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thelostversethelostverseMember
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Originally posted by Jorgerunfast:
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Originally posted by wine+art:

You know that would never happen, though I wish I was. ( we are iced in) I was only saluting the start of such a grand event.


I feel your pain... I had to leave my shirt sleeves rolled down today. It wasn't so much the 76F temps, but the wind chill that got me...

Winter man, I tell ya'...


LOL that made me laugh - despite the -6 windchill here this morning.
W wine+artMember
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Originally posted by Italian Wino:
W+A

It will be mine eventually. Currently my father is enjoying it on the wall in his dining room. If you find yourself in Rochester, NY you will have to get together and share some vino and talk about art with my dad.

IW


IW, very nice.

I would love to share an evening with your dad someday. I thought about going to the PGA but not an easy place to get to. Wink
jabe11jabe11Member
We had a niece and nephew in laws in town for a bit. They toured around the UK, spending most of their time seeing the insides of pubs and subsequently sleeping it off. During some down time, they asked us to show them around some museums. Thusly, toured some highlights of the British Museum, and a great look at the National Gallery (such an amazing museum...there is so much to appreciate, I never tire of the place).

A highlight for me, however, was a revisit to the Courtauld Gallery. I love this small but powerhouse of a museum.
W wine+artMember
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Originally posted by VinT:
Ended the year with a few pleasurable hours at AGO taking in The Great Upheaval: Masterpieces from the Guggenheim Collection, 1910-1918. Favorite work today was The Yellow Cow by Franz Marc.


Nice to see Marc mentioned. He is an artist that has been under the radar the past several decades for some reason.

I'm a fan of German expressionism and Marc was the founder of Der Blaue Reiter as well. Thanks for sharing.
vintvintMember
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Originally posted by wine+art:
Nice to see Marc mentioned. He is an artist that has been under the radar the past several decades for some reason.

I'm a fan of German expressionism and Marc was the founder of Der Blaue Reiter as well. Thanks for sharing.

In this selection of works, I actually preferred Marc's pieces to those of his Blue Rider co-founder Kandinsky. I can't help but wonder how spectacular Marc's artistic life might have been had it not been cut tragically short while fighting in WWI.
K ksc02Member
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Originally posted by VinT:
I can't help but wonder how spectacular Marc's artistic life might have been had it not been cut tragically short while fighting in WWI.

Another prolific artist of the period of Expressionism, who died at the young age of 28, was Egon Schiele. Well worth acquainting yourself with this artist (and his work) if you have not already (IMHO).
W wine+artMember
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Originally posted by KSC02:
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Originally posted by VinT:
I can't help but wonder how spectacular Marc's artistic life might have been had it not been cut tragically short while fighting in WWI.

Another prolific artist of the period of Expressionism, who died at the young age of 28, was Egon Schiele. Well worth acquainting yourself with this artist (and his work) if you have not already (IMHO).


Well, if we are talking German Expressionism, I must mention Kirchner, Macke, Nolde, Beckman, Dix and Grosz as well. Cool

German Expressionism had a major impact on cinema as well. I'm thinking Old Man is having a slow day, so I will wait to see if he will post on this topic before jumping in. Wink
The Old ManThe Old ManMember
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Originally posted by wine+art:
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Originally posted by KSC02:
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Originally posted by VinT:
I can't help but wonder how spectacular Marc's artistic life might have been had it not been cut tragically short while fighting in WWI.

Another prolific artist of the period of Expressionism, who died at the young age of 28, was Egon Schiele. Well worth acquainting yourself with this artist (and his work) if you have not already (IMHO).


Well, if we are talking German Expressionism, I must mention Kirchner, Macke, Nolde, Beckman, Dix and Grosz as well. Cool

German Expressionism had a major impact on cinema as well. I'm thinking Old Man is having a slow day, so I will wait to see if he will post on this topic before jumping in. Wink

First, the Rifkind Center at LACMA has a remarkable collection of German Expressionism highlighted by over 7,000 works on paper. In film my favorite two works, and certainly the most famous, are The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Nosferatu. Both are typical of the great German silent era with their sharp off-kilter sets and high contrast lighting. Hitchcock was always a fan of the director of the later work--F. W. Murnau. Interesting that Murnau also directed the extremely sad The Last Laugh with the great Emil Jennings.

Now I must riff: Emil Jennings other well known movie is The Blue Angel co-staring Marlene Dietrich. Dietrich was already 29 when she became a star in her first talking movie. She'd already appeared in 19 (!) silent movies. In this film she sang, for the first time, her signature song, Falling In Love Again. The film was directed by Josef Von Sternberg who became Dietrich's mentor in Hollywood and they made six more films together.

Sternberg commissioned one of the two great Austrian born, immigrants to Los Angeles architects--Richard Neutra (whose Lovell city house is in L.A. Confidential) to build the Von Sternberg House in 1935. An apocryphal story that Neutra told was that the bathroom doors were not to have locks to prevent high-strung actors and actresses of the day from locking themselves in and committing suicide. Later Ayn Rand lived there and it later it was knocked down, for a development in 1972.

Let's continue the connections: Neutra, when he lived in the old country, worked for the architect Erich Mendelsohn of Germany. In the early twenties Mendelsohn designed Einstein Tower a solar telescope observatory. Mendelsohn's work is often said to reflect German Expressionist ideals and this building his best example of that style. However that title may go to the Second Goetheanum by Rudolf Steiner.

Back jump: Von Sternberg is buried in the tiny Westwood Memorial Cemetery behind tall office buildings on Wilshire. Marilyn Monroe is buried there as is her star from Some Like It Hot Jack Lemmon. And nearby our beloved director of same, and many other great movies, Billy Wilder. I was visiting again Saturday and was amused by Rodney Dangerfield's tombstone with the quote, "There's goes the neighborhood."
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W wine+artMember
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Originally posted by The Old Man:
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Originally posted by wine+art:
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Originally posted by KSC02:
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Originally posted by VinT:
I can't help but wonder how spectacular Marc's artistic life might have been had it not been cut tragically short while fighting in WWI.

Another prolific artist of the period of Expressionism, who died at the young age of 28, was Egon Schiele. Well worth acquainting yourself with this artist (and his work) if you have not already (IMHO).


Well, if we are talking German Expressionism, I must mention Kirchner, Macke, Nolde, Beckman, Dix and Grosz as well. Cool

German Expressionism had a major impact on cinema as well. I'm thinking Old Man is having a slow day, so I will wait to see if he will post on this topic before jumping in. Wink

First, the Rifkind Center at LACMA has a remarkable collection of German Expressionism highlighted by over 7,000 works on paper. In film my favorite two works, and certainly the most famous, are The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Nosferatu. Both are typical of the great German silent era with their sharp off-kilter sets and high contrast lighting. Hitchcock was always a fan of the director of the later work--F. W. Murnau. Interesting that Murnau also directed the extremely sad The Last Laugh with the great Emil Jennings.

Now I must riff: Emil Jennings other well known movie is The Blue Angel co-staring Marlene Dietrich. Dietrich was already 29 when she became a star in her first talking movie. She'd already appeared in 19 (!) silent movies. In this film she sang, for the first time, her signature song, Falling In Love Again. The film was directed by Josef Von Sternberg who became Dietrich's mentor in Hollywood and they made six more films together.

Sternberg commissioned one of the two great Austrian born, immigrants to Los Angeles architects--Richard Neutra (whose Lovell city house is in L.A. Confidential) to build the Von Sternberg House in 1935. An apocryphal story that Neutra told was that the bathroom doors were not to have locks to prevent high-strung actors and actresses of the day from locking themselves in and committing suicide. Later Ayn Rand lived there and it later it was knocked down, for a development in 1972.

Let's continue the connections: Neutra, when he lived in the old country, worked for the architect Erich Mendelsohn of Germany. In the early twenties Mendelsohn designed Einstein Tower a solar telescope observatory. Mendelsohn's work is often said to reflect German Expressionist ideals and this building his best example of that style. However that title may go to the Second Goetheanum by Rudolf Steiner.

Back jump: Von Sternberg is buried in the tiny Westwood Memorial Cemetery behind tall office buildings on Wilshire. Marilyn Monroe is buried there as is her star from Some Like It Hot Jack Lemmon. And nearby our beloved director of same, and many other great movies, Billy Wilder. I was visiting again Saturday and was amused by Rodney Dangerfield's tombstone with the quote, "There's goes the neighborhood."


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robsutherlandrobsutherlandMember
Very happy to find out that Richard Hudson, Mia Pearlman and especially Jaume Plensa are on the short list to do the art installation outside of the new office building under construction across the street from me. The space for it is up to 57x19 meters and it's a big budget so it should hopefully be a great piece though I struggle to think much can outclass the wonderful "Rising" by Zhang Huan that went up last year with the new Shangri-la hotel.
W wine+artMember
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Originally posted by Rob_Sutherland:
Very happy to find out that Richard Hudson, Mia Pearlman and especially Jaume Plensa are on the short list to do the art installation outside of the new office building under construction across the street from me. The space for it is up to 57x19 meters and it's a big budget so it should hopefully be a great piece though I struggle to think much can outclass the wonderful "Rising" by Zhang Huan that went up last year with the new Shangri-la hotel.


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The Old ManThe Old ManMember
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Originally posted by Rob_Sutherland:
Very happy to find out that Richard Hudson, Mia Pearlman and especially Jaume Plensa are on the short list to do the art installation outside of the new office building under construction across the street from me. The space for it is up to 57x19 meters and it's a big budget so it should hopefully be a great piece though I struggle to think much can outclass the wonderful "Rising" by Zhang Huan that went up last year with the new Shangri-la hotel.

As one who lives in a city with some of the worst public art, who also turned down a major Nancy Rubins, this piece of crap kitsch represents our best:
Kiss
I'm jealous.
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