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‘Forgotten master’: English artist whose work was lost for 120 years celebrated | Art
A forgotten 19th-century artist whose entire oeuvre disappeared for 120 years has been compared to JMW Turner by a leading art historian. John Louis Petit, an English clergyman who gave up his calling to focus on art and architecture, produced thousands of paintings that were widely exhibited but never sold. Upper Longdon (1867) by John Louis Petit. Photograph: Philip Modiano A book published this week tells the story of Petit, who was well-known and highly regarded in the mid-19th century but his work was all but lost after his death in 1869. Its author, Philip Modiano, said it was “time that Petit comes out of the cupboards in which he…
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This Artist and Master Stone Carver Was Isamu Noguchi’s Collaborator for Decades. Why Do So Few People Know Who Masatoshi Izumi Is?
Masatoshi Izumi, the artist most effective recognized as 1 of Isamu Noguchi’s most reliable collaborators, died this past September. A cursory Google research elucidates how tiny recognised Izumi was in the Western art entire world, and how under recognized by its art media, which wrote about him only a handful of times, and mainly in the capacity of helper to Noguchi, the esteemed 20th- century Japanese-American artist and architect whose biomorphic varieties reimagined how sculpture could interact with its ecosystem. Individuals posts have a tendency to describe Izumi in his personal ceremony as a stonecutter from a long familial tradition of stonemasons in Mure, a modest, hilly city near Takamatsu,…
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‘Rust’ movie was turned down by veteran prop master over ‘massive red flags’
A veteran prop grasp turned down the chance to work on the motion picture “Rust” when he observed “large pink flags” in advance of filming. Neal W. Zoromski, who has labored on shows like “Grace and Frankie,” “Scandal” and “Criminal Minds,” as properly as films like “The Working day Right after Tomorrow,” informed the Los Angeles Situations that he was psyched to begin operate on “Rust,” a western-genre film starring Alec Baldwin. These times, the film is popular for an accidental on-set capturing that happened when Baldwin, who was rehearsing a scene, discharged a firearm he was informed contained no ammunition. The projectile struck cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, finally killing her,…