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Artist's Palette
| Place: | Gallery C |
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| Date From: | 11/28/2014 |
| Date To: | 6/28/2015 |
| Summary: | An artist’s palette offers raw beauty that is completely unintentional. As the artist carefully calculates each brush stroke applied to a painting, random swirls of color build up on the palette. Some artists scrape, sand and reuse the same palette for years - or simply allow pigments to build up like an evolving landscape. Others prefer disposable plastic or paper. Professional photographer, Dean Davis, finds extraordinary beauty trapped inside 24 unique palettes - and celebrates the artists as well as the art that emerges from these common tools. As Story #66 within the MAC’s popular 100 Stories: A Centennial Exhibition, The Artist’s Palette shares an insightful look at “art from art.” The palette is a snapshot of the love affair between artist and medium. - Kyle Paliotto My colors are like a comfort zone, something which grounds me. They are in my blood. I cannot escape them. - Ildikó Kalapács My whole life is in this palette. - Stan Miller Who would have thought that the physical act of smearing and mixing paint on a palette in order to create an artwork would in itself be viewed as something beautiful...even artistic? - Melissa Cole Because of their earth origin, my pigments all fall into a synergistic harmony. I think of it as a band with all its members playing in the same key. – Timothy C. Ely |
| Description: | Professional photographer, Dean Davis, finds extraordinary beauty trapped inside 24 unique palettes - and celebrates the artists as well as the art that emerges from these common tools. As Story #66 within the MAC's popular 100 Stories: A Centennial Exhibition, The Artist's Palette shares an insightful look at "art from art." |
| Related Objects: |
3832.1 (Painting, "Root Diggers", 1997)
4085.2 (Print, "Ancient Sounds, 22 / 250", 1988)
4234.23 (Drawing, "Sunflowers", 1995)
4264.1 (Painting, "The Hero", 2005)
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