Architect’s Sketchbook – Cape May, NJ (Sketches by @FrankCunhaIII, August 5, 2017)
Posted: August 6, 2017 Filed under: Art, More FC3 | Tags: Architect, Architecture, Art, Artist, Cape May, cape May nj, capemay, Creative, Design, DesignAllDayAndAllNight, Draw, Drawing, eFAB, esketch, fc3arch, fc3art, Historic, hostoric nj, Ipad, makearchitecturefunagain, New Jersey, NJ, Pen, Sketch, Sketches, USA, Victorian Leave a commentA few sketches from my brief trip to Cape May after my triathlon race.
Architect’s Sketchbook – Portugal & Spain (Sketches by @FrankCunhaIII, July 2017)
Posted: August 2, 2017 Filed under: Art, More FC3 | Tags: @FrankCunhaIII, Architect, Architect's Sketches, architectural, Architecture Sketches, Campus Architect, Creative, Design, DesignAllDayAndAllNight, designmatters, Draw, Europe, FC3, iLoveArchitecture, Inspiration, Ipad, iPadSketches, Pen, Pencil, Portugal, Sketch, Sketchbook, Sketches, Spain, Urban 1 Comment
DE CHIRICO
Posted: December 13, 2015 Filed under: Art | Tags: Art, art history, Artist, Artwork, Collage, Featured, ILMA, photoart, Surrealism, surrealist, Wiki 2 CommentsGiorgio de Chirico (July 10, 1888 – 20 November 20, 1978), an Italian artist, who in the years before World War I, founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. After 1919, he became interested in traditional painting techniques, and worked in a neoclassical or neo-Baroque style, while frequently revisiting the metaphysical themes of his earlier work.
De Chirico is best known for the paintings he produced between 1909 and 1919, his metaphysical period, which are characterized by haunted, brooding moods evoked by their images. At the start of this period, his subjects were still cityscapes inspired by the bright daylight of Mediterranean cities, but gradually he turned his attention to studies of cluttered storerooms, sometimes inhabited by mannequin-like hybrid figures.
In autumn, 1919, De Chirico published an article in Valori Plastici entitled “The Return of Craftsmanship”, in which he advocated a return to traditional methods and iconography. This article heralded an abrupt change in his artistic orientation, as he adopted a classicizing manner inspired by such old masters as Raphael and Signorelli, and became an outspoken opponent of modern art.In the paintings of his metaphysical period, De Chirico developed a repertoire of motifs—empty arcades, towers, elongated shadows, mannequins, and trains among others—that he arranged to create “images of forlornness and emptiness” that paradoxically also convey a feeling of “power and freedom”. According to Sanford Schwartz, De Chirico—whose father was a railroad engineer—painted images that suggest “the way you take in buildings and vistas from the perspective of a train window. His towers, walls, and plazas seem to flash by, and you are made to feel the power that comes from seeing things that way: you feel you know them more intimately than the people do who live with them day by day.”
In 1982, Robert Hughes wrote that De Chirico “could condense voluminous feeling through metaphor and association … In The Joy of Return, 1915, de Chirico’s train has once more entered the city … a bright ball of vapor hovers directly above its smokestack. Perhaps it comes from the train and is near us. Or possibly it is a cloud on the horizon, lit by the sun that never penetrates the buildings, in the last electric blue silence of dusk. It contracts the near and the far, enchanting one’s sense of space. Early de Chiricos are full of such effects. Et quid amabo nisi quod aenigma est? (“What shall I love if not the enigma?”)—this question, inscribed by the young artist on his self-portrait in 1911, is their subtext.”
In this, he resembles his more representational American contemporary, Edward Hopper: their pictures’ low sunlight, their deep and often irrational shadows, their empty walkways and portentous silences creating an enigmatic visual poetry.
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Bicycle Photographic Artwork
Posted: November 22, 2015 Filed under: Art, Isms, More FC3, Photography | Tags: Art, Artist, Black and White, iPhone, Macro, Photo, Photography, visual art, visual artist Leave a comment
Photos by FRANK CUNHA III (2015)
Media: iPhone photo
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“Art that Everyone Should Know” #3 by @SophiaFine
Posted: October 6, 2013 Filed under: Art, More FC3 | Tags: Art, Artist, every one should know, famous, FC3, fc3art, Girl at the Window, modern art, Neo Rauch, Painter, Rembrandt, SophiaFine, Wordpress Leave a commentFriends,
I recently asked my friend Sophia Fine to compile a series of posts of artists and artwork that should be known in every household.
This is the third in the series…Hope you enjoy it!
Sincerely,
Frank
New Art And Poetry By My Friend Karen Glosser @kglosserdesigns
Posted: October 3, 2013 Filed under: Art, Poetry | Tags: Artist, autumn, Photo, Photographer, Photography, Pic, Poem, Poet, Poetry 4 CommentsNature Whispers
Clear skyDeep crystalline blue
Sun, lingering late day warmth
Golden
My mind wanders…
I close my eyes
Pause…
Longing for more summer
Refreshing wind
Gentle rustling above
Eyes open, fiery auburn light
I look up
And Nature whispers,
“It is time to move on…
Look closer…
I have something new to show you.”
(Photo: Autumn, Afire. Karen Glosser)
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Happy “Labor Day” Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project
Posted: September 2, 2013 Filed under: Art, Isms, More FC3, Uncategorized 1 Comment
Artwork by Frank Cunha III (2013)
The Works Progress Administration (renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration; WPA) was the largest and most ambitious New Deal agency, employing millions of unemployed people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. In much smaller but more famous projects the WPA employed musicians, artists, writers, actors and directors in large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects.[1]
Almost every community in the United States had a new park, bridge or school constructed by the agency. The WPA’s initial appropriation in 1935 was for $4.9 billion (about 6.7 percent of the 1935 GDP), and in total it spent $13.4 billion.
At its peak in 1938, it provided paid jobs for three million unemployed men and women, as well as youth in a separate division, the National Youth Administration. Headed by Harry Hopkins, the WPA provided jobs and income to the unemployed during the Great Depression in the United States. Between 1935 and 1943, the WPA provided almost eight million jobs. Full employment, which emerged as a national goal around 1944, was not the WPA goal. It tried to provide one paid job for all families in which the breadwinner suffered long-term unemployment.
The WPA was a national program that operated its own projects in cooperation with state and local governments, which provided 10%-30% of the costs. WPA sometimes took over state and local relief programs that had originated in the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) or Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) programs.
Artwork by Frank Cunha III (2013)
Liquidated on June 30, 1943, as a result of low unemployment due to the worker shortage of World War II, the WPA provided millions of Americans with jobs for 8 years. Most people who needed a job were eligible for at least some of its positions. Hourly wages were typically set to the prevailing wages in each area. But, workers could not be paid for more than 30 hours a week. Before 1940, to meet the objections of the labor unions, the programs provided very little training to teach new skills to workers.
Artwork by Frank Cunha III (2013)
The Federal Art Project (FAP) was the visual arts arm of the Great Depression-era New Deal Works Progress Administration Federal One program in the United States. It operated from August 29, 1935, until June 30, 1943. Reputed to have created more than 200,000 separate works, FAP artists created posters, murals and paintings. Some works still stand among the most-significant pieces of public art in the country.
The program made no distinction between representational and nonrepresentational art. Abstraction had not yet gained favor in the 1930s and 1940s and, thus, was virtually unsalable. As a result, the program supported such iconic artists as Jackson Pollock before their work could earn them income.
The FAP’s primary goals were to employ out-of-work artists and to provide art for non-federal government buildings: schools, hospitals, libraries, etc. The work was divided into art production, art instruction and art research. The primary output of the art-research group was the Index of American Design, a mammoth and comprehensive study of American material culture.
The FAP was one of a short-lived series of Depression-era visual-arts programs, which included the Section of Painting and Sculpture and the Public Works of Art Project (both of which, unlike the WPA-operated FAP, were operated by the U.S. Department of the Treasury).
Artwork by Frank Cunha III (2013)
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