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- The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon ~ Portugal's Finest Museum of Classical Art
- Museo del Prado Focuses New Exhibition on Noteable Dutch Painters
- Tate Liverpool Announces a major Picasso: Peace and Freedom Exhibition
- Pobeda Gallery Presents Survey of Last 10 Years of Alexandra Catiere's Career
- St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts to display Monumental Work of Fernando Botero
- The Menil Collection presents ' Face Off ' ~ A Selection of Old Masters
- Ludwig Museum in Budapest Celebrates Keith Haring with an Exhibition
- Nationalmuseum in Stockholm to Present Exhibition Devoted to the Pre-Raphaelites
- Museu Coleccao Berardo presents " From Torres-García to Vieira da Silva "
- The Museum of Modern Art to show Eight Comedies by Italian Director Dini Risi
- Stephen Glassman's White Tail Plaza Transforms a Corporate Complex into a Meditative Retreat
- Markus Lüpertz' Metamorphoses of World History at the Albertina Museum
- Cantor Arts Center presents " Contemporary Glass "
- 18th Street Arts Center presents "Post-American L.A."
- Exhibition Exploring the Life and Work of Palladio Celebrates his 500th Anniversary
- Bilbao Fine Arts Museum Opens Exhibition on the Splendor of the Renaissance in Aragon
- Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"
We Are Still Undergoing Maintenance . . . Sorry About The Delay Posted: 24 Jul 2011 09:10 PM PDT
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The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon ~ Portugal's Finest Museum of Classical Art Posted: 24 Jul 2011 09:05 PM PDT The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon (the "Gulbenkian") owes its existence to one man. Calouste Gulbenkian revealed his passion for art at an early age, reflecting his upbringing in Cappadocia and Constantinople, both crossroads of civilizations. Throughout his life, he assembled an eclectic and unique collection that was influenced by his travels and his personal taste. His collection now totals over 6,300 pieces from all over the world and dating from antiquity to the early twentieth century (including examples from ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, Babylonia, Armenia, Persia, Islamic Art, Europe, and Japan). The Paris-based collection was divided for security reasons in the 1930s and part was sent to London. In 1936, the collection of Egyptian art was entrusted to the care of the British Museum while the finest paintings went to the National Gallery. Later, in 1948 and 1950, the same works would be sent on to the National Gallery of Art in Washington. As his collection grew, Gulbenkian grew more concerned about how to preserve his achievement. In 1937 he started discussions with Kenneth Clark, who had advised him in assembling his collection, about a "Gulbenkian Institute" at the National Gallery in London. However, during World War II, he was declared an "enemy under the act" by the British Government and they temporarily confiscated his share of the oil from the Iraq Petroleum Company. Although this was a technical legal decision, this action by his adopted country irritated him. Consequently he then considered the National Gallery of Art in Washington as a potential home for his collection and in 1943 began negotiations. At the time of his death in 1955, Gulbenkian does not appear to have decided where he wanted his collection to be housed and finally left it to his British lawyer, Lord Radcliffe to decide. However it was clear that Gulbenkian wanted his collection brought together under one roof where people could appreciate what one man could achieve in his lifetime. After his death, arduous negotiations with the French Government and the National Gallery in Washington ensued. In 1960, the entire collection was brought to Portugal, where it was exhibited at the Palace of the Marquises of Pombal (Oeiras) from 1965 to 1969. Fourteen years after Gulbenkian's death, his wish was fulfilled, when the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum was opened in Lisbon. The large premises, comprise the museum and headquarters of the Gulbenkian Foundation, and were designed by the Portugese architects Ruy Athouguia, Pedro Cid, and Alberto Pessoa. The museum is located within a landscaped park, at the intersection of Av. de Berna and Av. António Augusto de Aguiar, in Lisbon. Sharing the serene gardens of the Gulbenkian Museum is the Modern Art Center, containing modern and contemporary Portuguese and foreign art displayed on two floors, including works by Paula Rego, Almada Negreiros, Souza Cardoso, and Vieira da Silva. As a cultural center, the Gulbenkian Foundation sponsors plays, films, ballets, and concerts, as well as a rotating exhibition of works by leading modern Portuguese and foreign artists. Visit the museum's website at … www. http://museu.gulbenkian.pt The Calouste Gulbenkian Collection comprises some 6,300 pieces of which approximately 1,200 are on display in the museum galleries. The permanent exhibition galleries are distributed in chronological and geographical order and spread over two floors. The collection starts with Egyptian art, which includes a variety of pieces documenting the artistic periods that most marked Egyptian civilization from the Old Empire to the Roman Era. Greco-Roman art is represented by an extraordinary collection of Greek coins and "medallions" which form part of the treasure found at Aboukir, Egypt in 1902, as well as sculptures, ceramics, glass, jewels and gems. The small collection Mesopotamian art includes an outstanding Assyrian low relief from the palace of Assumazirpal. Calouste Gulbenkian's interest in artistic production from Persia, Turkey, Syria, the Caucasus and India, dating from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries, is very much in evidence in the collection of Eastern Islamic art. The numerous objects on display include carpets, fabrics, illuminated manuscripts, book bindings, mosque lamps, painted tiles and ceramics. The Armenian art collection is essentially made up of illuminated parchments from the 16th and 17th centuries and show the great interest the collector had in his Armenian origins. Important items of art from the Far east, include porcelain and hard stone carvings from China, lacquer from Japan and a large collection of Japanese prints. The section of European sculpture includes pieces from the Middle Ages until the nineteenth century. The delicate image of the 'Virgin and Child', attributed to Jean de Liège, who worked for the French king Charles V, dates from the Middle Ages, while the works attributed to Antonio Rosselino and Andrea della Robbia stand out among the Renaissance collection. The same period is also represented by a significant collection of medals that includes a substantial nucleus of work by Pisanello. Eighteenth-century French sculpture includes work by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Pigalle, Caffieri and Houdon, the artist who produced "Diana", one of the highlights of the collection. The nineteenth-century's artistic vision of sculpture is emphasized in the Gulbenkian Collection with the inclusion of work by Carpeaux, Barye, Dalou and Rodin. The collection also contains historic books and manuscripts, including a series of Flemish, French, Dutch, English, Italian and German illuminated manuscripts, printed books and bindings dating from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century. The European decorative arts section is introduced by sixteenth-century tapestries from Flanders and Italy. Outstanding 18th century French works include Gobelins, Beauvais and Aubusson tapestries, very fine sets of furniture dating from the time of the Regency, Louis XV and Louis XVI, made by Cressent, Oeben, Riesener, Jacob, Carlin and Sené. Also on display are pieces in silver or gold by the best French craftsmen such as F.-T. Germain, Duran, Lehendrick, Roettiers and Auguste. The collection of works by René Lalique (a personal friend of Gulbekian) is quite exceptional for the quality of the jewelry and other objects, particularly the glass, which, because of its quality and consistency is considered to be quite unique. The Gulbenkian's collection of paintings is justifiably world famous, and includes some pieces from the Hermitage collection which were sold off by the Soviets. Covering the fifteenth to early twentieth century, the collection includes significant and well know works by almost every important artist. A dominant theme of the two hundred and twenty-nine paintings acquired and kept by Gulbenkian personally, was portrait and landscape painting, and these genres are given particular preponderance in the exhibition galleries of the museum. The main centers of artistic production from the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are represented by the work of such artists as Stefan Lochner ("Presentation in the Temple"), Van der Weyden ("St. Catherine"), Pisanello, Anton Van Dyck ("Portrait of a Man"), Dierick Bouts, Jean-Marc Nattier, Domenico Ghirlandaio ("Portrait of a Girl"), Vittore Carpaccio, Cima de Conegliano, Giovanni Battista Moroni, Frans Hals, Jacob von Ruisdael, Peter Paul Rubens ("Portrait of Hélène Fourment", "The Love of the Centaurs" and "Flight Into Egypt"), Andrea della Robbia and Rembrandt ("Portrait of an Old Man", "Pallas Athene" and "Alexander the Great"). Eighteenth-century French painting is in turn represented by the work of Nicolas de Largillière, François Boucher, Hubert Robert, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Lépicié, Nattier and Maurice-Quentin de La Tour. The eighteenth century is also represented by an area devoted to the work of the Venetian painters Francesco Guardi and Canaletto, while another gallery brings together English painters such as Lawrence, George Romney and Thomas Gainsborough. Nineteenth-century English painting is in turn represented by the work of Joseph Mallord William Turner and Sir Edward Burne-Jones. The section of nineteenth-century French painting includes work by Corot, Jean-François Millet, Rousseau, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux and Henri Fantin-Latour, as well as that of Édouard Manet, Dégas, Mary Cassatt ("The Stocking"), Renoir ("Portrait of Madame Claude Monet") and Claude Monet ("The Breakup of the Ice" and "Still life With Melon") . The Gulbenkian is currently in-between temporary exhibitions, but on 21st October 2011, "In the Presence of Things. Four Centuries of European Still-Life Painting (Part Two: 1840 – 1955)" will open and remain on view until 8 January 2012. This exhibition follows 'Part One' which was presented in 2010 (and looked at European still-life paintings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries). The second part will focus on modern still life in the 19th century and on the fundamental changes which occurred during the first half of the 20th century. A revival of interest in still life among avant garde painters in France will be illustrated through the works of the Realists and the new stylistic language of Impressionism. A centerpiece of this part of the show will be the museum's own Still-life with Melon by Claude Monet. At the end of the 19th century still life was particularly appealing to Post-Impressionist painters like Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin, who will be represented by a number of key loans. The exhibition will show the transformation of the genre into a vehicle for ever more radical pictorial experimentation in the work of Picasso, Braque and Matisse. Still-life will be shown to have allowed artists to engage and critique contemporary society. It was also overlaid with the new realities of the subjective experience in the work of Magritte and Dalí. The fragmentation and reinvention of the very category of still life will be explored through sculptures and artists' use of actual objects as works of art. This is the proposed journey of still-life painting in Western Art through different ages and geographical places, illustrated with major works by painters who have treated this artistic genre. Still life was the pretext for painters' explorations, and it is the source of fascination to many museum visitors. | |
Museo del Prado Focuses New Exhibition on Noteable Dutch Painters Posted: 24 Jul 2011 09:03 PM PDT MADRID.- Through the generosity of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, from 3 December the Prado will be displaying a masterpiece by the Dutch painter Frans Hals, Company of Captain Reijnier Reael and Lieutenant Cornelis Michielsz Blaeuw (1633-1637), which was completed by his fellow-countryman Pieter Codde. This magnificent work by one of the most important Dutch painters of the 17th century is to be seen at the Museum as part of its "Invited Work" programme. In 1885 Van Gogh said of it: "Just to see that painting would make the journey to Amsterdam worthwhile". The canvas will be shown in conjunction with the exhibition Dutch Painters at the Prado and will create a fascinating conclusion to this exhibition of Dutch paintings from the Museum's own collection. On view from 3 December through 11 April, 2010. | |
Tate Liverpool Announces a major Picasso: Peace and Freedom Exhibition Posted: 24 Jul 2011 09:02 PM PDT LONDON.- A major exhibition bringing together over 150 works by Pablo Picasso from across the world will be presented at Tate Liverpool from 21 May to 30 August 2010. Picasso: Peace and Freedom will reveal a fascinating new insight into the artist's life as a tireless political activist and campaigner for peace, challenging the widely-held view of the artist as creative genius, playboy and compulsive extrovert. Picasso: Peace and Freedom is curated by Lynda Morris, AHRC Research Fellow and Curator, EASTinternational, Norwich University College of the Arts, and Dr. Christoph Grunenberg, Director, Tate Liverpool. | |
Pobeda Gallery Presents Survey of Last 10 Years of Alexandra Catiere's Career Posted: 24 Jul 2011 08:57 PM PDT MOSCOW.- Alexandra Catiere was born in 1978 in Minsk, Belarus. She fell in love with photograhy while studying at Minsk state linguistic university. In 2003, under the influence of her art guru, famous soviet artist Yuriy Kuper, she moved to New York where she completed a certificate program at the International Center of Photography. After graduating from ICP, she worked for a year in the studio of an internationally renowned photographer Irving Penn. | |
St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts to display Monumental Work of Fernando Botero Posted: 24 Jul 2011 08:56 PM PDT ST. PETERSBURG, FL.- Fernando Botero is one of Colombia's and the world's most popular artists. His monumental bronzes have been seen on Park Avenue in New York, the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and the Champs Élysées in Paris. The Baroque World of Fernando Botero, on view from January 9-April 4, 2010, is the first time such a large exhibition of his work has been featured in the Tampa Bay area. This is also the first retrospective of the artist's work in North America since the acclaimed 1979 survey at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. Spotlighting 100 stunning paintings, sculptures, and drawings, this new exhibition is drawn from Botero's private collection. These are key works he saved or bought back, providing the artist's personal look at the amazing sweep of his career. | |
The Menil Collection presents ' Face Off ' ~ A Selection of Old Masters Posted: 24 Jul 2011 08:54 PM PDT HOUSTON, TX.- Face Off: A Selection of Old Masters and Others from The Menil Collection examines one of the most primary elements of human interaction: to look upon the face of another. Including prints from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries, a few pre-Renaissance sculptures, and a small group of modern and contemporary paintings, Face Off mines seldom-seen areas of the museum's permanent collection to provide fresh insight into fundamental issues of likeness, memory, and identity. This selection of work illustrates that the tenets and strategies utilized in the creation of visual art today have been around for thousands of years, while simultaneously bearing witness to the multifaceted vision of art through time. | |
Ludwig Museum in Budapest Celebrates Keith Haring with an Exhibition Posted: 24 Jul 2011 08:53 PM PDT Budapest, Hungary - Keith Haring, having died of AIDS at the age of 31, would be 50 years old in 2008. His anniversary is going to be celebrated with several exhibitions and events all over the world. The Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art in Budapest contributes to the celebration with a unique exhibition organized in co-operation with the Keith Haring Foundation in New York. It will be the first time that such a comprehensive overview on his oeuvre is exhibited in Hungary, which is fascinatingly rich and multifaceted, although it embraces merely a decade. | |
Nationalmuseum in Stockholm to Present Exhibition Devoted to the Pre-Raphaelites Posted: 24 Jul 2011 08:49 PM PDT STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN - In the coming spring, Nationalmuseum in Stockholm will present an exhibition devoted to the pictorial world of the Pre-Raphaelites. This group of nineteenth-century English artists sought inspiration in mediaeval art. Their style is characterized by a conscious striving for beauty, existential themes and moral seriousness. The exhibition The Pre-Raphaelites will run from 26th February to 24th May 2009. | |
Museu Coleccao Berardo presents " From Torres-García to Vieira da Silva " Posted: 24 Jul 2011 08:46 PM PDT Lisbon, Portugal - Museu Colecção Berardo – Modern and Contemporary Art presents "Intuition and Structure - From Torres-García to Vieira da Silva", 1929-1949, on view through February 15, 2009. The exhibition opens with Maria Helena Vieira da Silva's discovery of Joaquín Torres-García's work in 1929, and continuing loosely, from year to year, through to 1949, the year of Torres-García's death in Montevideo. over this period, the artists learned from each other and asserted their very particular structure, all the more particular for belonging to a sort of no-man's land between abstract and figurative composition. | |
The Museum of Modern Art to show Eight Comedies by Italian Director Dini Risi Posted: 24 Jul 2011 08:43 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, will screen eight films by Italian director Dino Risi (1916–2008), from December 10 through 17, 2009 in the exhibition "Dino Risi: Comedy with a Twist". Among the acclaimed films presented here are Risi's masterpiece 'Il sorpasso' (The Easy Life) (1962); 'Profumo di donna' (Scent of a Woman) (1974), which was remade as the 1992 English-language film starring Al Pacino; and the first screening outside Italy of the documentary profile of Risi made for his 90th birthday, 'Una bella vacanza' (A Beautiful Vacation) (2006), directed by Fabrizio Corallo and Francesca Molteni, with segments from his most famous films, and commentaries from such personalities as Monica Bellucci, Umberto Eco, Giancarlo Giannini, Martin Scorsese, and Carlo Verdone. | |
Stephen Glassman's White Tail Plaza Transforms a Corporate Complex into a Meditative Retreat Posted: 24 Jul 2011 08:41 PM PDT LOS ANGELES, CA.- White Tail Plaza, Los Angeles sculptor Stephen Glassman's large-scale sculptural plaza, transforms the LNR Warner Center campus from a corporate complex into a meditative retreat. Completed in December 2008, White Tail Plaza will have its' official debut and artist reception on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 from 5:00 – 8:00pm. The evening will include the performance of a site-specific dance work by celebrated choreographers Sarah Elgart and Holly Rothchild entitled "Stir," enhancing viewers' experience of the sculpture and its environs. Light refreshments will be served and parking is free for those attending the event. White Tail Plaza is located within LNR Warner Center adjacent to Intuit's Innovative Merchant Solutions Building at 21215 Burbank Blvd., Woodland Hills, CA 91367. | |
Markus Lüpertz' Metamorphoses of World History at the Albertina Museum Posted: 24 Jul 2011 08:40 PM PDT VIENNA.- Markus Lüpertz, born in 1941, has been one of Germany's most important contemporary artists on the international scene for quite some time now. The presentation focuses on central themes of his oeuvre and, with its retrospective approach, offers a fascinating introduction into the creative process pursued by the painter, graphic artist, and sculptor: it highlights his "German Motifs," his nudes, and his exploration of subjects from the canon of classical art and cultural history in a representative selection of about 100 works and seven bozzetti for the sculpture Daphne (2002–2005). | |
Cantor Arts Center presents " Contemporary Glass " Posted: 24 Jul 2011 08:38 PM PDT STANFORD, CA.- The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University presents "Contemporary Glass," now on view. In this installation, pieces from the 1980s and 1990s are contrasted with more recent sculptures to illustrate the growing sophistication and technical prowess of some of the best artists now working in glass in America. Works are by Dale Chihuly, Mary Ann (Toots) Zynsky, Richard Marquis, Lino Tagliapietra, Dante Marioni, William Morris, Ginny Ruffner, Richard Royal, Klaus Moje, Stephen Rolfe Powell, and Benjamin Moore. | |
18th Street Arts Center presents "Post-American L.A." Posted: 24 Jul 2011 08:37 PM PDT | |
Exhibition Exploring the Life and Work of Palladio Celebrates his 500th Anniversary Posted: 24 Jul 2011 08:33 PM PDT Venice, Italy - This exhibition celebrating the 500th anniversary of Palladio's birth tells the story of a remarkable life and attempts to solve a mystery: how did a humble miller's son become the most renowned world architect in the last five centuries? The story is told in unique 'film stills', i.e. the works brought together from over eighty European museums and libraries by an international team of scholars from Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, and the United States. | |
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum Opens Exhibition on the Splendor of the Renaissance in Aragon Posted: 24 Jul 2011 07:52 PM PDT BILBAO, SPAIN - An exhibition of more than one hundred works illustrates how art evolved in Aragon from the Gothic style favored in the 15th century to the splendor of the Renaissance in the 16th century. Through a selection of one hundred or so works, including paintings, sculptures, drawings and articles in precious metals, the exhibition shows how art evolved in Aragon in the 15th and 16th century. Many of the works on show come from the Museum of Zaragoza, where ongoing reformation work has made this exceptional loan possible. Section one of the show includes a small but valuable selection of works that reflect the influence of the international Gothic style and models from Flemish art. One outstanding sculpture is Pere Joan's Guardian angel in polychromed alabaster—an essential material in Gothic and Renaissance sculpture in Aragon. On exhibition 15 June through 20 September, 2009 at the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum. In painting, the panels Martyrdom of St. Engracia by Bartolomé Bermejo, in the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum collection, the Descent attributed to Bartolomé Bermejo, in tandem with his disciple Martín Bernat, and The retable of the Holy Cross of Blesa, by Miguel Ximénez and Martín Bernat, are three fine examples of the heights these maestros were capable of. The second section begins with a group of works that evidence the transition from the Gothic scheme of things to Renaissance ideals in a synthesis of the Flemish and Italian idioms. Contributions from the Museum of Zaragoza collection mean that the superb sculptor Damián Forment, one of the great figures of the Spanish Renaissance, is the artist best represented here. Particularly interesting are the St. Onuphrius and two Virtues, all in alabaster. In the early decades of the 16th century, the large group of sculptures by Forment and his disciples, together with others by contemporaries like Frenchman Gabriel Joly, the Italian Juan de Moreto and Aragon-born Gil Morlanes the Younger, consolidated the new style of the golden age of art in Aragon. Mostly executed in wood and alabaster, the sculptures and reliefs are generally polychromed pieces taken from retables. They undoubtedly set the standards and guidelines for the following generation. Accompanying them are several works by the painter Jerónimo Cósida, one of the finest artists in Aragon at the time. After some early works influenced by Raphael, Cósida's Italianate style was particularly appreciated for its beautiful use of colour and the delicate modelling of the figures. Two Italian artists, Tomás Peliguet and Pietro Morone, well acquainted with the works of both Raphael and Michelangelo, introduced full-blown Renaissance forms in painting in Aragon through their contributions to retables and mural painting projects. From 1570 on, the Rome-inspired new classicism appeared in the late stage of sculpture in Aragon. A major figure here was Basque sculptor Juan de Anchieta, who, in his monument entitled Christ for the church of the Hospital de Gracia and his Calvary, in the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum collection, synthesized the treatment of the nude as developed by Michelangelo with the emotional expressionism of Juan de Juni. Anchieta was an excellent maestro in the carvings for Christ Crucified, which ushered in the shift in the models used for this iconography in art in Aragon. The interest of Martín de Gurrea y Aragón, Duke of Villahermosa, in the genre of the portrait is typical of Renaissance civilization. Highly cultured, a collector of antiquities and paintings, in his time in the Low Countries, Villahermosa persuaded painters Paul Scheppers and Roland de Moys to work for him in Aragon. The works of these two Flemish artists, who had previously visited Italy, signalled the main guidelines for painting in Aragon as the Renaissance drew to a close. Today, the outstanding Bilbao Fine Arts Museum collection has more than seven thousand works, including paintings, sculptures, works on paper and the applied arts ranging in time from the 12th century to the present day. Besides many major early and Old Master works, it also has a broad sampling of modern and contemporary art, placing particular emphasis on paintings from the Spanish and Flemish schools, together with a major collection of works by Basque artists. Visit : www.museobilbao.com/ | |
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