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Anytime you mention classical music, I picture a "young and serious" Sean Nethery with a "John Cale" hairdo earnestly scraping away at a well-worn cello, shaking his head at all the troubles of this old, brown world?
Most of that's right, but maybe a bit more Mason Reese than John Cale. I wish John Cale!
Ah, well....
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Ah, I thought that was just yesterday - thanks for the link!
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Oct 22, 2020 - 3:22 AM
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Jim Phelps
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Haven't cracked open the Cubism book yet, but I'm happy to know there are a few Juan Gris paintings included.
Glanced through the de Chirico and am looking forward to exploring his art. The first painting of his I can recall is "The Seer", via its appearance on the cover of Thelonious Monk's Misterioso album. That painting is included in the Taschen book.
I initially purchased this volume for its biographical information on Kirchner. However, the book has proven even more valuable because it includes numerous paintings not seen in the Neue Galerie exhibition catalogue, especially works from Kirchner’s Davos, Switzerland period. I have yet to encounter better use of color in an artist’s work than what Kirchner applied to his work in Davos. I've spent much of this year obsessing over Kirchner's art; he's in my top 4, after George Miller, Steven Spielberg, and Nicholas Meyer.
Oops. Wrong thread, wrong poster.
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I found an art book at the curb. It's called "Actors as Artists." It shows the art of various actors, both famous and not-so, some surprisingly good, some not-so.
One big surprise was Claudette Colbert, who had a pretty and realistic portrait she did of Jimmy Stewart's wife. Quite stunning, enough that I wonder if it was done off a photo transparency of some kind.
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OOh, where did you find that photo of me, Jim? Spot on!
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Dec 31, 2020 - 4:07 AM
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Jim Phelps
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At the risk of sounding like a mainstream FSMer tallywacking over their obsolete cd collections, here’s my 2020 art book (junkie) haul:
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Neue Galerie exhibition catalogue.
Expressionism, Taschen Basic Art Series.
New Objectivity: Modern Art in the Weimar Republic 1919-1933. LACMA exhibition catalogue.
Franz Marc and August Macke: 1909-1914. Neue Galerie exhibition catalogue.
Christian Schad and the Neue Sachlichkeit. Neue Galerie exhibition catalogue.
The Mad Square: Modernity in German Art 1910-1937. Sydney Museum exhibition catalogue.
Berlin Metropolis 1918-1933. Neue Galerie exhibition catalogue.
Edvard Munch, Taschen Basic Art Series.
Brucke, Taschen Basic Art Series.
The Blaue Reiter, Taschen Basic Art Series.
Cubism, Taschen Basic Art Series.
Giorgio de Chirico, Taschen Basic Art Series.
Kirchner, Taschen Basic Art Series.
Rene Magritte, Taschen Basic Art Series.
Amadeo Modigliani, Taschen Basic Art Series.
Max Beckmann, Taschen.
August Macke, Taschen Basic Art Series.
Franz Marc, Taschen Basic Art Series.
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Nice thread, Mr. Phelps!
Whenever we travel we hit the museums, too! A couple of years ago we had one day in Boston and hit both the Museum of Fine Arts and the incredible Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. We had a --sigh!--Paris trip scheduled for the summer of 2020, and we're still hoping for later this year or next.
Incidentally, I saw your Beckmann book. I'm fortunate to see many of his paintings on a regular basis as the St. Louis Art Museum has the largest collection of his works.
I'm no expert on art, but I love to hit those museums.
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