Month: June 2015

Paul Cadmus

Paul Cadmus, “Stone Blossom: A Conversation Piece”, 1939-40, Oil and Tempera on Lnen on Pressed Wood Panel

Cadmus was a slow, meticulous worker who favored the complicated, time-consuming medium of egg tempera. He finished an average of only two paintings a year. He was more prolific in other media, including drawing, printmaking and photography. Although Cadmus stopped painting toward the end of his life, he continued to draw at his home in Weston, Connecticut, particularly portraits and figure studies of his partner Jon Andersson. Paul Cadmus died in his home in Weston in 1999, just five days short of his 95th birthday.

“Stone Blossom: A Conversation Piece” is signed and inscribed with title and dated lower center in the New York Times newspaper on the ground. The group portrait from left to right consists of the Curator of Exhibitions and Editor of Publications at MOMA Monroe Wheeler, the novelist Glenway Wescott, Hollywood photographer George Platt Lynes, and Paul Levitt pictured mowing the lawn.

Afternoon in the Wooded Dell

Photographer Unknown, (Afternoon in the Wooded Dell)

“It is possible, as I have learned again and again, to be in one’s place, in such company, wild or domestic, and with such pleasure, that one cannot think of another place that one would prefer to be—or of another place at all. One does not miss or regret the past, or fear or long for the future. Being there is simply all, and is enough.” 

—-Wendell Berry, What Are People For?: Essays

Darren Hayes, “Darkness”

Darren Hayes, “Darkness”, 2014

UK-based Australian singer-songwriter, Darren Hayes was the lead singer and media front man for pop duo Savage Garden, whose 1997 album Savage Garden was No. 3 in the United States and produced the hits “Truly, Madly, Deeply” and “I Want You.” Savage Garden stayed together for only two albums and released the US No. 1 hit “I Knew I Loved You” before Hayes went out on his own, changing his sound from soft pop-rock to a more electronic darker sound.

Hayes has three solo albums under his belt and another can be expected in 2011, produced by Lady Gaga’s mixer Robert Orton. Including his work with Savage Garden, Hayes has sold over 25 million albums worldwide. Although Hayes was married for six years to his childhood sweetheart, makeup artist Colby Taylor, they divorced in 2000 and he began coming out to his friends and his label in the early 2000’s. In 2006, he married his boyfriend of two years, Richard Cullen, in a civil ceremony in London.

Martin Van den Bogaert

 

Martin Van den Bogaert, “Captive Representing Spain”, 1682, Bronze, Louvre Museum

Originally placed around the pedestal of the pedestrian statue of Louis XIV of the Place des Victoires, the captives represent the nations defeated at the Peace of Nimègue in 1678. The” Captive representing Spain” has his eyes raised to heaven expressing hope. The models of the captive nations were cast in bronze in 1682. The bronze trophies were added to the pedestrian statue after the contract of March 9, 1685.

Sigur Ros, “Daudalogn”

Sigur Ros, “Daudalogn” (Calm Death)

Sigur Ros Valtari Film Experiment- A collection of 16 short films made for the “Valtari” album.

Sigur Rós (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈsɪːɣʏr ˈroːus] ) is an Icelandic post-rock band from Reykjavík, which has been active since 1994. Known for its ethereal sound, frontman Jónsi Birgisson’s falsetto vocals, and the use of bowed guitar, the band’s music is also noticeable for its incorporation of classical and minimalist aesthetic elements. The band is named after Jónsi’s sister Sigurrós Elín.

Jón “Jónsi” Þór Birgisson is the lead vocalist and guitarist for the Icelandic rock band Sigur Rós. His boyfriend Alex Somers has done much of the graphic design for Sigur Rós over the years. The two also perform together in the group Jónsi & Alex and released an album: Riceboy Sleeps.

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Jeremy Geddes

Jeremy Geddes, “A Perfect Vacuum”, Oil on Canvas, 2011

Hyperrealism is a genre of painting and sculpture resembling a high-resolution photograph. Hyperrealism is considered an advancement of Photorealism by the methods used to create the resulting paintings or sculptures. The term is primarily applied to an independent art movement and art style in the United States and Europe that has developed since the early 2000s.