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Photographers are invited to submit 8-12 images for their "Body of Work" entry.
The images should reflect a single style, storyline, or subject that represents the photographer's personal vision.
Positive Focus is looking for emerging photographers to promote to galleries, advertising, stock, and magazine editors in addition to other collectors and photographic buyers.
We will combine the "Top 50" into a juried digital slideshow exhibition in the fall, in conjunction with a Positive Focus DVD to be sent out to approximately 250 gallerists, stock agencies and editors.
Original photographic work should be submitted via the Positive Focus website as jpegs at 150 dpi, approximately 4' x 6'.
The contest fee is $25 for Positive Focus members and $40 for nonmembers.
Submissions will be reviewed by a panel of five judges looking for consistency and new talent.
Submission starts May 15, 2006.
Entry Deadline is July 15th at midnight EST.
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This major exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum will present a new way of looking at the "Renaissance" by showing how the urban homes of Renaissance Italy made a crucial contribution to the flowering of the visual arts.
Many of the paintings, sculpture and decorative art objects we associate with the Italian Renaissance were originally intended for the domestic interior.
Yet it is unusual for these objects to be displayed in a manner that evokes their original role as part of the aesthetic ensemble that constituted the household.
The exhibition will explore the relationship between spaces, people and objects within the Renaissance home.
It will be structured as a visit to the principal rooms of an Italian palazzo.
Through paintings and objects, such as rich textiles, beautiful ceramics and refined furniture, the exhibition will present the house as a setting for a wide range of domestic activities.
From a steaming kitchen in which a sumptuous meal is prepared, to a luxurious bed-chamber set up for a newly wed couple, to a secluded study filled with rare artefacts and treasured family papers, the visitor will experience the beauty and excitement of everyday life in the Renaissance home.
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At Home in Renaissance Italy
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Leonardo da Vinci is, arguably, the greatest artist and thinker of all time.
This exhibition will illuminate the most fundamental aspect of Leonardo's work: how his mind was able to visualise his incredible theories.
Innovative film animations will graphically depict and inform the precious pages and small notebooks in which Leonardo da Vinci detailed his observations and theories, his mighty inventions and his extraordinary visions of the earth in age-old transformation.
Large models, most notably a flying machine, tank and a giant crossbow, will also be displayed to illustrate and explain his inventions.
Little-known treasures, such as the V&A's Forster Codices - three of Leonardo da Vinci's small notebooks detailing studies on geometry, weights and hydraulic machines, will also be on display.
This exhibition is part of Universal Leonardo, an innovative project conceived by the curator of this exhibition, Professor Martin Kemp, to broaden our understanding and appreciation of the diversity of Leonardo da Vinci's work in art, science and technology.
A series of linked exhibitions and scientific investigations will take place across Europe during Summer 2006.
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Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design
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Max Beckmann is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century.
Appreciation of his oeuvre, however, has only reached its present height since 1980, with retrospectives in New York, Zurich, and Paris kindling an astonishing new interest.
In addition to diverse painted works, including the famous nine triptychs, Beckmann made his name as a graphic artist.
In particular, his graphic cycles Berliner Reise (Berlin Journey, 1922) and Die Hölle (Hell, 1919) are seen today as essential artistic critiques of the Weimar Republic; the series Day and Dream, produced in America in 1946, sums up as if in a kaleidoscope a world of motifs from almost five decades of creativity.
A few outstanding examples of the watercolors and pastels have been exhibited in surveys of his work, so that works like Odysseus (1933) and Der Raub der Europa (The Rape of Europe, 1933) are as famous as his paintings.
Yet an assessment of Beckmann as a "painter on paper" has yet to be undertaken.
The works are scattered, often hidden away in private collections, or at least not accessible in concentrated groupings like the paintings [in the St. Louis Art Museum in Missouri or in the Neue Pinakothek in Munich.
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Max Beckmann: Watercolors and Pastels
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Eduardo Chillida had his first exhibition in Paris in 1950.
Since then, retrospective exhibitions have been held in Houston, Berlin, Madrid, Caracas, London, and Palermo, as well as at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
Currently, his work has entered the collections of over thirty museums around the world.
His sculptures have been installed facing the sea in San Sebastian, on a mountain in Japan, and in Washington, Paris, Munster, Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, Guernica, and Berlin.
During the course of his life, Chillida received numerous art awards, including the Prize of the Venice Biennale.
He titled many of his works homenajes-homages or tributes, and dedicated them to different artists with whom he had some connection; for example, Georges Braque, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Twombly, and Joan Miró.
Chillida also dedicated works to a long list of writers, philosophers and friends as a sign of his affection, respect, and admiration.
In all, these homages constitute more than eighty sculptures, 58 prints, and two drawings.
The first explicit tribute is to Vivaldi, in his Homage to Vivaldi I from 1951.
Two of his drawings are dedicated to his favorite poet, Saint John of the Cross, and in their way, represent graphic transcriptions of certain verses by the Spanish mystic.
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Homage to Chillida
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