Fine art

Fine art

Punk, Folk and Tribal: The Latest Reinvention

This week, Science Caffe brings you a taste of British, Russian and Indian Fashion. We chose three names from the dawning of a new age in three subcultures: Punk, Folk and Tribal.

Rising from an Illegal World into the Olymp - Art in the Streets

Goethe says: “I was, after the fashion of humanity, in love with my name, and, as young educated people commonly do, I wrote it everywhere”. For many of us this is probably the only association they have when we walk past a graffiti. People, predominantly young people, scribble their names on walls, in oversized, deformed and transformed letters that bespeak either megalomania, anarchy or social unrest. Can it be compared to a dog peeing on a tree as if to say “Hey, this is my territory”? Can it be compared to hieroglyphs, our modern version of cave paintings so to speak? Can it be compared to a childish reaction to parental rules, a mere act of resistance? - by Lara Rosenthal

Renaissance to Goya: prints and drawings from Spain

This free exhibition brings together for the first time prints and drawings by mainly Spanish and important European artists working in Spain from the mid-16th to the first decades of the 19th century, many of which have never before been on display.

Mary Karlton Featured in Exhibit Honoring Degas

Santa Cruz artist Mary Karlton is displaying her work at the juried exhibit, "Lines and Colors: Celebrating Degas," at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock, California from November 7, 2012 through February 3, 2013. The show honors the great French impressionist Edgar Degas and offers visitors the unique perspective of artists from the region on Degas, the artist and the man. The exhibit emphasizes the use of line and color while capturing vivid moments in modern human life. Following this theme, Ms. Karlton presents her piece "In Bloom," an oil painting in the French Impressionist style of a young woman relaxing on a wooden stool. Ms. Karlton's use of bright colors and soft lighting, along with the youthful glow of the subject, are reminiscent of Degas' signature style and his celebration of the beauty of the human form.

Bronze

The Royal Academy’s landmark exhibition, Bronze, celebrates the remarkable historical, geographical and stylistic range of this enduring medium. The exhibition brings together outstanding works from the earliest times to the present in a thematic arrangement that is fresh and unique. With works spanning over 5,000 years, no such cross-cultural exhibition on this scale has ever been attempted. The exhibition features over 150 of the finest bronzes from Asia, Africa and Europe and includes important discoveries from the Mediterranean as well as archaeological excavations. Many of the pieces have never been seen in the UK.

Before and Happily Ever After: A mid-career retrospective by Deborah Kass

The Andy Warhol Museum announces Deborah Kass: Before and Happily Ever After, a major mid-career retrospective of paintings, photographs and sculpture by New York artist Deborah Kass. The exhibition, featuring approximately 75 works, showcases Kass’ achievements over the course of her three-decade career.

Reactivation: A New Beginning for the Shanghai Biennale

The 9th Shanghai Biennale in 2012 will be the inaugural show for Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum housed in a restored industrial building that used to be a thermal power plant. This marks a new beginning for the Shanghai Biennale in its 16 years of history.

Unfinished diploma piece and insanity: The art of Béla Gruber

When Béla Gruber died at the age of 27, he was still not a fully matured artist; actually, he died before he had been able to finish his diploma piece. In spite of its brevity, his lifework is, however, quite impressive, even in its volume. An exhibition dedicated to his memory was held in 1964, only one year after his death. Twenty-three of his paintings and sixty of his drawings were shown at the exhibition, when in fact not all of his works had been recovered. In any case, quantity is never a major issue in art. If Gruber had painted nothing else beside his half-finished diploma work "Painter's Studio", he would still occupy a prominent place in the history of Hungarian painting.