STONES OF BRAY CONT'D

Bluestone1
Etching: Chine Colle

Greenstone2
Etching: Chine Colle

Radiata
Etching: Chine Colle

WHAT IS CONTEMPORARY ART? by Terry Smith, Univ of Chicago,2009

Excellent read to bring artists up to date on the changeover from 'modernism' to 'contemporary' in artwork, museum architecture and exhibitions, the art market, and art theory. A fascinating introduction on the conditions and questions raised by contemporaneity and the current world picture leads on to a description of world renowned museums and how they have responded to or not to changes.  The author describes contemporary art through the work of artists, art auctions, art fairs, biennales, collectors. Smith includes a discussion of aboriginal art, the third and fourth worlds of art, and a chapter on Art,Truth and Politics.

TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART, FLORIDA HENRI MATISSE:MASTER OF LINE AND LIGHT

An exhibition of Matisse Prints at the new Tampa Museum of Arts, Florida. Examples of many types of printmaking: intaglio: engraving, chine colle, drypoint, aquatint, relief: lithography, woodcut, linoleum.  My favourite is the linoleum.


Head of a Woman, Mascaron, 1938
Relief, Linoleum

Matisse Late Career Portrait Prints 1940s
Lift-ground aquatint

Matisse Woodcut











All pictures taken from review article by Lennie Bennett, St Petersburg Times, Feb 14, 2010 (Edmund D. Fountain, photos)