藝苑掇英 Edward Weston 愛德華·韋斯頓 (1886-1958) Surrealism Americans
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Edward Weston's photography captured organic forms and texture. Portraits of his family taken in the 1940s are some of his best work.
Born on March 24, 1886, in Highland Park, Illinois, Edward Weston's father gave him his camera at age 16. Much of his photography in the early 1920s can be identified as Pictorialist style, meaning they imitated paintings. In 1923, he traveled to Mexico, where he opened a photographic studio with his lover, Tina Modotti. During this time, Weston took a number of the portraits and nudes for which he's known today. Several Mexican artists of the time, including Diego Rivera, David Siqueiros and Jose Orozco, called Weston a pioneer of 20th century art. In 1926, Weston returned to the United States, settling in California, where he continued to create—nudes, close-ups, natural forms and landscapes, among several other works. In the 1940s, he took several portraits of his family members that are now considered among his best work. In 1946, New York City's Museum of Modern Art featured retrospective exhibit of Weston's work that included 300 prints. Weston died in Carmel, California, on January 1, 1958.
愛德華·韋斯頓的攝影捕捉到有機形態和質地。他的家庭在20世紀40年代的肖像是他最好的作品。
1886年3月24日出生於伊利諾伊州高地公園，愛德華韋斯頓的父親在16歲時給了他相機。他在1920年代早期的大部分攝影作品都可以認定為圖像風格，意味著他們模仿了繪畫。 1923年，他前往墨西哥，在那裡他和他的情人蒂娜莫多蒂開了一家攝影工作室。在此期間，韋斯頓拍了一些他今天所知道的肖像和裸體。當時的幾位墨西哥藝術家，包括Diego Rivera，David Siqueiros和Jose Orozco，都將韋斯頓稱為20世紀藝術的先驅。 1926年，韋斯頓回到美國，定居在加利福尼亞州，在那裡他繼續創作裸體，特寫，自然形式和風景，以及其他幾部作品。在20世紀40年代，他拍了幾張他的家庭成員的肖像，這些肖像被認為是他最好的作品之一。 1946年，紐約市現代藝術博物館展出了威斯頓的作品回顧展，其中包括300幅作品。 1958年1月1日，韋斯頓去加州卡梅爾去世。
Wahl's California 1995 (Carmel)
Carmel-by-the-Sea ist eine Kleinstadt mit dem Status einer city mit 4.081 Einwohnern. Sie liegt an der Route Nr.1 im Monterey County, an der Westküste Kaliforniens etwa 190 km südlich von San Francisco, fünf Kilometer südlich von Monterey.
Viele bekannte Autoren und Künstler lebten für einige Zeit in der Region von Carmel-by-the-Sea und machten die Natur zum Gegenstand ihrer Werke. Unter ihnen waren die Schriftsteller Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck ,Jack London, Martín Guillermo Wahl sowie der Fotograf Edward Weston, der viele Jahre bis zu seinem Tod hier lebte und viele Landschaftsbilder, auch vom nahegelegenen Point Lobos machte.
Bekannt wurde Carmel-by-the-Sea auch, nachdem am 8. April 1986 der Schauspieler Clint Eastwood als Kandidat der Republikanischen Partei mit großer Mehrheit zum Ortsbürgermeister von Carmel-by-the-Sea gewählt wurde. Er ist auch Besitzer der Mission Ranch. Eastwood hatte sie Anfang der 1980er Jahre erworben und renoviert. Eastwood blieb bis 1988 Bürgermeister.
Historisch bedeutsam ist die Carmel Mission, eine alte spanische Mission aus dem Jahre 1770. Junípero Serra war der Missionar, der die Indianer zum katholischen Glauben bekehren wollte. Er wurde am 25. September 1988 von Johannes Paul II. selig gesprochen. Zu den lokalen Sehenswürdigkeiten zählen das 1770 begonnene Kloster mit der Klosterkirche und das Museum. Nach der Unabhängigkeit Mexikos von Spanien im Jahre 1821 begann das Kloster zu verfallen und wurde schließlich 1834 säkularisiert. 1863 konnte die Katholische Kirche die Baulichkeiten wieder erwerben, renovierte diese und richtete dort eine Pfarrkirche für den Ort ein.
Bei Touristen ist Carmel vor allem wegen seiner Natur bekannt. Der 17 Miles Drive führt um die Landzunge von Monterey über Carmel-by-the-Sea, vorbei an Pebble Beach, durch Pacific Grove und wieder nach Monterey. Weiter südlich an der California State Route 1 liegt die gebirgige Küstenlandschaft Big Sur. Nur wenige Meilen südlich an der Küste liegt der Point Lobos State Park mit reicher Fauna und Flora. 300 Sonnentage machen Carmel zu einem milden Urlaubsort.
Internationale Bedeutung hat Carmel-by-the-Sea durch das Carmel Bach Festival erlangt, eines der bedeutendsten Musik-Festspiele in den USA, geleitet von dem renommierten deutschen Dirigenten Bruno Weil.///Carmel-by-the-Sea, usually called simply Carmel, is a small town in Monterey County, California, United States. Situated on the Monterey Peninsula, the town is known for its rich artistic history.
In 1906, the San Francisco Call devoted a full page to the artists, poets and writers of Carmel-by-the-Sea and in 1910 it reported that 60 percent of Carmel's houses were built by citizens who were devoting their lives to work connected to the aesthetic arts.
Early City Councils were dominated by artists and the town has had several mayors who were poets or actors including Herbert Heron, founder of the Forest Theater, and actor-director Clint Eastwood, who was mayor for one term, from 1986 to 1988. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 4,081.///Carmel es una ciudad del estado de California. Su nombre oficial es Carmel-by-the-Sea en la península de Monterrey, donde se encuentra la ciudad de Monterrey. Se pronuncia con el acento en la última sílaba. Alberga una nutrida colonia de artistas famosos del cine y la televisión.[1] Es un sitio turístico por excelencia y cuenta con importantes hoteles, restaurantes, spas, shopping, galerías de arte y otros lugares de entretenimiento. (Wikipedia)
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American Impressionism was a style of painting related to European Impressionism and practiced by American artists in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. American Impressionism is a style of painting characterized by loose brushwork and vivid colors. The style often depicted landscapes mixed with scenes of upper-class domestic life. Impressionism emerged as an artistic style in France in the 1860s. Major exhibitions of French impressionist works in Boston and New York in the 1880s introduced the style to the American public. Some of the first American artists to paint in an impressionistic mode, such as Theodore Robinson and Mary Cassatt, did so in the late 1880s after visiting France and meeting with artists such as Claude Monet. Others, such as Childe Hassam, took notice of the increasing numbers of French impressionist works at American exhibitions. As railroads, automobiles, and other new technology emerged, American impressionists often painted vast landscapes and small towns in an effort to return to nature. Before the invention of collapsible paint tubes artists were often confined to using subjects in their studios or painting from memory. With the invention of paint tubes in 1841, artists could transport their paint and easily paint in nature. From the 1890s through the 1910s, American impressionism flourished in art colonies—loosely affiliated groups of artists who lived and worked together and shared a common aesthetic vision. Art colonies tended to form in small towns that provided affordable living, abundant scenery for painting, and relatively easy access to large cities where artists could sell their work. Some of the most important American impressionist artists gathered at Cos Cob and Old Lyme, Connecticut, both on Long Island Sound; New Hope, Pennsylvania, on the Delaware River; and Brown County, Indiana. American impressionist artists also thrived in California at Carmel and Laguna Beach; in New York on eastern Long Island at Shinnecock, largely due to the influence of William Merritt Chase; and in Boston where Edmund Charles Tarbell and Frank Weston Benson became important practitioners of the impressionist style. Some American art colonies remained vibrant centers of impressionist art into the 1920s. However, impressionism in America lost its cutting-edge status in 1913 when a historic exhibition of modern art took place at the 69th Regiment Armory building in New York City. The “Armory Show”, as it came to be called, heralded a new painting style regarded as more in touch with the increasingly fast-paced and chaotic world, especially with the outbreak of World War I, The Great Depression and World War II. Unlike early Renaissance painters, American Impressionists favored asymmetrical composition, cropped figures, and plunging perspectives in their works in order to create a more impressionist version of the subject. In addition, American impressionists used pure color straight from the tubes to make the works more vibrant, used broken brushstrokes, and practiced impasto- a style of painting characterized by thick raised strokes. European impressionists painted tranquil scenes of landscapes or the lower and middle classes. American impressionists focused on landscapes like the European impressionists, but unlike their European counterparts, American impressionists painted scenes that depicted the upper class in an effort to show off America's economic prowess.
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My 28 photographs at Cheung Hing Restaurant in South San Francisco
Don't forget to hit the CC button to display the text... I wanted to make available some original prints so that folks could easily come and view what I consider to be very good black and white photographs printed from film. As I state in a couple of my videos I have photographs that I printed in the 1970s that have been on the wall every day and they look as good as the day I printed them, and these prints at Cheung Hing Restaurant will also stand the test of time.
This is a permanent display which will remain on the walls here as long as the restaurant is in business, and although I may replace some of the images for new ones the Ansel Adams print will remain as the standard by which all the others can be compared.
If you are ever in the San Francisco Bay Area please come to 333 Grand Ave. in South San Francisco (it’s only minutes away from the City) and see these photographs for yourself. Real fiber based silver gelatin prints are becoming more and more rare as digital printing begins to dominate the production of “photographs.” The prints on the walls are well lit, even at night, and they are all printed onto sheets of 20” x 24” paper (mostly Ilford Classic Multigrade - a couple are printed on Foma paper).
BTW – I have been eating at Cheung Hing for years now and I can attest to their fine offerings. I, personally, like the traditional selections that I enjoyed in San Francisco’s Chinatown of the 1950s and 60s (Chow mein, won ton, chow fun, rice soup and the Chinese donuts).
List of Images:
Rooftop Pagota by Haw Jun Hong
Beyond Tengboche by Frank Wing
Tai Chi by Tim Hall
Bicycles by Haw Jun Hong
Riding the Waters by Haw Jun Hong
River of Houses by Haw Jun Hong
Solarized Lotus by Pat Hall
Junk Horizon by Haw Jun Hong
Washing Behind the House by Haw Jun Hong
Boat on Lake Reflection by Frank Wing
Temple on Mt. Hung by Haw Jun Hong
Cactus Flower by Tim Hall
Seagulls and Wave by Thomas Cheng
The Golden Gate Before
the Bridge by Ansel Adams
Half Dome by Robert Cameron
El Capitan by Haw Jun Hong
Cocktail Time by Robert Cameron
San Francisco City Fog by Robert Cameron
TransAmerica Pyramid
in Fog by Robert Cameron
Coastal Fog by Robert Cameron
Colorado River by Robert Cameron
Hang Glider by Robert Cameron
Wu Shu by Tim Hall
New York Chairs by Tim Hall
Statue of Liberty by Robert Cameron
Empire State Building by Robert Cameron
Yankee Stadium by Robert Cameron
Twin Towers by Robert Cameron
Unfortunately the ambient noise in the video camouflages my voice during the description of the images. But my point is making this video was not to do much talking; I am trying to inspire folks to come to Cheung Hing Restaurant to see this prints.
Ansel Adams A Documentary Film 2002
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Director: Ric Burns
Writer: Ric Burns