John Koch

Apr. 25th, 2007 12:30 pm
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Собственно сначала я вт эту картину увидела, потом пошла искать картины этого художника еще.
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(Central Park Looking North, 1967 - Вид на Центральный парк в Нью-Йорке
John Koch
American, 1909 - 1978


И обнаружила много картин в стиле американский соцреализм.

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Американки

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Утро

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Музыканты 1937

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Музыка 1956-57



John Koch: Painting a New York Life," the highlight of the Fall 2001 exhibition season at The New-York Historical Society, examines the achievement of a neglected post-War master realist and portraitist. In his elegant apartment overlooking Central Park, John Koch (1909-1978) rendered in precise and painterly detail his world of artists' models and music students, cocktail parties and conversations, tabletop still lifes and window vistas. This major exhibition gathers masterworks of realism created by Koch in the 1950s and 1960s and early 1970s as he carried the representational torch in an age of abstraction. The exhibition, which will include approximately fifty paintings, ten drawings and personal memorabilia, is drawn from major public and private collections. John Koch: Painting a New York Life is curated by Mina Rieur Weiner. A handsome accompanying catalog includes essays by Philip Lopate, Elizabeth Sussman, Michael Thomas, Grady Turner and Mina Rieur Weiner.

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Cocktail Party, 1956, The New-York Historical Society

According to those who knew him, John Koch composed his persona as carefully as he arranged the objects in the still lifes and interiors he painted. He and his wife, Dora Zaslavsky, a distinguished piano coach, constructed a private world created, as Koch wrote, "out of the substance of the city."

A largely self-taught artist, who spent over four years in Paris studying paintings at the Louvre, Koch developed a formidable technique evident in his exquisite rendering of light on surfaces; his evocation of the interplay of music and art; and his representation of the detail and texture of a New York life. While Koch derived a substantial income from commissioned portraits, he believed his artistry was revealed in his depiction of interactions between people and the space around them.
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Rest Period, 1974

Koch's work resisted the trend toward abstraction prevalent in his time. He chronicled a variety of relationships as experienced in the mid-twentieth century: friends, lovers, spouses, artists and models, teachers and students (even apartment dwellers and contractors!). Many of the paintings record members of John and Dora's social circle, most of them artists, writers and musicians, who participated in their European-style salon, an oasis of high culture and refinement in New York City.

The exhibition was curated for the Historical Society by Mina Rieur Weiner. The exhibition and catalogue are funded by the Robert Lehman Foundation.
Five catalogue essays provide a context for viewing Koch's work. Journalist Michael Thomas expresses his enthusiastic personal view of why Koch is important today. Author Phillip Lopate provides a review of the various cultural movements that coexisted in New York when Koch was active. Art historian Elisabeth Sussman discusses the realists in relation to other art movements of the period. Curator and critic Grady Turner interprets Koch's various relationships as portrayed in his paintings. Exhibition curator Mina Weiner records reminiscences of the people in Koch's social circle.
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The Lesson, 1970

Phillip Lopate is the author of three personal essay collections (Bachelorhood, Against Joie De Vivre, Portrait of My Body), and the editor of two anthologies, Writing New York and The Art of the Personal Essay. He is Professor of English at Hofstra University, and currently a Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library.
Elisabeth Sussman, an independent curator formerly of the Whitney Museum of American Art, is currently working on retrospective exhibitions of the artists Eva Hesse and Diane Arbus scheduled to open at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2002 and 2003.

Michael M. Thomas, a former member of the curatorial staff of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is a columnist on cultural and other subjects for the New York Observer and the author of seven novels including Green Monday and Hanover Place. (left: Central Park Looking North, 1967, The New-York Historical Society)

Grady T. Turner, the former director of exhibitions at The New-York Historical Society, is a curator and art critic, published regularly in Art in America, ARTnews, Flash Art, The Village Voice and Bomb, where he is a contributing editor.

Mina Rieur Weiner, an independent museum consultant and exhibition curator, has organized exhibitions on New York City subjects for The New-York Historical Society, the Museum of the City of New York, South Street Seaport Museum and other institutions.

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Date: 2007-04-25 09:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vip07.livejournal.com
Спасибо, интересные картины, фотографическая точность.

Date: 2007-04-25 11:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chantfleuri.livejournal.com
здорово, действительно как фотографии!

Date: 2007-04-25 01:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rinkol2.livejournal.com
очень понравились картины! спасибо.

Date: 2007-04-25 03:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ex-primaver.livejournal.com
Спасибо Вам огромное! Давно хочу сказать, что чтение Вашего журнала совмещает приятное с полезным - всегда очень интересно читать о замечательных художниках различных эпох (наотправляла к Вам своих жж-друзей намедни - пусть и они получают огромное удовольствие от Вашего замечательного журнала :)

Date: 2007-04-25 03:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kavery.livejournal.com
пасибо за пиар. :)

Я конечно больше старинную живопись люблю, но иногда хочется чего-нибудь свеженького.

Date: 2007-04-25 03:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ex-primaver.livejournal.com
Ой, да это Вам спасибо :) Ведь чем больше людей имеют возможность "просвещаться" и получать при этом удовольствие - тем лучше :)

Мне и нравится в Вашем жж именно то, что Вы очень разнообразите для нас "вкусненькое" и поддерживаете в нас здоровый аппетит к прекрасному :)

Date: 2007-04-25 04:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] samram111.livejournal.com
Какие реальные картины,особенно последняя,кажется,что это комната из которой только что вышла.

Спасибо.

Date: 2007-04-25 07:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] valya-15.livejournal.com
На самой первой картинке свет очень-очень хороший. Правда, это здорово, когда тучи и появляется вдруг солнце?

Date: 2007-04-26 05:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] schwarzze.livejournal.com
спасибо большое:)
а картины "утро" нет в лучшем качестве?

Date: 2007-04-26 09:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zmeestrel.livejournal.com
Реалистично и симпатично! Спасибо, ишь-ты,какие американцы симпатичные попались..

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