The Steins Collect, an exhibition at SFMOMA

The girl with green eyes

Fans of Creative juicings will already know that we are huge fans of Matisse, Cézanne, and Picasso. It is with great excitement therefore, that we can exclusively reveal that there is an exhibition encompassing all our favorite artists coming to  San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art.

The exhibition runs  from May 21 to September 06, 2011 and focuses on the collection  Gertrude Stein and her family made in Paris during the early years of the 20th century.

As regular readers of Creative juicings will know Ms Stein lived in an apartment at 27 Rue de Fleurus, Paris France from 1904 to 1913. Her collection included Gauguin’s sunflowers and three of his Tahitian paintings, a number of Cézanne’s including ‘the bathers’, Delacroix’s Perseus & Andromeda, Matisse’s Woman with a hat, various Picasso’s including a portrait of Ms Stein that now hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Other artists she collected include: Toulouse Lautrec, Henri Manguin, Pierre Bonnard and Honoré Daumier.

Woman with hat

Gertrude Stein also hosted saturday evening art soirées in her apartment where such notables as Henri Rousseau, Georges Braque, Andre Derain, Max Jacob, Guillaume Apollinaire and Ernest Hemingway could be found.

The San Francisco exhibition will  certainly include Matisse’s legendary Woman with a hat, the painting that kick started the Fauvist movement, as well as the the more pleasing, if less iconoclastic The girl with green eyes. A number of Picasso’s will also be on display, including his famous portrait of Stein. What is not clear at this stage is how many of the more novel works, such as the Delacroix will be shown.

http://www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/410

Glue Society

Hot with the chance of late storm,

Statement Sculpture. Instalation Art. To some genius, to others kings new suit of clothes frippery. Do such works bring alive the worst indulgences of an age of internet idleness? Or perhaps they are an affirmation of creative thought on a grand scale that encourages us to do, rather than be?

The Glue Society are an Australian art collective who create big statement sculpture and films. These are the guys who created a plastic-stacko-chair rainbow on a frozen mountain side for 42Below Vodka and all manner of crazy art-event antics, including the Gods Eye View Project, a series of aerial photographs that recreate biblical events including the crucifixion and the crossing of the Red Sea by the Israelites.

Creative juicings loves originality and creative naughtiness in all its forms, so we just had to share with you the Glue Society’s piece: Hot with the chance of late storm, which is a sculpture of an ice cream van melting on a beach. Art or indulgence? Discuss.

http://www.gluesociety.com/

Pedro Campos Superrealist master

Super-realism is back. It never really went away, but the airbrushed seventies have now given way to a new breed of obsessives, whose sole objective is to focus on technique. The Coke can is a design classic in itself and painting one is the yardstick by which any super-realist is judged. Coke is the the super-real thing after all. 


But seriously juiclings, it is refreshing to see that painters such as Pedro Campos are using oil on canvas to such technically stunning effect. Contemporary art has in recent years become obsessed by the bold artistic statement. But bold artistic statements  are often not enough, especially when they are ugly and meaningless.


Pedro’s work offers us the juxtaposition of the workaday object, executed in paint, with space age precision. Such wow-bang contrasts are what make these paintings successful. Check out his work.


http://www.pedrocampos.net/

SEBASTIAN KRÜGER new pop realism

Keef by Sebastian Kruger

When it comes to iconic modern portraiture there really is only one artist who encapsulates the full gamut of emotion, from madcap fun to dark angst and that man is German artist Sebastian Krüger.

Krüger likes to paint iconic figures who define the modern age and fill our collective consciousness with high art mystery and lowbrow cult of personality pervasiveness. Kruger loves musicians, actors and iconic media figures. He is literally obsessed with the Rolling Stones in general, and Keith Richards in particular, having painted many iconic portraits of the band.

Getting his start as a magazine illustrator Krüger did much work for Stern, Speigel and Rolling Stone magazine. More recently he has transcended the world of the illustrative hamster wheel, breaking out into the lucrative world of commissioned portraits. He is a close friend of Rolling Stones Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood and paints a yearly portrait of Richards.

Krüger paints freehand in acrylics. His technique can be observed at the Utube link below, in which he paints a tortured view of the late, great Michael Jackson. Krüger’s work owes much to the art of caricature, he borrows the distortion and the immediacy of the genre, often incorporating jokes or visual gags into his work. But the artistry and strength of technique places Krüger firmly in the realm of the artisan craftsman. This guy knows how to paint. His works look as if they have been projected or otherwise doctored in Photoshop, but he uses neither.

The artists work is highly valuable and collected. Limited edition prints of his work run at several thousand dollars, original artworks much more. He has to date completed several hundred paintings.

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