This lovely contemporary gallery features
etchings, lithographs, screenprints, bronzes and ceramics by various local and
international artists. The White House Gallery is a popular source for
Contemporary American & European Art, as well as contemporary masters such
as Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore & more, in South Africa and
worldwide.
Their current exhibition showcasing the work of Artist Jim Dine is one that will interest and delight all alike. A must to view in person and perhaps you will make a purchase!
This exhibition is fine art with heart - could one call it He'art? Especially in light of Valentines on 14 February and Jim's subject matter being hearts and Venus?
The White House Gallery began its business life as
an art and framing dealership trading under the name, Creative Frames Group. When the idea for The White House Gallery was
first conceived they had a bigger picture in mind. More than catering to the
discerning tastes of serious collectors of contemporary, local and
international art, they wanted to create an ambience in which first time buyers
with no real knowledge of art would feel equally at home. With a wide-ranging
inventory consisting of paintings, drawings, sculpture, and prints, one may
find significant examples by artists Fernando Botero, Alexander Calder, Jim
Dine, Jean Dubuffet, Sam Francis, David Hockney, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, Tom
Wesselmann and many more.
Exhibition 9 - 21 February 2013 Artist – Jim Dine
American,
born in 1935 in Cincinnati, Ohio had his first one-man exhibition at the
Reuben Gallery, New York. From the
early 1970s Dine's oil paintings, prints (perhaps his most successful work,
usually sensitive and simple depictions of tools, robes, etc.) and drawings
became increasingly figurative. His repeated use of familiar and personally
significant objects, such as a robe, hands, tools, and hearts, is a signature
of his art. In his early work, Dine created mostly assemblages in which he
attached actual objects to his painted canvases.
Jim Dine
is considered an American pop artist and is sometimes considered to be a part
of the Neo-Dada movement. 1980s sculpture resumed a prominent place in his
art. In the time since then there has been an apparent shift in the subject of
his art from man-made objects to nature. In 2004 the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C organized the
exhibition "Drawings of Jim Dine." In the summer of 2007 he
participated in the Chicago public art exhibition "Cool Globes:Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet". He exhibits regularly with the Alan Cristea Gallery in London and had a
show there in April 2010.
The
artwork, Watercolor
January and Women & Water, Viennese
Hearts VI and The Albertina Venus all above by Jim
Dine, are currently for sale at The White House Gallery
There is a striking resemblance to the Venus de Milo based at the Louvre Museum, Paris a marble sculpture
(between 130 and 100 BC) in
the etching of Jim Dine’s The Red White and Blue
venus for Mondale http://www.whg.co.za/component/k2/item/275-the-red-white-and-blue-venus-for-mondale
Classical Art
Roman and Hellenistic art produced many variations on the goddess Venus. Aphrodite of Milos (Greek: Ἀφροδίτη τῆς Μήλου, Aphroditē tēs Mēlou), better known as the Venus de Milo, is an ancient Greek statue and one of the most famous works of ancient Greek sculpture. Created sometime between 130 and 100 BC, it is believed to depict Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty (Venus to the Romans). It is a marble sculpture, slightly larger than life size at 203 cm (6 ft 8 in) high. The arms and original plinth were lost following the discovery. From an inscription that was on its plinth, it is thought to be the work of Alexandros of Antioch; earlier, it was mistakenly attributed to the master sculptor Praxiteles. It is currently on permanent display at the Louvre Museum in Paris.
Art in the Classical Tradition
Venus became a popular subject of painting and sculpture during the Renaissance period in Europe.
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