Magne Austad (1946-2013).Karmøyutstillingen.40-årsjubileum

f./born  i/in Haugesund

Utdannet ved SHKS, Statens Kunstakademi, Kungl. Konsthøgskolan i Stockholm.
Utstillinger: Høstutstillingen, Vestlandsutstillingen, samt diverse separat- og kollektiv utstillinger i forskjellige norske byer. Tilknyttet Galleri Haaken siden 1996.

Magne Austad (1946-2013)

Innkjøpt av Riksgalleriet, Norsk Kulturråd, Nasjonalgalleriet samt innkjøpt i forbindelse med utsmykninger til en rekke offentlige institusjoner, bedrifter, cruisebåter etc.

Professional training - State Academy of Arts.
His works art to be found in the National Gallery, Arts Council Norway, private collections and in the cruise ships and so on.

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri also known as Guercino. Portrait of a lawyer (Francesco Righetti?)

Portrait of a lawyer, oil on canvas, 83,2x66,7cm, Private collection

This painter came from the City of Cento and acquired Europe-wide fame in the 1620s, briefly residing in Rome during the reign of Pope Gregory XV, becoming his protege. In decades to come, Guercino`s fame only increased as corroborated by his book of commissions (Libro del conti).

The Portrait of a Lawyer has a famous collecting history. After appearing on the American art market in 1987, it ended up in the collection of Edmund P.Pillsbury, Director of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth Texas. Sir Denis Mahon traced the work`s provenance back to the collection of Empress Josephine`s son Eugene de Beauharnais. This revelation was made, thanks to an entry by F.Muxel in a catalogue printed in Munich, providing information about the Leuchtenberg collection. This subsequent travels of the work took it to Saint Petersburg and before the October revolution to Paris (O.Mahon, in Giovanni Francesco Barbieri 1991, pp. 194-195). Information dating back to 1810 tells us that at that time the painting belonged to the Marchese Francesco Sampieri, who sold the collection of 130 works to Eugene de Beauharnais, Vice-Regent of Italy (before the sale, Guercino`s Portrait of a Lawyer hung on the wall of Francesco Giovanni Sampieri`s apartment).

It is possible that the man depicted in the portrait is lawyer Francesco Righetti (1595-1673), a doctor of  legal sciences, who was well-known in Guercino`s native city of Cento, which was also home to the artist`s studio until 1642 (Salerno 1988, pp. 212-213). The portrait was painted  between 1626 and 1628. The lawyer  depicted in the painting was an energetic, active personality, a member of the Community Commitee (Consiglio della Comunita) and author of publications with a legal content, as emphasised by the legal  tomes on the bookshelves (Helmholz 1992 pp.185-188). A wonderful example of a still life with the interaction of light and shade, as it was described in the 18th century by Giuseppe Maria Crespi.

Giuseppe Maria Crespi. Portret of Antonio Cartolari

Portrait of Antonio Cartolari, Oil on Canvas, 93x75cm, National Art Gallery of Bologna

Giuseppe Maria Crespi (Bologna 1665-1747)
Luigi Crespi (Bologna, 1709-1779)

This painting depicts engraver, designer and decorator Antonio Cartolari (1701-1779), who testifies in his 1777 will that in this portrait everything from the arms to the head is the work of S.r.Knight Crespi, also known as the Spaniard. The painting was subsequently delivered to the Bolognese Sanctuary for Impoverished Priests (Ospizio dei Poveri Sacerdoti Bolognesi) on Nozadella Street (Mazza 2000, pp.71-73). The writing in the will corresponds with the notes of Marcello Oretti: the head is painted by Giuseppe Crespi, also known as the Spaniard, everything else is painted by his son Canon Luigi.  Engraved on the plate is: Luigi C.f. It is known that Giuseppe Maria Crespi made corrections to his son`s paintings, which were painted in the family studio, and painted in the most complex details, such as, in the case of this painting the face of his friend Antonio Cartolari. As a creative duo, they were also well-known among the city`s clients for works of art, depending on the circumstances, their works were also ascribed under one name or the other, because son Luigi was also very gifted (Roli 1977,pp 144-148). By the time he was in his thirties, it is conceivable that the talented young artist was already capable of creating a work independently, and that he was responsible for painting the setting for the portrait of Cartolari: the project plans, compass ink and pencil even divert attention from the face, indirectly indicating  the ability of a student of Ferndinando Bibiena to depict complicated items. Just as in the portrait of the family of silversmith Zanobio Troni, in this painting Crespi alludes to the occupation of the subject of the portrait. The work`s stylistic traits and biographical clues suggest that it dates back to  around (M.Danieli, in Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna 2011, pp.158-160).

Watercolour in Latvia. 19th – 21st Centuries – 2015 – Exhibitions – Explore – The Latvian National Museum of Art

Watercolour in Latvia. 19th – 21st Centuries – 2015 – Exhibitions – Explore – The Latvian National Museum of Art

Janis Brekte (1920-1985), City Hall in Tallinn, From the series The Baltic Republic, 1958, Watercolour on paper, 84x60,5cm,

Francisks Varslavans, 1899-1949, Parisian study,, 1927, Watercolour and pencil on paper, 30,5x39cm, Latvian National Museum of Art

Eduards Jurkelis, 1910-1978, Mara`s lake, 1958, Watercolour on paper, 55x80cm, Latvian National Museum of Art

 

Izstādes „Provansas valdzinājums” lasījumi: Aleksejs Petuhovs "Ivana Mor...

Perspective of the Solar System – 2014 – Exhibitions – Explore – The Arsenāls Exhibition Hall

Perspective of the Solar System – 2014 – Exhibitions – Explore – The Arsenāls Exhibition Hall

Vija Celmins

Vija Celmins

Impressions and parallels – 2013 – Exhibitions – Explore – The Art Museum Riga Bourse

Impressions and parallels – 2013 – Exhibitions – Explore – The Art Museum Riga Bourse

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Saatchi Gallery Announces Winners of the Painted Faces Showdown Art Competition

Saatchi Gallery Announces Winners of the Painted Faces Showdown Art Competition

Sergey Dyomin (Latvia)

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Egils Rozenbergs' Solo Exhibition – 2013 – Exhibitions – Explore – Arsenāls Exhibition Hall

Egils Rozenbergs' Solo Exhibition – 2013 – Exhibitions – Explore – Arsenāls Exhibition Hall

The Landscape. Jūlijs Feders (1838-1909) – 2013 – Exhibitions – Explore – The Art Museum Riga Bourse

The Landscape. Jūlijs Feders (1838-1909) – 2013 – Exhibitions – Explore – The Art Museum Riga Bourse

20 Francijas dizaina ikonas. Dialogs – 2013 – Exhibitions – Visit – Museum of Decorative Arts and Design

20 Francijas dizaina ikonas. Dialogs – 2013 – Exhibitions – Visit – Museum of Decorative Arts and Design

French design

Elektromagnetic - Modern art in Northern Europe, 1918 - 1931

I am back after long time.I was in Haugesund Billedgalleri in this summer. (Jeg likte:) About it I will write in next post.

And now is another new in Norway. Exhibition "Elektromagnetic - Modern art in Northern Europe 1918 - 1931" in Henie Onstad centre of art (kunstsenter) .

The main question - What role did Scandinavian and Baltic artists play in the international art arena during the 1920?

N.Strunke

"This exhibition focuses on a time when things were different, but when there was  nevertheless a willingness to participate in a larger, European  fellowship of artists and a great need  to connect with international movement of art."

DAUGAVPILS MARKA ROTKO MĀKSLAS CENTRS - Workshop with Peter Griffin

DAUGAVPILS MARKA ROTKO MĀKSLAS CENTRS - Workshop with Peter Griffin

The main building of the LNMA is closed for reconstruction till 2015

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Reconstruction project by  "Processoffice" and "Andrius Skiezgelas Architecture".

Project area : 8249 m2

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The Magic of Light

"The task of the exhibition "The magic of life".Lamps from the 20th Century till the Present day is to show the differences of light perception in our minds and life in the flow of time and reveal the stylistic pecularities and aesthetic idels of each period separately, as well as  with experimentation in the field of  lighting and application of materials Lamp is perceived as a design object and a source of light together, which transforms the our space of living creating inimitable atmosphere."

More about exhibition you can read here.

Pixar, Luxo

Realismi Socialisti. Grande Pittura sovietica 1920 - 1970/ Socialist Realisms. Soviet painting 1920-1970

11 october 2011 -  8 january 2012. Azienda Speciale Palaexpo Roma. In the exhibition one art work from our National Art Museum - Aleksandr Deneika "Lunch break in Donbass, 1935".

Aleksandr Deneika, Lunch break in Donbass

Muse'e d'Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg - 08.10.2011.

Musee d'Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg. There is exhibition  "L'Europe des esprits, ou la fascination de l'occulte, 1750 - 1950). I mentioned about this exhibition because there are  art works from our National Art Museum.

For example, Nikolaj Rerikh.

Flower Show. Paintings and graphics (27.05.-24.07.)

The image of the flower, saturated with aesthetic beauty and polysemic symbols, flourished in the still-lifes of the 17th century Dutch Old Masters. They ranged from brilliant floral abuundance to ascetic simplification of forms and left their impression on the creative explorations of successive generations.

"Flower Show" with its romantic moods begins symbolically in spring when nature is in full blossom. One of the main themes is dedicated to the queen of flowers - the rose, whose blossom symbolises love, commemoration, suffering and clarity, and which was known in the gardens of Asia 5000 years ago.

More information in the exhibition.

Source: www.lnmm.lv

By the Amber Sea. The collection of the Latvian National Museum of Art. 29.04-26.06.2011

Janis Mitrevics. Look.Oil on Canvas.1999

The exhibition consists of the art of the last two decades in the LNMA collection. The exhibition wishes to show and age, the time of the renewed, independent Latvia.

The period between 1990 and 2010 is also a whole age in European and world history. It has given rise to various epithets - "after the wall", "post-Soviet". Looking  back on this, it seems worthwhile to look for evidence of this time of changes and cataclysms in art too but it is more typical for the Latvian and therefore the Latvian artist to live by his Amber Sea and withdraw  into himself come what way. Thus the title of the exhibition from well-known Latvian Schlager song also contains irony of the existential fatalism of the geographical location being sung about that manifests itself in a mental measurement such as the character of the nation.

M.Tabaka

M.Guščika. Video monitoring. Oil on canvas.2007

V.Kaulača. Illusion.Oil on Canvas.2005

Source:Calendar of the LNMM 2011