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Jan 13, 2025 | 
observer.com | Dian Parker
Matisse didn’t just paint pictures; he portrayed emotion with color. His pictures convey a lightness of being with their bold outlines and ornamentation. They vibrate with liveliness. Especially with his figures, there is an openness, ripe with vitality. In his odalisques, he captured an intimate understanding of femininity—the unspoken grace of a folded body, the languor of lounging, the elegance of stillness.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
observer.com | Dian Parker
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
observer.com | Dian Parker
Revisiting the Edgeless and All-Encompassing Art of Helen Frankenthaler Her body of work represents a lifetime of study, risk-taking and experimentation. Frankenthaler in her East 83rd Street and 3rd Avenue studio in 1964. © 2024 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New YorkFor sixty-plus years, Helen Frankenthaler made paintings, prints, woodcuts and sculptures.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
observer.com | Dian Parker
Arshile Gorky Comes Alive at Hauser & Wirth A soon-to-close show focused on his artistic language and influences offers an excellent opportunity to absorb the work of a great artist who, through much pain and suffering, finally came into his own at age 40. Gorky in his studio in the early 1930s with an improvised sculpture.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
observer.com | Dian Parker
Albert Oehlen in Beijing: A Jazz Improvisation of Color On the occasion of the soon-to-close show, “Malerei” at the Espace Louis Vuitton Beijing, we consider the life and work of the artist. Artist Albert Oehlen in 2016. Photo by Christoph Schmidt/picture alliance via Getty ImagesIn the 1980s, the artist Albert Oehlen, in the throes of German Neo-Expressionism, set out to make bad paintings.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
news.artnet.com | Dian Parker
Celebrating 60 years since Giorgio Morandi’s death, the Galleria Mattia De Luca has brought to New York a stunning exhibition of 60 works by the Italian painter and printmaker. Surprisingly, Morandi has not had a major show in the city since 2008 when MOMA held a retrospective of his work. More lauded in Europe than in the United States, his oeuvre is now given just the right venue, in a 19th century townhouse on East 63rd Street off Fifth Avenue.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
observer.com | Dian Parker
In Vermont, a Once-Yearly Exhibition Juxtaposes Contemporary Art With Everyday History Art at the Kent, mounted annually in a partially deconstructed historic site, inspires compelling dialogs between art and place. Work by Gerry Bergstein (oil & collage) and Sabine Likhite (sculpture). Tom BateyWith a population of only 600,000, Vermont seems to exist outside the confines of the United States, as if it were its own country.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
observer.com | Dian Parker
In Dialogue: The Voluptas of Flora Yukhnovich and François Boucher At the Wallace Collection in London, Yukhnovich's soft and swirling contours of paint with their expressive contrasts bring out the sexual undercurrents in Boucher’s Rococo works. Flora Yukhnovich in her London studio in 2022.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
observer.com | Dian Parker
Thirty-Five Years After His Death, Salvador Dali Is Still a Phenomenon “Dalí: Disruption and Devotion” at the MFA Boston features thirty paintings and works on paper that celebrate the artist's completely original mind. Dali with his pet ocelot, Babou, in 1965. Courtesy Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionSalvador Dali was born in 1904, twenty-two months after his brother’s death, who was also named Salvador Dali.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
artandobject.com | Dian Parker
Woman at Her Toilette, 1891, oil on canvas, approx. 30 x 25” Not only is her work accomplished, with devotion to the craft studied over a lifetime, but she also created during a time when women were supposed to stay at home as housekeepers and mothers. “Women should be someone, not something,” she said. Born near Pittsburg in 1844, by the time she was 16, Cassatt knew she wanted to be an artist.
