Paris - Musée d'Orsay: Correspondances - John Chamberlain's Lipstick Canteen
American artist, John Chamberlain's 2000 sculpture, Lipstick Canteen was on display from June 19 to September 9, 2007.
Born in 1929, the American artist John Chamberlain studied at the school of the Chicago Institute of Art, where an exhibition of the Chester Dale collection showingsome of Van Goghs most beautiful paintings made a deep impression on him. In1955, he left Chicago to go to the Black Mountain College, an important incubator forpost-war American art. During these formative years, Chamberlain was greatly influenced by Abstract Expressionism which had won recognition for Americanpainting at that time, with figures like Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and FranzKline, as well as the work of sculptor David Smith, who used everyday materials forhis sculptures. Since then, directing his artistic aims towards an intimate and powerful relationship between movement and artwork, John Chamberlain has been creatingabstract sculptures using salvaged materials, mainly car body parts and scrap metalwhich he assembles, compresses, welds, paints This creative principle leaves beauty to chance and improvisation, the artist judging the effect and composition asthe piece is assembled, resulting in an unusual and expressive work. Following the invitation from the Musée dOrsay and renewing his early interest in Van Gogh,Chamberlain chose Doctor Gachets Garden, with its exuberant vegetation, andconfronts it with Lipstick Canteen, with its coloured metal leaves extending intospace.
So, when I think of the Musée dOrsay you could say that Ive gone full circle,and come back to where I began. It was Van Gogh who got me started in a way, andhere I am, fifty years later, coming back to visit him with my sculpture LipstickCanteen (conversation with Ann Hindry, April 2007)
The Musée d'Orsay (The Orsay Museum), housed in the former railway station, the Gare d'Orsay, holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1914, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography, and is probably best known for its extensive collection of impressionist masterpieces by popular painters such as Monet and Renoir. Many of these works were held at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume prior to the museum's opening in 1986.
Paris - Musée d'Orsay: Correspondances - John Chamberlain's Lipstick Canteen
American artist, John Chamberlain's 2000 sculpture, Lipstick Canteen was on display from June 19 to September 9, 2007.
Born in 1929, the American artist John Chamberlain studied at the school of the Chicago Institute of Art, where an exhibition of the Chester Dale collection showingsome of Van Goghs most beautiful paintings made a deep impression on him. In1955, he left Chicago to go to the Black Mountain College, an important incubator forpost-war American art. During these formative years, Chamberlain was greatly influenced by Abstract Expressionism which had won recognition for Americanpainting at that time, with figures like Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and FranzKline, as well as the work of sculptor David Smith, who used everyday materials forhis sculptures. Since then, directing his artistic aims towards an intimate and powerful relationship between movement and artwork, John Chamberlain has been creatingabstract sculptures using salvaged materials, mainly car body parts and scrap metalwhich he assembles, compresses, welds, paints This creative principle leaves beauty to chance and improvisation, the artist judging the effect and composition asthe piece is assembled, resulting in an unusual and expressive work. Following the invitation from the Musée dOrsay and renewing his early interest in Van Gogh,Chamberlain chose Doctor Gachets Garden, with its exuberant vegetation, andconfronts it with Lipstick Canteen, with its coloured metal leaves extending intospace.
So, when I think of the Musée dOrsay you could say that Ive gone full circle,and come back to where I began. It was Van Gogh who got me started in a way, andhere I am, fifty years later, coming back to visit him with my sculpture LipstickCanteen (conversation with Ann Hindry, April 2007)
The Musée d'Orsay (The Orsay Museum), housed in the former railway station, the Gare d'Orsay, holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1914, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography, and is probably best known for its extensive collection of impressionist masterpieces by popular painters such as Monet and Renoir. Many of these works were held at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume prior to the museum's opening in 1986.