Etching Copper Sales

Copper was sold to students by Melissa(ME!!!) So bad news guys this copper is too soft to use for drypoint! I know I'm sad too! It looks the similiar but is much softer, so you must return to me and purchase industrial copper for your projects! SORRY :(

"The World's Most Famous Painting" lives in Paris (where else?)

8.5 million souls visit this room at the Louvre every year, & last June, I felt like the majority of them had picked the same day I had to (once again!) try to see this work of Leonardo's. After pushing my way to the front of the teeming throng, I managed to snap this pix of the almost disinterested crowd who had made the pilgrimage to see the holiest of holies, the iconic "Mona Lisa." I for one, quite like what Oscar Wilde said about the painting: "The picture becomes more wonderful to us than it really is, & reveals to us a secret of which, in truth, it knows nothing."

Just last month Mona suffered yet another indignity (the 1st being her kidnapping, also in August - but way back in 1911) when a Russian woman, reputedly upset at not being awarded French citizenship, hurled her ceramic coffee mug at her. The terra-cotta vessel bounced off the thick bullet proof Plexiglas & predictably broke on the floor. In my mind's eye, the bored museum guards gave a Gallic shrug, made a faint moue, & sauntered off for le dust-pan & le whisk-broom, to just deal with it.

RS (Who loves his "Lady with an Ermine" aka Cecilia Gallerani, much more)

Impact - the Big Print

EXHIBITION ANNOUNCEMENT:

Orange Coast College

Images by Roger Herman, June Wayne & Others Orange Coast College Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion Impact - the Big Print Curated by Donna Westerman September 9 - October 23, 2009 Opening Receptions: September 9, 5:00-8:00 p.m. and September 12, 5:00-9:00 p.m. Artists Lecture: September 17th, 6.00-7:00 p.m. Orange Coast College, Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion 2701 Fairview Road, Costa Mesa, CA 92626 714-423-5102 FAX (714) 432-6181 E-mail, alharris@occ.cccd.edu Blog, occartspavilion.blogspot.com Free Admission Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 11:00 am. - 5:00 pm.; Wednesday extended to 8pm. Closed weekends & Mondays. Parking lot D9 off Merrimac Way

Upcoming print and drawing shows

Upcoming print shows:
Los Angeles Printmakers 20th National Exhibition runs from October 29th to January 3rd with an opening reception on November 1st 2pm till 5pm. Camilla Taylor will have a print in this show. http://www.laprintmakers.com/site/node/481

OT Gallery in Tustin will have an exhibition opening on 9/17 titled: "Evolution & Change." It runs until 11/7 & is an exhibition that explores the evolution of printmaking. http://www.otgallery.com/Schedule.html

At the Hammer Museum in LA will be an R. Crumb exhibit "The Book of Genesis," opening October 24th.
http://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/detail/exhibition_id/167

LECTURE: THE ORIGINS OF REMBRANDT'S ETCHINGS
Saturday, July 25 1:30p

at Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, CA

Michael Schwartz, Galerie Michael, discusses Rembrandt’s creative genius using the medium of etching as a major liberation of 17th century art. He will also examine the history of etching and how it replaced engraving.
Admission: Free with paid museum admission and to members; lecture only $8

Monotype Print

I found this Monotype print in my dentist office. I recognized it was a print because of the embossment of the paper. I asked him if he printed it and he said his mom did. They are of asian descent so explains the paper fan.

"Richard Avedon - Portraits of Power"

Below, "Jerome Smith & Isaac Reynolds," (1963), Richard Avedon.

Above, "The Generals of the Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Convention, Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C.," Richard Avedon.

Below, right, "Daughters of Revolution," Grant Wood (not in the exhibition - but of course, one can't help but to recall it).

Below, left, "Art Alive," interpretive floral displays that effectively blocked art from being  viewed, San Diego Museum of Art.

Should you get a chance this summer to head down to San Diego, try to see the 

impressive collection of Avedon's photographs questioning exactly who the "Power Players" were from the 1950's to 2004. This is the only west coast showing of these photographs, made by Avedon, who died at the age of 81, in 2004. Located at 1450, El Prado, the museum's hours are: Tues. - Sat., 10 - 5; Sun. noon - 5; closed on Mon.; open on Thurs. until 9 PM. Fortunately, the distracting floral displays were banned from this traveling exhibition, but do manage to insert themselves into almost every other aspect of the museum. 

The show opens with an imposingly large black & white (& more than slightly soft focused) portrait of Charlie Chaplin, and terminates with an equally discerning, high-def digital color portrait of Barack Obama. While of the figures are dispassionately posed against Avedon's flat white backdrop, a few of the writers & musicians are presented in city streets - notable among them, an impossibly young Bob Dylan. 

In an article titled "Players & Contenders" from 9/27/08 in "The Guardian," Simon Schama wrote: "The effect is to evoke presence more distinctively than any other photographer who has ever turned their hand to portraiture; more powerfully than Matthew Brady, Julia Margaret Cameron, August Sander or Alfred Stieglitz. For, like Rembrandt, Avedon caught the shorthand signature of an entire life, and the pose became a print of individual spirit."