Been Sick

Sorry for lack of posting, but I've been under the weather. Will post again soon.

New Artist Palettes

Talking about innovation, some new painting palettes designed from the viewpoint of a painter have hit the market. Keith and Kyle O'Brien have designed comfortable palettes. These fresh idea palettes have better weight balance and were created because the elder O'Brien of  the clan had made his own to suit his needs; their father didn't like the commercial ones available for artists.

The brothers started New Wave Art, which makes the palettes that utilize a method that distributes the weight to three different points, so there isn't any strain at the wrist, hand, hip, or torso.

Their company is going to give awards to five artsts during 2012 at Artexpo New York. They are putting on a 03/24/12 from 10:00am until 7:00 pm.

Sylvia Getsler: Gag Cartoon Artist

Sylvia Getsler was a gag cartoon artist of note that died in 2009. Her work was published in True Detective, Ladies Home Journal, and Saturday Evening Post. She freelanced and became very successful.

She was a native of Poland and arrived in New York in 1933. Her routine involved going to the magazine syndicates approaching the editors with her portfolio of new work on Wednesdays. Getsler created a huge body of work that was published in the United States and abroad.

Her work is on view at the Pfundt Gallery of the Michener Art Museum of  Doylestown, PA until 07/01/12.

David Hockney: Dogs

David Hockney is fond of his dogs, and it shows in his artwork depicting them. His brownish-red dachshunds called Boodgie and Stanley are the inspiration for the paintings and drawings in David Hockney's Dog Days because Hockney "wanted a tender, loving subject" as he told Richard Natale during a 1998 interview.

This wonderful art is a far cry from his swimming pools, green lawns, and other Southern California subjects. For dog owners that are close to their pets, the art expresses a warmth and affection  they can relate to and appreciate.

He published David Hockney's Dog Days in 1998 in hardcover. It sports 84 illustrations of Hockney's 2 dachshunds. The paperback came out in 2006. This is a must see and a keeper for people that call a dachshund friend.

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Marjorie Strider: Pop Artist

By OCAL at clker.com

Marjorie Stride was heavy into the 1960's avant-garde art scene. She was involved in happenings. Stride arranged the original Street Work with the help of Hannah Weiner and John Perreault; in this casual art event for the public, she hung picture frames in the outdoors to "frame" what was there. For the fourth Street Work event, she hung a huge frame in front of the Architectural League in New York, right before the steps to the entrance.

Strider transformed iconic images of women that objectified the female form into threatening figures. Yet, these forms had a seductive effect too, and the lips might be voraciously eating a strawberry or radish. She took on the sexually exploitative images and added humor and made a point about the exploitation. In the sixties, she created paintings with sculptural effects.

In the seventies, she turned to soft sculptures. For instance, one that exploded shooting polyurethane foam tinted orange and red that flowed out a window or knocked a ladder over. The installations were individualized to the building they were in, for instance, the polyurethane streaming down a spiral staircase Blue Sky (1976) or out of a window as in Building Work (1976). In the nineteen-nineties, with ceramic, acrylic, and modeling paste Strider painted symbols like skulls, Madonna, Buddhist icons,and roses delivered in a ground of hash marks and dots.

Strider studied at the Kansas City Art Institute. When she hit New York City in the nineteen-sixties, the art world wasn't receptive to her work; then, Arne Glimcher showed her work in nineteen-sixty-four at The Pace Gallery. The show called " The First International Girlie Show" had its inspiration from Triptych a painting done by Strider. She succeeded in getting a solo show at the Pace in the coming year.

During 2010 and 2011, Strider's work was shown in a touring show entitled Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists 1958-1968. The show was received well.