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- Sean Scully : LA deep. by Scully, Sean,1945-artist.(CARDINAL)179443; Lisson Gallery (Los Angeles, Calif.),publisher,host institution.(CARDINAL)885576;
Sean Scully returns to Los Angeles almost 50 years after making his US debut there, unveiling a selection of new and older works at Lisson's recently-launched LA space. Celebrating the development of his practice over five decades, this era-spanning exhibition draws formal and conceptual resonances between Scully's earliest grid paintings, which were first shown in Santa Monica in 1975, all the way forward to equally innovative, large-scale works from 2023. Scully's so-called Supergrid series of works began while still a student in London and Newcastle in the UK during the 1960s, progressing towards a sophisticated language of overlapping, interwoven stripes painted between taped boundaries. Influenced by his tutor Ian Stephenson, whose dripped and dotted paintings featured in Michelangelo Antonioni's Swinging Sixties film Blow Up, Scully began working on his own complex, focus-pulling compositions that likewise refused to fully reveal themselves at first sight, allowing only glimpses into its structure and necessitating prolonged viewing times. In epic feats of labor and painterly engineering, Scully built up dozens of horizontal and vertical lines, only to intensify this grid with multiplying layers of crisscrossing diagonals, creating expansive panels that exceeded even his tall frame and bodily span.Perhaps the apotheosis of this period is Scully's monumental work, Blaze (1971), a dizzying matrix of neon pinks, sports-car reds and flame-licked yellows. Subtlety and variation in color treatment followed in the similarly dynamic and optically disorienting square field of Second Order ư (1974), while the space between surface and ground is further disrupted by Final Grey ư (1974), which still features the strips of tape clinging to the work and providing another porous and translucent framework. This knotty, woven texture reappears half a century later in the newest painting here, entitled Dark In (2023). The brushmarks have long ago loosened, widened and now incorporate many more than a single, bold color in each sweep, following more naturalistic and gestural shades and contours in comparison to the sleek, rectilinear lines of the 1970s. Here too the picture plane is broken up, though not by tape, but by an inserted aluminum panel of a newly rotated and concentrated lattice work. Among other newer paintings are two recent triptychs, including the centrally located Guadalupe (2022), which revisits the scale and ambition of Blaze, only now the eye is moved between chunky, rugged blocks of unfathomably deep moss-green and maroon hues, which sit on a buzzing, glowing, chessboard backdrop. In the intervening years between these disparate bodies of gridded paintings, Scully himself moved to the US fulltime in 1975, settling in New York after a long cross-country road trip. He has returned many times since to show in California, with his own written recollections and photographs of these formative visits included in an accompanying catalogue to this exhibition, also featuring texts by art critics Peter Frank and Donald Kuspit. -- Taken from Gallery's website :Sean Scully is one of the most important painters of his generation, whose work is held in major museum collections around the world. While known primarily for his large-scale abstract paintings, comprised of vertical and horizontal bands, tessellating blocks and geometrical forms comprised of gradated and shifting colours, Scully also works in a variety of diverse media, including printmaking, sculpture, watercolour and pastel. Having developed a style over the past five decades that is uniquely his own, Scully has cemented his place in the history of painting. His work synthesises a thoroughly international collection of influences and personal perspectives - ranging from the legacy of American abstraction, with inspiration from the likes of Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, and that of European tradition, with nods to Henri Matisse and Piet Mondrian, as well as references to classical Greek architecture. While monumental in scale and gesture, Scully's work retains an undeniable delicacy and sincerity of emotion. Sean Scully was born in Dublin in 1945 and raised in South London. Wanting to be an artist from an early age, Scully attended evening classes at the Central School of Art in London from 1962 to 1965, and enrolled full time at Croydon College of Art, London from 1965 until 1968. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Newcastle University in 1972. He was awarded the Frank Knox Fellowship to Harvard University in 1972, where he visited the United States for the first time. In 1975, he moved to New York full-time. Today, he lives and works between New York and Bavaria. With a career that spans more than five decades, he has received numerous accolades and has been the subject of multiple touring exhibitions. In 2014, he became the first Western artist to have a career-length retrospective in China. Follow the Heart: The Art of Sean Scully 1964 - 2014 included over 100 paintings and travelled from Shanghai to Beijing. Scully was named a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 2013 and has received honorary degrees from institutions such as the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston; the National University of Ireland, Dublin; Universitas Miguel Hernandez, Valencia; Burren College of Art, National University of Ireland; Newcastle University, UK, among others. A series of essays and conversations between Scully and the esteemed art critic Arthur Danto was published by Hatje Cantz in 2014, and a collection of Scully's own writing, selected speeches and interviews, Inner, was released in 2016. -- Full biography available at:- Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Scully, Sean, 1945-; Art, Abstract; Art, Abstract; Art, Modern; Art, Modern; Painting, Abstract; Painting, Abstract; Painting, Modern; Painting, Modern;
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- What great paintings say from the Bayeaux Tapestry to Diego Rivera / by Hagen, Rose-Marie.(CARDINAL)749716; Hagen, Rainer,1928-(CARDINAL)749713;
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Strange quartet : the three stages of life, with death, c. 1510 / Hans Baldung Grien -- The music of the spheres on earthly instruments : the nativity panels from the Isenheim Altar, 1512/1516 / Matthias Grünewald -- When wings no longer soar : Melencholia I, 1514 / Albrecht Dürer -- Composure in the face of misfortune : the fire in the Borgo, 1514-1517 / Raphael -- The goddess with the mercenary's hat : the judgement [sic] of Paris, 1516/1528 / Niklaus Manuel Deutsch -- The femme fatale charms the devout viewer : the execution of John the Baptist, c. 1517 / Niklaus Manuel Deutsch -- The battle to end all battles : the battle of Issus, 1529 / Albrecht Altdorfer -- Sodom burns, while those who have escaped celebrate : Lot and his daughters, c. 1530 / Netherlandish Master -- A foreign merchant in his office : portrait of the merchant Georg Gisze, 1532 / Hans Holbein the Younger -- Careers in the kings' service : the ambassadors, 1533 / Hans Holbein the Younger -- From the canopy of heaven to a four-poster bed : Venus of Urbino, c. 1538 / Titian -- In the end the artist, too, was cheated : Pope Paul III and his grandsons, 1545 / Titian -- The miracle in the water : the fountain of youth, 1546 / Lucas Cranach the Elder -- A hero takes a dip : Icarus, 1558 / Pieter Bruegel the Elder -- The Lord sits at the table of lords : the marriage at Cana, 1562/63 / Paolo Caliari (Veronese) -- A village in winter : the census at Bethlehem, 1566 / Pieter Bruegel the Elder -- The bar is full, time for a wedding! : peasant wedding feast, c. 1567 / Pieter Bruegel the Elder -- Aspirations to immortality : the origin of the Milky Way, c. 1580 / Jacopo Tintoretto -- A painter discovers life in the raw : the butcher's shop, c. 1583 / Annibale Carracci -- A woman thwarts Spain's pride : Armada portrait of Elizabeth I, c. 1590 / George Gower -- Tyrannicide by tender hand : Judith and Holofernes, c, 1599 / Caravaggio -- Two cool beauties in the tub : Gabrielle d'Estrées and one of her sisters, 1600 / School of Fontainebleau -- A hero dies upright : the dying Seneca, 1611/1615 / Peter Paul Rubens -- Courtly delight in the vagrant life : the musicians' quarrel, 1620/1630 / Georges de La Tour -- Not the prodigal son : Jovial company, 1622 / Gerard van Honthorst -- A royal match : Henri IV receives the portrait of Maria de' Medici, 1622/1625 / Peter Paul Rubens -- Bad company : the sharper, c. 1630 / Georges de La Tour -- Double-dealing hands and eyes : the fortune teller, after 1630 / Georges de La Tour -- Surgeons lay the human being bare : the anatomy lesson of Dr. Tulp, 1632 / Rembrandt -- Appendix.v. 1. Counsel for the afterlife : from the Papyrus of Ani, c. 1300 BC / Anonymous -- Group portrait with empress : the Empress Theodora with her Retinue, c. 547 / Anonymous -- Propaganda on cloth : the Bayeux Tapestry, after 1066 / artist unknown -- "A garden inclosed in my spouse" : the little garden of paradise, c 14.10 / Upper Rhenish Master -- Palaces crumble but books remain : miniature for the month of January from the "Très riches Heures du Duc de Berry", c. 1415 / the Limburg brothers -- A deceptive idyll : February miniature from the "Très riches Heures du Duc de Berry", c. 1416 / the Limburg brothers -- An angel in the living room : the Mérode Triptych, c. 1422/1430 / Robert Campin -- An Italian in Bruges : the Arnolfini marriage, 1434 / Jan van Eyck -- Monument to a military leader : the battle of San Romano, c. 1435 / Paolo Uccello -- A saint with a practical turn of mind : St Nicholas of Bari, 1437 / Fra Angelico -- May God help the chancellor : the virgin of Chancellor Nicolas Rolin, c. 1437 / Jan van Eyck -- A Christian artisan advertises his craft : St. Eligius, 1449 / Petrus Christus -- The king's mistress posing as the virgin : the Melun Diptych, c. 1456 / Jean Fouquet -- A family sings its own praises : procession of the Magi, 1459 / Benozzo Gozzoli -- A small saint in a vasty building : St. Jerome, 1460/1475 / Antonello da Messina -- The splendours of a small dynasty : Ludovico Gonzaga and his family, c. 1470 / Andrea Mantegna -- An empire collapses, the painter retreats : the Portinari altar, c. 1475 / Hugo van der Goes -- A grim male ballet : the martyrdom of St Sebastian, 1475 / Antonio and Piero del Pollaiolo -- A magnificent picture for a dubious moneychanger : the adoration of the Magi, c. 1475 / Sandro Botticelli -- Hocus-pocus, inquisition and demons : the conjuror, after 1475 / Hieronymus Bosch -- Jason sails for the unknown shores : the ship of the Argonauts, c. 1480/1490 / Ercole de' Roberti/Lorenzo Costa -- The sinner and the eccentric : the ship of fools, 1480/1516 / Hieronymus Bosch -- A cart trundles towards damnation : the Haywain, between 1485 and 1490 / Hieronymus Bosch -- Fairest daughter of heaven and waves : the birth of Venus, c. 1486 / Sandro Botticelli -- A message from the world of alchemy : the death of Procris, c. 1500 / Piero di Cosimo -- How Bellini imagined a city : St Mark preaching at Alexandria, 1504-1507 / Gentile Bellini -- The man, the naked and the bolt of lightning : the tempest, c. 1507 / Giorgione -- Heaven's gates are already opened to receive the bride : the martyrdom of St Catherine, c. 1508 / Lucas Cranach the Elder -- In praise of lies and deceit : Penelope and the suitors, 1509 / Pinturicchio --- Subjects: Painting;
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- Cadres et supports dans la peinture flamande aux 15e et 16e siecles / by Verougstraete-Marcq, Hélène,1944-(CARDINAL)200293; Schoute, R. van(Roger)(CARDINAL)191512;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 338-342).- Subjects: Picture frames and framing; Triptychs; Art; Art; Artists' materials.; Artists' tools.; Panel painting, Flemish.; Panel painting; Panel painting;
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- Wheel of fortune and fantasy [videorecording] / by Hamaguchi, Ryūsuke,1978-film director,screenwriter.; Takata, Satoshi,film producer.; Furukawa, Kotone,actor.; Nakajima, Ayumu,actor.; Hyunri,actor.; Shibukawa, Kiyohiko,actor.; Kai, Shouma,actor.; Urabe, Fusako,actor.; Kawai, Aoba,actor.; Film Movement (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)344832;
DVD; NTSC; all regions; widescreen; 5.1 surround sound/2.0 stereo.Not rated by the MPAA.Kotone Furukawa, Ayumu Nakajima, Hyunri, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Katsuki Mori, Shouma Kai, Fusako Urabe, Aoba Kawai.In this triptych, mundane encounters spin into a world of infinite possibilities. In Episode 1: Magic (or Something Less Assuring), a young woman is startled when she realizes that her best friend's new flame might just be her ex; in Episode 2: Door Wide Open, a disgruntled student plots to trick his college professor, using his friend-with-benefits as bait; and in Episode 3: Once Again, a girl's college reunion leads to an unanticipated run-in with an old friend, and awakens feelings long since forgotten.- Subjects: Romance films.; Anthology films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Man-woman relationships; Triangles (Interpersonal relations);
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