Tag: Gibbes
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Picasso at the Gibbes
Picasso, it seems, could make art out of anything — including dirt. Peter Schjeldahl of The New Yorker recently called him a control freak, subduing art to his will. Not quite a cutdown, considering what his will created. … Once he mastered the technical aspects of the art. Picasso began to incorporate some unorthodox methods…
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Take a Look-See Around
The final word — get out and see what you like. Likes and dislikes in art are sometimes diificult to articulate. You can’t always explain why you love or hate a painting or a sculpture. But who do you have to explain it to? Just go.
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Whoever Dies with the Most Toys Wins, Part II
I spoke with a Gibbes employee who was appalled by the exhibit and said that when schools came through the kids were thinking that this was a pretty strange thing: to be honoring wealthy men like Miles Brauton, who could pay Sir Joshua Reynolds to paint his portrait because he was “the largest importer of…
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In Pursuit of Refinement at the Gibbes
Can’t you faintly hear him snickering at the Americans leaving his shores with their chachkas? There may not be much of the French Revolution in French porcelain figures, but an art retrospective shouldn’t be as ignorant.
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Art in the Age of Microsoft
New technology, like any other tool, can enhance or hinder a work of art.
Kristen L. Rhodes 