Plundered Art. Where Is It Now?
Kirby Kendrick2014-02-04T16:55:06-08:00
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02, 2014
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01, 2014
Andy Warhol…Why is He an Important Artist?
Kirby Kendrick2014-01-15T12:39:17-08:00
Andy Warhol painted icons.
Andy Warhol painted history.
Love him or hate him, Andy Warhol was just the latest in the long line of artists documenting our times.
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11, 2013
Would YOU buy this painting?
Kirby Kendrick2013-11-25T12:55:57-08:00
Someone did! A member of the royal family of Qatar, Sheikha Mayassa bint Hamad al-Thani, dubbed the most powerful woman in art, reportedly bought Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
The painting sold for $142 million dollars.
Artist Francis Bacon […]
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11, 2013
California Art…Seeing is Believing
Kirby Kendrick2013-11-12T16:20:49-08:00Art San Diego Contemporary Art Fair 2013
Take a quick tour of the exciting San Diego Contemporary Art Fair!
Click here if unable to view the video.
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10, 2013
World’s Greatest Portrait Painter
Kirby Kendrick2013-10-30T01:45:06-07:00The greatest portrait painter in the world?
Rembrandt Van Rijn, 1606-1669
Acclaimed master of the self-portrait, forty of which survive today.
Rembrandt’s paintings will forever change the way we experience an artist’s self-portrait. Rembrandt revealed much more than his likeness in the paintings. He painted his turbulent life for all to see. The masterly portraits painfully […]
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09, 2013
Munch…more than just “The Scream”
Kirby Kendrick2013-09-04T00:43:10-07:00Edvard Munch, Norway’s greatest artist and famous for The Scream, once hooted and jeered by the public? How could that be?
Munch’s paintings were revolutionary. The technique of scratching, layering and smudging the canvas was unheard of.
His subjects were the complex ones of life, death, anxiety and human sexuality…frightening in their intensity […]
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08, 2013
Cubism Understood at Last!
Kirby Kendrick2013-08-21T11:49:29-07:00The Father of Modern Art…Picasso? Nope.
Linda Blair, renowned San Diego Art Historian, asserts Paul Cézanne, French painter in the latter part of the 1800‘s, as the precursor of Cubism and hence, the true Father of Modern Art…not Picasso!
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07, 2013
Degas At The Races
Kirby Kendrick2013-07-24T10:20:16-07:00
Edgar Degas, one of the greatest French Impressionists of the mid-1800’s, painted more than just ballerinas. Yes, indeed.
In the winter of 1872 Degas traveled to New Orleans, the birthplace of his mother, and became enamored with horses […]
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07, 2013
Heroes
Kirby Kendrick2013-07-08T13:50:59-07:00Heroes arise from everyday life. Supernatural and powerful forces lead the ordinary person to perform wondrous deeds, often bestowing good upon their fellow man.
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Joan of Arc’s story is one of those rare events in history […]
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06, 2013
Art Venice, Art Venice, Art Venice
Kirby Kendrick2013-06-10T16:36:16-07:00If you happen to be in Venice, Italy between June and November, you will see art everywhere…strange art, really ugly art, and beautiful, take-your-breath-away art! Art is in the museums, the palazzos, the canal-fronted warehouses, small intimate gardens! It’s everywhere!
The Venice Biennale, one of the most prestigious contemporary art shows in the […]