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Marcus Antonius Jansen

The exhibition at the Yeiser Art Center in Paducah, KY of the paintings of Marcus Antonius Jansen of Florida closes today, Saturday, June 12. Visit the Yeiser page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...). He works in a Modern Urban-Expressionistic style, which is inspired greatly by his time living in New York and among the abundant graffiti. He studied art in Germany and served in the US Army for seven years. There is a link on the Yeiser page to see more of Jansen's paintings.

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Sherrie

Mississippi River, 1949
Harlan Hubbard

Harlan Hubbard: Life in the Landscape closes Sunday at the Hopewell Museum in Paris, KY (metro Lexington area). Visit the Hopewell Museum page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...). Put yourself in the Kentucky landscapes of Harlan Hubbard, artist, self-sufficient farmer, author and shanty boat river traveler. This unique exhibit is a first-ever compilation of Harlan Hubbard's works interspersed with excerpts from his writings.

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Sherrie

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Marcus Antonius Jansen

The Yeiser Art Center in Paducah's new exhibition opening today, June 21, features the paintings of Marcus Antonius Jansen. He works in a Modern Urban-Expressionistic style, which is inspired greatly by his time living in New York and among the abundant graffiti.

There is an opening reception Saturday afternoon. See Events page for details (Link...).

Support your local galleries and museums! They are economic engines for your community.

Sherrie

Of Rage and Redemption: The Art of Oswaldo Guayasamín closes Wednesday the 20th at the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery.

This landmark exhibition presents the work of one of the most highly regarded Latin American artists of the twentieth century, Ecuadorian painter and graphic artist Oswaldo Guayasamín (1919–1999). You can see more work from this exhibition on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...).

The first exhibit of its kind in the United States in more than fifty years, and the first scheduled stop on the Vanderbilt-organized national tour the exhibition covers each of Guayasamín’s major periods—his early paintings that reflect the plight of the indigenous peoples of the Andes, his more mature work that addresses human suffering in the context of war and injustice, and, finally, the paintings of his last period that embody the artist’s search for reconciliation after a life of fighting injustices.

His work reminds me of Goya's and of course Picasso's Guernica.

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Sherrie

"Societe Anonyme: Modernism in America" from the Yale collection at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts.

This is a major exhibition which closes Saturday. If you if haven't seen it, try to go and see it. It would be well worth the effort. You can see what else is currently on exhibit at the Frist and other museums in Nashville by visiting Art Museum Touring.com (Link...).

This is from my newsletter I sent out shortly after seeing the exhibition last October. For those of you that didn't receive it, this is what "Societe Anonyme: Modernism in America" is all about. I knew I was going to see something special; but I didn't know how special this exhibition was. Jennifer R. Gross, the Seymour H. Knox, Jr. curator of modern and contemporary art at Yale University Art Gallery conducted a guided walk through the Societe Anonyme exhibit. She gave information and insight about the artwork and the artists in the exhibition. Walking into the exhibition was like being back in my art history classes in college. There were paintings and artists I had studied, but never seen in person; Josef Albers, Alexander Archipenko, Arthur Dove, Max Ernst, Arshile Gorky, Wassily, Kandinsky, Man Ray, Kurt Schwitters, Joseph Stella, I had heard about the suitcases of Duchamp with miniature copies of his sculpture (the Urinal - the 1913 Armory Show) and paintings, etc., but, I had never seen one, nor a photograph of one. Well, there is one in this exhibition. Societe Anonyme fills in the information about modern art, artists, and the role of the avant-garde from 1920 - 1940. This is a very important exhibition and is well worth the trip to go to Nashville to see it.

-Sherrie