DE DAME DE FAME By TONY BULMER

De Dame De Fame Tony Bulmer

De Dame De Fame is the latest Painting by Tony Bulmer. Acrylic on Canvas 24"X30" For Bill Ward

Museo Reina Sofia

Picasso, Guernica, Museo Reina Sofia Madrid

Juiclings who find themselves in  Spain this summer, must visit The National Museum of Spain in Madrid. The museum is open 10am–9pm weekdays, Sundays it closes at 2.30 and is shut Tuesdays. Prices start at €6 for entry, but you can buy a really cool Madrid art pass for €17.60  that also allows entry to the Prado and the Thyssen-Bornemisza.

Picasso fans will know that the Reina Sofia is home to Guernica, Picasso’s most famous work. Whilst living in France during World War Two, Picasso received a visit from the Nazis, who’s loathing of modern art is legendary. On seeing the Guernica canvas a Nazi officer asked Did you do this? to which Picasso’s legendary reply was: No, you did. Those of you familiar with the subject matter of Guernica will know that it depicts a famous massacre in the Basque city of Guernica, where the Nazis bombed the town to aide their ally, Spanish Fascist dictator General Franco. If the story is true, we are lucky not only that the painting survived, but that Picasso did too.

The painting is way cooler when you see it for real, many details that printed reproductions hide are revealed, and the painting is surprisingly big too, check it out Juiclings, Spain rocks!

http://www.museoreinasofia.es

Jaques Moitoret

Modigliani by Jaques Moiret

Jaques Moitoret is from Seattle Washington. He studied at the University of Washington and the Academy des Beaux Arts Avignon France He has been painting over forty years. Jaques specializes in Portraits. Creative Juicings think his paintings of famous Artists such as Picasso and Modigliani are fantastic. Juiclings can experience these awesome works at his website where you can check out many of his paintings. You can also see his work at the Microsoft collection and the City of Seattle collection Washington.

http://www.jacquesmoitoret.com/html/biography.html

Earrings on the Terrace by Tony Bulmer

Earrings on the Terrace/ Une nuit a Paris by Tony Bulmer

This painting is a giant 48"X 48" Acrylic on Canvas. It is executed on a one and a half inch thick stretcher and can be hung unframed if required. The painting continues seamlessly over the edges of the canvas.

The artist has traveled to Paris many times and Parisian subjects are a personal favourite. Juiclings will spot the famous Eiffel Tower, but notice also, the domes of the Sacré-Cœur riding atop the hill of Montmartre and the roof of the Musée d'Orsay. 

Bags by Chanel. hair by Retro and style by Tres outré, Martinis are extra dry, naturally. This painting was almost entitled War on the Terrace, but those unfamiliar with the game of soccer might not appreciate the subtle irony. The earrings are, of course, extra fabulous for your delight and delectation.

http://artbytonybulmer.com/?preview=1

Lucian Freud Dead

Benefits Supervisor Sleeping. By Lucian Freud: Yours for £17.2 million

The Artist Lucain Freud has died aged 88. Freud, is famed for his intense realist portrayal of people, particularly nudes. He will be remembered as one of the greatest portrait painters of the twentieth century. He had a strongly idiosyncratic style of painting and he tenaciously adhered to his personal artistic vision, as artistic trends came and went.

Freud was a productive, if methodical artist, working long, hard hours in the studio, even as he approached his late eighties. His work has often been described as disturbing. A portrait of Queen Elizabeth II the reigning English Monarch was described by Robin Simon of the British Art Journal as: Making her look like one of the Royal Corgis who has suffered a stroke.

The grandson of Sigmund Freud the pioneer of modern Psychoanalysis. Freud was born in Berlin Germany in 1922 and moved with his parents to London England in 1933 to escape the Nazis. He became a naturalized british citizen six years later. 

Freud lived and worked in London’s exclusive Holland Park, where he was pals with and painted such luminaries as model Kate Moss. As the grand old man of English art, Freud’s work is highly collectible. A recent painting of an overweight woman on a couch sold for £17.2 million. Freud’s artistic legacy is assured. Funeral arrangements have not been released at the time of writing

Warholian Soup for Los Angeles

Soup tonight?

Warhol is back in town. Marking the 49th anniversary of their controversial public debut in LA  Warhol’s suite of 32 Canvases, depicting Campbell’s soup, are now showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art.

Controversial as ever, the arrival of Warhol’s pop art masterworks has led an over wrought LA Times to suggest that Warhol got the idea of painting soup from William De Kooning. This view originates in De Kooning’s comments in Sketchbook No.1 Three Americans a 1960 movie by Oscar winning filmmaker Robert Snyder. Apparently soup was a common artistic metaphor of the time, used by De Kooning to describe the artistic process. “Everything is already like art—like a big bowl of soup you just stick your hand in and you find something…” Interesting, if nebulous evidence, suggesting that De Kooning was somehow responsible for Warhol’s deification of product as Art.

So what is the true answer? The argument over whether Pop art is a “Joyful celebration of popular culture or a sharp critique of it.” has, as the LA times quite rightly points out, been at the center of the Warholian debate for over fifty years. However the suggestion that Pop Art is: a pointed appraisal of the art establishment’s entrenched status quo and a critique of high cultures supercilious conceits, is as fatuous as Warhol’s suggestion that he painted soup cans because he: “ate it for lunch every day for twenty years.”

Warhol was an obsessive voyeur, a graphic designer and  a supreme scenester  with a overproof sense of irony. As a designer he loved product and yet paradoxically loathed it. As an artist and astute observer of the modern age, he mirrored culture and the reflected image wasn’t always pretty, as those who have seen his films will attest. The most delicious irony is of course, that soup, like art, is open to interpretation and you can either love it or loathe it. Creative Juicings like L.A. loves Warhol. You want soup with that?

http://www.moca.org/

Tom Wolfe: Rockwell is the new Picasso

Tom Wolfe: Norman Rockwell will soon be recognized
as the Picasso of the second half of the Twentieth century.

Tom Wolfe is perhaps America’s greatest living writer. He is certainly an astute social observer, so it is unsurprising that the great man thinks “illustrators will be considered the great American artists of the second half of the Twentieth century.” An opinion that Juicings has voiced for some years and which is now being borne out in the high prices being paid for collectable illustrators such as Norman Rockwell and Gil Elvegren.

Wolfe, perhaps better know for books such as The Right Stuff, Bonfire of the Vanities and Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, certainly knows how to put pen to paper, but it will be a surprise for many Juicelings to learn that he is also a talented illustrator himself.

The National Museum of illustration in Newport R.I, is currently paying homage to Wolfe,  with an exhibition of 37 of his pen & ink illustrations.

The exhibition contains the illustrations from his book, In our time,which were originally reproduced in Harpers magazine. The exhibition runs through labor day. The great satirists unique insights into the world of modern art can be found in his excellent book, Painted Bird. Wolfe’s latest novel, Back to Blood is due next year.