In L.A.? Tomorrow night @hammer_museum presents @aiww 's film "Human Flow" and Q&A with Ai Weiwei https://t.co/pFlTnIuLyD pic.twitter.com/zMsYYTTUAC— Gregg Chadwick (@greggchadwick) January 3, 2018
Wednesday, January 03, 2018
Tomorrow Night the Hammer Museum Presents Ai Weiwei's Film "Human Flow"
Sunday, December 24, 2017
Merry Christmas - I Don't Want to Fight Tonight
This Christmas we have been given a soulful present from Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul. This new single is a Jersey shore infused version of the late, great Joey Ramone's "Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight).
Happy Holidays to all!
Thursday, December 21, 2017
Christmas in Memphis
by Gregg Chadwick
If you happen to be in Memphis this season, please stop by the L Ross Gallery for this year's Holiday Exhibition. My painting Memphis Train (Arcade Restaurant) is featured in the show.
L Ross Gallery
Gallery Artists
Holiday Exhibition
December 1 - 30, 2017
5040 Sanderlin Ave, Suite 104, Memphis, TN
More at: L Ross Gallery Holiday Exhibition
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Season's Greetings!
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Reminds me of the many holiday seasons that I have spent in Japan. Especially the year that I spent chasing Hiroshige in Tokyo. |
Friday, December 15, 2017
RIP Pat DiNizio: - The Smithereens-In A Lonely Place
RIP Pat DiNizio: - The Smithereens-In A Lonely Place
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
The Smithereens - Blood And Roses
Sad News as Pat DiNizio of the Smithereens Dies at 62 http://variety.com/2017/music/news/pat-dinizio-smithereens-dead-1202638793/#utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=social_bar&utm_content=bottom&utm_id=1202638793 via @variety #RIP
Monday, December 04, 2017
Bruce Springsteen sings "Robert Mueller's Comin' to Town"
Bruce Springsteen sings "Robert Mueller's Comin' to Town" #YouBetterWatchOut #YouBetterNotCry #YouBetterNotLieToTheFBI pic.twitter.com/HvebMmVQCR— Fallon Tonight (@FallonTonight) December 5, 2017
Friday, December 01, 2017
Woe to those who make unjust laws
Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless. (Isaiah 10:1-4) #TaxBill— Rev. Dr. Barber (@RevDrBarber) December 1, 2017
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Coldplay's Chris Martin & U2's Bono covering One For My Baby by Frank Sinatra on #Kimmel
VIDEO: Chris Martin and Bono sing 'One For My Baby' by Frank Sinatra on #JimmyKimmelLive | via @ColdplayAtlas pic.twitter.com/KHDeg78o3g— Mundo Coldplay (@MundoColdplay) November 29, 2017
Thank You Clark Hulings Fund
For the past year, I was honored to be a fellow in the Clark Hulings Fund Business Accelerator Program. With no financial cost to myself, I was able to dig deep and learn how to keep my art business thriving. I have recently learned that I was chosen to be an Executive Fellow at CHF for 2018. The Clark Hulings Fund is helping me learn how to take my Mystery Train Exhibition on tour. The Executive Fellows will receive the services of CHF to rewrite the fellow’s Investment Grade Proposal (IGP) for capitalization and underwriting to get it to the point CHF can pitch it to potential funders. Meanwhile CHF expects the fellow to continue executing on their project, and collaborating with CHF with monthly field reports and meetings, along with marketing assistance given to the fellow. Please join me for the journey ahead.
Link to my recent Clark Hulings Fund podcast with Daniel DiGriz.
Please Support on Giving Tuesday: https://www.facebook.com/donate/155732628511917/155732638511916/
Monday, November 27, 2017
Thursday, November 23, 2017
Monday, November 20, 2017
Transgender Day of Remembrance
Los Angeles City Hall lit up tonight tonight in remembrance of the trans people who have lost their lives to hate and violence. You will never be forgotten. #TDOR
Thoughts On the Exhibit "Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Part 1)
by Gregg Chadwick
Intimately viewing the drawings of Michelangelo helps pull the veil of fame off of this towering figure. In spite of the title of the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to give humanity back to artistic gods is no easy feat. The Met has done it twice in fourteen years. First was the 2003 exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and now those of Michelangelo in 2017. Both exhibits have given a sense of hope and human possibility back to viewers in times of struggle and uncertainty.
In its exhibition, Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer the Metropolitan Museum has created a temporary museum dedicated to the life, times, and art of Michelangelo. It includes 133 drawings and poems created by Michelangelo that link the artworks to ongoing projects by the artist and his workshop. One of Michelangelo's earliest paintings is included and a small group of his sculptures in marble fill out the show. Also included are drawings by Michelangelo's mentors and artworks by his students and mentees. In a central gallery, a reproduction of the Sistine Chapel ceiling hangs as a canopy above the gallery.
Like his older contemporary Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo was able to create astonishing works of art out of the simplest means of chalk, ink and paper. In Renaissance era Florence, both Leonardo and Michelangelo learned from established artists. Leonardo was apprenticed to Verrocchio, and Michelangelo was attached to Ghirlandaio's artistic workshop. Complex painting projects such as the Tornabuoni chapel, that Ghirlandaio's workshop was engaged in from 1485-1490 while Michelangelo was there, began with quick idea sketches on paper that were then fleshed out with more involved studies. Apprentices would often pose for these studies. Perhaps the young Michelangelo inspired a figure somewhere on the walls of this chapel? Copying the master's work was also part of the training for young artists. Process and practice were the keys to the growth of a young artist in Renaissance Florence.
The Met's exhibition opens with a group of drawings by Ghirlandaio and then moves on to examples of Michelangelo's studies based on earlier Florentine artists. In many of the works, with quick strokes of the pen coupled with a dense cross-hatching to create shadow and form, Michelangelo sculpts a form out of the paper.
Included with Michelangelo's early studies after the Italian masters is a richly pigmented fantasy based on an engraving by the 15th century German artist Martin Schongauer. ( I wrote about this painting in 2009 when the artwork was first exhibited at the Met as an early work by Michelangelo - link here.)
Moving on from his inspiration, Michelangelo began a series of evocative drawings for the planned Battle of Cascina. Jonathan Jones in The Lost Battles writes that "time is included in Michelangelo's vision" in these studies. Jones continues - "There is a tragic power to these drawings. He portrays young men in their full strength and beauty and yet shades them with intimations of ruin."
These drawings are sumptuously beautiful, and set the stage for the rest of Michelangelo's artistic life. Michelangelo's touch is all over these works. The use of chalk in many of the drawings, rather than pen and ink, opens up a sensuous physicality that feels more like flesh than stone. Remarkably to me, in the Met's exhibit, a few of the drawings feature a model sporting a hipster worthy mustache who could have walked out of 21st century Brooklyn.
A map of desire seems to be drawn across the back of many of Michelangelo's figures. In the gallery I think of the poetry and art to come - Cavafy, Isherwood, Bachardy, Bacon, and Hockney.
Coming up soon on Speed of Life - Part 2 on "Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
*All photos of exhibit and artwork by Gregg Chadwick 2017
Intimately viewing the drawings of Michelangelo helps pull the veil of fame off of this towering figure. In spite of the title of the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to give humanity back to artistic gods is no easy feat. The Met has done it twice in fourteen years. First was the 2003 exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and now those of Michelangelo in 2017. Both exhibits have given a sense of hope and human possibility back to viewers in times of struggle and uncertainty.
Process and practice
The Met's exhibition opens with a group of drawings by Ghirlandaio and then moves on to examples of Michelangelo's studies based on earlier Florentine artists. In many of the works, with quick strokes of the pen coupled with a dense cross-hatching to create shadow and form, Michelangelo sculpts a form out of the paper.
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Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, 1475–1564)
Study of a Kneeling Man in a Cloak Seen from the Rear
pen and brown ink 11 1/2" x 7 7/8"
Albertina, Vienna
(formerly in the collection of Peter Paul Rubens?)
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Included with Michelangelo's early studies after the Italian masters is a richly pigmented fantasy based on an engraving by the 15th century German artist Martin Schongauer. ( I wrote about this painting in 2009 when the artwork was first exhibited at the Met as an early work by Michelangelo - link here.)
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Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, 1475–1564)
The Torment of Saint Anthony (after Schongauer)
c. 1487–88. Oil and tempera on panel, 18 1/2 x 13 1/4 in.
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Martin Schongauer
St. Anthony
engraving printed on paper 15th-century - German
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Emulation and Personal Discovery
The young Michelangelo absorbed the influence of his predecessors into a rapidly developing personal style based on an exploration of the human form. Moving from a faux antique look such as the recently attributed sculpture The Young Archer to poetically observed life studies, Michelangelo like Leonardo before him learned that "accurate understanding derives from investigation and experience."
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Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, 1475–1564)
37" x 13 1/4" x 14" marble sculpture ca. 1490
Lent by the French State, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs
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In 1504, Michelangelo received a commission by the Republic of Florence for a grand mural of the Battle of Cascina in the Great Council Hall. At the same time Leonardo was working on his own mural for the grand space. Leonardo's chalk drawings for his battle scene are full of expressive movement and grand drama. After viewing Leonardo's powerful designs, Michelangelo, as evidenced in the Met's exhibit, went back to the well and drew a red chalk artwork inspired by the figures of Adam and Eve in Masaccio's fresco in the Brancacci Chapel. Curiously, in this chapel during his apprenticeship, Michelangelo was slugged viciously by a rival artist. His broken nose was never properly reset. Years later he went back to the scene and reclaimed the space and Masaccio's art for his own use.
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Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, 1475–1564)
Study of Adam and Eve after Masaccio
1504 red chalk, 12 13/16" x 7 3/8 "
Musée du Louvre
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More Like Flesh than Stone
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Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) Study of the Torso of a Male Nude Seen from the Back 1504 black chalk with lead white gouache highlights on paper 7 11/16" x 10 5/8" Albertina, Vienna (formerly in the collection of Peter Paul Rubens?) |
These drawings are sumptuously beautiful, and set the stage for the rest of Michelangelo's artistic life. Michelangelo's touch is all over these works. The use of chalk in many of the drawings, rather than pen and ink, opens up a sensuous physicality that feels more like flesh than stone. Remarkably to me, in the Met's exhibit, a few of the drawings feature a model sporting a hipster worthy mustache who could have walked out of 21st century Brooklyn.
A map of desire seems to be drawn across the back of many of Michelangelo's figures. In the gallery I think of the poetry and art to come - Cavafy, Isherwood, Bachardy, Bacon, and Hockney.
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Coming up soon on Speed of Life - Part 2 on "Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
*All photos of exhibit and artwork by Gregg Chadwick 2017
Sunday, November 19, 2017
Come Back, Barack - Chance the Rapper on Saturday Night Live
Anthem for our times.— HawaiiDelilah (@HawaiiDelilah) November 19, 2017
"Every night / I turn the TV on and cry
(And I cry, and I cry)
I say why / I feel like we're all gonna die"
Chance on SNL pic.twitter.com/bQYqC5Ytsm
Wednesday, November 01, 2017
2018 ACA Enrollment Begins Today! Don't Miss Your Chance to Enroll In Health Insurance for 2018
Happy Nov 1! 2018 ACA enrollment has begun.
80% can find plans under $75/month. Go to http://www.healthcare.gov .
Please spread the word.
November 1, 2017:
Enrollment for 2018 health insurance begins.
December 15, 2017:
Enrollment for 2018 health insurance ends.
Please share #ACA enrollment deadlines for health insurance.
Friday, October 20, 2017
A Needed Dose of Hope - Obama
Barack Obama spoke in Virginia today. Watching him speak gave me the dosage of hope & inspiration I needed. Enjoy.🇺🇸https://t.co/JDdSPDnncD— Ricky Davila 🇵🇷 (@TheRickyDavila) October 20, 2017
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