ART: PAINTING/SCULPTURE/INSTALLATIONS

2.WOMEN IN THE ARTS: Judy Hintz Cox, by Maximillien de Lafayette.  America’s first lady of progressive minimalism. Cox’s paintings are elegantly and intelligently composed, structured and balanced, yet, she is not restrained by an artistic dogmatic analysis. LA FEMME MAGAZINE

t18.WOMEN ARTISTS OF THE WORLD.t1 ALISON LAPPER. My Body Is Art! It's been empty for 150 years. But this week it was announced that the vacant fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square will be occupied by a 15ft-high nude statue of a pregnant Alison Lapper. She talks to Hadley Freeman about art, disability and notions of beauty. LA FEMME MAGAZINE

 1. Renate Aller. By Maximillien de Lafayette. She photographs femme fatales, elegant women, the clouds, inexistent people who make you think, and the infinity of nothingness. You see it in her shots of lyrical and nostalgic skies, horizons, clouds, seascapes and ultra modern installations. LA FEMME MAGAZINE

 

ART & MONEY: The Most Expensive and Wanted Artworks in the World. If a piece is “truly, truly to die for” and is still in private hands, it is no doubt on someone else’s wish list. Like that $100 million Cézanne.  Steve Wynn is approached on a regular basis about works he owns, such as his Tahitian Gauguin, Bathers, 1902. He reportedly paid close to $35 million for it.  WORLD ART CELEBRITIES JOURNAL

 

THE WORST ART SHOW OF THE YEAR THE BIZARRE, THE DECADENT AND EXPENSIVE ART. THE WORLD’S MOST OFFENSIVE ART AT ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST PRESTIGIOUS GALLERIES!! THE DECADENCE OF MODERN ART IN ENGLAND. P.183 -192 STARS ILLUSTRATED

THE BEST ART SHOW OF THE YEAR: MUSEUMS AND EXHIBITIONS REVIEWS. The Must See Exhibitions.The Algiers Museum of Fine Arts houses a collection of  8,000 works, dating from the 14th to the 20th century,  including a Print Department with nearly 1,750 drawings and engravings. A selection of around 60 French drawings, from the 19th and early 20th centuries, will give the public an  idea of the wealth and diversity of this collection that is little-known in France. On the one hand, the exhibition will present works by “Orientalist” artists such as Chassériau, Decamps, Delacroix and Fromentin, on the other...P.193  -197 STARS ILLUSTRATED

JUDAICA: THE BEST OF JUDAIC ART: HISTORY, DEVELOPMENT AND STYLES, by MAXIMILLIEN de LAFAYETTE. Defining what  Jewish art is and who is a Jewish artist is more problematic and subjective than defining art itself. Jewish artists from all eras and various nations contributed ad infinitum to various and multiple schools, styles, genres and aspects of classical, abstract and modern art.  In many instances, no Judaic or Hebraic artistic creativity was ever associated with the nature, the theme and message of their work. Add to the fact that, many non Jewish artists from all centuries mirrored and depicted memorable events from the history of Israel, the Bible and modern Jewish conflicts around the globe. For instance, the famous “Jewish Polish Village Series” which depicted destroyed wooden synagogues in Eastern Europe was done by a non-Jewish artist Frank Stella...P.301 - 305 STARS ILLUSTRATED

 

 

DIASPORA: UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATING THE DIASPORA ART. BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.

 To fully understand the Diaspora contemporary painting in all its styles and genres from surrealism to cubism and from neo-classicism to abstract, one must learn about the adjacent and parallel national/ethnic arts that gave birth to the art of painting. Maximillien de Lafayette explores and reviews the various facets of the Diaspora art from its birth to present.

t 2MARIA CHEVSKA. Can't Wait (Letters R.L.), Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, United Kingdom. Awaiting the visitor to her first solo show in London for almost three years are two significant developments in Maria Chevska's work. The first is the introduction of objects into the gallery space, objects that the viewer has to negotiate and which act as both an aid and a restriction  to reading her paintings...LA FEMME MAGAZINE

254. THE CILICIAN STYLE: BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE. FROM ITS GLORIOUS DAYS, ITS ORIGIN, ITS RISE, ITS GLORY TO ITS FALL AND DEATH ON THE HAND OF THE MAMLUKS. The second style of the early Armenian manuscripts painting is the Cilician style.   A very beautiful, colorful, rich, vibrant, humanistic and detailed brighter and happier art.  Tens of thousands of illuminated manuscripts were produced in the times of medieval Armenia. Unfortunately many perished. ART & STYLE MAGAZINE

 

 

 

t37.MUSEUMS AND EXHIBITIONS REVIEWS.  The Must See Exhibitions. From Delacroix to Matisse: Drawings from the Algiers Museum of Art. The Algiers Museum of Fine Arts houses a collection of  8,000 works, dating from the 14th to the 20th century,  including a Print Department with nearly 1,750 drawings and engravings. A selection of around 60 French drawings, from the 19th and early 20th centuries, will give the public an  idea of the wealth and diversity of this collection that is little-known in France. On the one hand, the exhibition will present works by “Orientalist” artists such as Chassériau, Decamps... LA FEMME MAGAZINE

t38.WORLD MUSEUMS AND EXHIBITIONS REVIEWS. THE TREASURES OF THE 18th CENTURY AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM. The 18th-century Enlightenment was one of the great revolutionary moments in human history. LA FEMME MAGAZINE

16.NEW YORK'S ART NEWS & EVENTS. WORLD HOSPITALITY MAGAZINE

BEST ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN ARTISTS. by MAXIMILLIEN de LAFAYETTE.

ESSENCE OF ART AND ABSTRACT ART IN TWO DIFFERENT CAMPS AND LIFE’S GALLERIES: THE ART OF ISRAEL AND PALESTINE,

 This article reveals truth, reality, unaltered dimensions, feelings, talents and major work of leading Arab and Israeli artists living in the Near East, Middle East and spread around the world. There are a lot of pros and cons opinions expressed herewith. They are NOT ours. Those opinions were deemed indispensable to be included in our article, because they constitute the very fabric of similarities and differences in way of life, politics, social structure and substructure, artistic ideologies and accomplishments, social and artistic struggles, genius, visions of today and tomorrow. This article should prove extremely informative and educational. We have included and encompassed several articles and statements issued by all parties. In addition, we have carefully selected the work of featured Arab and Israeli artists for obvious reasons. We are NOT in the politics business. P.311 - 324 STARS ILLUSTRATED

18.FABULOUS TIMES, PLACES AND PEOPLE. BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.  GAY PARIS IN THE 20s and 30s: Background, People, Places, Personalities, Hospitality, Restaurants, Food, Wine, Pleasure, Style, Fashion, Arts, Poetry, Music and Adventure. According to Maximillien de Lafayette. Mon Dieu! To be and live in Paris during "Les annees folles", between the end of  1917 and 1934, especially if you were an eccentric artist, an intellectual adventurer, a frou-frou femme fatale, a genius or an independently wealthy American, willing to spend a lot of money on arts, dating and women. Ask Madonna, Paulette Attie, Penelope de Vassy and Louise de Chambertin. Really "real" America's la crème de la crème was there. The "real" American high society, the privileged class, the snobs (Although it was too early for the Americans to know how to be a snob), les bourgeois,  wealth filthy characters, the hustlers with a style, the scandalous adventurous women, the schmoozer and the cruisers, the handsome gigolos, the champagne, the caviar, the kisses and the misses, sex, the drama and all the "chic" pleasures of the era. Hemingway was here. Paramour Stein too. Why Paris - what made everybody want to come here and create, and drink, and dance, and paint, and write stories or invent them? Women? obnoxious, over-cultured and over-sophisticated Frenchmen? Bubbly champagne? Sinfully good wine? Nice plat de fromage? A nostalgia? A fantasy? A new social, political and artistic era? A modern Parisian revolution? Yes! Yes! All of the above! WORLD HOSPITALITY MAGAZINE

142.WORLD ARTS EVENTS & CALENDAR: Lauren Greenfield: Girl Culture. John Cohen's Photography. P.143. Robert Arneson: Political Drawings. Walter King's Final Thoughts . ART & STYLE MAGAZINE

22.THE VERY BEST OF NEW YORK, BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE: ENTERTAINERS, SINGERS, ARTISTS, ART EVENTS, SHOWS. WORLD HOSPITALITY MAGAZINE

39.NEW YORK ART SCENE. WORLD HOSPITALITY MAGAZINE

112-128. CUBISM: THE FOUNDERS OF  RUSSIAN ABSTRACT ART: BIOGRAPHIES AND ARTWORKS. DID THE RUSSIAN PAINTERS INVENT ABSTRACT ART AND CUBISM LONG TIME BEFORE PICASSO AND BRAQUES? Cubism (a name suggested by Henri Matisse in 1909) is a non-objective approach to painting developed originally in France by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque around 1906. The early, "pre-Cubist" period (to 1906) is characterized by emphasizing the process of construction, of creating a pictorial rhythm, and converting the represented forms into the essential geometric shapes: the cube, the sphere, the cylinder, and the cone. Between 1909 and 1911, the analysis of human forms and still lifes (hence the name -- Analytical Cubism) led to the creation of a new stylistic system which allowed the artists to transpose...ART & STYLE MAGAZINE

 

281. THE WORLD OF ART: THE BEST AND THE WORST. BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE. ART REALITY TV SHOW?  JEFFREY DEITCH'S "ARTSTAR" PROJECT: A JOKE OR HUMILIATION? PERHAPS, BOTH! ART & STYLE MAGAZINE

283. ART TODAY: MICHEL MAJERUS, FLORENCE BIENNALE, THE XIth TRIENNALE OF INDIA JOINS THE PRESTIGIOUS FLORENCE BIENNALE. ART & STYLE MAGAZINE

 

 MODERN ART IN IRAQ: BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE. LEADING FIGURES AND INTERNATIONAL PERSONALITIES: No country will ever survive if its art dies. it the proper time to talk about Iraqi modern art amidst the turbulent Iraq passage toward  new political and social metamorphoses?  Absolutely, for nations were initially born through the original expressions of individual and shared feelings, ideas, concepts and ideologies transmitted and illustrated through the medium of art. Equally true is the survival of nations and the preservation of their heritage, history and national pride through art in all its forms and styles. WORLD ART CELEBRITIES JOURNAL

261. ART HISTORY AND GENOCIDE. BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE To fully understand the essence and spirit of Armenian art in the homeland and Diaspora, a brief glance at the history of Diaspora in the last hundred year (1895-1994) is necessary. At the end of the 18th century and at the beginning of the 19th century the political and geographical role of the Russian Empire becomes more dominant and active in the internal affairs of Armenia. Russia won the 1804-1013 war against the Persian empire. Consequently, Russia gained many territories, and new lands, including the Caucasus, Gandzak khanates and Karabagh. ART & STYLE MAGAZINE

ART, METAPHYSICS AND THE HEALING POWERS OF RELIGIOUS ART: THE KATCHKARS   The most recognizable Armenian art is the traditional stone carving. The carving of Khatchkars is an artistic Armenian tradition. An Armenian trademark and monopoly. Khatchkar, literally means "cross-stone"; khatch means cross  and “kar” means  stone.  It refers to an upright basalt stone resting on  a rectangular base with its back facing eastward. It is a slab of stone  incorporating various patterns of carved crosses with inscriptions and  different designs pertaining to various epochs. WORLD HOSPITALITY MAGAZINE

17. PORTRAIT OF A NEW YORK  FEMALE ARTIST: RACHEL BERTONI, BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE. ART & STYLE MAGAZINE

19. THE WORLD OF ART: ART AND ARTISTS IN NEW YORK CITY: DANIEL ILIESCU: And all of a sudden, the press and art communities began to write and talk about him. It took Daniel Iliescu 3 or 4 years in New York City to make his art and his name known on a large scale. November was a good month for Iliescu.  THEY ARE TALENTED, BUT NO MONEY HONEY!   Betsy Jacaruzo, May Bender, Rachel Bertoni, Michelle Golias, Kiki Brodkin, Susan Cohen, Pat Fabysack, Hariet Hunter, Katherine Kadish, Susan Knight, Judith S. Miller, Ellen Pliskin, Debra Ramsey, Caren Raphael and Judy Somerville.   ART & STYLE MAGAZINE

75. DECADENCE OF ART IN GREAT BRITAIN: Is This Art? Millions of art lovers and art curators think so? Especially the big time wheelers-dealers modern art agents in New York and London. Herewith below, are some of the “Saatchi Art Masterpieces” as displayed at the world famous London Tate Modern Show. ART & STYLE MAGAZINE

90.THE ART SMALL CORNER: The landscape art of Michelle Golias. Joan Ledwith. IS THERE A MARKET FOR LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS? YOU BET! I just discovered two American artists who did just that. Bring the beauty of the world to their linens. And they did it with grace, affection and unique talent. Michelle Golias and Joan Ledwith are those magnificent landscape artists...ART & STYLE MAGAZINE

 

WORLD OF ART

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEAR: BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE . FRENCH IMPRESSIONISM IN CHINA, FLORENCE BIENNALE, DIGITAL ART OF JOSEPH NECHVATAL, CYNTHIA KARALLA'S PHOTO MONTAGE, RICK PROL & JAN LYNN NEW YORK'S EAST VILLAGE SHOW. P.353-355 STARS ILLUSTRATED

 

Salwa Zeidan . BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE . Zeidan is an art phenomenon on the intellectual-evocative abstract art landscape. Although the forms are primordial in her compositions, the esthetical intellect remains paramount in her structural presentation of the mind, the soul and the beauty of the intimate feelings. Her art makes you contemplate and through your contemplation, you discover emerging visions of unseen but felt figures, hidden but revealed materialization of a dialogue between the intelligent meaning of abstract illustration and romantic intimacy...WORLD ART CELEBRITIES JOURNAL

Hilda Hiary: BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE . Beads of thoughts and complex micro forms in quasi organic and mechanical structure, sometimes autonomous and some other time evolving with precision. Hiary’s style might not reflect lyrical warmth or breeze of romanticism but, most certainly, it makes you think. Would this lead us to assume that Hiary’s style is alert and mature, perhaps intellectual-organic? Possibly. WORLD ART CELEBRITIES JOURNAL

Balsamo: BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE . Never before and never again, will there be a woman like Marie Curie and Cleopatra, a painter like da Vinci and Raphael, a genius like Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein , a visionary like Picasso, a poet like Victor Hugo, Lamartine, or Dante, a general like Alexander the Great and Hannibal, a composer like Mozart and Chopin, a singer like Caruso, Carlos Gardel and Jacques Brel and an artist like Vincenzo Balsamo!! Vincenzo Balsamo, the last greatest artist of the 20^th and 21^st centuries!! WORLD ART CELEBRITIES JOURNAL

 

Venel: BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE . Maitre Venel is an astonishing art phenomenon. He captures the melodic past of our days, nights and passion and throw it over the linens like shadows of lights over a river, to recreate a universe of a more enchanting beauty which would exist in the dreams of a parallel future. WORLD ART CELEBRITIES JOURNAL

Peppe Aveni: BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE .Aveni is a self-assured artist. Infinite limpid strokes of genius and profound affection for natural beauty drive Aveni to the edge of irresistible magnetic field called Divinity of Art, “L’Arte Divino”. In other words, Aveni brings the traditions of the old Italian Masters to a dinner table, where Champagne and caviar are served not at the tune of Puccini’s La Boheme...WORLD ART CELEBRITIES JOURNAL

Judy Cox: BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE . I do not know if those multi-colored, vibrant, intelligently striking, magnificently composed and elegantly appealing paintings are a part of a posterior, anterior, pre-cursor or a new expressive  style of Judy Cox? For, I have never seen before any of them in Judy Cox Washington’s exhibitions...WORLD ART CELEBRITIES JOURNAL

Anna: BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE .Anna Harutyunyan is the international leading artist of romantic intellectualism in contemporary abstract art. She is a world class artist distinguished by her romantic interpretation of religious themes and philosophical visions, blended with an elegant flair of intellectualism, nostalgia and conceptual artistic avant-garde. Anna’s evocative style elevates your spirit to a firmament where the “fantastic” and the “realistic” unite and blend into rebellious strokes and splashes of lights, metaphoric lines, curves and transcendental intelligence. WORLD ART CELEBRITIES JOURNAL

JAMES P. LANGSTON. BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE . He  was born in Montgomery, Alabama, October 17, 1944 to a military family. He  lived on several military bases in many different locations and began teaching at Crystal River Primary in 1968, Florida He continued to work in the same county his entire teaching career while serving the community. His professional life has been devoted to teaching young people the skills necessary to succeed in life through a student-centered classroom where creativity, concentration, problem solving, self-efficiency and self-discipline are stressed. WORLD ART CELEBRITIES JOURNAL

 Marina Kharma: BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE . Meet The First Lady of Painting and Neo Romantic Classicism of the Middle and Near Eastern World… Enter the enchanting world of Marina Kharma, a universe of one million rainbows and splashes of lights and colors…a journey into the beauty, the warmth, the magic, the tender sweet moments and nostalgia of dreamlands, gardens of roses, lilac, cyclamens, memories and wild roses blooming in the valleys at each dawn and sunset…warm houses and friends at the door to welcome you…exploding waves on the shores…baskets of flowers and rays of hopes hanging from the balconies…rose, roses, colors, colors, beauty, beauty everywhere…old windows hiding behind bushes of wild flowers and hanging on their own in time...WORLD ART CELEBRITIES JOURNAL

 

 

 

 

 

ART TREASURES: Saved' Art Treasures Go on Display. An exhibition of 400 art treasures saved from being acquired by overseas buyers is being held at a London gallery. The paintings, sculptures and archaeological pieces were acquired with the help of the National Art Collections Fund. The charity is celebrating its centenary with an exhibition entitled Saved! at the Hayward Gallery. It features works by Picasso, Mondrian, Rodin and Titian, among others. WORLD ART CELEBRITIES JOURNAL