Category Archives: art website
Social Protest: With Drawn Arms: Glenn Kaino & Tommie Smith
Project for Social Justice: Tommie Smith, the Olympic Gold Medalist raised his closed fist in a black glove on the podium in 1968 to protest the abuse of human rights in South Africa and Rhodesia and in support of the … Continue reading
Jon Gardella Sculpture Extraordinaire!
I have known Jon Gardella, all my life, we grew up across the street from each other and his younger sister, Josie, is my first oldest friend, not in age but in the number of years we have known each … Continue reading
Dazzle, Razzle and Zazzle
zazzle.com/J_leone_designs Despite all the disasters, I still worked everyday. I spent a lot of time developing designs, from my photographs for fabric design. Getting a design to repeat across yards and yards of fabric is NO EASY THING. I now … Continue reading
Glass as an Art Form – The Corning Museum of Glass
On a beautiful autumn day in 2009, one of my college pals and I embarked on a road trip up to Lockport, NY, to see our other college pal open an exhibit of her work. We took the scenic route … Continue reading
artdaily.com
http://www.jleone.com Great art website: PARIS.- The exhibition “Magritte: La trahison des images” offers a completely new approach to the work of the Belgian artist René Magritte. Featuring both well-known masterpieces and other less familiar works, all drawn from leading public … Continue reading