Today marks Chuck Close’s 72nd birthday!
In this video, Close remembers the American art scene of the 1960s, a time when sculpture ruled and many considered it “dumb to paint,” and explains why he chose to focus on portraits.
Posted on Thursday, July 5th 2012
David Hockney on sitting for a portrait with Lucian Freud.
According to Hockney, sitting for a portrait with Freud is slow-going, but well worth it!
Posted on Thursday, July 5th 2012
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Are you curious about what Robert Rauschenberg erased during the creation of his fascinating Erased de Kooning Drawing? As part of an extensive Rauschenberg research project, SFMOMA staff took infrared pictures of the piece to see what the original de Kooning sketch may have looked like. Click here to see what they found!
Hungry for more? “Like” the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and check out the Tate’s virtual “Gallery of Lost Art,” which takes a deeper look at Erased de Kooning Drawing.
Posted on Thursday, July 5th 2012
Philip Guston’s contributions to Big Sky 4, edited by Bill Berkson.
Published in 1972 in Bolinas, CA.
See an illuminating video of Philip Guston at work in his studio here.
Philip Guston, Evidence, 1970
Guston was born 99 years ago today! See more work by Guston in SFMOMA’s permanent collection here.
Posted on Wednesday, June 27th 2012
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Today marks what would have been Philip Guston’s 99th birthday!
At first Guston was known for his vivid Abstract expressionist works. Later in his life, however, Guston shocked the art world with cartoonish figures in a lurid palette of pink, red, and black.
Learn more about Guston’s fascinating career in this interactive feature!
Video: Philip Guston discusses his approach to art making.
Posted on Wednesday, June 27th 2012
Secuencia rescate de un suicide en la cúpula el toreo (Suicide rescue from the top of the Toreo Stadium), 1971—Enrique Metinides
Also seen at MoMA!
Tragic yet stunning.
This series by Enrique Metinides is now on view in our Photography in Mexico exhibition. If you haven’t seen the show yet, come visit us soon—- the exhibition closes on July 8!
Posted on Tuesday, June 26th 2012
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Olafur Eliasson - Your Sound Galaxy
We are not going to be able to operate our spaceship Earth much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody. – Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller thought of the world as a contained spaceship, where all of us are on board together, flying through space with a finite amount of resources. How do you think this metaphor can/cannot be helpful in working to solve problems today?
Posted on Tuesday, June 12th 2012
In today’s Open Space post, Heriberto Yépez takes a critical look at work by photographers Daniela Rossell and Yvonne Venegas.
Pictured: Yvonne Venegas, Ana y Amigas, from the series Maria Elvia De Hank (2008)
Posted on Friday, June 8th 2012
Untitled by Hermann Hesse (1917)
…Who knew Hermann Hesse painted? Discover artwork by other great authors: ”Too good for words: When great authors pick up the brush”
Posted on Thursday, June 7th 2012
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