New exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art

Blues for Smoke at the Whitney

 

 Romare Bearden, Homage to Louie and Duke, offset color lithograph, circa 1975.

 Beauford Delaney's Portrait of a Young Musician

 A new exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art called Blues for Smoke presents a selection of work by American artists, inspired by the Blues. In response to the exhibition's sprawling theme, Holland Cotter of The New York Times writes:

 "Blues isn’t a thing; it’s a set of feelings, a state of mind, maybe a state of grace. In origin it’s African-American, developing with gospel and jazz, and folding into R&B, funk and hip-hop. But it has long since become a trans-ethnic phenomenon, bigger than music, an enveloping aesthetic that includes art."

Bob Thompson, Garden of Music, 1960, oil on canvas, 79 1/2 x 143 in. (201.93 x 363.22 cm), Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection; courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

 
Rachel Harrison, Untitled, 2012, colored pencil on paper, 22 3/8 x 27 7/8 x 1 1/2 in., 56.8 x 70.8 x 3.8 cm, courtesy the Artist and Greene Naftali, New York

 

 

                                                                                by Mark Morrisroe












Source:
 http://swanngalleriesinc.blogspot.ca/2013/02/blues-for-smoke-at-whitney.html




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