Your Weekly Mixx! DAF’s Weekly Mixx is a selection of 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 the work of Spencer Tunick, Amose, Alessandro Gallo, Alex Martinez (aka SHINE), Randy Olson, Chiharu Shiota, Moki Mioke, Nick Lamia and the video Kids Explain Art to Experts from Google Arts and Culture.
Edgar Degas: 1834-1917
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas was born on July 19, 1834, to a wealthy banking family in Paris, France. Educated in Latin, Greek, and ancient history at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, Degas initially intended to study law, briefly attending the Sorbonne’s Faculté de Droit in 1853.
In 1855, he studied painting at the École des Beaux-Arts with Louis Lamothe, learning the traditional Academic style with its emphasis on line and the importance of draftsmanship. Degas was also influenced by the paintings and frescoes he saw during several trips to Italy in the late 1850s.
Degas exhibited his history painting “The Misfortunes of the City of Orléans “ at the Salon in 1865, but following that he began focusing on painting scenes of modern life. He favoured themes of ballet dancers, laundresses, milliners, horse racing and other every day scenes. His interest in ballet dancers increased in the 1870s and he produced over 600 works on the subject. In his later years, Degas created works of women bathing, entirely without self-consciousness and un-posed.
From the late 1860s onward, Degas also produced many small sculptures in wax. He concentrated on the subjects seen in his paintings–horses, dancers and women washing. His interest in this medium increased in the mid-1880s in part as a result of his failing eyesight.
Before 1880, he generally used oils for his completed works, which were based on preliminary studies and sketches made in pencil or pastel. After 1875, he began using pastels more frequently, even in finished works, and by 1885, most of his more important works were done in pastel. In the mid-1870s Degas returned to the medium of etching and began experimenting with printmaking media such as lithographs and monotypes.
Degas saw his work as “Realist” or “Independent” and did not like being labeled an “Impressionist” even though he was considered to be one of the group’s founders, an organizer of its exhibitions, and one of its core members. Like the Impressionists, his aim was to capture moments of modern life, yet he had little interest in painting plein air landscapes and his use of clear, hard outlines, set his works apart from the other Impressionists. An observer of everyday scenes, Degas captured in his works, natural positions and movement of the human body.
Degas continued working until about 1912, when he was forced to leave his long-time studio in Montmartre. He never married and any emotional relationships he may have had, remain uncertain. Edgar Degas died on September 27, 1917, at the age of 83.
Sources: MET Museum, MOMA, Wikipedia
DAF Group Feature: Vol. 164
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 the work of Scott Naismith, Sue Firsker, Alison Langevad, Andy Kehoe, Cece Carpio, Lee Jaehyo, Maria Kreyn and a video by Tate Shots – Grayson Perry, Think Like an Artist.
DAF Group Feature: Vol. 163
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 the work of Tschabalala Self, Takashi Nakagawa, Ralf Wall, Michael Carson, Hua Tunan, Aurora Robson, Alaa Abou SHAHEEN, Julie Alice Chappell and a video essay by Jonathan Kiefer; Art:Film -“Filmmakers can’t seem to resist recreating some of our greatest paintings in movie form. See if you can spot them.”
Canada Day: Celebrating Canadian Artists
Happy Canada Day all you Canucks and friends of Canucks out there! In celebration of our National Day, DAF presents a collection of work from well known (and not so well known) Canadian artists.
Have a great day everyone!
Featured artists:
Arthur Lismer – A September Gale – 1921
Betty Goodwin – Aerialist 1962
Yousuf Karsh – Andy Warhol 1979
Emily Carr – Blunden Harbour 1928-32
Alex Colville – Child and Dog – 1952 Alex Colville
Mary Pratt – Cut Watermelon – 1997
Daphne Odjig – Mother Earth Struggles for Survival – 1975
Paul Kane – Flathead Woman with Child 1848-53
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao – Frank Owen Gehry – 1997
J.E.H. MacDonald Mist Fantasy, Sand River Algoma – c1922
Sarah Robertson – Joseph and Marie Louise – 1925-35
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun
Émile Borduas – Mirror of Frost – 1954
Norval-Morrisseau – Mother and Child – 1992
Joyce Wieland – Paint Phantom – 1983-84
Robert Bateman – Rhino and Oxpecker 1975
Bill Reid – Spirit of Haida Gwaii the Jade Canoe
Franklin Carmichael – The Glade – 1922
A.Y. Jackson – The Red Maple – 1914
Jean Paul Riopelle – The Wheel II – 1956
Tom Thomson – Byng Inlet – 1914-15
Dorothea Rockburne – Three Point Manifold – 2008
Lawren Harris – Maligne Lake Jasper Park – 1924
DAF Group Feature: Vol. 162
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 Clara Drummond, Hopare, Stephanie Buer, Terence Koh, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Mohammad Zaza, massju, Leisa Rich and the video Human Sound Objects, an interactive installation in which every participant becomes an object in an ever-evolving soundscape – by Giori Politi, Doron Assayas Terre and Eran Hilleli for the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, 2016.
Visit the Submissions page for information on how to have your art featured in the Weekly Mixx.
Human Sound Objects from Eran Hilleli on Vimeo.
Video: Lost Paradise: Anish Kapoor by NOWNESS
Lost Paradise: Anish Kapoor – Smart Talk #2
A playful beginner’s guide to the award-winning British-Indian sculptor’s work.
The latest installment of their humorous instructional art series, Lost Paradise, Paris-based directors Virgile Texier and Jules Theret show us how anyone can be an art expert in the age of at-your-fingertips connectivity. Aided by an on-the-spot web search, two inquisitive gallery goers reel off a beginner’s guide to the vast sculptures of Turner Prize winner Anish Kapoor. Video is in French with English subtitles.
via Nowness
DAF Group Feature: Vol. 161
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 Josh Keyes, Magdalena Abakanowicz, John Richter, Etam, Eva Funderburgh, Don Yeomans, Chiharu Shiota, Carlos Delgado and a video from Google Arts & Culture – Kids Explain Art to Experts.
Visit the Submissions page for information on how to have your art featured in the Weekly Mixx.
DAF Group Feature: Vol. 160
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.
DAF Group Feature: Vol. 159
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 the PBS video I Could Do That and the artwork of Sophie Favre, Mazatl, Lois Greenfield, Kristin Vestgard, Joe-Sorren, Jeannie Lynn Paske & Simone Prudente, Greg Craola Simkins, and Andrea Mazzoli.
Visit the Submissions page for information on how to have your art featured in the Weekly Mixx.
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