Exhibition walkthough - Paul Burlin: Transformation of Spirit to Pigment: Harmony in Chaos
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- Peyton Wright Gallery Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Vallarino Fine Art, New York, representing the estate of Paul Burlin and the Paul Burlin Art Trust, held an important exhibition of Burlin paintings Friday, October 6th through Friday, November 24th at Peyton Wright Gallery, accompanied by an exhibition catalog of 96 pages.
Paul Burlin’s move to Santa Fe, subsequent his participation in the 1913 Armory Show in New York, would herald a new era of modernism in New Mexico. The Armory Show, he later recalled, had little impact on his work and yet he was affected; simultaneously unsettled and yet galvanized by the event. As time passed, the new ideas and inspirations Burlin experienced at the Armory Show and in other established galleries in cities across America began to appear in his paintings.
Returning to the Southwest to live, he drew inspiration from the culture and the landscape. Like many modernists of the day, Burlin was fascinated by so-called “primitive” art, particularly the designs and palette of the Native cultures he encountered in New Mexico. In 1917 he met and married Natalie Curtis, a highly-regarded ethnomusicologist specializing in Native American music.
In 1921, Paul and Natalie Burlin moved to Paris as part of an exodus of expatriate artists responding to the provincialism of America after World War I, exemplified by the hostile reaction to his abstract work and other modern art. In Paris, Burlin found himself in the cultural center of modern art. He studied European abstract artists, working with the Cubist Albert Gleizes, and further developed some of the intellectual and symbolic elements that he had begun in the Southwest.
Later that year, Natalie was killed in an automobile accident. Burlin was devastated. He moved back to the Southwest, but found no solace there, and soon returned to Europe. He continued to live in Paris until 1932, when he moved back to the United States in the midst of the Great Depression to work for the WPA.
During this time, Burlin’s work tended toward social-realism, experimenting with political and urban themes. Throughout the war, Burlin employed themes of war and persecution, drawing much of his inspiration from Picasso’s war paintings.
Later years would see him visited by visual difficulties, undergoing early cornea transplants in the mid 1960’s, and at times legally blind but,. . . .still painting.
Endeavoring to calculate Burlin’s contributions to early modernism/expressionism in New Mexico one-hundred and ten years after the fact is challenging, but it can be said Burlin was not only the first Armory Show participant to arrive in New Mexico, but the earliest painter of Modernism in the region.
The exhibition and catalogue titled “Transformation of Spirit to Pigment: Harmony in Chaos” celebrates Paul Burlin’s mature works, ca. 1950 -1969; not only his most prolific and productive period but arguably his most poetic, with numerous canvases from the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art exhibitions. This publication is the most extensive biographic chronology of the artist to date including his exhibition history, literature and publications.
We gratefully acknowledge the participation and support of the Paul Burlin Art Trust and the immediate and extended family of Paul Burlin.
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AWESOME ! Thanks for showing.
J'adore ! Je découvre pour la première fois cet artiste.
Paul Burlin was a pioneer of abstract art in his part of the US. His earliest work is over 100 years old. These paintings have historical importance ( and people might buy them as an investment, not just to decorate the living room).
You can tell by the look of them that they are very early.
Beautiful!
De primeira ,bom gosto parabéns!
Did you know your camera was on 😊😮
Abstract Expressionism… Some are overworked. Best to balance the plain and flat surfaces with some expressionistic brushstrokes. 🙏🏼😊
How can you call it expressionism if you have to limit it in any way? Logic is expression is kinda stupid because expression is to channel whatever is there not what looks good to the eye. Calculating art is stupid.
Logic in expression*
@@mayibongwedladla9539 Not sure if "calculating art is stupid" but generalizing art in this way, sure is.
Belle le cornici vintage di metallo.
It was a beautiful gallery. The art was just okay, but may I make a suggestion? That you keep the sound on mute unless you plan to speak. Or maybe you might consider narrating it after you record it. I appreciated the tour but we certainly could have lived without the sound effects which were distracting, but I still subscribed:-) 🧚✨💫
True art is free, beyond logic.
... 1000 times seen, art (!?) for money..
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Il suono di queste mostre è sempre eccessivo, la Ia musica non deve sopraffare lo spettatore. Io ho tolto l 'audio.
So tell me how much would you pay for something like this to hang in YOUR home??
I love the name of the exhibit. It is meant to be esoteric and deep HARMONY IN CHAOS. The two words are anathema. Not that word is esoteric.
Due concetti opposti sono un OSSIMORO, non un anatema.
Not bad, but also not good. The colour's cost money? Hm...
How do people actually make that crap.. it’s unbelievable, beyond absurd into the realm of pure stupidity
My four year can do much better. In fact, she has. I am calling this museum to put her work up.
You notice there is no one attempting to explain this crap. The fact they hung should be enough for you be fooled into thinking this is serious art. WRONG!