Forum Gallery 2008 Summer Show

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July 1, 2008, New York - New Acquisitions, (July 10 through August 22, 2008) will showcase thirty works new to the gallery in the last year, and will include large and small-scale paintings, dramatic sculpture and important drawings by Forum Gallery roster artists and twentieth century and contemporary masters.

This video features works by Steven Assael, Paul Fenniak, Linden Frederick, Edward Hopper, Michael Leonard, Alan Magee, Odd Nerdrum, Larry Rivers, Max Weber, Tom Wesselmann, and Francisco Zúñiga.


Concurrently, running from July 10 through September 6, 2008 Forum Gallery will offer the rare opportunity to see a separate exhibition of eleven of renowned Paris-based artist Charles Matton's box constructions, each an exquisitely detailed miniature recreation of a real or imagined location. Matton has said of his works: "I create two kinds of boxes: those whose purpose is to recreate an atmosphere that has delighted me, a memory whose existence I wish to perpetuate; and the more objective pieces that are the result of a detailed examination of the "realistic truth" of a certain place." Painstakingly crafted from wood, mirrors, moving pictures and wallpaper, depictions of the studios of a Classical Sculptor, of libraries and of a pianist performing Debussy will be on view alongside Matton's Hommages to James Joyce, Edward Hopper, and Lucian Freud.

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[jimbobtwo2]

Thoughtful...as much as I do love painting of a realist nature...I have to agree with "rubenstein418" some realists are stiff and way too formal. It is fine that they paint wonderfully....."real art...realist or not...has to be indicative of the world we live in ..." like or not....they are consummate technicians...but not visionary artists. True vision...is reactionary and exemplary. What do we feel is more important that what do we see. All we are left with is sensation and memory.

[rubenstein418]

that was my point.representational art cannot be lumped.but he is definetly a tight ass painter.his drawings are bargue drawings.even leonardo has spontaneity with accuracey.don't get me wrong he is very good.i do like his work(i was much too harsh),but he's not better than any of the artists on display.he paints with a learned process (looks like form painting).artists should be capable of working in choas,naturaly,without too much caution.look at nerdrum,he's a painter's painter.

[mconesa52]

@jimbobtwo2 This is why I added contemporary elements to my realists and figurative paintings and it made a big turn in my art career… I like the classical tradition is part of my learning process but was forced to find elements that would make my style and subject matter a very unique one…

[MsJony1234]

@jimbobtwo2 you can't look a book and say you've read and the same with art, with painting there is a lot going on thats not seen straight away but I would agree that a lot of art is stiff, but above all the 'shock art or modern art' is nothing more than price fixing and politics, where talent and craft are cut out of the work which is bull .

[FredericWatts]

@wildbaby31 Because he calls himself a Kitsch painter first off. Your project is probably over the ironic kitsch painters like Jeff koons for instance. Rembrandts kitsch is serious, he isn't afraid of making a painting about people loving each other or having emotions.. things the 'art' world consider kitschy. Also because Art as a word and its viewpoint is nothing like what the old masters did, art was a word used by Kant and was adopted shortly after by the impressionists onward til today.

[wildbaby31]

i had to do a project about kitsch painters...can someone tell me why is he considered kitsch?

[loafpork]

He's a great painter, but his compositions are all usually pretty boring, simple portraits. Nothing like Nerdrum's imagination.

[sketchyfolk]

you own nerdrums??!

[repelghosts]

I have 7 Odd Nerdrum's eto date...my kids went to university thanks to him and my late friend Jean Michel Basquiat..

[zoas41]

Should see the current summer show, for my money Assael steals it. He's a painters painter. Color abounds.

[FredericWatts]

I don't see how he paints those stones either, just doesn't appeal to me in teh least bit, i hate looking at it. I like figurative art when it expresses, to me more fulfilling. Rembrandt... great example. 5 lines are enough if done well, just give me 5 damn good lines of great expression... sadly thats tough to find anymore. people wanna sit around and paint marbles and shit from photos... who the fuck cares.

[MrChubbington]

The pros and cons of art , whether it be figuratif or not. Personally I think the most important thing is personality , style and the effect it has on us the viewers. Also being an artist I like freedom and movement more then painfull figuratif representation. At least isn't rubbish , but I pity the artist who painted those stones! talk about monotony ! i paint professionally and I keep wqell away from paintings that brain damage you. I've done my fair share of figuratif art & it"s a pain !