What do you see when you look at Shozo Shimamoto's oil painting?
The work is formed by piercing holes in the work's surface. Viewed from a distance, the overall effect is that of a lunar landscape, all craters and bumps.
View the work up close at Tate Modern https://goo.gl/eK5sT4 Shozo Shimamoto, ‘Holes’ 1954, Tate collection
Shozo Shimamoto was a Japanese artist. He was a co-founder of the avant garde Gutai group formed in the 1950s, and his works are in museum collections such as those of the Tate Gallery and the Tate ...Wikipedia
2017年130歲紀念：
1966: Le Voyage d'Orient (Journey to the East /The Voyage to the East)---20歲約一年1910-11的遊記筆記，1966年(身後)出版。
Journey to the East by Le Corbusier, Edited by Ivan Zaknic《東方游記》1987
我2016年3月8日在facebook 介紹此書。隔天江先生貼說某著名日本建築師 ，提倡"負建築"就是反 Le Corbusier的。我當然知道21世紀反 Le Corbusier 的人很多，然而，無損於他是"20世紀最知名的建築師"美譽---作品多已成重要的文化資產。他的繪畫在瑞士有專門美術館收藏。
就連《東方游記》中相關的書本外的紀念品都編成書，出版---我還沒機會過目。
在通俗文化，參考BBC 的 Art Deco Icons - The Orient Express (第2集的約第28分鐘，https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkGJsNPyR2o&t=833s) ，拿出約1925年的英國建築雜誌，其中大力評判法國的 Art Deco是"未完成的......"，大捧 Le Corbusier 的現代主義。.....
When his father took a post advising the Soviet government, the family moved to Moscow. Life there became difficult, and his father secured permission from Lenin and the Politburoto take his son to London in 1921.
Young Liberman was educated in Russia, England, and France, where he took up life as a "White Émigré" in Paris.
He began his publishing career in Paris in 1933–36 with the early pictorial magazine Vu, where he worked under Lucien Vogel as art director, then managing editor, working with photographers such as Brassaï, André Kertész, and Robert Capa.[6]
After emigrating to New York in 1941, he began working for Condé Nast Publications, rising to the position of editorial director, which he held from 1962-1994.
Only in the 1950s did Liberman take up painting and, later, metal sculpture. His highly recognizable sculptures are assembled from industrial objects (segments of steel I-beams, pipes, drums, and such), often painted in uniform bright colors. In a 1986 interview concerning his formative years as a sculptor and his aesthetic, Liberman said, "I think many works of art are screams, and I identify with screams."[7] Prominent examples of his work are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Storm King Art Center, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park, Tate Gallery, and the Guggenheim Museum. His massive work "The Way", a 65 feet (20 m) x 102 feet (31 m) x 100 feet (30 m) structure,[8] is made of eighteen salvaged steel oil tanks, and became a signature piece of Laumeier Sculpture Park,[9] and a major landmark of St. Louis, Missouri.[10][11]
He was married briefly to Hildegarde Sturm (August 25, 1936), a model and competitive skier. His second wife (since 1942), Tatiana Yacovleff du Plessix Liberman (1906–1991), had been a childhood playmate and baby sitter. In 1941, they escaped together from occupied France, via Lisbon, to New York. She had operated a hat salon in Paris, then designed hats for Henri Bendel in Manhattan. She continued in millinery at Saks Fifth Avenue where she was billed as "Tatania du Plessix" or "Tatania of Saks", until the mid-1950s.[12] In 1992, he married Melinda Pechangco, a nurse who had cared for Tatiana during an early illness. His stepdaughter, Francine du Plessix Gray, is a noted author.
Alexander Semeonovitch Liberman was a Russian-American magazine editor, publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor. He held senior artistic positions during his 32 years at Condé Nast Publications. Wikipedia
那一代繪畫大師之間的友情 1936~37年，Paul Klee (1879-1940)流年不利，既知自己罹重症，又給納粹沒收12幅畫，1937年在"墮落的藝術展"亮相。Klee 回瑞士的Bern沉隱。 1937年， Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)和 Georges Braque (1882–1963)聯袂來訪，他倆是Klee在1912年訪問巴黎時認識的。紀錄上，當年Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938)也訪問 Paul Klee。
Georges Braque: Within Reach of the Hand Lecture by Karen Wilkin, an independent curator and art critic, New York
Lecture by Karen Wilkin, an independent curator and art critic, New York "I began to paint mainly still lifes," Georges Braque said, "because in nature there...
De Hauke and Co—an important dealer of modern art from Europe, selling to American collectors and museums—was run by César Mange de Hauke, and was an offshoot of the renowned Parisian art dealer Jacques Seligmann & Co. Before the Armory show of 1913, Jacques Seligmann had primarily focused on decorative pieces from medieval and Renaissance eras and the 18th century. After the Armory show, Germain Seligman, son of Jacques and by then the head of the company (he dropped the family name’s extra “n”) realized the burgeoning market for contemporary European art and created a separate company for it. César Mange de Hauke was chosen as the head of the New York-based enterprise, De Hauke & Co, and the business prospered, even through the Depression.
Almost every major museum in the United States bought from Seligman and de Hauke during their early years of major acquisitions. American museums formed their collections through an intertwined network of critics, collectors, and dealers, as evidenced by this Modigliani catalogue—which was itself a gift to the Guggenheim from Helen Appleton Read, art critic from 1922 to 1938 for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
There is undeniable emotional power even in the monochromatic reproductions of Modigliani’s paintings. As the unsigned introduction says, “The profound sadness of his destiny permeates all of his works and that gives them their real value. This sadness, infused through the faces of the Modigliani sitters, lends them all an ineffable pathos.”
From our Special Collections Library—explore a 1929 Amedeo Modigliani catalogue, a fascinating historical artifact with links to significant events and art-world workings of the time. #TBT
In this interview, between Australian Architect Glenn Murcutt and Peter Thompson for ABC TV's Talking Heads program, Murcutt reveals his three rules in life: simplicity, simplicity, and "of course, simplicity". He speaks openly about his upbringing and childhood, about his inspirations and how he has grown and developed his passions as an architect.
Glenn Marcus Murcutt AO is a British-born Australian architect and winner of the 1992 Alvar Aalto Medal, the 2002 Pritzker Architecture Prize and the 2009 AIA Gold Medal.Wikipedia
Bowali Visitor Information Centre, Kakadu National Park, in collaboration with Troppo Architects
Winner of the 2002 Pritzker Prize, Glenn Murcutt (born 25 July 1936) has designed some of Australia's most innovative and environmentally sensitive buildings.
Seen on the Belgian 2000 Franc note from 1994 to 2001, architect Victor Horta is most famed for his biomorphic details at Hotel Tassel, which he completed in 1894 and is often recognized as the first instance of Art Nouveau in architecture.
Perhaps the most influential Nordic architect, important works by Modernist Alvar Aalto include the Viipuri Library and Säynätsalo Town Hall. His face graced the Finnish 50 mark note from 1986-2002.
Most widely known for the tower that bears his name, Eiffel was an acclaimed architect and engineer, designing many bridges and buildings in the late 1800s and early 1900s. He was featured on the 200 Franc note from 1996 to 2002.
18th Century Baroque architect Neumann was featured on the German 50 mark note from 1991-2002 alongside one of his greatest achievements, the impressively lavish Würzburg Residence.
Arguably the greatest of all the Baroque artists, Bernini’s sculptures and buildings can still be seen today throughout Italy, notably in his colonnade design for St. Peter’s Square. Bernini adorned the 50,000 lira note from 1985–2002.
Rival to Bernini, Borromini designed some of Rome’s most dramatic churches, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane and Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza. He was featured on the Swiss 100 franc note from 1976–2000, though not without some controversy, as his hometown of Ticino, while now Swiss territory, was considered part of Italy during Borromini’s lifetime.
Jože Plečnik (Slovenia)
From 1992 to 2007 Secessionist architect Plečnik’s portrait could be seen on the 500 tolar note, recognizing his contributions to the architecture of Ljubljana, including the iconic Triple Bridge.
One of the most acclaimed English architects in history, Wren is remembered most fondly for his design of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. Wren could be seen on the 50 pound note from 1981 to 1996.
Though he is obviously more fondly remembered as a founding father of the United States of America, Thomas Jefferson was also a noted architect, employing neo-palladian ideals in designing the campus of the University of Virginia and in his homestead, Monticello. Jefferson can be found today on the front of the rarely-used 2 dollar bill.
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