AIC Temporary Exhibition: Picasso and Chicago

 

 

PICASSO AND CHICAGO

Temporary Exhibit :  February 20, 2013 – May 12, 2013

At Regenstein Hall [ The Art Institute of Chicago]
Curator:  Stephanie D'Alessandro.

The Exhibition marks the centennial anniversary
 of the Armory Show in Feb, 1913. 
The show was at the Art Institute of Chicago [AIC],
which became the first American museum to exhibit works of
Pablo Picasso [1881-1973]

 

A Terrific Exhibition!!! It brings out the evolution of  a genius that was Pablo Picasso!!! Picasso is my all time favorite artist, and this exhibition traces the different styles and techniques Picasso mastered from the early Blue Period to his late career. It illuminates the special bond Chicago has with Picasso and how pivotal was been the role of AIC in the awareness of the artist! I am specially Thankful for the inclusion of  22 illustrations from the Vollard Suite, [where Picasso inserted himself as the mythical  man-beast Minotur into scenes of bacchanalian feasts], which has always intrigued me! 

EXPO Chicago teams up with city's major cultural institutions to announce, EXPO Art Week: Sep16-22, 2013.

 

Tony Karman, President/ Director of EXPO Chicago!

 

Tuesday, February 20 2013:

Special Announcement at the Chicago Cultural Center

[Millennium Park Room]

 

Expo Chicago, The International Exposition of Contemporary and Modern Art,

teams up with

Choose Chicago, and

 Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events [DCASE]

for the Expo Art Week!

Sep 16-22, 2013.

 

Desti-Nation: A Haitian Magazine, with article on Dusable

Desti-Nation: A Haitian magazine, with the goal of  promoting Haiti outside;  had story on Jean-Baptiste Pointe duSable. It was a lead story, covered in the center pages of the magazine.  The article "Jean Baptiste Pointe duSable of Haitian descent, Founder of Chicago", was by Marc Arthur Pierre -Louis, and the accompanying photo was an image taken by me!

Figural Sculptures of Lincoln Park



When it comes to commemorative sculptures, figural has it's place firmly established. No amount of abstraction, symbolism or minimalism can bring out the beauty and accuracy  of a detailed figural sculpture. It can capture essence of one's character in one simple pose, and immortalize it for ages to come! Personally, I love figural sculptures!!!

While talking about figural, Lincoln Park has  a fair share of these beautiful bronzes. The most famous is the "Abraham Lincoln Monument" by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, which has been designated the status of  a Chicago Landmark. But there are many others which are absolutely beautiful. My personal favorite is the Shakespeare Monument..

Abraham Lincoln Monument

by  Augustus Saint-Gaudens [sculptor], Stanford White [architect]
Year Completed: 1887
Date Designated a Chicago Landmark: December 12, 2001

Address: Lincoln Park at North Dearborn Parkway

 

 

Green Vardiman Black - by Frederick Cleveland Hibbard

Donated by the National Dental Association, in appreciation for Black's services to the profession.

Location: Lincoln Park,north of North Ave. at Astor Street.

For more,  click here..

 

 

 

 

Ulysses S. Grant Memorial - by Louis Rebisso

Installed: 1891
Location: It's in the east end of the Lincoln Park Zoo overlooking the Cannon Drive.

 

 Interestingly Grant statue is located in the heart of Lincoln Park, whereas Lincoln statue is  in the heart of Grant Park. Was there a  mistaken switch. Apparently NOT 

 

The city of Chicago's website explains it as thus .. It's a Chicago curiosity, but can easily be explained by knowing the history of Chicago's prominent lakefront parks. Lincoln Park was Chicago's first park, well established at the time of Grant's death. The mud-covered remains of the Great Chicago Fire would be developed as a series of formal gardens after the turn of the century and named for Grant, another honor for this great Civil War hero.

For more, click here..

For Lincoln Memorial in Grant Park, click here..

 

William Shakespeare - by William Ordway Partridge

Installed: 1894
Location: Lincoln Park: Grandmother's Garden..

 

Perhaps my favorite figural! The details are amazing. The cloths, the shoes, the posture. it's on beautiful sculpture!!! 

 

The base is inscribed Shakespeare's words from Hamlet, What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty!  On the opposite side is Samuel T. Coleridge's words.. He was not for an age but for all time, our myriad- minded Shakespeare....

 

For more, click here..

 

 

Benjamin Franklin Monument - by Richard Henry Park.

He made the sculpture for the 1893 World's Fair.

Installed in Lincoln Park: 1896..
Relocated: 1966

For more, click here..

 

 

Hans Cristian Andersen Monument - by  Johannes Sophus Gelert

Installed: 1896

Location: Stockton Drive

For more, click here..

 

 

Johanne Christoph Friedrich von Schiller - by Ernst Bildhauer Rau

Installed: 1886..

Location: Lincoln park - Formal Garden/Southern end of the Conservatory Garden

East of Stockton Dr at Webster Avenue

For more,  click here..

 



 

LaSalle Monument - by Count Jacques de La Laing

The statue is donated by Lambert Tree...
Installed: 1889
Location: 2045 N. Lincoln Park West..

For more,  click here..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Richard J. Oglesby - by Leonard Crunelle

Installed: 1919
Location: Lincoln Park, west of Cannon Drive and east of the north end of North pond..

For more, click here..

 

 

 

 

General Philip H. Sheridan  - by  Gutzon Borglum

Installed: 1923
Location: Lincoln Park, near Sheridan Road at Belmost Ave. and N. Lakeshore Drive.
Sheridian [1831-88] is portrayed here as a commander of Army of the Shenandoah on Oct 19, 1864.

For more,  click here..

 

 

INCOMPLETE!!!  But time sleep now!