Vincent van Gogh
Hyung Koo Kang at Singapore Art Museum (2011) (press release)
→ café libraryADP staff - 02 Nov 11
...Vincent van Gogh Hyung Koo Kang' title='Vincent van Gogh Hyung Koo Kang' /> Singapore Art Museum Part of the Korea Festival 2011 14 October - 25 December 2011 The Singapore Art Museum (SAM) is proud to present Hyung Koo Kang: The Burning Gaze, the first major solo exhibition by Korean...
Art and celebrity book summary (2010)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker - 13 Jul 10
Art and celebrity book summary (2010) Vladimir Dubosarsky & Alexander Vinogradov (book cover image). En Plein Air, (detail) (1995). Courtesy: Vilma Gold Gallery. Book published by Pluto Press, London in 2003. Art and celebrity : Introduction Fine artists are imbricated in celebrity...
Paul Gauguin in Paradise found (2003)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker - 01 Jun 10
...Vincent van Gogh, played by Peter Varga. During 2001, Paradise found (the title is a play on Milton’s famous poem Paradise lost but the film should really have been entitled Paradise invented) was shot near Port Douglas, North East Queensland, a tropical setting that stood in for Polynesia and...
Paul Gauguin on screen (2010)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker - 01 Jun 10
...Vincent van Gogh, a relationship that ended disastrously. (Their 1888 encounter in Arles was depicted in Lust for Life (1956), a van Gogh biopic in which Gauguin was played by Hollywood’s all purpose foreigner Anthony Quinn.) Inevitably, the artist’s career has fascinated novelists, film and...
The lawyer/critic:
When appropriation becomes copyright infringement (2009)
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R.J. Preece - 08 Jun 09
The lawyer/critic: When appropriation becomes copyright infringement (2009) What started out as a general interview of a copyright lawyer to advise artists, quickly turned into a unique, specific compare / contrast— with examples of works by Damien Hirst, John LeKay, Cartrain and Vincent van...
Vincent van Gogh & John A. Walker.
The lawyer/critic:
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R.J. Preece (ADP) - 08 Jun 09
Vincent van Gogh & John A. Walker. The lawyer/critic: When appropriation becomes copyright infringement Vincent van Gogh and John A. Walker R.J. Preece: I see. Now take a look at two images below, a drawing by Vincent van Gogh and a painting by John A. Walker. John states, "I am producing...
Mona Lisa Smile (2003) film review (2009)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker - 05 Jun 09
Mona Lisa Smile (2003) film review (2009) A review by John A. Walker (2009), the author of Art & Artists on screen. Art historians as characters rarely appear in fictional feature films but in the American movie Mona Lisa Smile (Revolution Studios, red OM films and Columbia Pictures,...
Artists: How to Earn and Manage Money, Part I
→ Creative Business / EntrepreneurshipJackie Battenfield - 01 Jun 09
Artists: How to Earn and Manage Money, Part I The following is an excerpt from Jackie Battenfield’s The Artist’s Guide: How to make a living doing what you love (2009). Part I | Part II Let’s face it, no one chooses to be an artist for the money, so supporting your practice can produce...
CHANEL at Vancouver Art Gallery (2007) (press release)
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CHANEL at Vancouver Art Gallery (2007) (press release) ADP staff; Text by Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada artdesigncafé | café library | Released 17 May 2007 Press Release CHANEL Presents Exclusive showing of New Collection at Vancouver Art Gallery’s Monet to Dalí Ball CHANEL will present...
Francis Bacon in Art and Celebrity (2003)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker - 10 May 03
...Vincent van Gogh: it consisted of expressionist-style interpretations of Vincent’s The painter on the road to Tarascon (1888). Francis Bacon’s reputation as a painter gradually spread until he was regarded as one of the finest in the world. In 1971, the French honoured him with a retrospective...
Edward G. Robinson in Art and Celebrity (2003)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker - 13 Feb 03
...Vincent van Gogh and the American Grant Wood. (Wood was to become a friend.) Edward G. Robinson sought advice from art dealers but he also visited artists in their studios; for instance, he met Henri Matisse in Paris on the latter’s 70th birthday and conversed with Marc Chagall in Rome. In...
Relative values on BBC Two - 1991 (1993)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker - 10 Jun 93
Relative values on BBC Two - 1991 (1993) BBC Two’s major contribution to arts programming at the beginning of the last decade of the twentieth century was Relative values, a series of six, fifty-minute programmes transmitted on Sunday evenings. The series was three years in the making and...
Robert Hughes - Shock of the new - 1980 (1993)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker - 01 Jun 93
Robert Hughes - Shock of the new - 1980 (1993) The title of Robert Hughes’ major pundit series about modern art was rather misleading because it contained little that was either shocking or new. This was because by 1980 modern art had become very familiar, an accepted part of official culture....
Omnibus - BBC One - 1967+ (1993)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker - 08 May 93
Omnibus - BBC One - 1967+ (1993) Omnibus (BBC 1), Monitor’s long-term replacement, began in 1967 and is still regarded as the “flagship” of the BBC’s arts programming. The aim of the series was to produce “television to remember”. Over the years various formats have been tried. Omnibus has...
Monitor BBC TV programme - 1958-1965 (1993)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker - 01 May 93
Monitor BBC TV programme - 1958-1965 (1993) Monitor, a crucially important early series that ran from February 1958 to July 1965, set the pattern for much that was to follow [in terms of open-ended arts TV in Britain]. The series was part of the output of the Talks Department and was made at...
Reception Theory / Aesthetics (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 16 Jun 92
Reception Theory / Aesthetics (1992) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Reception Theory / Aesthetics Reception Theory / Aesthetics is a branch of criticism and history writing concerned with the impact works of art and design make upon...
Art Therapy (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 01 Jun 92
Art Therapy (1992) (Related terms: Insane / Mad Art, Pathologic / Projective / Psychiatric / Psychoneurotic / Psychopathological / Psychotherapeutic / Psychotic Art, Remedial Art, Schizophrenic Art.) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Art...
Vincent van Gogh films:
Of cypresses and sunflowers (1990)
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John A. Walker - 01 Jul 90
Vincent van Gogh films: Of cypresses and sunflowers (1990) A review by John A. Walker, the author of Art & Artists on screen, discussing Vincent & Theo (1990), Lust for life (1956), and more. Those who know and admire the art of Vincent Van Gogh usually cringe whenever films and...
Art publishing & art publics today (1989)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker - 13 May 89
Art publishing & art publics today (1989) 2009 addition: My paper for this conference organised by the Wimbledon School of Art seemed to be well received by many in the audience, especially younger people. The convenor of the conference introduced my paper as likely to be ‘controversial’....
Vincent film by Paul Cox (1987)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker - 01 Apr 89
...Vincent van Gogh Paul Cox' title='Vincent van Gogh Paul Cox' /> 1990 is the centenary of Vincent van Gogh’s death. Paul Cox’s Vincent: the life and death of Vincent van Gogh told through his letters to his brother Theo serves, therefore, as a trailer for the celebrations to come. Admirers of...
