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| SLEEPING BEAUTY Masterpieces of Victorian Painting from Museo de Arte de Ponce 15 June to 3 October 2010 The work Flaming June from 1895, one of the most famous paintings in art history by the English painter Frederic Leighton, and fve masterpieces by Edward Burne-Jones, monumental in part, constitute the highlights of the summer exhibition at the Lower Belvedere. The show Sleeping Beauty opens up an imagery of early Modernism hitherto largely unknown in Austria and offers a visual foray into art production in mid-nineteenth-century England. The Pre-Raphaelites, a group of artists established in London in 1848, aimed at a renewal of art as opposed to offcial Victorianism. The group’s ideological orientation was based on the contents of English literature and the country’s history, as well as religious themes that were related to everyday life in an unprecedented fashion. Analyses and comparative examples visualize the art historical context of the works on display, which are by the hands of such artists as Lord Frederic Leighton, Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, and William Holman Hunt and relate them to Austrian fn- de-siècle art. The Sleeping Beauty can be seen as the prelude to a more intensive exploration of Victorian art at the Belvedere; the exhibition will be followed by a special presentation on the subject of European Symbolism and a show devoted exclusively to the Pre-Raphaelites. A major part of the current show’s exhibits comes from the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico, which was founded by the industrial tycoon Don Luis Alberto Ferré Aguayo in 1959 and is currently being rebuilt. After stops in London, Madrid, The Hague, and Stuttgart, the show in Vienna is the last opportunity of seeing these extraordinary paintings before they return to Puerto Rico. The Belvedere’s exhibition revolves around the holdings of the Caribbean collection and is divided into four chapters, with the frst demonstrating the superior quality of the collection compiled by Ferré within a very short time. One of the principal works is no doubt the painting The Escape of a Heretic by John Everett Millais from 1857. The other three chapters illustrate how various motifs of sleep determined the artists’ imagery. Mythology and fairy tales offered them a considerable number of reference points. In this context, the Belvedere presents Burne-Jones’s painted illustrations for the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, which the artist, in his own pictorial language, transformed into Briar Rose. Burne-Jones is also the author of the huge painting The Sleep of Arthur in Avalon, which measures almost 20 square metres. The exhibition concludes with the didactically conceived chapter on Flaming June, Frederic Leighton’s masterpiece. The focus is on the work’s formal genesis, as well as on how the sensational subject was received in prudish Victorian England, but also on the painting’s conception according to classical aesthetic principles, the erotic elements, and the hitherto open question of who posed as a model.
Lucian Freud black-eyed portrait fetches £2.8m
Lucian Freud's Self-Portrait With A Black Eye has sold for £2,841,250 at Sotheby's in London. The estimate for the work, which shows the artist with a swollen eye following a punch-up with a taxi driver, was £3m to £4m. Sotheby's said the rediscovered 1978 work was his "most important self-depiction ever to appear at auction". The top lot at the London Evening Sale of Contemporary Art was Willem De Kooning's Untitled XIV, fetching £4m. Self-Portrait With A Black Eye, which has never been displayed in public before, has remained in the same private collection for more than 30 years. Freud, now 87, was in his late 50s when he painted the work. He once said that he "used to have a lot of fights". "It wasn't because I liked fighting, it was really just that people said things to me to which I felt the only reply was to hit them." Sotheby's sale, which also included Freud's 1981 oil on canvas Guy and Speck and his Portrait of Christian Berard, fetched a total of £54.1m. Yves Klein's fire painting F 88 sold for £3.3m. BBC |
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24:2010 – The birth of a new decade.
It is an ambitious project that will not be complete until the end of the next decade. But seven years in and 24photography is still going strong – creating a social commentary that will last for generations.
Featuring a number of critically acclaimed artists from across the globe the group’s latest exhibition is set to be the best yet.
Their idea is simple: 24 photographers, documenting the first 24 hours of every New Year for 24 years.
Each individual is tasked with capturing a single moment within their allotted hour, creating a unique collection of images linked only by time. The original 24 photographers met while studying on a postgraduate photography course at Central St Martin’s in London. Although their various careers have all led them down different paths they reunite to continue towards their goal. This year the group decided to use the theme of Rebirth as their inspiration, drawing on their experiences and surroundings to create a distinctive set of images.
Claire Spreadbury, founder of 24photography, said: “Each year the photographs submitted for 24 surprise and excite me. What I find most interesting is how differently people interpret the concept - as well as what people actually get up to on New Year's Day! This year's images in particular are outstanding: the 24 artists take you on a roller-coaster ride through 24 hours, from the banks of the Seine to cocktail bars and moonlit golf courses.”
Previous exhibitions have proved extremely successful with the group keen to display their work in unusual but accessible locations (the fountains of Trafalgar Square, the SS Robin in Docklands, Greenwich Park and Soho Square to name just a few). And this year’s venue Golden Square – at the heart of London’s media industry - promises to be just as exciting.
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Brad Pitt, Las Vegas 1994 © Annie Leibovitz. Courtesy of Vanity Fair 
Mikhail Baryshnikov and Rob Besserer, 
My Parents, Peter’s Bond Beach,
Wainscott,
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The exhibition “Annie Leibovitz – A Photographer's Life 1990 – 2005”at KUNST HAUS WIEN offers an unusual glimpse of the oeuvre of one of the most famous portrait photographers of our time. In addition to her portraits of famous personages, which have long since become icons of photographic art, the 150 works on display include photographs from Leibovitz's private life that have never been exhibited before. The result is a unique chronology, a composite of family album, diary and assignment work. The exhibition was organised by the Brooklyn Museum, New York and is being sponsored by American Express. Portraits of artists and politicians such as Mikhail Baryshnikov, William S. Burroughs, Demi Moore, Bill Clinton, Agnes Martin, Mick Jagger, Matthew Barney, Chuck Close, Robert de Niro and Scarlett Johansson form one core of the exhibition. Scenes from the photographer’s private life – the births of her three daughters, or the illness and death of Leibovitz's father – are juxtaposed with landscape photography, e.g. from the USA or Jordan, and reportages such as the one Leibvoitz did on the siege of Sarajevo. Annie Leibovitz’s photographs for magazines have chronicled American popular culture since the 1970s. The photographer sees her work, which has been displayed in numerous museums throughout the world, as a unified whole: “I don't have two lives,” Leibovitz says. “This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it.” The current exhibition follows up on KUNST HAUS WIEN’s first presentation of works by Annie Leibovitz in 1993, which showed photographs created during the years 1970 to 1990. |
Exclusively for Art Elite Magazine - Interview with
Can you buy Stardust? Read interview
Trisha Lambi read interview
Trisha Lambi participated in the Fourth
Edition of the Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte Contemporanea in
Florence Italy. Participation in this event was by invitation only
and an International Committee chose artists solely on merit.
Since then
she has exhibited locally,
interstate and internationally and interest in my work is growing.
Trisha Lambi is represented by galleries in
Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Wollongong and in private
collections in Australia, Spain, China, Germany, Ireland,
Canada, Cyprus and the United States.
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Steven Pratt was born into a
farming community in 1950 in Zimbabwe. He spent the greater
part of his life there in close association with the land as
an artist and farmer until the turbulent social and
political upheaval under the current dictatorship brought
about his exile to the United Kingdom in 2003. He studied
painting at the Rhodes University School of Art in South
Africa under Brian Bradshaw, and there worked and exhibited
with the Grahamstown Group, an association of landscape
painters under Bradshaw’s mentorship. He has exhibited in
national exhibitions in major centres in Zimbabwe and South
Africa, and has held a number of solo exhibitions in
Zimbabwe. His work is represented in the public collection
of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe.
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Art Elite
Online Magazine is proud to introduce Elena Ringo -one
of the most interesting European artists and a manager of International Art Association Artist Universal. Her life is as interesting as her works -grown in Moscow, she performed on stage, created an Art Union of painters and published a magazine and poems. Her art is well know all around the world and she has had recently two solo art shows in Helsinki. Her exhibitions were met with great interest by artistic and intellectual elite of Helsinki. Her technical mastery combined with his distinctive and striking use of composition and color enable her to portray real people and images that arise from the depths of her soul and belong to her alone in a totally unique and artistic way. Read Interview |
Ken Bekles
is internationally recognized
for his photography
and paintings. His images are
published and exhibited
in
solo and group shows throughout the United States and
Europe. He recently joined Artist Universal Artist Association. In his interview with Art Elite the New York based artist and photographer tells Art Elite magazine about his unique art and interesting life. Read Interview  |
Having been exposed to
photographic background since birth (Neil's father was a
Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society) Neil Lawson-Baker
has an eye for absolute perfection. He uses a Nikon D 300
digital camera and a Leaf Aptus 38M pixel back on a Contax
645 camera system to produce quality work. According to interior designer and journalist Jane Arte Watt "the artist reveals an extra dimension not seen by people in a hurry of everyday life, images that the city itself created, with no computer image processing involved - just an artist's eye and the city." "The art of photography is not lost with a birth of digital cameras; it has been promoted to the state of photographic art instead of being a simple recording of the vernacular." (Jane Arte Watt, BIDA "The Role of Photography in Contemporary Interior Design") Read Interview |
Steph Goodger
Art Elite Online
Magazine has an honour to present a painter from
France Steph Goodger. She was
born in Kent, England, in 1974. Her studio was based in Leeuwarden,
the Netherlands, from 2000 to 2001. She exhibited with Galerie De
Roos Van Tudor, the Netherlands, until 2006.
In 2004 she moved to the Bordeaux region of France and created the
gallery Salon des Fables with Julie McDermott and Julian Rowe. In
2007 Salon des Fables subsequently became the title of an
Association which takes exhibitions to new venues, in France
initially.
