy. He has…
The Magic of Reality
Perspective is put to the test in the new exhibition Cubism and the Trompe l’Oeil Tradition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. By James D. Balestrieri Cubism, like Trompe l’Oeil painting, with which it is paired in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new exhibition, “Cubism and the Trompe l’Oeil Tradition”, seems like a magic trick,…
Worldly Observations
The U.S. debut of select Flemish masterworks provide context of the changing culture and society across the 15th through 17th centuries. By Gabriel Almeida An exhibition with artworks of over 300 years, and showing side-by-side paintings of masters like Brueghel, Bosch, Patinir and Rubens, always presents a unique opportunity to reflect on the changes of…