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.....beneath the ground in the NYC subways.
Over the last 10 years, the MTA (Metropolitan Transit Authority) has commissioned many works of art for it's subway stations from both established and new artists. Traveling through the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan I was thrilled to find the art of Romare Bearden, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Otterness, and several artists new to me. I hope you enjoy the series as much as I enjoyed this subway adventure!
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Nikon D700
17-35mm f/2.8 lens
from the archives
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Spent the evening a few weekends ago at the Tryon Park Hotel overlooking Romare Bearden Park and the BB&T stadium - this was the view from the balcony at our room - Im usually shooting back up at this building so its nice to have a change of perspective.
Romare Bearden - City of Light - Faceted glass triptych over stairway of the #6 train at Westchester Square-East Tremont Avenue in the Bronx.
I didn't know what to do here. This stuff just doesn't look good but it tastes okay. It's sort of a poor man's comfort meal when served over rice. The recipe is from The Artist's Palate by Frank Fidele. Romare Bearden was an Afro-American artist known mostly for his collages. He liked to cook.
Was out taking some photos of uptown this weekend while the weather was nice before the snow set in today - crazy weather in the Carolinas!
Jack Whitten (December 5, 1939 – January 20, 2018) was an American painter and sculptor. In 2016, he was awarded a National Medal of Arts.
Whitten was born in 1939 in Bessemer, Alabama. Planning a career as an army doctor, Whitten entered pre-medical studies at Tuskegee Institute from 1957 to 1959. He also traveled to nearby Montgomery, Alabama to hear Martin Luther King Jr. speak during the Montgomery bus boycott and was deeply moved by his vision for a changed America.
In 1960, Whitten went to Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to begin studying art and became involved in Civil Rights demonstrations there. Whitten participated in a march from downtown Baton Rouge to the state capitol. Whitten's artist ability led him to be in charge of producing the signs and slogans to be used at that demonstration.]
Whitten believed strongly about Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolent approach. However, witnessing the violent reactions from the segregationist made him realize that if he remained in the South he would turn violent himself. Angered by the violent resistance to change he experienced he moved to New York City in 1960. He enrolled immediately at the Cooper Union in the fall of 1960, graduating with a bachelor's degree in fine art in 1964. Afterwards he remained in New York as a working artist, heavily influenced by the abstract expressionists then dominating the art community, especially Willem de Kooning and Romare Bearden.
(Wikipedia)
Jack Whitten (December 5, 1939 – January 20, 2018) was an American painter and sculptor. In 2016, he was awarded a National Medal of Arts.
Whitten was born in 1939 in Bessemer, Alabama. Planning a career as an army doctor, Whitten entered pre-medical studies at Tuskegee Institute from 1957 to 1959. He also traveled to nearby Montgomery, Alabama to hear Martin Luther King Jr. speak during the Montgomery bus boycott and was deeply moved by his vision for a changed America.
In 1960, Whitten went to Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to begin studying art and became involved in Civil Rights demonstrations there. Whitten participated in a march from downtown Baton Rouge to the state capitol. Whitten's artist ability led him to be in charge of producing the signs and slogans to be used at that demonstration.]
Whitten believed strongly about Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolent approach. However, witnessing the violent reactions from the segregationist made him realize that if he remained in the South he would turn violent himself. Angered by the violent resistance to change he experienced he moved to New York City in 1960. He enrolled immediately at the Cooper Union in the fall of 1960, graduating with a bachelor's degree in fine art in 1964. Afterwards he remained in New York as a working artist, heavily influenced by the abstract expressionists then dominating the art community, especially Willem de Kooning and Romare Bearden.
(Wikipedia)
Vallstena Church (Swedish: Vallstena kyrka) is a medieval Lutheran church on the island of Gotland, Sweden. It belongs to the Diocese of Visby.
The western part of the nave and the church tower are the oldest parts of the asymmetrical church; they date from the early 13th century. A new chancel arch was built in the middle of the same century, and around circa 1300 the new choir was built. Reconstruction of the nave also started around this time; the original plan seems to have been to replace the entire nave with a new, larger nave but for some reason, the work came to a halt. Similar, half-rebuilt churches are relatively common on Gotland. The sacristy was also built at this time. The interior of the church was decorated with church frescos during the 15th century. The western, older part of the church is Romanesque in style; the eastern Gothic.
The church and its cemetery are surrounded by a low wall, with three lychgates. The oldest of these dates from the 13th century and display some original sculptured details.
The baptismal font is the oldest fitting of the church, dating from the middle of the 13th century. The altarpiece dates from the 14th century and was acquired when the new choir was inaugurated. From the same century dates a crucifix, as well as a richly decorated chest for donations for the poor. From the 14th century are also to tombstones on either side of the altar, carrying inscriptions in both Latin and Old Gutnish; the latter in runes. A few 14th-century wooden statues depicting saints originally from Vallstena Church are today housed in Gotland Museum in Visby.
Source: Wikipedia
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Vallstena kyrka är en kyrkobyggnad i Vallstena socken på Gotland.
Den medeltida stenkyrkan, vars västra del är äldst, består av ett tvåskeppigt långhus med bredare östparti, smalare rakt avslutat kor i öster med nordlig sakristia samt ett kyrktorn i väster. Torn och långhus härstammar från en liten absidkyrka från början av 1200-talet (absidkorets grundmurar påträffades under kyrkgolvet vid restaureringen 1957). Vid 1200-talets slut fanns planer på att förnya och förstora kyrkan, härav följde korets uppförande med sakristian; planerna för ett nytt tvåskeppigt långhus realiserades bara delvis i öster (en travé). De olika byggnadsepokerna är väl synliga i exteriören; torn och långhus med rundbågiga muröppningar och den högre östra delen med gotiska spetsbågeformer. Tornet kröns av en spira. Det romanska långhuset täcks invändigt av fyra kryssvalv uppburna av en mittkolonn. Kyrkans östra delar har höga tältvalv. Triumfbågen utgör ett markant inslag i interiören; den vidgades vid 1200-talets mitt, liksom tornbågen, och fick då sina avtrappade bågar med mellanliggande rundstav och en ovanligt välbevarad dekormålning. Korets östvägg bryts upp av en spetsbågig trefönstergrupp. Kyrkan restaurerades 1957 efter förslag av arkitekten Bengt Romare.
Dopfunten från mitten av 1200-talet är av musselcuppatyp och står vid den västra kolonnen.
Altaruppsats med processionskrucifix är daterad till 1300-talet.
Predikstolen är från 1669.
Altartavlan är från 1730.
Den pneumatisk orgeln byggdes 1930 av Ã…kerman & Lund, Stockholm
Källa: Wikipedia
Horace Pippin (1888-1946) was, by any measure, a disadvantaged man.
His grandparents were slaves. Like countless other blacks of his generation, he was poor and poorly educated. He left school in the third grade. In battle during World War I he lost the use of his right arm. Occasionally he drank. When he worked he held the most menial of jobs, junk gatherer, warehouse man, hotel porter. Later he delivered laundry that his wife took in.
Nothing in his biography explains how he became an extraordinary painter. No one gave him lessons or showed him the old masters. He said he "came to art the hard way." He taught it to himself.
Pippin's gifts were recognized at once. Between his first and second local shows, his pictures were "discovered," purchased or applauded by the artist N.C. Wyeth, the collector Albert Barnes (of the Barnes Collection), and by the Museum of Modern Art.
Pippin's art is magical. The beauty of his colors and the power of his pictures will be sensed at once by all who pay a visit to the Horace Pippin retrospective, which will be on view through March 27 at the Phillips Collection here.
Like other self-taught masters, like the poet William Blake, the Douanier Rousseau or his fellow Pennsylvanian the limner Edward Hicks (1780-1849), Pippin received visions. The pictures "come to me," he said. "I do over the picture several times in my mind and when I am ready to paint it I have all the details I need." Whether painting saints or landscapes, the war, Abe Lincoln or John Brown, Pippin's pictures demonstrate unshakeable conviction.
Because his forms are so robust, because his compositions are so daring, the painter Romare Bearden, who met Pippin only once, was astonished to hear Pippin say his paintings "were completely realistic . . . To him these images were not distortions, but perfectly literal translations of the literal world."
Such terms as "folk art," "popular," naive," seem somehow condescending when applied to the sophistications of Horace Pippin's art. Look, for instance, at his clouds, at his sunsets and his skies, or at the way his pattersn interlock and echo in the battle-blasted wall of "Shell Holes and Observation Balloon: Champagne Sector," a scene of the great war which the artist did from memory in 1931.
There are other splendid paintings here, the Whitney Museum's "Buffalo Hunt" of 1933, "West Chester Courthouse," of 1940. "The Amish Letter Writer," with its amazing interplay of diagonals and circles. "The Squirrel Hunter" of 1940, and "John Brown Going to His Hanging" of 1942.
Pippin's grandmother was a witness to that execution. While a crowd stares at the martyr in the Pennsylvania Academy's paiting, she turns her face away.
Look closely at that picture's colors, at how the red scarves of the white men accentuate the blue-and-white grid pattern of her dress. Two color systems operate in Pippin's finest pictures. One is based on small zones of brilliant hue, the other is an extraordinary subtle play of close-toned grays and blacks.
The grandmother's shawl and bonnet are painted in the grays of the clapboard wall behind her. "One can tell a true colorist by how he handles grays," writes the Phillips' James McLaughin. "By this standard Pippin shows himself a master colorist."
Pippin painted with difficulty. Because his arm was ruined, he had to support his right hand with his left when he used the brush. When new his pictures sold for $50 or $100.Some now cost as much as $50,000.
This is part of the Pittsburgh subway mural recently appraised at fifteen million dollars. The station is being demolished. Not sure what's happening to the mural but I bet they are taking VERY good care of it!
Danielle Orchard
United States - born 1985
Chasing Red - 2021
"Mint Museum Uptown houses the internationally renowned Craft + Design collection, as well as outstanding collections of American and contemporary art.
Designed by Machado and Silvetti Associates of Boston, the five-story, 145,000-square-foot facility combines inspiring architecture with cutting-edge exhibitions to provide visitors with unparalleled educational and cultural experiences.
Located in the heart of Charlotte’s burgeoning city center, Mint Museum Uptown is an integral part of the Levine Center for the Arts, a cultural campus that includes the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts and Culture, the Knight Theater, and the Duke Energy Center. Mint Museum Uptown also features a wide range of visitor amenities, including the 240-seat James B. Duke Auditorium, the Lewis Family Gallery, art studios, a restaurant, and a museum store.
www.mintmuseum.org/plan-your-visit/
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The Mint Museum is the largest visual arts institution in Charlotte and holds the largest public collection of Charlotte-born artist Romare Bearden's work.
The American Art collection comprises approximately 900 works created between the late 1700s and circa 1945. It includes portraiture of the Federal era, 19th century landscapes, and paintings from the group known as "The Eight" (Robert Henri, George Luks, William Glackens, John Sloan, Everett Shinn, Maurice Prendergast, Ernest Lawson, and Arthur Bowen Davies). Additional highlights in this area include works by John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Sully, and Hudson River School painters Thomas Cole and Sanford Gifford.
The Art of the Ancient Americas collection includes roughly 2,000 objects from more than 40 cultures, spanning more than 4,500 years. The collection includes body adornments, tools, ceramic vessels, sculpture, textiles, and metal ornaments.
There are about 2,230 objects in the Mint's collection of Contemporary Art. These include the Bearden collection and other works on paper, contemporary sculpture, and photography from circa 1945 to the present.
The Mint's Decorative Arts collection, considered one of the finest in the country, centers on its holdings in ceramics. Containing more than 12,000 objects from 2000 B.C. to 1950 A.D., the collection includes a wide variety of ancient Chinese ceramics, 18th century European and English wares, American art pottery, and North Carolina pottery. The Mint has the largest and most comprehensive collection of North Carolina pottery in the nation. Its collection of North Carolina pottery comprises some 2,200 objects, dating from the 1700s.
The museum's Delhom collection, given to the Mint in 1966, contains 2,000 pieces of historic pottery and porcelain, as well as pre-Columbian pieces that are more than 4,500 years old.
Almost 10,000 items of men's, women's, and children's fashions from the early 18th century to present-day haute couture are included in the museum's collection of Historic Costume and Fashionable Dress, which approaches fashion as an art form.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mint_Museum
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Vallstena Church (Swedish: Vallstena kyrka) is a medieval Lutheran church on the island of Gotland, Sweden. It belongs to the Diocese of Visby.
The western part of the nave and the church tower are the oldest parts of the asymmetrical church; they date from the early 13th century. A new chancel arch was built in the middle of the same century, and around circa 1300 the new choir was built. Reconstruction of the nave also started around this time; the original plan seems to have been to replace the entire nave with a new, larger nave but for some reason, the work came to a halt. Similar, half-rebuilt churches are relatively common on Gotland. The sacristy was also built at this time. The interior of the church was decorated with church frescos during the 15th century. The western, older part of the church is Romanesque in style; the eastern Gothic.
The church and its cemetery are surrounded by a low wall, with three lychgates. The oldest of these dates from the 13th century and display some original sculptured details.
The baptismal font is the oldest fitting of the church, dating from the middle of the 13th century. The altarpiece dates from the 14th century and was acquired when the new choir was inaugurated. From the same century dates a crucifix, as well as a richly decorated chest for donations for the poor. From the 14th century are also to tombstones on either side of the altar, carrying inscriptions in both Latin and Old Gutnish; the latter in runes. A few 14th-century wooden statues depicting saints originally from Vallstena Church are today housed in Gotland Museum in Visby.
Source: Wikipedia
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Vallstena kyrka är en kyrkobyggnad i Vallstena socken på Gotland.
Den medeltida stenkyrkan, vars västra del är äldst, består av ett tvåskeppigt långhus med bredare östparti, smalare rakt avslutat kor i öster med nordlig sakristia samt ett kyrktorn i väster. Torn och långhus härstammar från en liten absidkyrka från början av 1200-talet (absidkorets grundmurar påträffades under kyrkgolvet vid restaureringen 1957). Vid 1200-talets slut fanns planer på att förnya och förstora kyrkan, härav följde korets uppförande med sakristian; planerna för ett nytt tvåskeppigt långhus realiserades bara delvis i öster (en travé). De olika byggnadsepokerna är väl synliga i exteriören; torn och långhus med rundbågiga muröppningar och den högre östra delen med gotiska spetsbågeformer. Tornet kröns av en spira. Det romanska långhuset täcks invändigt av fyra kryssvalv uppburna av en mittkolonn. Kyrkans östra delar har höga tältvalv. Triumfbågen utgör ett markant inslag i interiören; den vidgades vid 1200-talets mitt, liksom tornbågen, och fick då sina avtrappade bågar med mellanliggande rundstav och en ovanligt välbevarad dekormålning. Korets östvägg bryts upp av en spetsbågig trefönstergrupp. Kyrkan restaurerades 1957 efter förslag av arkitekten Bengt Romare.
Dopfunten från mitten av 1200-talet är av musselcuppatyp och står vid den västra kolonnen.
Altaruppsats med processionskrucifix är daterad till 1300-talet.
Predikstolen är från 1669.
Altartavlan är från 1730.
Den pneumatisk orgeln byggdes 1930 av Ã…kerman & Lund, Stockholm
Källa: Wikipedia
With LAANC approval, you can in fact fly in some of Charlotte's downtown parks. Romare Bearden seems to be one of the better ones, within walking distance of lots of cafes, bars, restaurants, and entertainment. I wish I could have been here 3 weeks later to get more color though- it was only just changing when I visited in early October.
Shot on DJI Mini 3 from 3 portrait-orientation shots merged to panorama.