Exhibition Review by An Artist | Obsession at Met Breuer

7.10.18

Exhibition Review by An Artist | Obsession at Met Breuer

There is two exhibitions I suggest to check out today on Sunday October 7, 2018.

First one is at Met Breuer, the amazing museum building once it was Whitney Museum..., the exhibition:

OBSESSION
-Nudes By Klimt, Schiele, And Picasso- From the Scofield Thayer Collection
JULY 3–OCTOBER 7, 2018

The second exhibition is:

OPENING OF THE THIRD EYE
at Living Gallery Outpost in Lower Manhattan, which is also clothing tonight.

Address: 246 E 4th St, New York, NY 10009
October 3–OCTOBER 7, 2018

Coincidentally this two exhibitions are closing on the same day,
and Today is the last day to check out this exhibition.

As always the following is meant to be my personal record with personal notes of thoughts for an art exhibition I have visited, but please feel free to read.

Being an artist with a strong body of work with a new vision or a new try through his or her life, means that he or she has fought through the life by their work. Sometimes it must be difficult unless otherwise they have very strong attachment, like obsession for what they do with their hands. We can not say this is right or wrong for each artist I am not sure if this is a case for them since I have never had a chance to meet them in person, but through eyes of an artist, I feel the obsession they posessed is more about the hands that they drew the nude, and the intimate contacts with the models, and the approach to nude they chose that is called drawing.

Egon Schiele The Kiss

Egon Schiele Standing Nude with Orange Drapery, 1914

Sometimes people still say drawings, including sketches and under drawings, are as important as paintings. Critics and writers, museums and galleries and the visitors still talk about this as it it is a new thing a new discovery, but did artists (especially who is called master today and left so much works that influenced the art world) not know this? I think they surely did, that is why such much drawings are kept by artists and left there today. Artists have been appreciating and learning through their drawings. I think the obsession that they hold is not just for the nude, but to draw it out.

Egon Schiele Torso of a Reclining Nude

Schiele often draw in landscape and then signed in vertical. Perhaps for someone who draw them he thought it is more compositionally interesting. but personally I thought at least in this exhibition, the original position seemed to be more interesting. How do you think?