Exibition USTVARJALNOST FRANCETA AHČINA
Exibition USTVARJALNOST FRANCETA AHČINA opens today in Menaček Gallery.
Due to the Covid situation the exibition oppening is closed to the participating artists only.
The exibition can be visited each day from September 8th – October 17th 2020.
Exibition USTVARJALNOST FRANCETA AHČINA is dedicated to the late sculptor France Ahčin’s birthday 100 year ago, that has been celebrated in 2020 in his birth place, Domžale.
Artists birth home is today a museum Menačekov Domačija, with a permanent exibition of his donated artworks and a small gallery space for current exibitions.
”Portrait of Sculptor France Ahčin” is my painting presented in this group show. I’ve painted the artist, using some archival photographs kindly provided to all participants by the gallery. Visit the exibition to see my painting and all the other artworks!
Official Exibition Announcement/ Invitation
Guggenheim Together submission
Guggenheim Together Submission
I am more than thrilled as my Guggenheim Together submission for the #GuggenheimTogether open call has been accepted. My artwork has been published over social platforms of Guggenheim Museum , New York, Museo Guggenheim, Bilbao and Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice.
Art in Times of social distancing
My work on paper “Peggy and Tamara,” © @tamarajareart has been featured together with the works of the artists @museumhabitus; © @filippobiagioli; © @buitelaarcarola . In am humbled with this great opportunity given to me and my fellow artists. In times of social distancing artists have been hit to a major degree. But as it goes, an artist is an artist and would always go on creating, no matter how hard could it be. But it is also the art public that has been badly hurt during the current pandemics. Closed museums, galleries, less opportunity to check what has been painted recently, lack of dialogue. This lack of conversation among the public and the artist is bad.Only this interaction is a sort of cooking pot for the new ideas, artworks, concepts. And just at that point museum Guggenheim social platforms are reaching a new level of interaction between the art public and the artist.
inspiration
Open calls as #guggenheimtogether are proving that social media have a potential of becoming a platform for the art word of the future. Internet is connecting museums with artists and public across the boundaries of geographies, politics, time zones, gender or race. And this possibility is making me happy. For the word to grow needs to stay connected with the creativity and innovation, no matter where does it come from. Please, visit official Instagram, Twitter or Facebook pages of Guggenheim Museums and have a look. I hope you’ll like my painting, but be sure to check out other posts, too. For art has , paradoxically, newer been so accessible as it is getting just now, in times of social isolation . And remember, as Museum Guggenheim says : even in a socially-distanced world, inspiration is never far.
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Artichokes
Artichokes, oil on canvas, 2019
This canvas was made after a photo of mine, taken the same year. It was spring, I remember, as I visited Udine with my husband. I can still see the bright day it was as we crossed the market in the old town. Always attracted by beautifully arranged vegetables, fruits, I was taking some pics. As I saw these artichokes I got stuck by the gorgeous colors. How widely had someone put them on display on the bright electric blue vinyl cloth, just to accentuate the herbaceous greens and pinks of the first artichokes of the season!
Still life with three mandarins and a jug
Painting Summer Bouquet
Summer Bouquet, oil on canvas was painted in summer 2019.
Which I particularly love about the summers is the abundance of flowers in the garden. I usually like to have a morning stroll around the flower beds, see what is new and pick some flowers for the bouquet. Sometimes I would bring a twig from the forest or use some weeds picked among the flowers to put among the bouquet flowers.
And it is at that time that I already see the new painting I am going to paint. Although the hard work begins from that moment on, for a painting to be finished in situ questions have to be answered, one by one. Composition, colors, accents, textures…yet the best occurs when during work flow problems get solved by themselves. Itbis that type of painting when brush seems to paint on its own, yet the painting proceeds to the best possible direction. Which needs a lot of former study and hard work to be accomplished before even starting the canvad, yet is the most rewarding and happy moment for the painter.
And this canvas is among those painted seemingly by itself. Giving me the joy of creation I worked on it during last summer. The size is big enough that looking at it one gets immediately the same feeling as if the real bouquet would be in the room, wrapping our senses in the song of summer colors and shapes……..
Vintage art book
Vintage art book or ”what is one man’s crap is another man’s treasure”
Last week I ‘ve happened to get a wonderful vintage art book. I’ve passed by a bookshelf, in public space, with a note attached on it. It read: Take with you as many as you want 🙂 Bring some you don’t need any more:)
The bookshelf was rather full. It seems people are energetically following Ms. Condo and books obviously aren’t very sparkly possession for many. Anyhow, I’ve looked closely as one never knows what can be hidden in such a library full of thrown away books. It turned out I really absolutely had to save one book, the one sitting alone among many How to do manuals, Cookbooks, Crime novels and Love stories. It hasn’t appeared as something like a new book, with the cardboard envelope even a bit torn down. But then inside this envelope, there were six lovely notebook like booklets. As I’ve read the title I’ve decided it goes with mes. For as said before: ”what is one man’s crap is another man’s treasure” .
The book is actually first part of four books series by Schmiedeberg Blume. The first tome is titled Grundlagen der Technik und Komposition and it is basically a textbook for painters. Printed in Berlin in 1927!
I am extremely happy I’ve rescued this book, reading it now and enjoying it’s vintage illustrations. Noticing some things haven’t changed that much in the last 100 years.
Have a look at some illustrations, aren’t they just marvelous?
Tamara
Ps: This weekend picking some books from my library to put on that bookshelf, hope to make someone happy 🙂
Some illustrations to enjoy
Coffee cup and books
Coffee cup and books, painting detail from my new still life in making. Can’t wait to finish it!
Winter bouquet
Winter bouquet painting just finished! Oil painting on linen, small format but just gorgeous colors. Love using palette knife, allows me to paint fast and in bold colors 😉
Bouquet still life
