http://www.artscope.net Fine Art and Fine Art Book Reviews from ArtScope.net en-us Copyright ArtScope.net 2007. All Rights Reserved. Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:56:52 CST Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:56:52 CST editor@artscope.net http://www.artscope.net/images/asnamelogosm.gif http://www.artscope.net Fine Arts News and Reviews http://www.artscope.net/VAREVIEWS/inmonetsgarden0208.shtml The now-famous gardens were laid out by Jean-Claude Monet at his country home toward the end of his career, when travel to remote sites to paint en plein air was less appealing to the artist's older bones and ultimately fading eyesight, and when his status as a man of wealth and standing could be expressed by the means of a fine house, manicured grounds, and the diversion of a nearby river into his own private lagoon. The gardens are now lavishly kept for the benefit of tourists, who are able to see them flowering in continuous, artificially nurtured profusion independent of the shift of seasons from spring toward autumn. And, as seen in In Monet's Garden: Artists and the Lure of Giverny, the former country home of the celebrated artist has become a plum of an artistic residency. Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:58:09 CST http://www.artscope.net/VAREVIEWS/inmonetsgarden0208.shtml http://www.artscope.net/VAREVIEWS/omerta0208.shtml The central focus of Omerta, a solo show for Seoul-based artist Chang Jia, is a set of six large-scale digital prints of female nudes entitled Standing Up Peeing. These are black-and-white photographs in the classic style, the nudes sculptural against a deep black background, their heads cropped or otherwise bent to hide the face. The upright stance and the stream of liquid trickling down don't immediately connect themselves with bodily fluids: too pale, too clean, too pure in the formal setting. We can follow the stream of liquid down the model's leg with all the casual ease of a voyeur. But the focal point of the images is less the peeing itself than the tense grace of the poses taken by each of the women at the photographer's direction. This is an exhibition to see, not because it is shocking, but precisely because it is not. Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:31:09 CST http://www.artscope.net/VAREVIEWS/omerta0208.shtml http://www.artscope.net/VAREVIEWS/omerta0208.shtml Twenty-five years ago, Walker began keeping a dream diary as part of the course Inscape Psychology at the Ontario College of Art in the 1980s. Shortly thereafter, he added to the written diary the exercise of carving of an accompanying image in wood engraving, each image synthesizing the essence of the dream into a single visual representation. Images from the Neocerebellum gathers seventy-three entries and their engravings into a single volume, the brief texts paired with imaginative illustrations to form an exploration of the surreality of dreaming, and the use of art to reveal the creative imagery of the unconscious. Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:05:32 CST http://www.artscope.net/VAREVIEWS/omerta0208.shtml http://www.artscope.net/VAREVIEWS/foto0408.shtml The Milwaukee Art Museum presents the exhibit Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945 through May 4, 2008. Featuring more than 165 original works of photographs and photomontage, Foto is an important documentation of the enthusiasm and variety with which European nations adopted photography as the new language of modernity after the great World War. The camera as social recorder, as exaltation of speed and the dizzying new architecture, as experimental tool reflect some of the diverse aspects of the explorations seen in these select and compelling works. Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:55:29 CST http://www.artscope.net/VAREVIEWS/foto0408.shtml