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| | Friday, March 27, 2009 | | Abstraction Gesture Ecriture, Paintings From The Daros CollectionAmerican Abstract Expressionism is one of the most fascinating and most influential periods in the art of the twentieth century. Abstraction, Gesture, Ecriture looks not only at the heroes of this style of painting who focused on the gesture, but also examines its development and subsequent artistic responses to it. In the essays specially written for this volume, renowned authors discuss a selection of some fifty paintings from the Daros Collection, an important private collection of mainly American contemporary art(view more...) | | | | | | Tuesday, March 24, 2009 | | Alexander Calder, Animal sketching"Cats - Remember that 'action' in a drawing is not necessarily comparable to physical action. A cat asleep has intense action. Cats, incidentally, make splendid models. The feline looseness and flexibility of limb have more grace in them than the more jerky movements of some other animals. One can almost see what a cat is thinking about..." (A. Calder)(view more...) | | | |
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