Feast: The first worldwide viral Arts exhibition

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Corpus Hermeticum

String by Odd Nerdrum

C o r p u s H e r m e t i c u m

Presented by The Nerdrum Institute,
curated by Leah Poller

Corpus Hermeticum presents the work of the Norwegian Master Odd Nerdrum, and emerging masters Adam Miller, Fedele Spadafora, and Richard T Scott. The exhibition will include several major paintings by each artist and will be on view at Roger Smith Hotel in The Great Nude Invitational,

May 13 - 16 2010.

May 13th

VIP preview 4-6 pm

Opening Reception 6-8 pm

501 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10017

The Great Nude Invitational

Allow me to introduce the first art fair dedicated to the nude.

The Great Nude Invitational, will take place in the Roger Smith hotel in New York City May 13-16, 2010. Founded by Robert Curcio, co-founder of Scope International Art Fair, and Jeffrey Weiner, publisher of The Great Nude.tv. This fair/exhibition features rooms booked by galleries as well as curated, themed exhibitions of contemporary art and a whole host of other events such as discussion forums and a figure drawing.

As a member of the host committee, I cordially invite all to attend.

P.S Check out our editorial in the March edition of Fine Art Connoisseur!

Master Copies Exhibition

Galleri PAN

June 4th, 2009


St. Olavs Gate 7
Oslo, Norway

Galleri PAN presents master copies of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Goya, Mancini, Ribera, Odd Nerdrum and more by contemporary masters
Peter Padoan, Helene Knoop, Jan Ove Tuv, and Richard T Scott.

Galleri PAN is the premiere gallery in Oslo presenting narrative and figurative paintings and sculpture.


www.heleneknoop.com
www.janovetuv.com
www.richardtscottart.com

For more information contact: Gerald Bliem
47 27 90 15
bliem@gmx.at

Upcoming Competitions

I am posting a list of upcoming competitions relevant for realist painters. The deadlines are all coming up in the next few weeks.

American Artist Magazine, Self Portrait Competition
http://www.myamericanartist.com/2008/04/enter-the-self.html

American Artist, Artist of the Month
http://www.myamericanartist.com/2006/08/artist_of_the_m.html

International Artist Magazine, Your Favorite Subject
https://www.international-artist.com/competition/index.aspx?location=us

Artist Magazine, Annual Art Competition
http://www.artistsnetwork.com/annualcompetition


Slow Art, Strange Figurations
http://www.slowart.com/prospectus/figure.htm

Lana Santorelli Gallery, Summer Nude Show
http://www.lanasantorelligallery.com/submissions.html

Oil Painters of America, Western Regional Exhibition
http://www.oilpaintersofamerica.com/

Artist of the Day Blog
http://artistoftheday.blogspot.com/

Odd Nerdrum Painting Process

Here are some photos of Odd Nerdrum's painting "Bleeding Heart" in progress. My friend Robert Dale Williams, who studied with Nerdrum, kindly sent them to me. I've invited him to participate on Art Babel, so hopefully soon, he'll be available if you have any questions.

Update:
Since this posting, I have studied with Nerdrum myself and will be returning this summer and fall to continue my studies. Feel free to ask questions, and keep checking the site as I will be adding more postings of my experiences in his studio.
-Richard T Scott

Figurative Archaeology

Here's a great piece by Sasha Blanton. For more of his work check out his website.

Open Critique

This is untitled so far. What do you think it should be called?

Here, I was going for a kind of timeless investigation of the Baroque portrait - an image that might exist anywhere between the 17th to the 21st centuries. I'd love to know what you think. I'm open for critique if you like.

Flowers and Art

Vithya Truong will be participating in a show alone with several other Academy alumni at Flowers gallery. (That's his painting on the right).

A new look at Duchamp!

Click on the image for more information.

Deconstructing Deconstruction

Micheal Jackson and a monkey - "Jeff Koons"

What would you say if I told you that there was an insidious dark ideal infecting the art culture, the very belief structure of which is paradoxical? It is a faith of non-belief and it is merely being accepted, not challenged, as the only system of intellectual thought. All else is dismissed as "kitsch". And not surprisingly, this movement "appropriates" (bastardizes) all forms of "kitsch" for the purposes of pointing out its futility. The acolytes of this dogma tend, in the arts, to hide behind irony as a shield for a lack of quality, content, or emotive integrity. A prime example of such an "artist" is Jeff Koons (above), who passes off other people's "craft" as his own, and whose only discernible product is shock value. - "He says with a sardonic grin."

"To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation." - Yann Martel, The Life of Pi

What is this philosophy of doubt of which I speak? Why, it is nothing more than an abstract categorization called "Post-modernism": a single label within the structure of philosophical theory meant to categorize the idea of the negation of structure. (Sounds like a paradox, no?). One of the main premises of post-modern thought, and the one for which I have the most criticism is the idea that all experience, all life, everything is essentially meaningless. This stems from the deconstructive thought of Heidegger , Kierkegaard, and Derrida,
further complicated by Schroedinger and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
However, I view uncertainty and probability as something separate from negation.

This absurdist philosophy or rather, nihilism, is a process and not a conclusion, just as deconstruction is a process and not a conclusion.

In the dialogue of painting one might see our contemporary era as a re-constructive era. Where the tenets of Derrida informed the deconstructive elements of post-modernism, the act of mimesis or the appropriation of “obsolete vernacular” is a sign of the discontents that our contemporary culture finds in the detritus of post-modern thought. Now we pick up the cogs and springs to reassemble them – to create order if only because we feel it is needed. We reclaim the mysterious origin of art – meaning. It’s interesting that we might confuse nostalgia with meaning, but does that make it any less potent, universal, or reflective of life? For that’s what art does… reflect life.

Obviously this is a weighty topic which could not simply be condensed to one listing... So,
this diatribe will be continued in later postings, so hold tight and please feel free to let me know your responses etc...

Richard T Scott
www.memoreejoelle.org