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Woman (Elevation), 1927, Bronze, Gaston Lachaise in front of A Vision, 1925, Joseph Stella
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| Cow’s Skull with a Calico Rose, 1931, Georgia O’Keefe |
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| Bouy, 1941, Peter Blume |
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| Head of Pavlova, 1924, Malvina Hoffman |
Author Archives: Linnea
Rich and vivid color: Chagall’s America Window
Marc Chagall’s America Windows were one of delightful surprises I encountered at the Art Institute this weekend in Chicago. Apparently recently re-installed after a long restoration, this large tripartite stained glass glows with the fantastic color you associate with Chagall.
Originally installed in 1977, Chagall created the windows as a gift to the city of Chicago. Stained glass was a medium he came to later in life – in his 70s – but he managed to create many notable works. Here he celebrates America’s bicentennial with symbols of America as well as more idiosyncratic ones.
Chagall employed a stain glass artist to make the pieces according to his specifications. Then he painted the glass with metallic oxide paints that were heated to fuse the color and design permanently to the glass. The entire image glows with rich and vivid color.
Click on any of the images for a larger view.
Which one is the doppelganger?
The doppelganger is an always unsettling idea. While today you might use the word to refer to a double or lookalike, historically a doppelganger represented evil and misfortune in a paranormal form and seeing a doppelganger almost always conincided with an unfortunate event. Swiss artist Cornelia Hediger tackles the darker connotation in her current show up at Klompching Gallery in Brooklyn.
Hediger constructs complex narratives in this set of photos featuring two women posing together in different ways. These colorful and rich images suggest a narrative with a cast of two, or perhaps one, characters whose relationship is ambiguous and darkly suggestive.
2/15/08
I love how she distorts perpective in these photos, so that above the woman in pink appears much small than the woman in black, and below the bed makes them both appear tiny.
12/03./07
I really enjoyed them, but as I viewed one after another I began to feel they were overly staged. There were so many props that the models enagaged with, when often their body language was the most telling and real part of the photo.
More images and exhibition details here. Cornelia Hediger is up at Klompching Gallery through October 21.