This short documentary is nothing short of excellent. However comma they kind of glossed over/zinged by the 3 pieces by Charlie Russell. Before he began painting and sculpting professionally, he was a working cowboy for 10 years in Montana even before there were any fences there. His paintings especially are almost a documentary themselves of the Native Americans, the cowboys, and especially the flora and fauna found there at that time. Horses and buffalo were two of his favorite subjects. The difference between Russell and all the other artists profiled in this exhibit is that he lived it as opposed to only observed it. Take his painting "Bronc to Breakfast"... he was probably in the middle of an event similar to what the painting profiles. Charlie was a Night Rider, so he went to work at dusk and kept the herd calm by riding around the edges and singing to the cows to keep them from stampeding or wandering away. In the late afternoon and early in the morning, he had time to sketch and sometimes paint what he observed and sometimes lived through. He also wrote a couple books about his life as a cowboy. He had a wife, Nancy, who make him go places he never would have gone on his own... Chicago, New York, London, Paris and the Louvre. Russell soaked in the technique and use of light he observed in the paintings he found in those locations. His worked evolved to include dramatic poses by the main figures and the usage of high contrast light treatments to accentuate his subjects and the action found in the painting's composition. The oil of the buffalo hunt in this exhibit is a prime example of Russell demonstrating for us what he's learned. None of these other artists in this exhibit can come close to what Charles Marion Russell experienced personally about the subjects he chose to feature. I believe he may have warranted a little more serious treatment in the exhibit. One man's opinion...
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This short documentary is nothing short of excellent.
However comma they kind of glossed over/zinged by the 3 pieces by Charlie Russell. Before he began painting and sculpting professionally, he was a working cowboy for 10 years in Montana even before there were any fences there. His paintings especially are almost a documentary themselves of the Native Americans, the cowboys, and especially the flora and fauna found there at that time. Horses and buffalo were two of his favorite subjects.
The difference between Russell and all the other artists profiled in this exhibit is that he lived it as opposed to only observed it. Take his painting "Bronc to Breakfast"... he was probably in the middle of an event similar to what the painting profiles. Charlie was a Night Rider, so he went to work at dusk and kept the herd calm by riding around the edges and singing to the cows to keep them from stampeding or wandering away. In the late afternoon and early in the morning, he had time to sketch and sometimes paint what he observed and sometimes lived through. He also wrote a couple books about his life as a cowboy. He had a wife, Nancy, who make him go places he never would have gone on his own... Chicago, New York, London, Paris and the Louvre. Russell soaked in the technique and use of light he observed in the paintings he found in those locations. His worked evolved to include dramatic poses by the main figures and the usage of high contrast light treatments to accentuate his subjects and the action found in the painting's composition. The oil of the buffalo hunt in this exhibit is a prime example of Russell demonstrating for us what he's learned.
None of these other artists in this exhibit can come close to what Charles Marion Russell experienced personally about the subjects he chose to feature. I believe he may have warranted a little more serious treatment in the exhibit. One man's opinion...