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- PressCambridge Artist receives Gottlieb Grant April 11, 2011, CAMBRIDGE, NEW YORK Artist Leslie Parke has recently been awarded a $25,000 Individual Support Grant from the Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation of New York, honoring her extensive career as a professional painter. This grant is awarded each year to twelve artists worldwide who have devoted their lives to developing their art and have maintained a mature intellectual, technical and creative artistic development for a minimum of 20 years. “Making art is a way for me to both experience and comment on exiting art,” says Parke. “My early work was all about appropriation, working with images from Matisse, Ingres and Giotto. Now art historical references are just the filter through which I see the world.” In her current series, Parke creates abstract compositions from real subject matter, drawn from life. Her subjects – water, trees, crystal, china, recycled bales of paper and cans – become vehicles for shape, color, space and light. She employs monumental scale, all-over composition, and gestures that assert the surface of the painting. Painted in oil on linen or canvas, some as large as 60? x 70?, her paintings,…
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Rembrandt: The Anatomy Lesson Was an Anatomy Lesson, Who Knew?
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Rembrandt, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp was Rembrandt’s first major commission. The name of each of the participants is known, as well as, the prisoner, who is being dissected.
In Svetlana Alpers’ book “Rembrandt’s Enterprise: The Studio and The Market” what is really going on here is described:
It has only recently been pointed out that while the doctor’s right hand exposes the muscles and tendons, his left hand is raised in a gesture which demonstrates company speech but to demonstrate that flexing of the fingers which enables us to hold or grasp object. He is in effect demonstrating how we use our hand.”
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