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2nd t0 6th December | 2009

VIP Preview December 1st | Benefiting the Lotus House Womans Shelter

The city’s prestigious, long running contemporary art fair, Art Miami 2009, is to celebrate its 20th birthday on December 2nd-6th. Art Miami is proud to showcase a wide variety of art from over 100 leading national and international contemporary galleries and institutions.
In Art Miami’s 19th edition, it moved to a new location inside the emerging Midtown Miami Arts District which is adjacent to the Miami Design District along with the Wynwood Arts District. The Fair attracts more than 32,000 visitors over a six day period and was applauded for the depth and quality of its arts. This included a special selection of exhibitions and curatorial projects, outdoor sculptures and video installations. All of which appeared within the new 125,000+ square foot state of the art pavilion. Latin American, European, Asian and American galleries and institutions also contributed their own unique curated exhibitions in the BlackRock Art Video/New Media Lounge and through other art projects. The nation’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, was the main sponsor and official host of the 2008 Fair and VIP lounge.
The Art Miami venue boasts a Touch Catering restaurant offering delectable cuisine along with beverages. The VIP lounge on the second story offers a panoramic view of the entire fair. The parking is handled via a four story parking garage located directly across the street for the pavilion. Convenient parking valet and shuttle bus are also on offer from all the surrounding satellite fairs and the Miami Beach Convention centre.
For more details on Art Miami 2009 see their website http://artmiami.com

Pablo Picasso was born on October 5, 1881 in Malaga Spain. Jose Ruiz, his father, was also an artist. Picasso painted in a variety of styles including Cubism and Expressionism. He was also a sculpture. In Cubism he attempted to show the dimensions of the objects throughout his paintings. When he painted in the classical style his shapes were round and soft. In Cubism, the shapes he painted were square and hard.

When Picasso painted he had a blue period and a rose period. During his twenties he used mostly light blue colours. The rose period came after the blue period and began after he moved from Spain to France.

Picasso became very famous due to the fact he could use many styles. He used great lines and colour in his work.

Let’s take a look at Picasso’s most famous works:

Guernica

Three Musicians

The Three Dancers

Self Portrait: Yo Picasso

Claude Monet was born in Paris on November 14 1840. He grew up in LeHaver, near the coast. Even when he was a child he was a very good artist. His paintings were so good that one day an art supply store let him hang his paintings up in their window.

Monet’s parents however, didn’t want him to be an artist as they thought he wouldn’t make a good living. That didn’t stop him, of course and at the age of 20 he studied art at an inexpensive art school in Paris.

He often went on trips around France to paint. Sometimes his good friend Camille came along with him. She later became Monet’s wife. They ended up having two sons, Jean and Michel. During 1878 Camille fell ill and later died. A few years after that, Monet got married again to a women called Alice.

His family later moved to Giverny, a small town near Paris. It was here that he painted his Impressionist wheat stack and cathedral paintings that became very famous. The house had a lovely garden with a lily pond that had a Japanese bridge going over it. These were Monet’s favourite things to paint.

Monet died in 1926 in Giverny. A lot of people attended his funeral and unlike many artists, he was famous before he died. The house he used to live in is now a museum that is visited by many, many people each year.

Here are some of his famous paintings:

Morning Haze

Marine Near Etretat

Lily Pond

Henri Matissie was born in Le Cateau Cambresis, France, on December 31 1869. At first he got a degree in law, and then he decided to become an artist. He studied for three years with Gustave Moreau. He learnt a lot bt copying paintings by other great artists, such as Raphael.

Matisse was one of the founders of a type of art called Fauvism. He preferred doing paintings with people as it made it easy for him to express his feelings about life. He especially liked painting women, as he said they held the answer to the mystery of life. Matisse also did many pieces of art using cut paper. In addition to this he was a sculptor and an etcher.

Due to the fact that Matisse had cancer, he became confined to a wheelchair. From his wheelchair however, he completed one of his most famous works, painting the insdie of the Chappelle du Rosaire. He later died in 1954.

Let’s have a look at his most famous works:

Chapel of the Rosary in Vence

The Snail

Breasts of the Sea

Creole Dancer

La Fougere Noire

Paul Klee was born in Switzerland on December 18, 1887. He has a passion for cats and painted them a lot. During his time as an artist he had over 8,926 works of art. Throughout these peices of work he used simple lines and strong colours. In addition to his he used simple shapes to make important parts of the painting. Klee painted in various styles however the majority of them were in the Primitive and Surrealist styles.

Here is some of Paul Klee’s famous works:

Fish Magic

Around The Fish

Landscape With Yellow Birds

Leonardo Da Vinci was born in an Italian town called Vinci, in 1452. He lived in a time period called the Renaissance, a time when everyone was interested in art. Although Da Vinci was a great artist, he became famous through all of the other things he did, like sculpting for example. He was a scientist, an architect, a scientist, an inventor, a musician and a mathematician also. During his twenty’s he helped his teacher complete a painting called The Baptism of Christ. He moved to Milan when he was thirty. It was there that he painted the majority of his paintings. Da Vinci’s style of painting was Realistic style.

Here are some of Da Vinci’s famous paintings;

Mona Lisa

The Last Supper

Madonna and Child

The Virgin of the Rocks

Salvador Dali was born in Spain in 1904. As a child, Dali showed strange behaviour and quite often interrupted his class in school. As he grew up, he began painting pictures that came from his dreams. His dreams were both scary and unreal.

Dali went to an art school in Madrid, Spain. He got kicked out and never completed his course. He even once spent time in jail. However he continued to paint and his art style became widely known as Surrealism. Dali drew everyday items, but changed them in very odd ways. For example, one of his paintings is of melting clocks.

Just before he died in 1989 at 85 years old, he had created works in film, ballet, opera, fashion and advertising illustration.

Here are some of his famous works:

The Persistence of Memory

Crucifixion

The Sacrament of the Last Supper

Marc Chagall, born on July 7, 1887 in Vitebsk, Russia, is famous mostly because of his Expressionism and Cubism paintings. He moved to France in 1932. He lived in the US from 1941 to 1948 then returned to France. He later died in France on March 28, 1985.

He often painted violinists mainly because he played the violin and also in memory of his uncle who also played the violin. He was also known for his Russian-Jewish villages.

Here are some of his famous works:

Over Vitebsk

The Violinist

The Praying Jew

I and the Village

Street artists painting on the streets of Montmartre in Pairs are soon to be a thing of the past with the introduction of very cheap Chinese painting done by artist’s equivalent of a battery hen in a steel cage.

The majority of the 300 officially registered artists working on the streets of Paris now find themselves competing with souvenir shops that sell mass produced Chinese oil paintings for a fraction of the price that Paris street painters can afford to sell theirs for.

In some people’s opinions, it’s a case of survival of the fittest, but not in this case as mass produced oil paintings from China are in most cases anti-art and any lover of art that supports these knock-offs should hang their heads in shame. Go by yourself a poster if you really must, however don’t encourage this abuse of featherless battery hens that churn out a large number of rip=offs year in, year out.

Van Gogh may not mind that his sunflowers are ripped off thousands of times a year but I don’t think emerging and mid-career artists do mind. It’s a sad fact that many contemporary artists have their images stolen by battery artists in China.

Just imagine coming near to the end of your lifelong career as an artist. You’ve enjoyed much success over the years and galleries all over the world regularly put together exhibitions of your work. Famous galleries invite you over and treat you like a king and let you say a few words during the opening. Sounds like a great way to spend old age after a lot of years of hard work.

Now, imagine yourself being at the point described here. You arrive at the exhibition, you’re handed a glass of wine and you’re about to start your speech. Then you realise that the majority of paintings on display are fakes! This is what famous Indian artist, S.H Raza found himself in recently.
The 85 year old artist was invited along to an exhibition of his work at the Dhoomimal Gallery in Connaught Place, New Delhi, India only to find that nearly all of the 35 works that were supposedly his were fakes.

SH Raza told the Times of India “The gallery had my works on display and they invited me to visit the gallery on the opening evening. When I entered the gallery, I felt as if I had entered some other place since none of the works on display was mine. The fake makers should realise that creating fakes of someone’s works is like signing a cheque in someone else’s name.”

As soon as the gallery were informed of the fakes they closed the exhibition immediately.