#art observed

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Art Observed: Will Ryman’s The Roses (Park Avenue, 2011).

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Henri Matisse  (French, 1869–1954)

La Leçon de Piano / The Piano Lesson ,1923

AO Art Observed™

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Currently on at Gagosian Beverly Hills, artist Joe Bradley is presenting a body of new works, continuing the artist’s complex and occasionally irreverent visual language through a wide range of formats and materials.  Marking the gallery’s most recent entry in its annual Oscars Weekend exhibition series, the exhibition is the artist’s first solo show with the gallery in Los Angeles, a fitting introduction to his work that draws widely from his recent output. KEEP READING...

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Francis Picabia  (French, 1879-1953)

Ventilateur, 1918

oil on card laid down on board , 53.5 by 38cm

ArtObserved

Ventilateur is an exceptional example of Picabia’s rare and profoundly influential machinist compositions from his Dada period. The use of the mechanical forms and the sensational associations they evoke are fundamental to the artist’s perception of art’s role in the modern, industrialised epoch. 

During his second visit to the United States in 1915, Picabia announced: ‘The machine has become something more than a mere appendix to life. It has come to form an authentic part of human existence ..., perhaps its soul. In my search for forms to interpret ideas through which certain human characteristics may reveal themselves, I have finally discovered the form that seems to me, from the plastic point of view, the most convincing and the most symbolic. I have taken over the mechanics of the modern world and introduced it into my studio’. The symbolism to which he refers relates directly to the present work in which the ventilation machine depicted is analogous with a potent female sexuality. Picabia shared this approach with his friend Marcel Duchamp, who produced a number of machinist works which similarly referenced women in terms of machines such as The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors

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Gerhard Richter  (German, b. 1932)

Abstraktes Bild 593-8 , 1986

AO Art Observed

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Comprising two separate series created by the artist during the course of his career, Gagosian Gallery on London’s Britannia Street has opened an exhibition of work by renowned minimalist Walter de Maria, opening a dialogue within the artist’s own body of work across decades of practice, and through a range of materials that underscore the artist’s particular approach to questions of space, subjectivity and time.

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Karen Kilimnik, thank you, I’m rested now. I’ll have the lobster today, thank you, 2016

http://artobserved.com/2016/03/new-york-karen-kilimnik-at-303-gallery-through-march-26th-2016/