The primary medium of Irwin’s art is not painting or sculpture, nor walls and trees, but rather our perception, our curiosity, and our desire to make sense of the world around us. By often destabilizing our experience of light and space, his work forces us to construct a personal awareness of the very act of seeing.
Robert Irwin Helped Us See the Light
Being with Irwin as he watched and questioned everything around him, I learned that a work of art succeeds when it challenges our perceptions.
Robert Irwin in 1962, a master of light, “awakens us to reconsider our environment,” says the author.Credit...Hopper
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Alfred Stieglitz Collection)
Upon arriving in Paris from Romania in 1904, Constantin Brâncusi quickly rejected the prevailing theatricality and narrative detail of master sculptor Auguste Rodin. Instead of modeling in clay, and inspired by non-Western art, he began to carve directly into stone, the material chosen for his first version of Sleeping Muse. Further reducing and abbreviating form, Brâncusi revised some works by casting them in metal with a fine finish. Such sculptures as this version of Sleeping Muse are self-sufficient, archetypal modern forms.
Here, the languor of the ovoid shape responding to gravity suggests the heaviness of sleep. The sleeping head, one of Brancusi's first thematic cycles, occupied the artist for almost twenty years. This bronze is one of four cast in 1910 from a marble of the previous year for which Baroness Renée Irana Franchon was the model.
For a representative selection of Brâncusi's work, see this MWW Special Collection:
Architecture. The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, completed in 1963, is the only building on the North American continent designed by the famous ...
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22. Despite designing multiple projects to be built in the US, only one was ever realized: Harvard University's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. [Source: Fondation Le Corbusier]
23. Guillame Jullian, a colleague of Le Corbusier, recalled, "[Le Corbusier] told me that the Visual Arts Center was to be his only American building, and that he would therefore put all his architectural elements in it." [Source: The Boston Globe]
Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of the architect Le Corbusier, the central figure of the modern movement in architecture, who died in 1965.
Dozens of commemorations and exhibitions have been taking place around the world to mark the anniversary. On Oct. 14, for example, an exhibit of Corbusier sketches is scheduled to open in the architecture building at Roger Williams College in Bristol, R.I. Two one-time Corbusier colleagues will be speaking at Roger Williams, Jerszy Soltan, Oct. 14, and Guillaume Jullian de la Fuente, Oct. 20, both at 6:30.
Jullian, as it happens, was Corbusier's assistant in the design of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard. The Carpenter Center is Corbusier's only American building and a visit to this remarkable structure is probably the thing to do for Bostonians who may wish to recall the amazing designer who once dominated the international world of architecture as perhaps no other person has ever done. …
Mar 3, 2021 — Toko Shinoda Dies at 107; Fused Calligraphy With Abstract Expressionism ... One of the foremost Japanese artists of the 20th century, she was ...
Toko Shinoda (篠田 桃紅 Shinoda Tōkō, born 1913) is a Japanese artist working with sumi ink paintings and prints.
At 106 years old Toko Shinoda is the oldest Japanese artist
This great Japanese artist crossed paths with Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Centenary, she continues to paint her abstract works in Indian ink.. She has not lost her verve and continues to create works with the technique that made her famous: Indian ink.
At 6, she already used it for her first calligraphy. But she quickly wanted to get rid of restrictive standards to get started in abstract art, saying that she preferred to follow no rules except her own.
Her art merges traditional calligraphy with modern abstract expressionism.
A 1983 interview in Time magazine asserted "her trail-blazing accomplishments are analogous to Picasso's".
