Continued from yesterday's Church Diamond and from Dec. 17's Fare Thee Well —
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The San Francisco Examiner last year
on New Year's Eve — Entertainment
Discover the modern art of Amish quilts By: Leslie Katz 12/31/09 1:00 AM Arts editor
Quilts made by Amish women in Pennsylvania, Household handicrafts and heirlooms made by American women seen as precursors to modern art is one underlying thesis of “Amish Abstractions: Quilts from the Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown,” a provocative exhibit on view at the de Young Museum through June. Curated by Jill D’Alessandro of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the show features about 50 full-size and crib quilts made between 1880 and 1940 in Pennsylvania and the Midwest during what experts consider the apex of Amish quilt-making production. Faith and Stephen Brown, Bay Area residents who began collecting quilts in the 1970s after seeing one in a shop window in Chicago and being bowled over by its bold design, say their continued passion for the quilts as art is in part because they’re so reminiscent of paintings by modern masters like Mark Rothko, Josef Albers, Sol LeWitt and Ellsworth Kelly — but the fabric masterpieces came first. “A happy visual coincidence” is how the Browns and D’Alessandro define the connection, pointing to the brilliance in color theory, sophisticated palettes and complex geometry that characterize both the quilts and paintings. “There’s an insane symmetry to these quilts,” says D’Alessandro…. Read more at the San Francisco Examiner . |
The festive nature of the date of the above item, New Year's Eve, suggests Stephen King's
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
and also a (mis)quotation from a photographer's weblog—
"Art, being bartender, is never drunk."
— Quotation from Peter Viereck misattributed to Randall Jarrell in
Art as Bartender and the Golden Gate.
By a different photographer —
See also…
We may imagine the bartender above played by Louis Sullivan.
