Robert Motherwell, 1915-1991 Elegy to the Spanish Republic
Opening Saturday at the Block Museum in Evanston: Robert Motherwell: An Attitude Toward Reality, From the Collection of the Walker Art Center. More than 40 drawings, collages, prints, and paintings.
The art and rhetoric of Robert Motherwell helped define the New York School, a group of abstract painters active in the 1940s and 1950s that also included Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning. (from the Block’s website) Free weekend parking and no charge for the museum.
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"Ripple #14" oil on canvas, 40"x30" ©2009 Yelena Klairmont, Used by permission
The Port Clinton Art Festival is coming to downtown Highland Park this Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 28 & 29, 10am to 6pm. Last week Amy Amdur of Amdur Productions, gave us a quick course on how to buy art there, avoiding the common pitfalls of sore feet, sunburn, fighting with your partner, budget-burn and sensory overload. Amdur was joined by two exhibiting artists for her August 4 presentation at the Highland Park library: landscape painter Yelena Klairmont and Eric Lee of Presteau Studios, who creates 2-D back-painted glass works.
While Amdur covered many topics, including art media terminology (do you know your giclees from your batiks?), we are going to boil it all down to:
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At Highwood's Left Bank Parisian Flea Market
Something trés fantastique is happening in Highwood – a “Parisian style” flea market along Highwood’s “Left Bank,” that is, on Bank St. just east of the railroad tracks. We visited on Saturday afternoon and found antiques, stuffed ducklings, chandeliers, garden furniture, baseball cards, unbelievable fresh sweet corn, lamp shades, even a Virgin Mary statue for your shrine, should you have one.
There were lovely, unusual purple clay pots imported from Yixing China and sold by Mary Seyfarth (an accomplished Highland Park artist known for her feet sculptures) and clever totes, scarves, and cell phone pouches fashioned from neckties by Brooke Costello of Tongue Tied. The Tree Spirit brought their handcrafted log tables and Valentino Daielli brought over some beautiful pieces from his Art & Antique Restoration service (1546 Old Skokie Road, in the rear, Highland Park).
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