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In South Florida and Beyond

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Art Calendar....For Boca & Delray

7/28/2016

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Dear Art Lover---
It's September -- one of the most exciting cultural seasons here in South Florida; a plethora of great art coming to our region to examine and enjoy. I'm updating the calendar to make sure it includes all significant September art showings, gallery highlights and events! More to come...
April-- September 3, 2016

Landscape Art of A.E Backus and Florida's Highwaymen--Florida Atlantic University
September 16 -- November 19 Ritter Gallery Sept. 15 - Nov. 19, 2016
PictureA.E.Backus, Landscape (Not in FAU exhibition)
This exhibit brings together -- for the first time in such detail -- the art of A.E. Backus and that of the Florida Highwaymen, the African American artists from Ft. Pierce inspired by Backus, Florida's greatest landscape artist. The exhibit includes a series of lectures and examinations of how these "Florida Highwaymen" flourished in the Jim Crow south of the 1960s.

Botanicals--Antique Engravings & Lithographs-- Ann Norton Sculpture Garden                                    2051 S. Flagler Dr., West Palm Beach  Sept. 15 - Oct. 20, 2016​
PictureAmerican Turk Cap Lily, Georg Dionysius Ehret, Wikepedia (Not from Norton Garden Exhibitiion)

Lovers of flower prints will be delighted with this exhibit. It contains a beautiful selection of rare lithographs and engravings that depict botanicals, fruit, architectural renderings, and Coats of Arms dating from the 1500s through the 1800s. All are for sale. Each one is beautifully displayed in beautiful handmade frames in mahogany, burl wood, gold and silver leaf, tortoise shell, and marquetry by Giovanni Bello of Florence, Italy. Many include hand-painted mats. 

All-Florida Invitational  at the Boca Raton Museum
Through December 15, 2016

PictureEmilio Martinez, American Me, 2015, mixed media on wood panel

The relaunched All-Florida Invitational at the Boca Museum contains a wide range of types of art. Begun in 1951, the format is new. Five established artists were asked to select five emerging artists. You'll see artwork from 31 artists--some familiar--others entirely new--artwork in a wide variety of genres from video to found objects. There are some outstanding pieces, although many of the best are by the established artist/curators themselves.       

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FAU student creates beautiful, mysterious installation 

7/27/2016

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When you enter the Schmidt Center Gallery at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, you will see the fabric tower created by Talia Cervetti at the far end of the room. It will intrigue and pull you toward it. The mysterious tower is called "Parallel Universes" by Cervetti, 29, the graduate student-artist who conceived and built it as her master's project. It will be up until August 8.   

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The tower cast a spell over me immediately and beckoned me to come closer and examine it.  Coming  closer, I could see ribbons of miniature people in action poses that swirl around the cylinder from top to bottom. These are based on photographs taken by Cervetti.
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When I stepped inside and looked up toward the ceiling, I felt an almost  mystical sense of tranquility and peace and community. That seems to be just what the artist had in mind.  She wanted to create “a non-violent place where myriad members of a single humanity share experiences with one another in the context of a protected sacred space for all to share.” Those are beautiful words to describe a beautiful piece of art—and impressive dream—of a very creative, talented, and thoughtful young artist. 

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Does "conceptual art" have staying power?  

7/11/2016

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This past June, I traveled to the Dia Art Foundation in Beacon, NY, to answer the question, “What is conceptual art?”  I had heard that the Dia art center there had an amazing selection of conceptual, minimalist and post-minimalist art—much of it acquired in the 1960s when conceptual art burst on the art scene. So, since I was in in nearby Poughkeepsie for a Vassar College reunion, I took a bus tour with classmates to explore the center.  

Conceptual Art -
"Art in
which the idea presented is more important 
than the finished product, if there is one.”
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Definitions like this have left me confused. They are pretty abstract and intellectual. They immediately make me wonder, "What if the viewer looks at the piece of art, but no idea emerges?" "Does the viewer have to be a mind reader?" And most important of all: " "Does conceptual art from the 1960s--and beyond--have true "staying power?" 

With those questions in mind, I followed our guide into a large room that held 36 of the canvases of On  Kawara’s  famous Date Points series. Each black rectangle is inscribed with the day, month, and year Kawara  painted it. It seemed obsessive to me. But as we walked around the room, my classmates began to reminisce about what happened to them on some of the dates represented. One date in 1966 was very close to our graduation date. But was it art? Or could these dates just as easily be painted in giant-sized Post-It’s and glued to an office wall? 
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​It was easier for me to understand the huge Richard Serra sculpture we encountered in the next room. It took the form of a huge slab called called a Torqued Ellipse. This tall, twisted copper colored monolith reminded me of Stonehenge and made me want to walk around it and explore it. It was powerful and stunning.




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More Superb Hellenistic Art at the Met

7/4/2016

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​The Pergamon Exhibition at the Met in New York City took my breath away this past June! The statuary was spectacular. Heroes, soldiers, generals, hermaphrodites...In these statues, every muscle, torso, arm and leg was carved so perfectly I thought these figures might come to life as I walked past them. Who knew the Hellenistic world achieved such realistic beauty? Earlier Greek statuary is stiff and formal. These statues, created after the death of Alexander the Great, are created in a much more dynamic, realistic style. 
​The busts of Julius Caesar and Pompey in particular caught my imagination.  Unlike the traditional busts of Roman ancestors, these portraits emanated personality. Caesar is shown with his long nose and rather homely features, but still conveying strength and charisma,  while the portrait of Pompey the Great looked much less haughty and imperial with his round face and almost smiling expression.
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Of course most of this statuary was copied by Roman sculptors. The original statues and busts were the work of amazingly talented court artists who lived much earlier--in the few hundred years between the death of Alexander the Great (323 BC) and 146 BCE when Rome conquered the Greek mainland. That was the heyday of Hellenistic Greece when the great centers of culture were concentrated in Alexandria and Antioch, Pergamon (now in Turkey), and other cities--not so much in the former city states of Greece. You still have a few days to see this exhibition if you are in New York City, since this blockbuster exhibition continues through July 17. 
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My search for the "Dying Gaul"

7/4/2016

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​When in New York City in mid-June,  I made a beeline for the Pergamon Exhibition of Hellenistic art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity to see the great works of art of this period, after the death of Alexander the Great—statuary, finery—gems, glass, gold—and parts of the famous Great Altar of Pergamon (originally located in what is now Turkey) on loan from Berlin. One of my main goals was to see the statue of the “Dying Gaul”— one of the most famous statues in history. Well, there it was—a marble copy of the famous Hellenistic Greek statue. But…this copy was smaller than life size. And it wasn’t the copy I had hoped to see (which is in Rome, not Naples, where this one came from)…My favorite has a torque around his neck. Nevertheless, this timeless statue emanated all the pathos of the original--and clear respect for the fallen warrior.

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    "Art washes away
    from the soul the dust
    of everyday life."
    -Pablo Picasso
     

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    Dear  Art Lover: 
       Welcome back!
       The pandemic shocked and slowed down the art world for many months. But now, artists, museums and galleries have adapted. They are providing new ways for you to enjoy the work of your favorite classic or new artists...and keep on top of cultural trends and developments.
        Here in Palm Beach County art venues from the Norton and Boca Raton Museums to the Art Warehouse in Delray Beach have reopened--with new exhibitions and socially distanced, masked viewing opportunities
         For those of your still reluctant to venture out (until you have your COVID-19 "shots")--the digital world will enable you to enjoy elements of the collections and exhibitions of prestigious institutions such as the Fricke, as well as opportunities to join docents on art tours from France to China. 
         So, I'm back again! To let you know what I consider "the best" of all these opportunities. Keep an eye on my blog to enhance your art-viewing pleasure!


    April Klimley
    February 12, 2021



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