Artist's Magazine - USA (2020-05)

90 Artists Magazine May 2020

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BY HOLLY DAVIS

CENTURY OF STANDOUTS

For the book 100 Years,

100 Artworks: A History

of Modern and

Contemporary Art

(Prestel), art historian

Ágnes Berecz selected one

iconic painting, photograph,

sculpture installation or

performance piece for each

year from 1919 to 2018. The

splendid result traces art

currents of the past century,

revealing the influences of

trends, significant events

and technology. Each work

is presented visually on its

own page with a facing page

of insightful commentary on

the work and its artist.

Cover art: Versatility (detail)

by El Anatsui

2006; aluminum and copper wire 147⅔ x195⅔

© EL ANATSUI; COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY,

NEWYORK

Rockwell’s World

If there was ever an artist

attuned to the world around

him, it was Norman Rockwell.

My Adventures as an Illustrator:

The Defi nitive Edition (Abbeville

Press) brings back Rockwell’s

original 1960 autobiography, as

told to his son, Tom Rockwell,

with an added introduction by

the artist’s granddaughter, Abigail

Rockwell—who edited the 2019

Defi nitive Edition. This 536-page

volume contains 216 illustrations

and innumerable verbal images

byRockwell,providing a rich

accountof theartist’slife, told

withself-effacinghumor.

One of the best

ways to gain

mastery of your color

palette is to chart its hues and

value gradations—but setting up

grids for those charts can be tedious.

ColorFrontier (colorfrontier.com) makes

creating beautifully organized charts easy with its

Color Mixing Templates and Panels. Each panel

features a peel-up grid of 55 openings, enough for mixture

studies of up to 11 colors.

Chart Your

Palette

The Portraitist (ca 1956)