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The Aspiring Curator

Blog about art, museums, galleries and other art happenings and related musings (with an emphasis on contemporary art and/or centered in the LA area)

Old Favorites Part III

Posted on Wednesday March 4th, 2009 at 19:53 in old favorites

Most everyone is familiar with Georges Seurat painting "Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte". With that painting he initiated the neo-impressionistic art movement which altered the direction of modern art during the later part of the 19...
Old Favorites Part II

Posted on Monday February 9th, 2009 at 23:03 in old favorites

Polish art deco painter Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) is one of the biggest names in the style of art deco, and was at her time one of the most prolific portrait painters. You would have to drop a cool $2000 (est. at $20,000 in today's money) to hav...
Old Favorites Part I

Posted on Friday January 30th, 2009 at 13:10 in old favorites

Based on the contents of this blog so far, one might think I only like contemporary artists. But that's not the case, so I'm going to show some of my all time favorite artists in a new installment: Old Favorites.First out is my absolute favorite, the...