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This blog has been set up to serve as a link between the Kelowna Art Gallery and the community.
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- KELOWNA ART GALLERY
- Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
- This blog has been set up to serve as a link between the Kelowna Art Gallery and the community. We define this community loosely, not just thinking of visitors to our gallery, but about those people interested in art anywhere on the planet. This is our 30th anniversary, and the theme of our celebratory exhibition of our permanent collection this fall is Nexus: histories and communities. We want to emphasize and bring out the links between the gallery (and its collection) with the community who supports it and cares about it.
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Yup, sure do! It was back in my undergrad days doing research at the National Art Gallery in Ottawa. I came across Lucas (the Elder) Cranach's, Venus, c.1518. I instantly fell in love with this work mainly because when you see it in person you are compelled to wonder how the artist achieved such porcelain features and paint the most delicate diaphanous textile over the Venus body. I'm also drawn to works that have art historical controversies and this one doesn't fail. First it was noted that this work was pulled from a Nazi crate after the fall of Berlin. And in 1993 it was discovered that the fig leave had been added to the work and the NGC decided to remove the leaf to honour its original state. So, as it turned out I went on to do my masters in Classical and Renaissance art and history….who knew! Don’t you love a great work with a story!
Here is the link to the work too:
http://gallery.ca/cybermuse/showcases/preserves/
cranach_e.jsp
I remember being in middle school and being completely entranced by Tony Scherman's Napoleon series. That was the first time I ever felt the power of painting and developed a respect and taste for painters and their work. Now when I see a new show of Scherman's work I can still remember that feeling.
Yes, back in the mid-70's seeing Goya and El Greco's work for the 1st time at the Prado, and in '82 in NYC seeing Picasso's "The Young Women of Avignon", and Miro's "Birth of the World". The list could go on. There's no substitute for seeing work first-hand.
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