Posts Tagged ‘painting’
Bo Powell:
His life is as sprawling and colorful as his artwork.DAN MCGRAW PHOTOS BY ROBERT HART
Out behind Lola’s Saloon, Bo Powell is staring at the mural he finished recently for the bar’s new outdoor stage — there’s the Trinity River green space, a Fort Worth skyline, and F-16 fighter jets shooting past.
Sharing a Constructive Spirit
Amon Carter shines a light on abstract art in North and South America in the early 20th century.ANTHONY MARIANI
Modernism is sexy. And not just because Mad Men is set during the period of the style’s apex, the early 1960s, though there’s no denying the show’s appeal. No, Modernism conjures up an era, one in which father still knew ...
Andy Warhol in the ’80s
The Modern’s current exhibit explores Andy’s most prolific period.ANTHONY MARIANI
There are a lot of Andy Warhols. The Campbell’s-soup-can-reproducing Andy. The tedious filmmaking Andy. The celebrity Andy. But there’s also an Andy that few casual art lovers know: the unboundedly creative and prolific And...
Gallery
GalleryPaul Greco’s family told him to make money as an artist by painting pictures of bluebonnets. He had other ideas, and the current show at Gallery 414 (which he curated) reflects a love of the bizarre, from Charles Coldewey’s...
Michelangelo Glorifies Kimbell
ANTHONY MARIANIWe all know how important Michelangelo is. He painted a massive fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel for, uh, Pete’s sake, sculpted totally buff nudes out of marble (who knew that 24 Fitnesses existed back then?), ...
Amon G. Carter Redux
Local portraitist Scott Gentling is working on a long-awaited — and fresh — depiction of Fort Worth’s proudest forefather.Jeff Prince
Nobody tooted this city’s horn like Amon G. Carter, the wealthy founder and publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, a guy whose political connections helped lure government contracts for the city’s defense indust...
Feast Daze
Big TicketSt. Patrick’s Day has gradually transitioned from a religious feast day to a secular holiday that provides a reason for everyone, regardless of religion or national origin, to sup, imbibe, and generally make merry in mid-...
The Circle Remains Unbroken
The legacy of Fort Worth’s early Modernist painters is all around us.Art
Moldy pie! Yum!
Processions
The spirit of ’64 gets a makeover at 414.Art
I must have been breathing heavy or something, because during the opening party last weekend for Tasty Bits, a group show at Gallery 414, the elderly gentleman whose gray noggin and hunched shoulders obscured my view of a certa...
Portrait of an Artist
The Fort Worth School gained a masterpiece when Olive Pemberton chose brushstrokes over Broadway.Jeff Prince
Hitting the gym three days a week puts a snap in Olive Pemberton’s step. She knows about staying fit, having danced on Broadway and made Look magazine’s “Beautiful Girls From Texas” list in 1939. The ens...