Abstraction Videos

As I shook a tree branch to capture Honey Locust Seed Pods rattling, a stranger stepped up and volunteered to shake so I could concentrate on my video making. For the full story, please visit: http://johnnordell.blogspot.com/search/label/Video

French Abstract Painter, born in 1919 (dec, 24th).In 1941 he was drafted into the army; his regiment was located in Montpellier, where he attended the École des Beaux-Arts. There he also became acquainted with the abstract artist Sonia Delaunay. As of 1946 he maintained a studio in Courbevoie near Paris and established contact with artists such as Domela, Picabia, Hartung and Léger. In 1987,Pierre Soulages began to work enthusiastically over a plan for creating stained-glass windows for Saint Foy of Conques. In 1994, he completed the achievement of 95 windows and 9 loopholes which respect and magnify teh roman austerity and its symbols and beckon light to enter the church. Author: Frameous Tags: Pierre Soulages art contemporain france conques noir lumière marine Gramat abstraction Posted: 27 October 2009 Rating: 0.0 Votes: 0

A Talk Art episode where Susan Kraft interviews Palo Alto Accent Arts instructors, Jill Andre' and Maya Babiszewska about teaching from the heart, getting you intellect and your emotions on the canvas. One teaches abstract figurative with acrylic, the other teaches abstract landscapes withoil.

Door County artist Myrna Leigh talks about her evolution from executive to artist in this DesignWise Studios production.

James Kalm brings viewers a compilation of events and exhibitions that signal the year end frenzy in New York. The Kalm Report s unscheduled interview with Marlene Dumas at MoMA makes Dutch TV. Al Held Paintings from 1979 to 1985 are displayed at Paul Kasmin. A rare treat for motor-heads, Virgil de Vold re presents Anthony Patti s Jerzey Thunder a wacky investigation of East Coast car culture icons and mini-hotrods. We wrap up with a brief run-through of the hard-edged geometric paintings of the influential critic and painter, Stephen Westfall at Lennon and Weinberg

James Kalm foregoes the bicycle to make a special road-trip to Newark New Jersey to visit the debut exhibition of German Pitre. Using the abject materials of faux fur, stuffed animals and black tar-like paint, Pitre presents work that challenges good taste while extending the classic painterly legacy. Working on a large scale and attaching objects to the canvas surface, the artist comingles the cuddly with the crappy and produces work that resonates with a pathetic awareness of unavoidable decay and enveloping entropy. Featuring an interview with German Pitre.

James Kalm is out and about again bringing viewers a popuri of recent exhibitions. Solid Liquid Eric Sall s latest group of paintings at ATM draws viewers in with their rich use of paint, luscious color and sophisticated abstract compositions. Daniel Richter is yet another of the wild young German painters showing with David Zwirner who have picked up the mantel of bold large scale painting. Fluctuating between figuration and abstraction, Richter employs jarring colors and spontaneous techniques to fashion his disturbing images. In the mid eighties, as Warhol s star was diminishing and Basquiat s was rising, their paths crossed. Van de Weghe Fine Art presents a show spotlighting this short and unique collaborative project, as they produced some of the decade s most striking paintings.

James Kalm encounters yet another of the Young German Painters who have monopolized sizable chunks of Chelsea s exhibition space during the last two months. Jonathan Meese along with Andr Butzer, Daniel Richter and Neo Rauch, all seem focused on restoring a type of massive painterly expressionism which has been sourly lacking from kowtowed New York artists. DICTATORBABY is Meese s parody of an assimilation of politics by art. These heavily pigmented mixed media works present a whimsical take on cultural hegemony with startlingly fascistic implications. Meese fashions his works with an amalgam of Post Punk, Ab-Ex and Germanic military imagery. Most surprising is a group of recently completed sculpture witch demonstrates his feel for mass surface and presents a disturbing memorial to war dead.

James Kalm once again goes undercover to bring viewers unauthorized video of Cy Twombly s latest exhibition of paintings, Blooming: A Scattering of Blossoms and Other Things . With this collection of recent paintings Twombly has encouraged his most lyrical expressions. With a poetic sense influenced by the elegant simplicity of haiku, these pieces have a reduced color spectrum and a basic repeated form manifest as bursts of blooming blossoms. Despite having lived in Europe for the last fifty years, Twombly still holds a major place in postwar American painting. These works bare witness to his continuing vigor as a major influence among young artists.

James Kalm makes his way to Chelsea to view the latest exhibition of David Reed. With a reputation in the New York Painting community that stretches back to the late sixties, David Reed continues to befuddle the public with his mysterious technical prowess and provocative conceptual approach to the medium of paint. Featuring a cameo appearance by David Humphrey.