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- The Oklahoma City Museum of Art Features Its Dale Chihuly Glass Collection
- Pacific Standard Time announces eleven-day Performance and Public Art Festival
- The Art Exhange to Show Meghan Dauphinee's Convenience Store Paintings
- The Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA) To Show Paintings & Photographs by Holly Roberts
- The University of Michigan Museum of Art Presents Robert Wilson's Groundbreaking 'Video 50'
- Friedrich Seidenstücker retrospective at Berlinische Galerie in Berlin
- The Woolff Gallery to Present New Paintings by Oona Hassim
- Rare first edition of John James Audubon 's 'The Birds of America' to be sold at Christie's
- The New National Museum of Monaco Shows Mark Dion's "Mysterious Seas" Exhibition
- George Krevsky Gallery Opens Exhibition from the Estate of Gordon Cook
- Memorial Art Gallery ( MAG) features "Paint Made Flesh"
- Dalí Universe presents 350 Works of Art by Salvador Dalí at Shanghai Art Museum
- Museum Frieder Burda exhibits 'Nature in Contemporary Art'
- New Book Presents Comprehensive Collection of Projects Built by Architect Jim Olson
- Seven New Oil Paintings by Malcolm Morley at Xavier Hufkens
- McCaffrey Fine Art shows First Ever Solo Exhibition of Kazuo Shiraga in the U.S.
- Gabriel Laderman ~ Critic And Noted Figurative & Realist Painter ~ Dies At 81
- James Turrell Creates His Largest-Ever Walk-In Light Installation in the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
- Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Honors Henri Rousseau 100 Years After His Death
- This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News
| The Oklahoma City Museum of Art Features Its Dale Chihuly Glass Collection Posted: 05 Jan 2012 08:44 PM PST  Oklahoma City.- The Oklahoma City Museum of Art is proud to reopen its collection of glass by American artist Dale Chihuly on New Year's Eve. Exhibited on the third floor, "ILLUMINATIONS: Rediscovering the Art of Dale Chihuly" presents a fresh look at the Museum's popular Chihuly collection. Redesigned in collaboration with Chihuly Studio, the newly installed galleries will incorporate a unique design that features a three-dimensional approach to viewing some objects in the collection. The presentation will allow visitors to explore the large Float Boat and Ikebana Boat installations from all sides as well as includes viewing slots for the Reeds. "ILLUMINATIONS" will be accompanied by a special exhibition on the third floor titled "Chihuly: Northwest". On view through April 8, 2012, this exhibition will include glass sculptures by Chihuly inspired by Native American baskets; Chihuly's personal collection of textiles as well as photographs by Edward S. Curtis from The North American Indian Portfolio; and recent examples of Chihuly's White series.  In 2002, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art inaugurated its new home in the Donald W. Reynolds Visual Arts Center with an exhibition of glass and drawings by Dale Chihuly. Bolstered by enormous public support, the Museum purchased the exhibition, which included works from Chihuly's best-known series and was anchored by the 55-foot Eleanor Blake Kirkpatrick Memorial Tower in the Museum's atrium."Illuminations: Rediscovering the Art of Dale Chihuly Collection" and "Chihuly: Northwest" celebrate the Museum's 10th anniversary in the Donald W. Reynolds Visual Arts Center. Both exhibitions will open on New Year's Eve, in conjunction with the Arts Council of Oklahoma City's Opening Night. Dale Chihuly's well-grounded academic and practical background includes a B.A. in interior design from the University of Washington, a M.S. in sculpture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a M.F.A. in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design, and honorary doctorates from the University of Puget Sound and the Rhode Island School of Design. He also was awarded a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant for work in glass and studied at Italy's prestigious Venini glass factory on a Fulbright Fellowship. Chihuly's work is included in over 200 museum collections, including the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, and he has received world renown for his extensive glass series, international projects, and large architectural installations such as the Museum's Eleanor Blake Kirkpatrick Memorial Tower. The Museum's collection represents over three decades of Chihuly's finest work and heralds this brilliant luminist as the most important artist working in glass since Louis Comfort Tiffany.Accredited by the American Association of Museums, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art serves over 125,000 visitors annually from all fifty states and over thirty foreign countries and hosts special exhibitions drawn from throughout the world. The Museum's collection covers a period of five centuries with strengths in American and European art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and includes a comprehensive collection of glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly. The Museum's collection of American art includes paintings and sculptures by artists from the colonial era through 1960. Highlights include works by Hans Hofmann, Thomas Moran, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Willson Peale. The collection includes twenty-eight works donated by the Works Progress Administration in 1942. This gift formed the core collection of the Oklahoma Art Center, the predecessor of the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. The American Art collection includes numerous examples by artists who were active in Oklahoma, such as Oscar Brousse Jacobson, Doel Reed, Nellie Shepherd, and Nan Sheets. Also represented are later examples by artists such as Isabel Bishop, Jack Levine, and Moses Soyer, who came to prominence during the interwar decades. The European art collection contains examples from the Baroque-era through the early twentieth-century. Highlights of the European art collection include English genre painting of the nineteenth-century as well as examples of French post-Impressionistic painting from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Key artists in the European art collection are Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Gustave Courbet, André Derain, Francis Hayman, Sir Thomas Lawrence, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Paintings and sculptures created from 1945 to the present include works by Alexander Calder, Don Eddy, Eric Fischl, Ellsworth Kelly, Alfonso Ossorio, and Philip Pearlstein. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.okcmoa.com  |
| Pacific Standard Time announces eleven-day Performance and Public Art Festival Posted: 05 Jan 2012 08:33 PM PST  LOS ANGELES, CA.- The art of Pacific Standard Time heads into the streets, clubs and public spaces of Southern California from January 19 through 29, 2012, during a special Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival. This 11-day celebration will feature more than 30 extraordinary performances—including contemporary re-enactments of iconic works by artists such as Judy Chicago, Suzanne Lacy, Robert Wilhite and James Turrell—and interventions both large and small in the public sphere. Organized by the Getty Research Institute and LAXART, and supported by grants from the Getty Foundation in conjunction with the ongoing Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980 initiative, the Performance and Public Art Festival will reexamine, reinvent, reinterpret and renew an epochal movement in contemporary art for which Los Angeles has been an epicenter. In the 1960s and 1970s, Los Angeles became one of the birthplaces of international performance art, with artists such as Eleanor Antin, Chris Burden, Suzanne Lacy, Allan Kaprow, Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy and Barbara T. Smith creating pioneering work. The younger generation of Los Angeles artists taking part in the festival is living proof that this legacy continues to be a major source of inspiration in Los Angeles. In keeping with the inclusive vision of Pacific Standard Time, the festival features works by well-known and emerging artists in several different categories that reflect Los Angeles's artistic diversity—experimental music and theater, social and political interventions, outdoor visual spectacles, media art, and underground performances.  |
| The Art Exhange to Show Meghan Dauphinee's Convenience Store Paintings Posted: 05 Jan 2012 08:20 PM PST  London, Ontario.- The Art Exhcnage is pleased to present "Meghan Dauphinee: A Matter of Convenience" on view at the gallery from January 13th through January 28th 2012. Born in London, Ontario Meghan Dauphinee attended the H. B. Beal Secondary School art program, she then went on to study at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and was a graduate at the Kootenay School of the Arts in Nelson, B.C., where she further developed her formal and conceptual proficiency. In her show "A Matter of Convenience" Dauphinee concentrates on the variety stores that populate our cityscape paying particular attention to the question concerning variety. When looking at her serial works one gets a sense that she is comparing: architecture, signage, branding – what it consists of and how it is made manifest though the small corner stores we have all come to recognize and in some sense rely on. These small nodes of distribution have a direct lineage that can be traced back to the general store, which would have a variety of essential goods for customers to consume in convenient locations - hence the other name for the "variety" store the "convenience" store.  |
| The Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA) To Show Paintings & Photographs by Holly Roberts Posted: 05 Jan 2012 08:19 PM PST  San Diego, California.- The Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA) is pleased to present "Unusual Suspects: Paintings and Photographs by Holly Roberts" on view at the museum from February 4th through May 6th 2012. Featuring 23 contemporary pieces, created from 2006 to 2009, "Unusual Suspects will delight, inspire and inform through the deeply layered narratives carefully woven by Roberts. Roberts' compelling work is influenced by the people and experiences of her immediate surroundings blended together through a rich mixture of painting, photography and collage that pays tribute to imagination, ritual and fantasy.  |
| The University of Michigan Museum of Art Presents Robert Wilson's Groundbreaking 'Video 50' Posted: 05 Jan 2012 07:58 PM PST  Ann Arbor, Michigan.- The University of Michigan Museum of Art is pleased to present "Robert Wilson: Video 50" on view at the museum's New Media gallery from January 7th through April 29th 2012. Wilson's Video 50 contain aspects of his hallmark aesthetic: surreal or dream-like imagery, the absence of a linear narrative, the conflation of seemingly unrelated characters and micro-stories, and a mesmerizingly slow pace. Video 50 consists of a randomly arranged set of 30-second "episodes," a few of which feature notable French personalities of the 1970s—perfumier Hélène Rochas stares down a mugger, culture minister Michel Guy struggles to open a dresser drawer—and Wilson thought of these as miniature portraits or character studies. The creator and director of aggressively experimental theater, Wilson first came to prominence with works from the mid-1970s such as 'The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin' (1973) and 'Einstein on the Beach' (1976). These lavish, unusually long productions broke and then redefined every convention of theater.  |
| Friedrich Seidenstücker retrospective at Berlinische Galerie in Berlin Posted: 05 Jan 2012 07:37 PM PST  BERLIN.- This first comprehensive retrospective exhibition about Friedrich Seidenstücker presents more than 200 original photographs in the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin's State Museum for Modern Art, Photography and Architecture. Almost every Berliner knows Seidenstücker's photographs. Those who are interested in the history of their city appreciate Seidenstücker's atmospheric shots of everyday life in Berlin during the Weimar Republic. He developed a positively legendary reputation among animal and zoo lovers with his sensitive animal studies, and his haunting images of Berlin in ruins represent a valuable source for historians. Although Seidenstücker is regarded as a typical Berlin photographer, he is also known far beyond the city boundaries, not least because of one special achievement: his images evidence a sense of humour that is rarely found in photography.  |
| The Woolff Gallery to Present New Paintings by Oona Hassim Posted: 05 Jan 2012 07:16 PM PST  London.- The Woolff Gallery is pleased to present a dynamic new series of paintings by artist Oona Hassim. Her solo exhibition will open on the 26th of January and remain on view at the gallery through March 15th 2012. Represented by Woolff Gallery since 2002, Oona Hassim's works are exhibited worldwide. Her paintings can be found in the London Institute Collection and one of her topical works of the G20 demonstrations, March 2011, was selected for display at the 2011 Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition. Oona Hassim's unique style of painting is poised between figurative and abstract. Focusing on random crowds and the passage of life that traverses the city of London, her distinctive palette of soft greys juxtapose against colourful crowds and neon lights. The potent emblem of the city is its crowds and her new works explore the explosion of recent activity and unrest on the streets. Poising as the flaneur, the impartial spectator, allows Hassim to observe the vast charge of changing energy within the city.  |
| Rare first edition of John James Audubon 's 'The Birds of America' to be sold at Christie's Posted: 05 Jan 2012 06:41 PM PST  NEW YORK CITY.- A rare first edition of John James Audubon's sumptuously illustrated "The Birds of America," depicting more than 400 life-size North American species in four monumental volumes, is going on the auction block for an estimated $7 million to $10 million. Considered a masterpiece of ornithology art, the 3½ -foot-tall books feature hand-colored prints of all the species known to Audubon in early 19th century America. Audubon insisted on the book's large format — printed on the largest hand-made sheets available at the time — because of his desire to portray the birds in their actual size and natural habitat. The set, being sold by the heirs of the 4th Duke of Portland, will be auctioned by Christie's Jan. 20. It will be accompanied by a complete first edition five-volume set of Audubon's "Ornithological Biography." They will be on view at Christie's Rockefeller Center galleries Jan. 14-19.  |
| The New National Museum of Monaco Shows Mark Dion's "Mysterious Seas" Exhibition Posted: 05 Jan 2012 06:30 PM PST  Monaco.- The Nouveau Musee National de Monaco (NMNM - The New National Museum of Monaco) is showing "Oceanomania: Memories of Mysterious Seas", a project by Mark Dion until September 30th at the Villa Paloma (one of the museum's two sites within the city state). Continuing his investigations as a naturalist, archaeologist and traveler, Mark Dion explores the American collections of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco to create a monumental collection of curiosities, and plunges into the collections of the New National Museum of Monaco (NMNM) to create a large-scale intervention. Mark Dion's installation at the Villa Paloma brings together works by 20 artists including the monumental series 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea' by Bernard Buffet and works by Matthew Barney, Ashley Bickerton, David Brooks, David Casini, Michel Camia, Peter Coffin, Marcel Dzama, Katharina Fritsch, Klara Hobza Isola and Norzi, Pam Longobardi, Jean Painlevé, James Prosek, Man Ray, Alexis Rockman, Allan Sekula, Xaviera Simmons, Lawrence Tixador and Abraham Pointcheval and Rosemarie Trockel. In addition, Dion's installation includes an eclectic collection of works of art, related to the sea (including two rarely seen paintings of the Bay of Monaco by Claude Monet), from the collections of NMNM alongside objects from the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco. 'Oceanomania' is jointly curated by NMNM and the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco.  Two significant and conflicting maritime events form the conceptual framework of this project. They are the Census of Marine Life, recently completed (2010), and the explosion of the oil rig Deepwater Horizon. The first involved 2,700 scientists from 80 nations, who for 10 years studied the diversity, distribution and abundance of life in the oceans. It resulted in the identification of 6,000 new species, of which only 1500 have been described so far. The Census of Marine Life has also highlighted the fact that the oceans are richer, more connected and more affected than imagined.The second, the explosion of the oil rig Deepwater Horizon has caused the flow of 4.9 million barrels of crude oil into the sea in the Gulf of Mexico, producing a kill zone of 210 square kilometers and causing untold damage to the marine life. The consequences should still be felt for decades to come. In his exhibition, Dion examines our perception of the ocean. It challenges our sense of wonder at its great diversity and our sadness over the destruction. It's looks at the evolution of our fascination with the sea in time and space, design, literature and art, and reveals how the strange and wonderful have continuously inspired the research and creation Art. Blurring the boundaries between natural history, art and science, the work of Mark Dion focuses on the topics such as archeology, ecology and environmental protection. Dion has held major exhibitions at Oakland Museum of California (2011), EMSCHERKUNST, Germany (2010), Prefectural Museum Ancient Arles, Arles (2010), Kunsthalle Krems, Austria (2009), Natural History Museum, London (2007), Square Art, Museum of Contemporary Art in Nîmes (2007), Miami Art Museum (2006), Museum of Modern Art, New York (2004), Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut (2003), and Tate Modern, London (1999). Dion has also created many permanent outdoor installations such as "Ship in a Bottle", a public commission for the Port of Los Angeles Waterfront Enhancement Project, California (2011), "Vertical Garden" at Tooley Street, London (2009), and "Neukom Vivarium" for the Olympic Sculpture Park commissioned by Seattle Art Museum (2006). He is represented by the gallery In Situ - Fabienne Leclerc Paris and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York, Galerie Christian Nagel in Berlin, Georg Kargl Vienna and Galerie für Landschaftskunst Hamburg. Mark Dion lives and works in New York and Pennsylvania.  Monaco's Nouveau Musée National de Monaco opened in 2010 and is located in two stunning venues, the Villa Paloma and the Villa Sauber. With a focus on modern, contemporary works of art, these completely re-designed venues present two expositions annually per venue and spotlight the cultural, historic and artistic virtues of Principality. The Nouveau Musée National de Monaco is open daily from 10:00am to 6:0pm. Entry is free to all under the age of 26. The Villa Paloma is one of the finest mansions in the Principality and was originally built around 1913 for an American, Edward N. Dickerson. After passing through numerous hands (and being severely damaged during World War II), the villa was bought by the State of Monaco in 1995 and became part of the new museum in 2008. The garden is the jewel of the Villa, and the museum took great care to preserve it as an Italian garden balcony overlooking the city and the sea, retaining the existing vegetation and creating links with the Princess Antoinette Park and the Museum of Anthropology. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.nmnm.mc/  |
| George Krevsky Gallery Opens Exhibition from the Estate of Gordon Cook Posted: 05 Jan 2012 06:29 PM PST
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| Memorial Art Gallery ( MAG) features "Paint Made Flesh" Posted: 05 Jan 2012 06:28 PM PST
Rochester, NY - This MAG exhibition brings together 34 powerful American and European works, all created since the 1950s, that explore the biological, psychological or spiritual volatility of the human figure. The works, by such painters as Georg Baselitz, Hyman Bloom, Willem de Kooning, Eric Fischl, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso, Jenny Saville and Julian Schnabel, employ a wide range of painterly effects to suggest the carnal properties of human flesh, as well as its metaphorical significance. MAG is one of only three tour stops for this show.  |
| Dalí Universe presents 350 Works of Art by Salvador Dalí at Shanghai Art Museum Posted: 05 Jan 2012 06:27 PM PST
The exhibition "Salvador Dalí in Shanghai" commemorates the 20th anniversary of Dalí's death and displays the artist in all his glory. Curator of the exhibition and President of the Stratton Foundation, Mr Benjamin Levi is an avid collector and expert of Dalí's work. A personal friend of the artist, Mr Levi has assembled the collection over the past forty years, carefully selecting each artwork in order to bring various aspects of Dalí's lifework to the public eye. As an artist, Salvador Dalí needs no introduction. He will always arouse interest, speculation, discussion and most of all, pleasure. An exhibition of epic proportions, the visitor will take an unforgettable tour of over 350 artworks. This is the only collection of it's kind in the world, featuring the most important and largest grouping of bronze sculptures, such as the 'Space Elephant' and the 'Buste de Femme Retrospectif'. The show also displays a staggering number of rare graphics illustrating the great themes of literature, such as the 'Divine Comedy' and 'Hamlet'. Beautiful shimmering glass sculptures, Dalí inspired furniture, paintings, collages of the mystical 'Tarot' and the Mae West's Lips remind us that Salvador Dalí was a multi facetted artist who explored a wide range of themes and materials. Four imposing monumental sculptures including the famous 'Persistence of Memory' will be placed outside the Shanghai Art Museum to be admired by all passers-by. This is a rare and unique occasion for the people in Shanghai and visitors to view an enthralling collection which offers the general public a surreal and unique millennial experience beyond their wildest dreams! Visit the Dali Sculpture Collection at : http://www.  |
| Museum Frieder Burda exhibits 'Nature in Contemporary Art' Posted: 05 Jan 2012 06:26 PM PST  |
| New Book Presents Comprehensive Collection of Projects Built by Architect Jim Olson Posted: 05 Jan 2012 06:25 PM PST
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| Seven New Oil Paintings by Malcolm Morley at Xavier Hufkens Posted: 05 Jan 2012 06:23 PM PST
 Motocross for Morley is a modern form of mythology, replete with heroes who brave danger and death, and also have their flaws and Achilles heels. His motocross paintings fit the realistic painting style based on photojournalism that he developed in the 1960s to great critical acclaim. Morley's technique is based on rendering details. Each digital image is subdivided into a grid of small squares that are transferred to the canvas one by one. Using this technique the artist achieves an extraordinary pictorial intensity. Dynamic images fragment into mosaics of small abstract paintings, in which there is no longer a distinction between background and foreground. In the words of the artist himself: 'It's much more difficult to make an abstract painting that is real than an abstract painting that is abstract.' The paintings in the exhibition embody a tension between reality and abstraction. Blue Boyz (2008) and Ring of Fire (2009) engage the expressive nature of painting through a sculptural bulge. Thor (2008) slips into an abstract, flat representation of the elements of the picture. The paintings emphasise the artistic objectives in Morley's oeuvre and demonstrate his technical and substantial mastery over the things and events that he records in paint. Malcolm Morley was born in London in 1931. He studied at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts and the Royal College of Art. Since his first show in New York in 1957, he has had countless exhibitions in Europe and North America and took part in international exhibitions, including Documenta 5 and 6. His first retrospective in Whitechapel Gallery earned Morley the honour of being the first to receive the Turner Prize for British artists. Further exhibitions include an overview of his watercolours in the Tate Gallery, Liverpool (1991), a solo exhibition at the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1993), a travelling exhibition in the Fundación La Caixa in Madrid and in the Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst in Oslo (1995-96), and a retrospective exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London (2001). In 2006, Morley's work was shown in the retrospective The Art of Painting, curated by Bonnie Clearwater in the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami. Morley's work is included in museum collections across the world. Visit Xavier Hufkens gallery at : http://www.xavierhufkens.com/  |
| McCaffrey Fine Art shows First Ever Solo Exhibition of Kazuo Shiraga in the U.S. Posted: 05 Jan 2012 06:23 PM PST  |
| Gabriel Laderman ~ Critic And Noted Figurative & Realist Painter ~ Dies At 81 Posted: 05 Jan 2012 06:22 PM PST  New York (New York Times).- Gabriel Laderman, a painter and critic who played a leading role in the revival of figurative art in the 1960s and 1970s, died from cancer on Thursday March 10, 2011 in Manhattan. He was 81. Gabriel Laderman made the argument for the continued vitality of figurative work as a vehicle for poetic expression both in his paintings, which embraced landscape, still life and, late in his career, narrative painting with human figures, and in a stream of critical articles in the major art publications. In "Unconventional Realists," published in Art Forum in 1971, he turned the spotlight on a group of painters, largely ignored by the critical establishment, that included Sidney Tillim, Philip Pearlstein, Jack Beal, Leland Bell and William Bailey, with whom he made common cause. Like these artists, loosely grouped under the banner of New Realism, Mr. Laderman was looking for new ways to make figurative art speak in a contemporary voice, despite the dominance of Pop Art, Minimalism and Conceptualism.  |
| James Turrell Creates His Largest-Ever Walk-In Light Installation in the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg Posted: 05 Jan 2012 06:21 PM PST
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| Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Honors Henri Rousseau 100 Years After His Death Posted: 05 Jan 2012 06:20 PM PST
A customs official by vocation, Rousseau initially took up painting in his free time and received no formal art training. Many years passed before his art, not academic and long considered naive, found recognition in the Paris art salons. His importance within art history lies in his groundbreaking compositional mechanisms and painstaking technique, which greatly influenced younger generations of artists. Along with Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin, Rousseau's visual inventions paved the way for the twentieth-century's nascent Modernist movement.  A new visual idiom For his works, which combined highly diverse themes of urbanity and the natural world adapted to his own visual conception, Rousseau mined resources beyond the academic tradition, relying heavily on postcards, photographs, and popular journals. His imaginary dreamlike jungle landscapes also took their inspiration directly from books on botany and his visits to gardens, woods and zoos. The works included in the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao reveal his unique working method of transferring individual motifs such as leaves and trees, figures, and entire compositional schemes from picture to picture, and combining them to create new visual compositions, painted with a painstaking, naturally refined technique. Rousseau redefined the picture space by staggering pictorial elements from background to foreground, a method that would later be adopted by the Cubists. This built-up pictorial structure, in the form of painted collage, anticipated the autonomy of the picture plane that would become characteristic of Modernism. Younger artists, such as Pablo Picasso and Fernand Léger, both of whom admired and collected his work, were captivated by his technique. A tour of the exhibition Initially, Rousseau painted mostly small-format pictures depicting the French suburbs and the surrounding countryside of his immediate environment. In these landscapes, wilderness is represented by dense wooded areas on the background that the artist used to separate the visual realm by means of either a fence or behind a fortification wall, as in House on the Outskirts of Paris (Maison de la banlieue de Paris, ca. 1905, Carnegie Museum of Art). Gradually, he moved away from this rationally organized civilization toward an unorganized, wild depiction of nature. This passage from the well ordered and familiar to the unknown and alien defined his later work as can be seen in Landscape (Paysage, 1905–10, Philadelphia Museum of Art). In his famous jungle paintings, Rousseau, who never actually set foot in a jungle, finally succeeded in leaving the sphere of domestication behind for his imaginary wilderness. Now working in a significantly larger format, Rousseau lent these invented landscapes a compelling visual reality. The culmination of the exhibition is formed by a significant assembly of Rousseau's famous jungle pictures. Of special mention is the monumental painting The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope (Le lion, ayant faim, se jette sur l'antilope , 1895/1905, Fondation Beyeler) included on the occasion of Rousseau's first appearance at the Salon d'Automne in Paris in 1905. In March 1906, art dealer and collector Ambroise Vollard acquired the sensational painting—the first Rousseau ever to enter the art trade—in which the artist's talent for creating an imaginary new world comprised of various figures set against a stage like environment are shown.
Yet for all his reliance on photographic realism, Rousseau always strove to keep the depicted world at a distance. This is especially seen in The Wedding (La noce, 1904–05, Musée l'Orangerie), a large-format painting whose distortions of scale and proportions with respect to the original model are immediately obvious. Indeed, the simultaneity of character and dream in Rousseau's paintings, the flatness and lack of perspective, and his peculiar manner of lighting the picture plane, with both brilliant sun and shadowless figures, all combine to give his images a highly tuned Surrealist quality. After the Impressionist painters and the succeeding generation created a new way to look at the visible, Rousseau introduced into his paintings a new approach to imaginative vision. His perception of reality was based primarily on observation, imitation and transformation of the visible. In this way, he taught modern artists how the unknown could be constructed using the building blocks of the known. He established a new logic and mechanics of compositional structure that profoundly affected subsequent generations of artists, most notably the Surrealists Max Ernst and René Magritte. Many renowned museums and collections in Europe and America have contributed to the success of the exhibition by their generous provision of loans. These include the Musée national de l'Orangerie, the Musée d'Orsay, and the Musée national d'Art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, in Paris; The Mayor Gallery, London; Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel; the Nahmad Collection, Switzerland; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York; the Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts; the National Gallery of Art and the Phillips Collection, in Washington, D.C.; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; the Kunsthaus Zürich; and a number of private collections. Visit the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao at : http://www.guggenheim-bilbao.  |
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