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DAF Group Feature: Vol. 160

June 16, 2016 By Wendy Campbell

Your Weekly Mixx! DAF’s Weekly Mixx is a selection of nine contemporary artworks and/or art related videos chosen from artist and gallery submissions and from our own search for new and interesting works. This week, we feature Artsy.net‘s Fourth Art Market series Video,  Bobbie Russon, Victor Wang Patrick, Dougherty, Linda Vachon, Kevin Peterson, Jylian Gustli, Floto and Warner, Carol Nelson

Visit the Submissions page for information on how to have your art featured in the Weekly Mixx.

The Art Market (in Four Parts): Art Fairs from Artsy on Vimeo.

linda vachon bit.lylindavachon
Carol-Nelson-carolnelsonfineart
Floto-and-Warner-flotowarner.com
Kevin-Peterson-kevinpetersonstudios.com
Jylian Gustlin jyliangustlin.com
Victor Wang victorwang.net
Bobbie Russon bobbierusson.com
Patrick-Dougherty-stickwork.net

Filed Under: ART, Group Feature, Installation, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Video Tagged With: Bobbie Russon, Carol Nelson, Floto and Warner, Jylian Gustlin, Kevin Peterson, Linda Vachon, Patrick Dougherty, Victor Wang

The Art Market: Patrons

June 8, 2016 By Wendy Campbell

Part three of Artsy.net‘s great Art Market series. This short, four-minute video covers the motivation of patrons to fund artists and how the concept of art patronage has changed over time.

The Art Market (in Four Parts): Patrons from Artsy on Vimeo.

Patrons is the third installment of a four-part documentary series, preceded by Auctions and Galleries and followed by Art Fairs, released weekly through mid-June. Together, the four segments tell a comprehensive story about the art market’s history and cultural influence. Visit Artsy.net/art-market-series to watch all the films.

This series is directed by Oscar Boyson and produced in collaboration with UBS.

Director – Oscar Boyson
Editor – Nate DeYoung
Producer – Sean Barth
Producer By – Neighborhood Watch Films
Assistant Editor – Erin DeWitt
Sound – Colin Alexander
Music – Jay Wadley of Found Objects Music Production
Color – Irving Harvey

Filed Under: ART, Installation, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Video Tagged With: art galleries, art market, art patrons, Museums

The Art Market: Art Auctions

May 31, 2016 By Wendy Campbell

If you’ve got four minutes to spare, check out this great video—part one (Auctions) of a four-part series on Artsy.net.  How did the art auction business become a multi-billion-dollar industry?  This video is a quick review of the complex history of auctions, with specific attention to the last 20 years. It features record-breaking sales, like Jean-Michel Basquiat’s painting Untitled (1982), selling at $51 million, and anomalies such as Ai Weiwei’s Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds) (2010), which pop up at auction in countless different quantities, making the connection between the auction price and the market value of art.

The series is produced in collaboration with UBS and directed by Oscar Boyson.

Director: Oscar Boyson
Editor: Nate DeYoung
Producer: Sean Barth
Produced By: Neighborhood Watch Films
Assistant Editor: Erin DeWitt
Sound: Colin Alexander
Music: Jay Wadley of Found Objects Music Production
Colour: Irving Harvey

Filed Under: ART, Installation, Mixed Media, Painting, Sculpture, Video Tagged With: Ai Weiwei, art auctions, art market, basquiat

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 154

May 3, 2016 By Wendy Campbell

Your Weekly Mixx – Enjoy! DAF’s Weekly Mixx is a selection of nine contemporary artworks and/or art related videos chosen from artist and gallery submissions and from our own search for new and interesting works. Visit the Submissions page for information on how to have your art featured in the Weekly Mixx.

Synthetic Nature Part 1 from Andy Thomas on Vimeo.

The latest visual sound art piece from Andy Thomas has been inspired by Australian flora and fauna.
It is nature digitized. Sounds recorded in nature have been run through computers and electronically manipulated.
Computer generated 3D imagery swirls and contorts to the sounds creating semi-abstract interpretations of native plants.

Jen Starwalt jenstarwalt.com
Ekaterina Belinska - ekaterinabelinskaya.com
Isabel Miramontes modus-gallery.com/artists/isabel-miramontes-2
Steve-McCurry stevemccurry.com
Thom Sokoloski Colour-of-the-River-Running Through Us - thomsokoloski.com
Jem Mitchell jemmitchell.co.uk
Smug One instagram.com/smugone
Robert-Steven-Connett - grotesque.com

Filed Under: Body Art, Group Feature, Installation, Mixed Media, Nature, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Street Art, Video Tagged With: Ekaterina Belinskaya, Isabel Miramontes, Jem Mitchell, Jen Starwalt, Robert Steven Connett, Smug One, Steve McCurry, Thom Sokoloski

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 153

April 26, 2016 By Wendy Campbell

Your Weekly Mixx – Enjoy! DAF’s Weekly Mixx is a selection of nine contemporary artworks and/or art related videos chosen from artist and gallery submissions and from our own search for new and interesting works. Visit the Submissions page for information on how to have your art featured in the Weekly Mixx.

Andrea Kowch - andreakowch.com
Antonio Mora mylovt.com
Prune Nourry - prunenourry.com
William Hamper (Billy Chyldish) - williamhamper.com
Klaus Enrique - klausenrique.com
Sedi Pak - sedipak.net
David Platt - davidplattart.com
Ken Law - kenlawartist.com
Sony World Photo Award Maroesjka Lavigne worldphoto.org

Filed Under: Group Feature, Installation, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Street Art Tagged With: Andrea Kowch, Antonio Mora, Billy Chyldish, David Platt, Ken Law, Klaus Enrique, Maroesjka Lavigne, Prune Nourry, Sedi Pak, William Hamper

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 151

April 11, 2016 By Wendy Campbell

Your Weekly Mixx – Enjoy! DAF’s Weekly Mixx is a selection of nine contemporary artworks chosen from artist and gallery submissions and from our own search for new and interesting works. Visit the Submissions page for information on how to have your art featured in the Weekly Mixx.

Terry-Turrell---On-Your-Feet-rovzargallery
artist unknown Body Paint
Nielly-Francoise-francoise-nielly.com
Julian Gutierrez behance.net-juliangutierrez
Richard-Burlet
Leigh-Dyer incurva.co.uk
Judith-and-Joyce-Scott judithandjoycescott.com Jud
Doris-Salcedo - Istanbul-2010
Bordalo II - Bordalo Segundo facebook.com/BORDALOII

Filed Under: ART, Body Art, Group Feature, Installation, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Street Art, Video Tagged With: Bordalo II - Bordalo Segundo, Doris Salcedo, Judith and Joyce Scott, Julian Gutierrez, Leigh Dyer, Nielly Francoise, Pencil Art, Richard Burlet, Terry-Turrell

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 150

April 3, 2016 By Wendy Campbell

Your Weekly Mixx – Enjoy! DAF’s Weekly Mixx is a selection of nine contemporary artworks chosen from artist and gallery submissions and from our own search for new and interesting works. Visit the Submissions page for information on how to have your art featured in the Weekly Mixx.

Rose Roter roseroter.com
Brian Valentine - flickr.com/photoslordv
Megan Kimber
Rudd van Empel ruudvanempel.nl
Giant Knitting by Yallingup Steiner School yss.wa.edu.au/galleries
Tireless Artist flickr.com/photos/handmadebjd Tireless Artist flickr.com/photos/handmadebjd
Michal Macku michal-macku.eu
MIchelle McKinney michellemckinney.co.uk
Paul Fenniak paulfenniak.com

Filed Under: ART, Group Feature, Installation, Nature, Painting, Photography, Sculpture

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 149

March 26, 2016 By Wendy Campbell

Your Weekly Mixx – Enjoy! DAF’s Weekly Mixx is a selection of nine contemporary artworks chosen from artist and gallery submissions and from our own search for new and interesting works. Visit the Submissions page for information on how to have your art featured in the Weekly Mixx.

Lotta Blokker lottablokker.com
Alicia Hannah Naomi - aliciahannahnaomi.com
MondriPong - Piet Mondrian meets Pong
Ruby Skystiler rubyskystiler.com
Ern Mankia - Australia
Marco Mattiussi - matyuphoto.com
Julien "Seth" Malland facebook.com/NouveauxExplorateursMalland
Kim Keever kimkeever.com

 

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Filed Under: ART, Group Feature, Installation, Nature, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Street Art Tagged With: Alicia Hannah Naomi, Ern Mankia, Julien "Seth" Malland, Kim Keever, Lotta Blokker, Marco Mattiussi, MondriPong - Piet Mondrian meets Pong, Ruby Skystiler

International Women’s Day 2016 – Women in the Visual Arts

March 8, 2016 By Wendy Campbell

In honour of International Women’s Day this year, we bring you a visual selection of women artists that have appeared on Daily Art Fixx over the last seven years.  Enjoy!  Click on an image to open the gallery.

Elizabeth Catlett - Sharecropper
The Dinner Party - Judy Chicago
I wait - Julia Margaret Cameron
Berthe_Morisot,_Le_berceau_The_Cradle_1872
Artemisia Gentileschi - Danae
Roots - Frida Kahlo
The Child's Bath - Mary Cassatt
Blunden Harbour-1928-32 Emily Carr
Louise-Bourgeois_Annie Leibovitz
Early Skating - Anna-Mary-Robertson (Grandma) Moses
rp_peter_rabbit_first_edition_1902-beatrix-potter.jpg
Born-Kiki-Smith-2002
Portrait-of-Marie-Antoinette-Elisabeth-Louise-Vigee-le-Brun-1783
The-Happy-Couple-Judith-Leyster-1630
Valle de la luna-Remedios Varo 1950
Self Portrait-Paula_Modersohn-Becker-1906
Green-Purple-Cross-Jenny-Holzer
Birth-Lee Krasner-1956
Niki de Saint Phalle - Tarot Garden
Laura Wheeler Waring
Georgia Okeeffe-Music-Pink and Blue ii-1919
Portrait-of-JFK---Elaine-de-Kooning-1963
Spider - Louise Bourgeois
Market-at-Minho - Sonia Delaunay-1915
Self Portrait -Girl at the Spinet - Catharine van Hemessen-1548
Yayoi Kusama
Kara Walker
Portrait-of-Beatrice-Cenci-Elisabetta-Sirani-1662
The Waltz-Camille Claudel-1905
The Kiss, Tamara De Lempicka
Figure-With-Ribbons-Edith-Branson
Metamorphosis-of-a-Butterfly-Maria-Sibylla-Merian
Untitled 1992-Cindy-Sherman
Barbara_Hepworth_Winged_Figure_1963
Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany-Hannah Hoch-1919
Mary-Beale-Portrait-of-a-Young-Girl-c.1681
Eva Hesse Contingent-1968
Marina Abramović -The Artist is Present
Sofonisba_Anguissola-self-portrait-1554
Diane Arbus-Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park, New York City 1962
Red Abstraction-Alma Thomas-1960
Lillian Bassman 3
Daphne-Odjig_The-Indian-in-Transition
Sam Mosher © Lois Greenfield-1995
Pine-Marten---Rona-Pondick
Meredith Dittmar
Portland-Oregon-Cake
Die © Faith Ringgold - 1967
rp_Backlash-Blues-Wangechi-Mutu-594x1024.jpg
Sea of Love © Esther Barend
bowery-bum-new-york-Berenice-Abbott-1932
rp_self-portrait-as-booty-julie-heffernan.jpg
Alexa Meade
Girl with-Dog © Marion Peck
Porcelain II - Study of a Girl © Mary Jane Ansell
Zena Holloway
The Long Awaited - Patricia Piccinini

Filed Under: Architecture, ART, Art History, Collage, Illustration, Installation, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Street Art, Women in Visual Arts Tagged With: International Women's Day

5 Women Artists You Should Know: Vol. 8

February 24, 2016 By Wendy Campbell

Mary-Beale-Portrait-of-a-Young-Girl-c.16811. Mary Beale (1633 – 1699) – Portrait painter Mary Beale is considered to be the first professional female painter in England. Born on March 26, 1633, in Barrow, Suffolk, Beale was the daughter of Puritan rector and amateur painter John Cradock. Her mother, Dorothy, died when she was ten. Mary became acquainted with local artists, including Nathaniel Thach, Matthew Snelling, Robert Walker and Peter Lely through her father who was a member of the Painter-Stainers’ Company.  In 1652 she married Charles Beale, a cloth merchant (and amateur painter) from London.

Beale was prolific and reached the height of her success in 1677, completing over 80 commissions that year. She also took in students, many of them women. Beale supported her family through her work as an artist, and her husband Charles acted as her studio assistant,  preparing her canvases and paints, purchasing supplies and managing her accounts. He wrote notebooks about his wife’s daily activities.  Beale’s clientele included her immediate circle of friends, nobility, landed gentry, and clergymen.

Mary Beale died in 1699 in London, and was buried at St. James’s, Piccadilly. Her husband died in 1705. Mary and Charles had three children – Bartholomew who died young, a second son, also called Bartholomew, painted portraits before taking up medicine. A third son, named Charles was also a painter. (Tate, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Wikipedia)

Eva Hesse Contingent-19682. Eva Hesse (1936 – 1970) – Born on January 11, 1936, Eva Hesse was a Jewish German-born American sculptor, known for work in the postminimal art movement of the 1960s. Hesse attended the School of Industrial Art, then Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in 1952, and Cooper Union from 1954 to 1957. In 1959, she received her B.F.A. from Yale and returned to New York, where she worked as a textile designer.

Hesse’s practice as an expressionist painter led her to experiment with industrial and every-day materials including rope, string, wire, rubber, and fiberglass. “Hesse explored by way of the simplest materials how to suggest a wide range of organic associations, psychological moods, and what might be called proto-feminist, sexual innuendo.”  She started to gain recognition by the late 1960s, with solo shows at the Fischbach Gallery, New York, and inclusion in major group exhibitions. Her large piece Expanded Expansion showed at the Whitney Museum in the 1969 exhibit “Anti-Illusion: Process/Materials”. 

From 1968 to 1970, Hesse taught at the School of Visual Arts, New York. In 1969, she was diagnosed with a brain tumor, and after three operations within a year, she died May 29, 1970. Since her death, there have been dozens of major posthumous exhibitions in the United States and Europe, including at The Guggenheim Museum (1972), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002),  The Drawing Center in New York (2006) and the Jewish Museum of New York (2006), and the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona (2010). In May 2015, a documentary on Eva Hesse, directed by Marcie Begleiter premiered at the Whitney Museum of American Art. (Guggenheim, Wikipedia, The Art Story)

Marina Abramovic © 2010 Scott Ruddwww.scottruddphotography.comscott.rudd@gmail.com3. Marina Abramović (born November 30, 1946) – Marina Abramović  is a Serbian performance artist based in New York. Her work explores the relationship between performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. Active for over thirty years, Abramović has been described as the “grandmother of performance art.”

Abramović studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade from 1965 to 1970. She completed her post-graduate studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, SR Croatia in 1972. From 1973 to 1975, she taught at the Academy of Fine Arts at Novi Sad. “The body has always been both her subject and medium. Exploring the physical and mental limits of her being, she has withstood pain, exhaustion, and danger in the quest for emotional and spiritual transformation. Abramovic’s concern is with creating works that ritualize the simple actions of everyday life like lying, sitting, dreaming, and thinking; in effect the manifestation of a unique mental state.”

Abramovic has presented her work with performances, sound, photography, video, sculpture, and ‘transitory objects for human and non human use’ in solo exhibitions at major institutions in the U.S. and Europe. She has taught and lectured extensively in Europe and America and is the recipient of numerous awards including Golden Lion, XLVII Venice Biennale, 1997, Honorary Doctorate of Arts, University of Plymouth UK, 2009, Cultural Leadership Award, American Federation of Arts, 2011, Lifetime Achievement Awards, Podgorica, Montenegro, 2012, among others. (Wikipedia, Marinafilm.com)

Sofonisba_Anguissola-self-portrait-15544. Sofonisba Anguissola (1532 – 1625) –  Born into a minor aristocratic family in Cremona, Italy, Sofonisba Anguissola became one of the most successful female painters in the Renaissance, and was renowned for her portraits. She was the first woman artist to achieve international renown, and was recognized by Vasari, Michelangelo and Van Dyck during a period in history when women did not typically achieve recognition as artists.

Anguissola studied with Bernardino Campi, a respected portrait and religious painter of the Lombard school. Anguissola then continued her studies with painter Bernardino Gatti (known as Il Sojaro). Anguissola’s apprenticeship with local painters set a precedent for women to be accepted as students of art. As a woman at the time, Anguissola was not permitted to study anatomy or drawing from life from nude models and therefore focused her attention on portraiture.

In 1560, she was appointed painter to the Queen of Spain, Isabel de Valois, Philip II’s third wife. Over her long residence, she taught the young queen drawing and made numerous portraits of the royal family and members of the court. In 1571, Anguissola entered an arranged marriage to Sicilian nobleman, Fabrizio Moncada Pignatelli, chosen for her by the Spanish court. She lived with him in Palermo until his death in 1579 and received a royal pension that enabled her to continue working and tutoring would-be painters. Her private fortune also supported her family and brother. In 1580, she married merchant captain Orazio Lomellini and lived in Genoa until 1620. In her later years, Anguissola became a wealthy patron of the arts. She died in 1625 at age 93 in Palermo.

Anguissola is significant to feminist art historians. Her great success opened the way for larger numbers of women to pursue serious careers as artists. Some of her more well-known successors include Lavinia Fontana, Barbara Longhi, Fede Galizia and Artemisia Gentileschi. (ArtUK.org, Isabella Stewart Gardiner Museum, Wikipedia)

Diane Arbus-Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park, New York City 19625. Diane Arbus (1923 – 1971) – Born on March 14, 1923, in New York City, Diane Arbus (nee Nemerov) was an American photographer noted for her images of marginalised people—dwarfs, giants, transgender, circus performers and others who might be perceived as ugly or surreal. Arbus was artistic in her youth, creating paintings and drawings. In 1941, she married actor and photographer Allan Arbus who encouraged her artistic pursuits and taught her photography. The couple worked together successfully in advertising and fashion with photographs appearing in Vogue Magazine. In 1956, Arbus began to focus on her own photography and studied with photographer Lisette Model.

By the mid-1960s, Arbus had become a well-established photographer, participating in shows at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, among others. Her raw, unusual images of the people she saw while wandering the streets of New York City were featured in publications such as Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar and The Sunday Times Magazine.

Though she thrived professionally, Diane Arbus had personal challenges. Her marriage to Allan Arbus ended in 1969, and she later struggled with depression. She committed suicide in her New York City apartment on July 26, 1971. Her photographs remain the subject of great interest, and her life was the basis of the 2006 film Fur, starring Nicole Kidman. (Wikipedia, Biography.com)

Filed Under: 5 Women Artists Series, ART, Art History, Installation, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Women in Visual Arts Tagged With: Diane Arbus, Eva Hesse, Marina Abramović, Mary Beale, Sofonisba Anguissola

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