Art Brenner
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Art Brenner is an American
abstract
sculptor and painter
who has lived and worked in Paris
since 1964.
He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in cities such as Paris
, London
, Avignon
, Barcelona
, Brussels
, Brest
, Amsterdam
, Heidelberg
, Montreal
, and Adelaide, Australia.
His work is in public collections in France, Spain, and the United States (Rose Museum, at Brandeis University
in Waltham, Massachusetts
; Wadsworth Atheneum
, Hartford, Conn.; Anchorage Museum of History and Art
, Anchorage, Alaska
).http://www.euran.com/artbrenner.htm He was also the subject of a short CNN film, "An American Sculptor in Paris" (1995) http://www.euran.com/artbrenner.htm. The French government has honored him by inducting him as a "Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" http://www.euran.com/artbrenner.htm, the French equivalent of induction into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
United States
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abstract
Abstract art
Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an...
sculptor and painter
Painting
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who has lived and worked in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
since 1964.
He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in cities such as Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, London
London
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, Avignon
Avignon
Avignon is a French commune in southeastern France in the départment of the Vaucluse bordered by the left bank of the Rhône river. Of the 94,787 inhabitants of the city on 1 January 2010, 12 000 live in the ancient town centre surrounded by its medieval ramparts.Often referred to as the...
, Barcelona
Barcelona
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, Brussels
Brussels
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, Brest
Brest, France
Brest is a city in the Finistère department in Brittany in northwestern France. Located in a sheltered position not far from the western tip of the Breton peninsula, and the western extremity of metropolitan France, Brest is an important harbour and the second French military port after Toulon...
, Amsterdam
Amsterdam
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, Heidelberg
Heidelberg
-Early history:Between 600,000 and 200,000 years ago, "Heidelberg Man" died at nearby Mauer. His jaw bone was discovered in 1907; with scientific dating, his remains were determined to be the earliest evidence of human life in Europe. In the 5th century BC, a Celtic fortress of refuge and place of...
, Montreal
Montreal
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, and Adelaide, Australia.
His work is in public collections in France, Spain, and the United States (Rose Museum, at Brandeis University
Brandeis University
Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it...
in Waltham, Massachusetts
Waltham, Massachusetts
Waltham is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, was an early center for the labor movement, and major contributor to the American Industrial Revolution. The original home of the Boston Manufacturing Company, the city was a prototype for 19th century industrial city planning,...
; Wadsworth Atheneum
Wadsworth Atheneum
The Wadsworth Atheneum is the oldest public art museum in the United States, with significant holdings of French and American Impressionist paintings, Hudson River School landscapes, modernist masterpieces and contemporary works, as well as extensive holdings in early American furniture and...
, Hartford, Conn.; Anchorage Museum of History and Art
Anchorage Museum of History and Art
The Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center is a museum located in downtown Anchorage in the U.S. state of Alaska. Beginning as a public-private partnership to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Alaska purchase, it opened in 1968 with an exhibition of 60 borrowed Alaska paintings and a collection...
, Anchorage, Alaska
Anchorage, Alaska
Anchorage is a unified home rule municipality in the southcentral part of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is the northernmost major city in the United States...
).http://www.euran.com/artbrenner.htm He was also the subject of a short CNN film, "An American Sculptor in Paris" (1995) http://www.euran.com/artbrenner.htm. The French government has honored him by inducting him as a "Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" http://www.euran.com/artbrenner.htm, the French equivalent of induction into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Concern with sculptural monumentality and architecture
As a sculptor whose works are frequently large and created for public, architectural settings, Brenner wrote a 1971 article for Leonardo magazine (MIT Press) http://www.jstor.org/pss/1572183 entitled "Concerning Sculpture and Architecture", in which he observes that "the monumental scale of modern sculpture... has quickly moved sculpture from the private to the public sector, that is toward a renewal of its relation with architecture." He also notes that "It has been argued that modern architecture by its very nature, its functionalism and purity, has little need for sculpture." Rejecting this analysis, he nevertheless acknowledges that the aesthetic values of modern architecture do require a careful approach to the use of monumental sculpture in conjunction with modern buildings, and that "architects should engage sculptors as essential members of a team" (p. 99).External links
- Askart.com pages on Art Brenner [with color image]
- BMG Art, Australian contemporary art gallery, pages on Art Brenner [with color images of sculptures]
- Artnet.com pages on Art Brenner [with auction records and color images]
- Findartinfo.com auction record for Art Brenner gouache painting [with color image]
- European Art Network (Euran.com)
- JSTOR link to article "Concerning Sculpture and Architecture", 1971