A Pop Artist's Fascination With the First Americans : Roy Lichtenstein

Fellow docent Biz suggests another NYTimes article ....

A Pop Artist's Fascination With the First Americans

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/23/arts/design/23lich.html?ex=1292994000&en=65d7fcd4e8da7b0f&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

Can there possibly be anything about the work of Roy Lichtenstein
(1923-1997) that isn't already well known? Well, yes: his interest in
the people of the Old West, particularly American Indians, which led
him to incorporate their motifs in his work.

That interest is explored in an engaging show at the Montclair Art
Museum, "Roy Lichtenstein: American Indian Encounters," which puts a
group of Indian-themed Lichtensteins together with Indian artifacts
from the museum's own holdings and a few of the books from the
artist's own collection that helped inspire him. The show was
assembled by Gail Stavitsky, the museum's chief curator, and Twig
Johnson, its curator of Native American Art, in conjunction with the
Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.

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Regards
Sanjeev

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From: Biz Lund <mizbiz54@hotmail.com>
Date: Dec 30, 2005 8:37 PM
Subject: Re: When Cubism Fractured Art's Delicate World : Fwd:
interesting article about cubism

sanjeev, here is another one if you can find it. nyt. 12/23/5. "a pop
artist's fascination with the first americans" roy lichtenstein: american
indian encounters

When Cubism Fractured Art's Delicate World : Fwd: interesting article about cubism

Fellow docent Cass points out an interesting article in the New York Times ...

When Cubism Fractured Art's Delicate World

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/30/arts/design/30cubi.html?ex=1293598800&en=2c7c6554beb2189f&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/30/arts/design/30cubi.html

Regards
Sanjeev

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From: Cass Brotherton <cbrotherton1@hotmail.com>
Date: Dec 30, 2005 12:31 PM
Subject: interesting article about cubism
To: Sanjeev Narang <ask@econsultant.com>

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/30/arts/design/30cubi.html
Would you look this over and if you think it is worth it (and can be
opened by most folks) post it to the docents/blog?
Thank you,
Cass

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Docent Needed for Tour: Friday, January 20 at 10:00 am

Can anyone do a tour on Friday, January 20 at 10:00 am?

 

The tour is for a group of 20 seniors from Panorama Retirement Center in Lacey. Sue Stibbe is scheduled to docent on that day, but I would like to find a second docent for the tour so that it can be split into two smaller groups.

 

The group organizer indicated that they are most interested in a Deceits and Fantasies tour, but it is up to you, the docents, to read your audience and determine what tour they are most interested in (that is, a general museum tour or a special exhibition tour). Feel free to split the group into two and offer two different tours.

 

Please reply only if you are available, and I will confirm whether or not you are needed.

 

Thanks for your time!

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Assistant Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

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KCTS channel 9 9:00pm : Imagining America: Icons of 20th Century American Art - Fwd: on tv tonight

A message from fellow docent Biz ...

KCTS
Channel 9
9:00pm
Imagining America: Icons of 20th Century American Art

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From: Biz Lund
Date: Dec 28, 2005 5:50 PM
Subject: on tv tonight

hi sanjeev, i didn't know how to reach everyone and am sure you can.
late notice that there is a 2 hour show at 900pm tonight on channel 9
about 20th c. american art...
biz

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Floats idea

Hello everyone:
How do you feel about the upcoming Chihuly floats installation on the courtyard sculpture? I wonder how it will change the way patrons look at the "wave" sculpture... will they be more or less likely to appreciate it for what it is or will their attention be given to the floats first? How will it enhance the wave-like feel of the sculpture, considering the fact that these are floats? Alternately, it will be interesting to have Chihuly items on both sides of the ramp when patrons first enter. Just thought this topic might be worthy of a discussion.

Penny Grellier

Chihuly Floats at TAM!

 

Installation of Chihuly Niijima Floats at Tacoma Art Museum

January 4, 10 am – 5 pm (Rain date: January 5)

 

Several Dale Chihuly Niijima floats will be temporarily installed on the wavelike stone sculpture that graces the center of Tacoma Art Museum.  A team of installers from the museum and Chihuly Studio will position the glass orbs of varying sizes and colors over the Chinese stone pavers that make up the sculpture. Some two dozen Niijima floats will be placed on the metaphorical stone wave. Viewing of the installation process will be open to the public.   

No closing date has yet been set for this temporary installation.

 

“It is interesting that the most difficult series I have ever blown are the floats, considering the sphere is the easiest form to make in glass,” said Chihuly. “It’s the most natural you could blow. But it’s not natural at this scale.”

Chihuly was inspired to create the Niijima floats after visiting friends in Niijima, an island in Tokyo Bay. These floats are reminiscent of traditional Japanese fishing floats and are among the largest free-blown forms ever created. He began the series in 1991, experimenting by using glass made from Niijima’s beach sand. The floats were installed along the island’s coast, many of which were sent out to sea. To this day, millions of traditional fishing floats still drift in the Pacific trade currents. It’s good luck to find one on the beach. Visit www.chihuly.com for more information.

The open-air stone sculpture, Untitled, brings the symbolism of water to the museum’s core. As a port-city, water is critical to Tacoma. The silent wave and textured stone dissolve into the sky via the reflective glass and steel above, like the ocean along the horizon.

 

http://www.tacomaartmuseum.org/page.asp?view=4540

 

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Assistant Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

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