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Thu, Sep 10, 1998 (09:09) |
Riette Walton (riette)
Okay, let's get this one going!
26 responses total.
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Response 1 of 26: Riette Walton (riette) * Thu, Sep 10, 1998 (09:35) * 15 lines
First of all we have to create the board. The board will basically act as advisors to Wer and me. Everything happening in the Gallery must be approved by the board, whether it be the art we exhibit there, the layout of the place, or prices.
I would like for Wolf to head the board - any objections? The people I had in mind for members, are these:
Wolf (as said before)
Terry
Ray
Autumn
Stacey
Mike
But please don't feel you HAVE to do this, anyone; those who don't have the time or energy for this, just let me know. Can you think of anybody else who might want to be a part of this, or who would be good to have?
And would anyone have objections to Sonja, my sister, being an unofficial member? She does not have internet or much time at the moment, but would love to participate by mailing me with suggestions and comments, which I can post here in English.
Okay, that's probably it for now.
Wer, what does one do first in designing a web page?
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Response 2 of 26: wer (KitchenManager) * Thu, Sep 10, 1998 (09:56) * 3 lines
I need your centaur logo...
then we can fit a color and design scheme to that...
also, start thinking about what "extras" you would like...
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Response 3 of 26: Wolf (wolf) * Thu, Sep 10, 1998 (12:10) * 5 lines
woohoo! yes, we definately need folks who are experienced in different areas.
so, your choices are good, riette. thanks for putting me on the head of the board
(wow, you love me, you really do). just hope i'll prove good at it. have you
worked a centaur yet? (isn't that a man's upper body attached to a horse?) maybe
i'll get a chance to look about and come up with an idea.
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Response 4 of 26: Ray Lopez (ratthing) * Thu, Sep 10, 1998 (12:22) * 2 lines
i would be honored to be bored with wer, terry, riette, and everyone else!
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Response 5 of 26: Riette Walton (riette) * Thu, Sep 10, 1998 (13:16) * 11 lines
Brilliant! Thank you all so much for your support! Great that you're in, Ray - I was afraid you might not be interested, for which I wouldn't blame you. It's just nice with you here.
Wolf, I know you are the right person to keep my feet on the ground! And I know you will be good at it - your web site proved it already. I loved the way you underlined the mood of your different poems with the fitting background - that sort of thing would be great for the gallery too.
I've started doing some sketches on the centaur, but I need your help. Should we go for a more classical looking centaur, or should I do an African-nish design? My feeling is that it should be simple, but with good, slick curves, and to keep the colours simple, say black and something else?
Those of you who want could also do designs, post them, and I can incorporate your ideas into my design, which will make the logo truly OUR own. My idea so far is of a centaur jumping over the moon.
I have an appointment for coming Tuesday to have the first photographs done of my pictures. I think it would be better to have them done professionally, as paintings never look as good on photographs as they are - and my photographing is bad enough! I'm having most of them done, earlier works included. As I've only been painting seriously for 2 and a half years there aren't that many, but I still want only what you guys think is good enough to go into the gallery - I can't judge it properly. Therefore
the more we have to choose from the better.
Lastly I would like to thank Wer for suggesting this idea, and for being my eyes in this journey into the unknown!!!
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Response 6 of 26: wer (KitchenManager) * Thu, Sep 10, 1998 (16:02) * 7 lines
keeping the logo simple is good, as is keeping the color count
at 4 or less, and I'd keep with your strengths and go African-ish...
my "artistic" input will be taken care of with buttons, design,
clip art, font choices, etcetera...
(I've never always been represented with eyes by someone, Riette,
but I am finding the symbologies intriguing...)
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Response 7 of 26: Wolf (wolf) * Thu, Sep 10, 1998 (16:20) * 2 lines
you're a sweetie, wer and you "see" more than most people know! riette is very
perceptive. so what you're really saying is that basically you're running the show?
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Response 8 of 26: wer (KitchenManager) * Thu, Sep 10, 1998 (17:45) * 3 lines
not at all, and if that's the way it appears, then I apologize...
I was just saying that I can't draw, etc...so my contributions
to "OUR" site will be the peripheral stuff instead of the centerpieces...
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Response 9 of 26: Wolf (wolf) * Thu, Sep 10, 1998 (20:40) * 7 lines
i was just kidding, wer (you knew that, right?) besides we know who really does
anyway! ok, so once you get an address, what do you do next? how do you get your
stuff to show up there? i thought maybe we could put in a header or something so
people who surf in might know what's coming (kinda like a mall getting a new
shop).....i was thinking of making a banner (there are lots of places to submit
banners for free advertising) and posting the centaur icon and some info/addresses
of who to contact for more info. whatcha think?
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Response 10 of 26: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Thu, Sep 10, 1998 (21:25) * 1 lines
I'd be thrilled to be included in such a project, but I don't know what I could possibly contribute besides moral support.
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Response 11 of 26: wer (KitchenManager) * Thu, Sep 10, 1998 (23:35) * 6 lines
Wolf, you have to have whichever web server software you prefer
installed on whatever type of machine you're going to use for
your server, and follow the directions from there...when it gets
up, I'm planning on installing a banner in here in the sponsor
slot I've got set up in the template...and yes, we will have to
put it in the search engines and do banner swaps if we want ourselves...
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Response 12 of 26: Riette Walton (riette) * Fri, Sep 11, 1998 (01:15) * 4 lines
Moral support is a great and noble thing, Autumn - thank you for coming along!
Wolf, your ideas sound great - I would never have thought of stuff like that, banners and advertising and what-have-you-all! Brilliant. In the meantime I have finished designing the logo. I shall probably spend today colouring it, and then I'll post it. This one is a slick sort of version, not really African in style, so I don't know how you'll like it. I've decided on black, red, yellow and blue as colouring, but that can be changed. I am working on an AFrican version as well, which I should have f
nished and coloured by Monday, and then we could vote. The African version, I'm afraid, will have no arms, so I don't know how that will go down!! If any of you feel like fiddling with the colours, or fiddling with the logos generally, let me know now, and I'll e-mail you it. You can then post your ideas of what my idea should look like, and hopefully in the end we'll have something everyone approves of.
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Response 13 of 26: Wolf (wolf) * Fri, Sep 11, 1998 (07:59) * 7 lines
ok, so wer, frontpage isn't a platform? see, all this stuff is new to me. i've
got some space at xoom but don't have a clue how to get a page started there.
oh, i started a banner type pic. it doesn't have to be a banner or anything, just
something i'm fiddling with. when it's done, i'll post it for you guys to critic.
i think the centaur without arms will go well with art-i mean, look at the statue
of Venus. no one complains that she's armless!
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Response 14 of 26: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, Sep 11, 1998 (10:28) * 2 lines
frontpage includes a web server, yes...
I'll go look at xoom and see what I can see...
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Response 15 of 26: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Fri, Sep 11, 1998 (10:43) * 1 lines
Riette, I think arms are highly overrated! Venus de Milo seems to be coping well without them...
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Response 16 of 26: Riette Walton (riette) * Fri, Sep 11, 1998 (10:56) * 5 lines
True, true - I shall be worried no longer!
I have now finished the colouring of the first kind of logo I had in mind, and it is being sent to Wer right now - so soon you will have something to shoot at!!! If everyone likes it (which I somehow doubt!!!) it'll save me alot of trouble with the African design - which I'm not all that keen on. I hate colouring these things - it's such a slow, eye-buggering process! On the other hand it might be better to see both versions.
Wolf, can't wait to see your banner bitsies! Post it as soon as you can, pleeze!
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Response 17 of 26: wer (wer) * Fri, Sep 11, 1998 (16:32) * 2 lines
inner conf has been created, everyone on Riette's list has access,
and a topic very similar to this exists in there...
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Response 18 of 26: Riette Walton (riette) * Fri, Sep 11, 1998 (17:17) * 10 lines
Great!!! Thank you, Wer! Henceforth I shall use this topic as a kind of record so that everyone who logs in here can see what's happening with Art Centaur.
Now, about the background: This is good, but a little depressing, because I fancy I can see the old colours trying to break out and shine through; and yesterday's was pretty damned boring if I have to call my own ideas that. I miss the old background! Simple as it was, and as difficult to read, I loved the bright colours. I miss them. Do you think we could have them back?
Oops, and nearly forgot, for those who don't log in here so regularly, and for those who are here for the first time - whenever that may be:
Satuday, 12 September 1998
Creation of a special conference for creating a web page called Art Centaur. This, I presume, means that the board is more or less set up, and the designing of the page will be started as soon as possible. If you read this, and are interested in helping with Art Centaur, please let me know either here, or via e-mail.
Special thanks to Wer for swift, decisive action!
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Response 19 of 26: Wolf (wolf) * Fri, Sep 11, 1998 (21:04) * 2 lines
the darker colors are easier on the eyes, but the lt colored text isn't so easy
to read....it's your place, do as you please......
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Response 20 of 26: wer (wer) * Fri, Sep 11, 1998 (22:58) * 3 lines
um, this is my fault, not hers...did it on a monitor
that has a red shift so I don't know what the colors
look like...will have it fixed (I hope) in a bit...
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Response 21 of 26: wer (wer) * Fri, Sep 11, 1998 (23:05) * 1 lines
well, what do ya'll think of this?
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Response 22 of 26: wer (wer) * Fri, Sep 11, 1998 (23:10) * 3 lines
didn't read Riette's response earlier,
will put it back the way it was tomorrow,
hopefully this will do for now...
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Response 23 of 26: Riette Walton (riette) * Sat, Sep 12, 1998 (01:31) * 1 lines
Thanks, Wer. I can hardly read this blue at all - bring the sun back into our lives!!!
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Response 24 of 26: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Fri, Sep 18, 1998 (05:19) * 1 lines
wiggling my toes in anticipation...
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Response 25 of 26: Riette Walton (riette) * Fri, Sep 18, 1998 (07:06) * 1 lines
Mike, this topic has now moved to INNER, but I'll let you know once things get going. I wanted to have some pictures photographed so Wer could have something to start on, but the weather has been too awful - I was scared they'd get damaged. It's due to get better over the weekend, though, so hopefully I'll get it done early next week. But I'll let you all know.
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Response 26 of 26: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Aug 17, 2001 (09:39) * 70 lines
Twentieth-Century American Art: The Ebsworth Collection
"Twentieth-Century American Art: The Ebsworth Collection," presenting more
than 70 works from one of the premier private holdings of American
modernist art, will be on view in the East Building of the National
Gallery of Art, Washington, 5 March through 11 June 2000. The selections,
from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Barney A. Ebsworth of St. Louis,
Missouri, reveal the dramatic development of American modernism. They
include important paintings and a small number of exceptional sculptures
and works on paper by such renowned artists as Charles Burchfield,
Alexander Calder, Charles Demuth, Willem de Kooning, Arthur Dove, Arshile
Gorky, Morris Graves,Marsden Hartley, David Hockney, Edward Hopper,
William Glackens, O. Louis Guglielmi, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly,
Gaston Lachaise, Franz Kline, John Marin, Joan Mitchell,Alice Neel,
Georgia O'Keeffe, Claes Oldenburg, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg,
Charles Sheeler, David Smith, Joseph Stella, Wayne Thiebaud, andAndy
Warhol, in addition to less familiar names such as George Ault, Peter
Blume, J. Francis Criss, John Storrs, Bob Thompson, and others.
The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery. It will travel to the
Seattle Art Museum, where it will be on view 10 August through 12 November
2000.
"The Ebsworths selected works to please themselves, and not, as often
happens with museum collections, to present a visual version of the
accepted linear history of modern art. This offers visitors an opportunity
to view the development of American modern art from fresh
perspectives," said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of
Art. "We are very grateful to the Ebsworths for their generosity in making
their collection available for this exhibition."
Barney Ebsworth has been a member of the Gallery's Trustees' Council and
co-chair of its Collectors Committee since 1996. In 1997 the Ebsworths
gave the Gallery Or (1973), its first work by Pat Steir. In 1998 they
funded the purchase of another painting by the same artist, Curtain
Waterfall (1991), and made a partial and promised gift of Georgia
O'Keeffe's Black White and Blue (1930).
The exhibition begins with American modernism's roots in European art as
seen in the 1913 Armory Show in New York City, to its dominance on the
world scene, and ends in the late 1960s, just before many critics
proclaimed the death of painting. Among the well-known masterworks are
Charles Sheeler's stunning paintings of the Ford Motor Company's
then-modern River Rouge plant near Detroit, such as Classic Landscape
(1931); Georgia O'Keeffe's Black White and Blue (1930), the culmination of
a series of cross paintings that the artist made in New Mexico; O. Louis
Guglielmi's extraordinary surrealist works: Mental Geography (1938) and
Land of Canaan(1934); and Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup with Can Opener
(1962), the only painting of its kind from his iconic series featuring an
opener poised to cut through the can lid.
Works by established artists are seen anew when placed in juxtaposition
with works by their lesser-known contemporaries. The biomorphic
abstractions in Arshile Gorky's Good Afternoon Mrs. Lincoln (1944) are
similar in approach to Alice Trumbull Mason's Forms Evoked (1940). The
spare and surreal atmosphere in Edward Hopper's classic Chop Suey
(1929) is also seen in Francis Criss' Melancholy Interlude (Grain
Elevator) (1939). These juxtapositions illustrate the value of this great
single collection: it allows the viewer to create his or her own history
of American art and its relationship to American culture.
The curator for the exhibition is Franklin Kelly, curator of American and
British paintings at the National Gallery of Art. The fully illustrated
catalogue to be published by the National Gallery of Art and Harry
N. Abrams, Inc., includes an introductory essay by Bruce Robertson,
professor of art history, University of California, Santa Barbara, and
entries on each of the works written by National Gallery of Art curators.
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