ART MEETS HOLLYWOOD at the Boca Raton Museum of Art

Bonnie Lautenberg: Artwork Satisfies Hollywood is on watch now at the Boca Raton Museum of Artwork until finally August 21st.

The new exhibition “Artwork Fulfills Hollywood” is the museum premiere of Bonnie Lautenberg’s new series of electronic collages, 28 diptychs pairing scenes from well known films alongside legendary functions of art. Lautenberg’s only rule for her experimental procedure is that the two the movie and the artwork originated within the very same 12 months.

On see now at Boca Raton Museum of Art, Lautenberg channels the innovative zeitgeist in between filmmakers and artists during every single 12 months that she intuitively chronicles, starting in 1928 up until eventually 2020.

Watch the online video listed here featuring Lautenberg in conversation with Irvin Lippman, the Government Director of the Museum.

Lautenberg performs matchmaker to the 1957 film Funny Deal with by combining Audrey Hepburn’s bold pose with Clifford Still’s painting PH971–both of those majestic, and both of those glamorous. When considered alongside one another this way in the museum gallery, the mix appears to make perfect sense, as if they were built for every other.

In an additional perform from this series, the terrifying scene she selects from the 1975 film Jaws virtually screams previously mentioned a Willem De Kooning painting that conjures what could look to be blood spilling into the h2o below . . .

Her pairings can also be surprising and intriguing: who would have imagined the 1963 scene of Paul Newman from the traditional movie Hud would glance so perfect up coming to Warhol’s seminal portray of Elvis from the exact calendar year? (pictured underneath)

In the course of the previous 5 years she has worked on this series, Lautenberg built a vital discovery: the artist Lucio Fontana was so moved by the Antonioni movie Crimson Desert that he made a single of his major purple paintings, influenced by what he saw up on the large monitor (pictured over is the pairing of the two, by Lautenberg).

“This solidified my belief,” claims Bonnie Lautenberg. “All through art history, artists have usually been influenced by some force heading on in the globe close to them.”

“I commenced thinking about how artists who work in different art kinds could have affected each other. I determined to discover how 1 artwork variety can affect yet another,” provides Lautenberg.

In her 2016 digital collage, Lautenberg combines a scene from the movie Hidden Figures with the portray by Mark Bradford Tomorrow is Yet another Day.

Lautenberg is an artist, photographer and author centered in New York and Palm Beach front. During the past 30 yrs, her is effective have been featured in gallery reveals, museums and artwork fairs all over the United States. Lautenberg’s operate is at present on see at the New York Historical Society’s Center for the Review of American Society.

Lautenberg pairs the portray by Ga O’Keeffe titled Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 with a scene from the movie Grand Resort featuring Greta Garbo (both from 1932).

Some of Lautenberg’s pairings in this sequence highlighted at the Boca Raton Museum also stem from her own personalized record.

In the 1960s her father ordered the Stuart Davis portray Hot Nonetheless-Scape for Six Colors ‒ 7th Avenue Model. In this pairing, she juxtaposes the Davis portray that she admired as a baby expanding up in her family members home, with a scene from the 1940 movie The Philadelphia Story (pictured below, both from 1940).

The relatives sooner or later bought the painting some 25 years later on. Finally, the portray was donated to The Boston Museum of Fantastic Artwork. Decades later on, Lautenberg was reunited with the portray when she visited the museum and was heartened to see it was even now in the very same frame it experienced for the duration of the several many years when it hung above their relatives fire.

This new exhibition in South Florida, Artwork Fulfills Hollywood, opened at the Boca Raton Museum of Artwork concurrently with one more celebration of films and artmaking, Artwork of the Hollywood Backdrop: Cinema’s Resourceful Legacy. The two displays alongside one another at the Museum are a aspiration come genuine for cinephiles.