Author: ultrawolvesunderthefullmoon

https://www.instagram.com/wolvesofgray This blog is a refugee and a survivor of the Great Tumblr Inquisition of December 17th, 2018. I am gay artist, who received training at the Rhode Island School of Design, and now, a retired high-end fine art framer living in Maryland, USA. My interests and studies in life run a wide gamut from art to history and from the scientific to the esoteric. I have been building this blog of images and texts for the last eight years. My wish is that my posts pique the interest of viewers and encourage them to experience more.

Joshua Harker

Sculpture: The Tangle Series by Joshua Harker

Joshua Harker is an American artist considered a pioneer and a visionary in 3D printed art and sculpture.  His series of “unmakeable” technically complex tangles is credited as the first to break the design and manufacturing  threshold of possibility.  His pursuit of a process to bring his works into the 3rd dimension culminated after nearly 20 years in a perfect storm of software development, materials engineering, and 3D printing technology advancements. He went on to navigate the creation of his “Tangle” series in the archival material of cast bronze, thus bridging the traditional techniques of the past with technology of the present.

To fully appreciate the gravity of the pieces one must understand the practical impossibilities of their existence.  This has been considered a landmark event in the history of sculpture and the chronology of the 3D printed medium. It has made him one of the most recognized artists in the field. Along with his techniques, subject matter, and execution, his experimentation in the dissemination of his art through digital media and the internet has garnered him international recognition.

Wifredo Lam

Wifredo Lam, “The Hurricane”, Oil on Jute, 1945, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Le Habana, Cuba

Wifredo Lam was Cuban painter known for his synthesis of Modernist aesthetics and Afro-Cuban imagery. Lam was born to a Chinese immigrant father and a mother of African and Spanish descent. He left the small town of Sagua la Grande for Havana in 1916, where he initially studied law.

By 1918 he had begun to study art at Havana’s School of Fine Arts, and he soon began to exhibit in annual salons. He went to Spain in 1923 and briefly studied academic painting in Madrid. In 1936 and 1937 he fought for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, fleeing Barcelona for Paris in 1938 with a letter of introduction to Pablo Picasso.

Through Picasso Lam met members of the Parisian avant-garde, and he began to experiment with various Modernist styles. Two Nudes, I (1937), for example, resembles Henri Matisse’s work in its heavily outlined and rounded forms. Other works, such as Composition (1940), utilize Cubism techniques. After meeting André Breton, Lam became an active member of the Surrealist movement.

Surrealism’s involvement with myth, the subconscious, automatism, and, in particular, non-Western art was critical to the development of his work. African art enjoyed a vogue in Paris in the 1930s, particularly among the Surrealists, and its influence on Lam’s work of this period is evident.

Dean Cornwell

Two Murals by Dean Cornwell, The Raleigh Room of the Warwick Hotel, 68 West 54th Street, New York City, 1937

Dean Cornwell was an American illustrator and muralist. His oil paintings were frequently featured in popular magazines and books as literary illustrations, advertisements, and posters promoting the war effort. Throughout the first half of the 20th century he was a dominant presence in American illustration. At the peak of his popularity he was nicknamed the “Dean of Illustrators”.

In 1937 William Randolph Hearst commissioned Cornwell to create murals for The Raleigh Room, the restaurant inside his new residential hotel. Cornwell complied with a series of scenes of the life of Raleigh, depicting the explorer-courtier throwing down his cloak over a mud puddle for Queen Elizabeth, receiving a charter from her, and landing on Roanoke Island. After Cornwell had completed the murals, however, he and Hearst disagreed about compensation, and in revenge, the artist added obscene elements to the paintings, including an Indian with bare buttocks and men urinating on both Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth. Fortunately, he painted out these elements once the dispute was resolved. Over time the murals darkened, but they were brilliantly restored in a renovation in 2004.

Anselm Kiefer

Anselm Kiefer, “Margarette”, Oil and Straw on Canvas, 1981, 280 x 380 cm, Tate Museum, London, England

Anselm Kiefer was born 1945 in Donauschingen, Germany, at the close of World War II. He studied art formally under Joseph Beuys at the Düsseldorf Academy in the early 1970s where history and myth became central themes in his work.

In 1971 Kiefer produced his first large-scale landscape paintings and from 1973 he began to experiment with wooden interiors on a monumental scale. His preoccupation with recent German history is seen throughout his work and his use of recurring motifs, such as an artist’s palette symbolises his emotional journey relating to this period. Kiefer has made increasing use of materials such as sand, straw, wood, dirt and photographs, as well as sewn materials and lead model soldiers. By adding found materials to the painted surface Kiefer invented a compelling third space between painting and sculpture. Recent work has broadened his range yet further: in 2006 he showed a series of paintings based around the little-known work of the modernist Russian poet Velimir Chlebnikov.

Brett Williams and Hayden Phipps

Brett Williams and Hayden Phipps, “The Death and Life of Desmond Wolfe”, 2013 Entry for the Filminute Challenge

Every year, Filminute challenges filmmakers all over the world to tell a story in 60 seconds.

The concept of flipping through brief moments in a person’s life to create a short film is tried and true, which is what makes this outstanding work from Brett Williams and Hayden Phipps that much more impressive. For one, it’s got a beautifully-shot stunt at its core. For two, it subverts that common flash-by-flash exploration of a person’s existence by introducing us to a man who is not at all what he seems.

This film from South Africa received a Jury Commendation in 2013.

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John Boyd

John Boyd, “Fish Head”, Oil on Board, 1957, 11×14 inches, Private’s Collection, Ireland

John Boyd was born in Carlisle, England in 1957 and studied painting in the Slade School of Art. He has resided in Ireland for the past 20 years and has exhibited internationally since the late 70s, most often in London, America and Ireland.

Boyd has developed a style uniquely his own, one that seems to hint at complex and unresolved narratives replete with a quiet but profound anguish. Although he has received relatively little critical attention, his distinctively mannered paintings have acquired a loyal following.

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