Month: April 2017

April – May 2017 Art Event in NYC: Alexei Jawlensky at Neue Galerie

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April – May 2017 Art Event in NYC: Alexei Jawlensky at Neue Galerie

April - May 2017 Art Event in NYC: Alexei Jawlensky at Neue Galerie
From the exhibition

This is the first full museum retrospective for Alexei Jawlensky (1864-1941), an Expressionist artist who worked closely with Kandinsky and his Der Blaue Reiter group. Jawlensky, who studied with Russian realist Ilya Repin in St. Petersburg 1890s, became interested in new artistic movements of the time particularly Expressionism. His vivid colors and powerful brushstrokes made him known in Europe as “Russian Matisse”.

You will enjoy his distinct works progressing from figurative to expressionists to pure color. The New Yorker call the exhibition “the beautiful and the unexpected”. Find more about the exhibition here.

 

Venue: Neue Galerie, 1048 Fifth Avenue at 86st Street 

Dates: February 16 – March 29, 2017 

April-May Art Event: Picturing Math at the Met Museum

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April-May Art Event at the Met: Picturing Math – Selected Artworks from the Department of Drawings and Prints 

April-May Art Event: Picturing Math at the Met Museum
From the exhibition

It is absolutely remarkable that the Met has organized this small exhibition serenading the beauty of mathematical notations, formulas and geometric forms. True to its subject, the drawings and prints are precise, simple and super-logical. And that is exactly the point! Looking at the equations signed by modern day mathematicians P. Lax or S. Smale alongside the geometrical drawings by Sol LeWit (1982) or P.Flotner (1528), you can see how mathematics was and still is “the queen of sciences” in Carl Gauss’s words.  The only thing to add is that once proved, no matter how trivial or on the other hand significant the point is, it becomes eternal and beautiful at the same time.

 

Venue: The Met Museum on Fifth Avenue        Time: till May 8, 2017