Posted on May 26, 2010, 12:29 am, by admin, under Blog.
Picasso and Braque Go To The Movies at The Met
I’m heading to see a documentary about how early filmmaking influenced the Cubist painters Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. The film is premiering at Metropolitan Museum of Art this evening. I’m curious to see how the filmmaker, Arne Glimcher, handles the juxtaposition of fine art and early cinema.
According to the poster it looks like he’ll have help from Julian Schnabel, Chuck Close, Lucas Samaras, Adam Gopnik, Eric Fischl, and Martin Scorsese.
There is also a Pablo show currently up at the Met, Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art,,, hoping to catch a quick peek before the movie.
Posted on April 27, 2010, 12:25 pm, by admin, under Blog.
Check out the trailer for the new Basquiat film screening at MoMA tonight, Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child. The film theatrically opens in July in New York City.
I am excited to see this movie. Jean-Michel was a big influence on my work when I graduated college and started to paint. I’ve just started to paint again recently and am hoping to be blown away with inspiration.
Aside from the Basquiat exhibit at The Brooklyn Museum of Art several years ago I’ve only seen a handful of the larger canvases. Some of them are actually quite detailed. We’ll see how well they hold up on the big screen.
Here is a synopsis from the film’s distributor, Arthouse Films:
In his short career, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a phenomenon. He became notorious for his graffiti art under the moniker Samo in the late 1970s on the Lower East Side scene, sold his first painting to Deborah Harry for $200, and became best friends with Andy Warhol. Appreciated by both the art cognoscenti and the public, Basquiat was launched into international stardom. However, soon his cult status began to override the art that had made him famous in the first place.
Director Tamra Davis pays homage to her friend in this definitive documentary but also delves into Basquiat as an iconoclast. His dense, bebop-influenced neoexpressionist work emerged while minimalist, conceptual art was the fad; as a successful black artist, he was constantly confronted by racism and misconceptions. Much can be gleaned from insider interviews and archival footage, but it is Basquiat’s own words and work that powerfully convey the mystique and allure of both the artist and the man.
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