Posts tagged makoto fujimura
Georges Rouault, "Automne" (1946), from "Soliloquies," an exhibition of work by Makoto Fujimura and Georges Rouault, at Dillon Gallery through 24 December 2009
The twentieth-century Fauvist/Expressionist painter Georges Rouault was one of the most significant early influences on contemporary abstract painter Makoto Fujimura (founder of my employer, International Arts Movement). Rouault played a key role in the Parisian Sacred Art movement and influenced Picasso and Matisse. Last night a new exhibition opened at Dillon Gallery that pairs works by Rouault with new work by Fujimura—two painters seeking to portray fallen subjects in a redemptive light.
Christy: 
Water Flames Passage II
(10 x 10 in., gold and mineral pigments on paper), by Makoto Fujimura, from the exhibition Charis, at the Dillon Gallery, New York City, through 2 Aug 2008
In the book Andy talks about Fujimura's use of very basic elements--mineral pigments rather than paints, and of course gold leaf--in his paintings, something that echoes the seeming overabundance of natural resources in the Biblical accounts both of Eden and, more glaringly, in the New Jerusalem. Our task as humans is to make something--ideally, something beautiful--from those very basic elements.
Nate: