Robin Rile

Madame X by John SInger Sargent

The Scandalous Madame X

Scandal. American portrait painter John Singer Sargent (1856- 1925) shocked the art world when he exhibited “Portrait de Mme…” at the Paris Salon of 1884. Gilded age attitudes of displaying stately wealth and status were temporarily abandoned for a background of sparse mystery and overtly ethereal sexual energy. An homage to ancient times with a …

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Need Art Investment Advice? Ask Hugh Grant!

Need Art Investment Advice? Ask Hugh Grant!

Any Andy Warhol enthusiast will be able to recognize the artist’s Holy Trinity of subjects: Marilyn, Jackie, and Liz. In tandem Warhol’s love for the celebrity and the superficial, was his love for women, the power of the feminine, and the mechanized process of routinized beauty. While Warhol started out just like the majority of star-struck …

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artist michael james talbot sculpture

The Sculptures of M. J Talbot

British sculptor M.J Talbot resonates with art collectors due, in part, to his profound understanding of the human body and unique juxtaposition of classical and modern figural motifs. Talbot’s meticulously detailed female forms pierce flat planes of bronze, simplifying, and almost masking the figure. His male forms freeze mid-flight, muscles taught in intense concentration. Talbot’s …

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Impressionist Art Exhibition

Art Exhibit Expressions of Femininity and Form

One of the first exhibitions of it’s kind, “Expressions of Femininity and Form ” explores the transcendent beauty evident across the painted works of Jose Royo and Joan Beltran Bofill, and the sculptural representations of Richard MacDonald and Frederick Hart. Influenced by the wake of movements such as Impressionism, and able to execute the traditional …

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