I saw work by Marc Chagall at the AGA today, it was very beautiful dreamlike, sublime, you could feel the love and devotion he felt for his art. Chagall strikes me as a very intimate and emotional artist. The colours I saw in the lithographs in the show were stunning, blues and reds, greens and oranges. I am borrowing 3 books from the library on him, I need to learn more about this important artist. Chagall lived till 97 and was working till the day before he died, you got to love that. Like all artists who are perceived as it came easy for them geniuses, he worked his tail off!! He worked harder than the guy next to him, he did not make excuses, he never stopped his effort and created daily. Here is one of the lithos I saw today:
Note* Rant ahead:
One thing I find continually frustrating on my visits to the AGA is the lack of strong compelling work in the RBC new works gallery (Alberta artists only). The AGA juries keep selecting art that is un-involving, yesterday was a good example, the entire AGA is packed to the rafters with visitors (free day) and the RBC gallery when I entered it was completely empty. If you continually have an empty room with no or little viewer interest should that not tell you are selecting work that is not wanted that the public could care less about. The AGA juries need to put some strong compelling art in the gallery, something that involves the public and gives them a reason to enter this small gallery. Stop it with all the nonsense arty farty conceptual stuff and put in something that makes people interested, makes them take notice. The viewer needs something they want to understand, care about and can relate to, hmmm maybe some black and white documentary photography : ))! Yeah that's the ticket!!
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PRINTEMPS AU PRÉ, FROM DAPHNIS AND CHLOÉ, Marc Chagall |
One thing I find continually frustrating on my visits to the AGA is the lack of strong compelling work in the RBC new works gallery (Alberta artists only). The AGA juries keep selecting art that is un-involving, yesterday was a good example, the entire AGA is packed to the rafters with visitors (free day) and the RBC gallery when I entered it was completely empty. If you continually have an empty room with no or little viewer interest should that not tell you are selecting work that is not wanted that the public could care less about. The AGA juries need to put some strong compelling art in the gallery, something that involves the public and gives them a reason to enter this small gallery. Stop it with all the nonsense arty farty conceptual stuff and put in something that makes people interested, makes them take notice. The viewer needs something they want to understand, care about and can relate to, hmmm maybe some black and white documentary photography : ))! Yeah that's the ticket!!
