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Edouard Manet—1
Exhibitions—5,6
Artpourri-News—4
Opportunities—5
Events—3
New Stamp Art—7
Edouard Manet (1832-1883)
Born in 1832 in Paris, Edouard Manet lived to become what many believe to be the founder of the painting style we call Impressionism. As is the case with many artistic geniuses, Manet followed his dream and became an artist despite the wishes of his parents. His father was an influ-ential government official who had hoped Edouard would follow in his footsteps. However, Edouard had other ideas. See Manet, P. 3
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Manet—Cont. from P. 1 Edouard, who had been exposed to museums, es-pecially the Louvre, as a youngster, had shown real talent in drawing and the arts. He was not particularly gifted in scholarly endeavors, and to avoid being pushed into a profession he did not enjoy, he opted to become a merchant seaman. In 1850, after his enlistment at sea, he began his formal art training and entered the academic studio environment of Thomas Couture, where he studied until 1856. He visited Germany, Italy and The Neth-erlands to study the work of the Old Masters. Alt-hough influences during these early studio years were Dutch painter Frans Hals and Spanish painters Diego Valazquez and Francisco Goya, he preferred to reflect the ideas and images of current times rather than con-centrate on the past. Edouard assumed the philosophy of contemporary realism to reflect what was happen-ing in his own time. This was a significant departure from what most other artists of his period were doing. Manet’s subjects included everyday (genre) sub-jects and depicted street urchins, café scenes, Spanish bullfights, old beggars and drunkards—subjects far removed from his circle of economic background and not what most Parisians preferred to be recorded. His subjects and their style went against what was then considered acceptable and proper and were dismissed by the general public. Thus, Manet became part of that strong group of rejected artists who formed the original Salon des Re-fuses exhibition. One early Salon exhibition included the now famous scene of a trio of picnickers, two clothed gentlemen and one nude female (Dejeuner sur l’herbe or Luncheon on the Grass), about which much has since been hypothesized. It attracted immediate attention, but was panned by the critics. This very exhibition launched Edouard Manet as the champion for all young painters who encountered the same rejection and scorn from critics and the pub-lic. He became a central figure in the then-hot dispute between academic and rebellious art factions. See Manet, P. 4
EVENTS
Bard SummerScape 2019—Thru Aug. 18. Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY. The 16th annual festival fea-tures seven weeks of world-class opera, theater, dance, cabaret, film and music, including the 30th annual Bard Music Festival, Korngold and His World. fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape/ The Hudson Valley Creative Impact—July 23—Storm King Art Center—Sponsored by the Orange County Chamber of Commerce and Arts Mid-Hudson. This net-working event reaches beyond the borders of Orange County and throughout the region in order to facilitate discussion among cultural organizations, commissions, societies, organizations, committees and groups advo-cating for the arts in their communities. All are welcome to attend. Freshly prepared local eats and beverages will be accompanied by music and lively discussion. Tickets required. ocartscouncil.org Bourbon Street on the Hudson—July 25—Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY. Listen to live music during this “bourbon and barware” tasting event celebrating Can I Get a Witness: Photographs by Herb Snitzer, on view thru Aug. 18. Tickets. hrm.org Beacon 3D—Beacon, NY—The mission of Beacon 3D is to promote the arts in a public venue for the enjoy-ment of the community at large as well as to provide established and emerging artists with the opportunity to present their large-scale creations in a five-month-long annual installation. See artworks from 477 Main St. heading west to 18 W. Main St. Beacon 3D 2019 is dedi-cated in memory of talented artist Judy Sigunick. https://beacon3d.org/category/2019/.
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ARTPOURRI—NEWS
Music On Tap—The 19th season of Jazz in the Garden continues on Friday nights through Aug. 23 from 5-8:30 p.m. in the Sculpture Garden at the National Gallery of Art—located in D.C. between 7th and 9th Streets., along Constitution Ave. NW. This concert series features local-ly and nationally acclaimed musicians who perform a wide variety of musical genres. nga.gov/jazz Skywalk Debuts—The $11.1 million Hudson River Skywalk, which is a historic and scenic walkway at the place where American landscape painting began, opened recently. This extends the walkway along the Rip Van Winkle Bridge to connect the two founding sites of America’s first art movement: the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill and the Olana State Historic Site in Hudson, former home of Frederic Church. New pe-destrian viewing stations on the bridge allow for stun-ning views of the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains, as well as safe pedestrian access to the two sites and a new visitor parking area on the east side of the bridge. A Hudson River Skywalk Arts Festival is scheduled for Sept. 22. Info: hudsonriverskywalk.org Art Week Scheduled—The first Santa Fe Art Week is a nine-day festival (beginning July 13) featuring over 100 unique and creative experiences that offer behind-the-scenes access to artists and the creative process. The culminating event will be Art Santa Fe from July 18-21 in the Santa Fe Community Convention Center, with [MOMENTUM] as the curatorial theme for this nearly 20-year event of excellence in art. New Online Publication Available—MoMA, NYC, has announced a new online publication, Magazine, that fea-tures passionate perspectives on the art and ideas shap-ing culture today. Sign up at moma.org/magazine/. Note that MoMA in NYC is closed for reno until October 21. Visit MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, NY. Finalists Announced—The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced the finalists for its fifth triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. Their work will be presented in The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today exhibition premiering on Oct. 26 thru Aug. 30. Forty-six finalists were selected from over 2,600 entries, with the first-prize winner receiving an award of $25,000 and a commission to create a portrait of a living person for the museum’s permanent collec-tion. npg.si.edu Hours Extended—The Whitney Museum, NYC, will be open to the public seven days a week during the months of July and August. Usually closed on Tuesdays, the Mu-seum will be open from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sun.—Thurs., beginning July 2. Extended hours continue on Fri.-Sat. from 10:30 a.m.-10 p.m., and Fri. evenings are pay-what-you-wish from 7-10 p.m. NEA News—The NEA has announced nine 2019 Na-tional Heritage Fellows, recipients of the nation’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts, who will each re-ceive an award of $25,000. An awards ceremony and a concert in their honor will both take place in September in D.C. arts.gov Auction News—Swann Galleries: The Pride Sale totaled $942,943 with Peter Hujar’s David Wojnarowicz: Manhattan-Night (III), a silver print, top lot at $106,250. Sotheby’s: The $19 million auction of Amer-ican Art in NY was led by Sanford Robinson Gifford’s A Lake Twilight at $2.9 million, a world auction record for the artist. On July 19-20 their Space Exploration and Omega Speedmaster Watches auctions will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. A free public exhibition opens on July 15 in Sotheby’s York Ave. Galleries. Phillips: Phillips X present a private selling exhibition titled NOMEN: American Women Artists from 1945 to Today that includes works by 70 artists span-ning the past 75 years. Thru August 3.
Manet—Cont. from P. 3 At this same time, Paris was going through a major transformation. Modernization and revitalization pro-grams were implemented, and physical, cultural and social change were afoot. It was this connection to a modern Paris that Manet chose to concentrate on in his work. Imagine the spirit and electricity in a city going through such transformation! This energized Manet’s work and allowed him to experiment with a method of paint application that loosened tight detail and near pictorial duplication. The difference in his work and the highly finished canvases approved by the Academy, especially by the Salon, shocked the fashionable society. In addition, his style originated a look referred to as “snapshot”—quick, simple color areas and vivid brush techniques. Later, Degas followed Manet with this style, as did many others, and slowly the process known as Im-pressionism was born. The first work by manet to be accepted by the for-mal Salon, Guitar Player (1861), now hangs in the Metropolitan Museum in NYC. It represented Ma-net’s great emphasis on acceptance by the Salon. He felt that the only way an artist of his time could be successful was through recognition by the Salon. It had never been Manet’s intention to shock or repulse with his work. He was not a radical artist, nor was he a bohemian, as his critics had thought; he was a newly married man, well mannered and well bred as well as a member of high society.
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Exhibitions
In Frederic Church’s Ombra: Architecture in Conversation with Nature—Olana State Historic Site, Hudson, NY—Thru Nov. 3. The first phase of Olana’s main house was collaboratively designed by the artist Frederic Church and the architect Calvert Vaux. A key space in the house design is the “Ombra,” an outdoor room which is a transition zone between the central Court Hall and the surrounding landscape, which re-mains unfurnished and has not been fully interpreted to the public. In the collaborative spirit of Church and Vaux, several architects in the exhibition have paired with visual artists and other designers to develop their concepts. www.olana.org
ANTHROTOPOGRAPHIES by John Sabraw—Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries, Beacon, NY (Hudson Valley campus of Clarkson U.)—Thru Oct. Artist and professor John Sabraw collaborates with engineers and environmental groups to create sought-after pigments, inspiring art and a novel eco-restoration model. www.clarkson.edu/academics/beacon
Kenji Fujita with Work from Neil Fujita—Quarryman’s Museum and Gallery at Opus 40, Sauger-ties, NY. July. Founded in 1978, Opus 40 is an earth-work sculpture park and museum designed by late sculptor Harvey Fite. Each year they offer a range of events and programs. The first floor gallery, where workshops, reception and artists talks are held, is dedi-cated to work from remarkable local artists.
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Lee Ufan—Dia:Beacon, Beacon, NY. A pioneer of the Mono-ha movement in Japan, Ufan developed a sculp-tural practice in the 1960’s that explored the tension between natural and manmade materials and the dia-logue between object and space. This exhibition show-cases the Museum’s 2017 acquisition of three sculptural works by Lee—alongside several important loans.
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Beyond the Streets—25 Kent Ave., Brooklyn, NY. Thru August. This show celebrates society’s most per-vasive mark makers and rule breakers with work by more than 150 artists from around the world. It exam-ines the fundamental human need for public self-expression and highlights artists with roots in graffiti and street art whose work has evolved into highly disciplined studio practices, alongside important cultural figures inspired by these art forms.
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Opportunities
Environmental Poster Exhibition—Lofts at Beacon Gallery, 18 Front St. (off Rt. 52), Beacon, NY— Coordinated by Beacon artist Laurel Shute. Help to build environmental action by making an environmental post-er. Calling people of all ages to make posters that in-spire healing solutions in response to our environmental challenges. The objective is to increase community, which can lead to more people collaborating/working to-gether for natural environmental solutions. Share your ideas for taking care of the environment! Drop-off your poster(s) by August 1st: Office of Lofts at Beacon, 18 Front St., Beacon, NY. Mon.-Sat., 9-1 or 2-4. Info: Ni-cole—845-202-7211. (Also see Page 6.)
Residency 108 Fall Session Open Call—Sept. 30-Oct. 28—Germantown, NY. Deadline: July 15. Emerging and established artists, writers and composers/choreographers of any age from any country may apply; solo artists as well as collaborating teams of up to three people, particularly those who work with nature, ecology and the installation of temporary outdoor land-art works. A room, working facilities and weekly stipend is provid-ed. A residency is also offered in May of each year. http://www.residency108.org/apply
Upcycle Fair: Every Day Art-Call for Vendors and Art-ists—Aug. 17—Sponsored by Fall Kill Creative Works at the Poughkeepsie Trolley Barn, Poughkeepsie, NY. Seek-ing vendors and artists with products for sale or display that are made from a significant portion of materials di-verted from the waste stream. Art exhibit hangs from Aug. 2-29. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeuUxtk_Ea_APVnpk1rFpwKOTOD4da_MdidYRyafUvkkkzZvQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
Napa Lighted Art Festival 2020—Jan. 11-19—Downtown Napa, CA. Deadline: Aug. 16. Both interna-tional artists and artist collaborative groups are encour-aged to apply. Approximately 15 installations are being sought to receive a stipend between $2,000-$4,500. Artwork could include light art, video art, 3D video map-ping projections, light sculptures, LED, fiber optics, cus-tom gobo designs, interactive works, lasers, etc. Light itself in any form should be the actual artwork and it’s required that the role of light be essential to the concept. They are not looking for artwork where light is used only to illuminate it. New technologies and innovative use of light are encouraged. There is no entry fee. https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=6762
6th Annual Juried Show: In the Moment—Oct. 5-27—Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown, NY. Deadline: Aug. 21. Any media except photography or fine crafts. No repros or giclee will be considered. Open to residents of the following counties: Columbia, Rensselaer, Albany, Schenectady, Ulster, Dutchess and Greene in NY; Litchfield and Fairfield in CT; and Berk-shire in MA. https://spencertownacademy.org/gallery/prospectus-sixth-annual-juried-art-show/
86th Annual International Exhibition of Fine Art in Miniature—2019—Nov. 17-Jan. 5—Miniature Painters, Sculptors & Gravers Society of Washington D.C. —The Mansion at Strathmore, North Bethesda, MD. Deadline: Sept. 7. Original works in any traditional media, prints from original plates and sculptures will be considered, and work should embody the spirit of a miniature. Over-all area of the image must not exceed 25 square inches; sculptures may not exceed 6” in any dimension, includ-ing the base. Awards total about $8,000. https://www.mpsgs.org/
JULY ARTIST BIRTHDAYS
6—Frida Kahlo
7—Marc Chagall
11—James Abbott McNeill Whistler
12—Andrew Wyeth
17—Berenice Abbott
19—Edgar Degas
22—Edward Hopper
25—Maxfield Parrish
28—Judith Leyster
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Manet—Cont. from P. 4
In 1870, Paris was besieged by the Franco-Prussian war and Manet enlisted as a gunner in the National Guard. Paintings of that period depict his sentiments, his loathing of war and what it extracts from its people. By 1874, Manet’s reputation was that of experimental artist and leader of the Impres-sionists. This group of avant-garde artists was gain-ing in popularity and was exhibiting publicly. Includ-ed in the group were Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Degas, Cezanne and Pissarro. Manet influenced their work and they, in turn, influenced his. While he offered support and financial aid to his artist friends, he chose never to exhibit with them, as his focus remained cen-tered on the Salon. Contradictions of tone and content in Manet’s later works energize the scenes and draw the viewer in. While he was never united with the artists known for true Impressionism, his work can surely be viewed as setting trends in style, form and content—all elements used by the Impressionists of his time and those who followed. Manet once said he wanted to create “not great art, but sincere art.” Although he did not gain recognition for his work until late in life, in 1882—just one year prior to his death—Manet was awarded the Legion of Honor for his influence on Parisian art. He died in 1883, leaving many watercolors, pastels and 420 oil paintings. EXHIBITIONS:
Manet and Modern Beauty—Art Institute Chica-go—Thru Sept. 8. Tickets Required. This is the first exhibit in over 50 years to focus on an important peri-od in the artist’s career that brings together an impres-sive array of portraits of fashionable women, as well as intimate male friends—and rarely seen letters to his friends that feature exquisite illustrations of his favor-ite subjects at the end of his life. Rembrandt to Picasso: Five Centuries of European Works on Paper—Brooklyn Museum of Art, NYC—Thru Oct. 13. Explored are the roles of drawing and printmaking within artists’ practices, in-cluding several artists such as Manet, van Gogh, Koll-witz, Kandinsky, Goya and Morisot, among others.
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President George H. W. Bush A new commemorative stamp salutes President Bush on what would have been his 95th birthday. The 41st presi-dent guided the U.S. through the end of the Cold War and drove the creation of a coalition that successfully forced Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait in the Persian
Gulf War. The portrait was painted by award-winning artist Michael J. Deas and is based on a 1997 photo taken by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. Phil Jordan was the art director and stamp designer.
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