Black Velvet Masterpieces: Highlights from the Collection of the Velveteria Museum
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (799 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0811862070 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Together they opened the Velveteria museum in Portland, Oregon, in 2005 and are the world's leading authorities on this underappreciated art. . About the Author Caren Anderson and Carl Baldwin fell in love while on the hunt for black velvet paintings
Black Velvet Masterpieces celebrates the best and worst of this kitschy yet sought-after artform, showcasing the most mind-blowing paintings from the Velveteria museum, home to a rotating collection of more than 1,200 crying Elvises, troubling clowns, naked ladies, dogs playing poker, celebrity and presidential portraits, black light psych-outs, and the just plain weird. Though beloved by millions around the world, black velvet paintings have too long been relegated to the shadowy backrooms of art history. Complementing 300 reproductions of these tactile masterpieces are a unique history of the mediumtracing its roots from ancient China and Japan through Victorian England, the South Seas, Southeast Asia, and the Americas, and a step-by-step exploration of the tricky art of painting on this luxurious fabric.
Excellent Review of the Black Velvet Painting Phenomenon Jokie X Wilson Although this book is supposed to be a sort of Art History book, it is not, in the strict sense. It does not deal with traditional Art Historical narrative but rather inserts itself into the genre without following traditional academic formulas. It does not place the Black Velvet Painting phenomenon in an art historical context. Even though it purports to be a catalog of sorts of the Velveteria Museum in Oregon, it does not offer the address of the museum. But you can do an Internet search of the name and find a fascinating web page. The address of the museum and visiting hours and such are listed there.The text offer. "Gorgeous Photos" according to Vintage Velvet. The full color photographs - approx. 200 - are gorgeous and are almost tactile in the way they convey the lush texture and rich color of the velvet paintings. I also enjoyed the authors' writing style: chatty and interesting, covering everything from the history of velvet painting and painters to the authors' personal collecting stories. Sogreat photos, great writing, and a front cover artfully decorated with black velvet - makes the book itself a bit of a Black Velvet Masterpiece!I was also lucky enough to visit the authors' Velveteria Museum in Portland and can attest it's well worth the trip.. More Velvety and Revolutionary than a Czech Dissident in 1989 This is the most important book on art to appear since Aristotle's "Poetics"! Sure, the real-life noms de reality of the Velveteria's curators are Carl Baldwin and Caren Anderson, but the breadth and depth of their contribution to modern appreciation of art put them more in line spiritually with the Renaissance Medici family - for, like the Medicis, they know talent when they see (or in this case, feel) it. Like all true art patrons, they make art appreciation an art in and of itself, and have had the pizazz and wherewithal to pluck otherwise unheralded auteurs such as Richard Bustamante, Ce Ce Rodriguez, and "Juanita
Together they opened the Velveteria museum in Portland, Oregon, in 2005 and are the world's leading authorities on this underappreciated art. Caren Anderson and Carl Baldwin fell in love while on the hunt for black velvet paintings.