Making it Through Trying Times
It is difficult. It is exasperating. But within every challenge there is opportunity. Here is a list of items from the art world that should or could keep you busy for some time. Some are updates from previous lectures, others are articles you can be linked to from within this page and still others are books of potential interest.
Your Guide. Simply select the word HERE within the article to go with the byline and be taken to the story for more information.
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Francois Gilot referred to Picasso as "The Beast." She had her reasons. Here is a book worth setting in the library. Who knew him better than Gilot when she and picasso were lovers for 10 years? He was 62, she was 21, becoming mother of two of his children, Claude and Paloma.
Francoise Gilot was a young painter in Paris when she first met Picasso - he was sixty-two and she was twenty-one. During the following ten years they were lovers, worked closely together and she became mother to two of his children, Claude and Paloma. The book is filled. LIFE WITH PICASSO, is filled with intimate and astonishing revelations about the man, his work, his thoughts and his friends - Matisse, Braque, Gertrude Stein and Giacometti among others. Francois Gilot paints a compelling portrait of her turbulent life with the temperamental genius that was Picasso. Go HERE if you are interested in acquiring this informative read.
My Last Breath by Luis Buñuel
The great film director’s memoirs may not be entirely reliable but his sharp, cruel pen-portraits of his collaborator Salvador Dalí and other surrealists are a wicked delight. His recipe for the perfect martini may also be of assistance in these tense times.
The great film director’s memoirs may not be entirely reliable but his sharp, cruel pen-portraits of his collaborator Salvador Dalí and other surrealists are a wicked delight. His recipe for the perfect martini may also be of assistance in these tense times.
Select HERE if interested in this book, published by Penguin.
Incidentally, I use Amazon for the links, not because I feel I have to, but because it is simple, fast, and most likely to have a copy available, new or used.
With Coronavirus, the curse of Artemisia Gentileschi strikes again.
For an artist long past due her recognition, now Coronavirus rears its ugly head on an exhibition featuring her work. This is a good, short article explaining what is an example of how the art world is being affected by the virus. We have spoken of Artemisia Gentileschi before (remember the head of Holofernes being cut off in one of the more dramatic Baroque works ever done by man or woman?)
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| Judith Beheading Holofernes 1620. The Uffizi |
If you are planning or had planned to be visiting any art museums from MoMA down to your local exhibits it would be wise to check before making arrangements. Broadway, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Opera are among the institutions that have closed their doors and suspended their programs on the large scale. This is likely true of most of the major museums around the world. And any local or regional museums likewise I am certain.
The Vero Beach Art museum that was on our list of upcoming adventures will be closed for the foreseeable future. I will keep up with any changes. Be prepared for the long wait.
Finally, on a sad note:
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| Carracci, A Boy Drinking |
They took Salvator Rosa’s A Rocky Coast, With Soldiers Studying a Plan, from the late 1640s, Anthony Van Dyck’s A Soldier on Horseback, circa 1616, and Annibale Carracci’s A Boy Drinking, circa 1580.
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| Rosa's A Rocky Coast |
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| A Soldier on Horseback, Anthony Van Dyck
More Later. See you soon!
George V
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