Conclusion: What you learned.
Please be prepared to present your answer the following
questions in paragraph form (should be about 1- 2 paragraphs
total):
What did you learn about the process of organizing an
exhibition of works by various artists?
What about this process came naturally and what was
challenging?
How do you feel about the job of a curator as a result of this
process?
Discuss the discoveries that you made regarding the process
of connecting work by artists with individual experiences to a
common theme.
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10. The Toilette / Pierre Puvis De Chavannes
The Toilette / Pierre Puvis De Chavannes (1883)
Oil on canvas / H: 14.8 cm, W: 10.5 cm
■ Statement
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■ Brief Biographical Information of Artist
Born in Lyons on Dec. 14, 1824, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes belonged to the generation of Gustave Courbet and édouard Manet, and he was fully aware of their revolutionary achievements. Nevertheless, he was drawn to a more traditional and conservative style. From his first involvement with art, which began after a trip to Italy and which interrupted his intention to follow the engineering profession that his father practiced, Puvis pursued his career within the scope of academic classicism and the Salon. Even in this chosen arena, however, he was rejected, particularly during the 1850s. But he gradually won acceptance. By the 1880s he was an established figure in the Salons, and by the 1890s he was their acknowledged master.
■ Background of the Art work
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■ Connection Between the Art and the Theme
9. Study of Drapery / Alphonse Mucha
Study of Drapery / Alphonse Mucha (1900)
Gouache / H: 61 cm, W: 46 cm
■ Statement
"I think [the Exposition Universelle] made some contribution toward bringing aesthetic values into arts and crafts."
■ Brief Biographical Information of Artist
Alphonse Maria Mucha first name from the Czech Alfons (24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939), was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, best known for his distinct style and his images of women. He produced many paintings, illustrations, advertisements, and designs.
■ Background of the Art work
Mucha married Maruška (Marie/Maria) Chytilová on June 10, 1906, in Prague. The couple visited the U.S. from 1906 to 1910, during which time their daughter, Jaroslava, was born in New York City. They also had a son, Jiri, (born March 12, 1915 in Prague; died April 5, 1991 in Prague) who later became a well known journalist, writer, screenwriter, author of autobiographical novels and studies of the works of his father. In the U.S. Alphonse expected to earn money to fund his nationalistic projects to demonstrate to Czechs that he had not "sold out". He was supported by millionaire Charles R. Crane, who used his fortune to help promote revolutions and, after meeting Thomas Masaryk, Slavic nationalism. Alphonse and his family returned to the Czech lands and settled in Prague, where he decorated the Theater of Fine Arts, contributed his time and talent to create the murals in the Mayor's Office at the Municipal House, and other landmarks around the city. When Czechoslovakia won its independence after World War I, Mucha designed the new postage stamps, banknotes, and other government documents for the new state.
■ Connection Between the Art and the Theme
8. Skeletons Fighting Over a Hanged Man / James Ensor
Skeletons Fighting Over a Hanged Man / James Ensor (1891)
Oil on panel / H: 74 cm, W: 59 cm
"I'm not young enough to know everything."
■ Brief Biographical Information of Artist
James Ensor (13 April 1860 – 19 November 1949) was born and lived in Ostend most of his life to an English father and Belgian mother. As an early impressionist painter he was associated with the artist group Les XX, and is considered an innovator or 19th century art, and an influence on the 20th century surrealist painters. .
■ Background of the Art work
In his early years Ensor's paintings were considered scandalous, but he gained acceptance later in life. He is considered to have influenced Klee, amongst others.
James Ensor's most famous work, the Entry of Christ into Brussels, is a modern day depiction of Christ returning to a commercial world with advertising slogans for the socialist party and Coleman’s Mustard included in the piece. Painted in 1888 it now hangs in the Getty Art Museum in Malibu, California.
■ Connection Between the Art and the Theme
7. Adam and Eve / Gustav Klimt
Adam and Eve / Gustav Klimt (1917-1918)
Oil on canvas / H: 173 cm, W: 60 cm
"If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please only a few. To please many is bad."
■ Brief Biographical Information of Artist
Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body; his works are marked by a frank eroticism.
■ Background of the Art work
The unfinished work "Adam and Eve" by Gustav Klimt dates 1917/18 and could not be finished due to the sudden death of Klimt on February 6, 1918. The unmarked 173 x 60 cm painting was painted in oil on canvas, and now hangs in the Belvedere in Vienna.
The biblical couple Adam and Eve are on display. Klimt emphasises the appearance of Eve with bright and light colours in the foreground. She is the main figure in this painting. Adam in the background seems to be of no great importance to Klimt. Klimt is known for his depictions of women, because he preferred the female body in its anatomy, form and aesthetics. So it is not surprising that Eve is dominating the painting.
Even in the private life of the artist women played a greater role than men. After Klimt's father and brother had died, the artist lived the rest of his life with his mother and sisters. In addition, Klimt's life was marked by the open relationship or friendship with the designer Emilie Flöge. The numerous affairs with his models, who posed in his studio every day show Klimts' love to the female sex and so beeing his biggest inspiration. Klimt was not interested in religion in general, so this painting with its biblical scence is a exception in Klimts' oeuvre.
■ Connection Between the Art and the Theme
6. Zwei Sich Umarmende Frauen / Egon Schiele
Zwei Sich Umarmende Frauen / Egon Schiele (1911)
Aquarell, Bleistift auf Papier / H:56 cm, W: 37 cm
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■ Brief Biographical Information of Artist
Egon Schiele approximately (June 12, 1890 – October 31, 1918) was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work is noted for its intensity, and the many self-portraits the artist produced. The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterize Schiele's paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early exponent of Expressionism.
■ Background of the Art work
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■ Connection Between the Art and the Theme
5. Eternal Spring / Auguste Rodin
Eternal Spring / Auguste Rodin (1884)
Bronze
■ Statement"It is Michelangelo who has freed me from academic sculpture."
■ Brief Biographical Information of Artist
In a career that spanned the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917) was deeply inspired by tradition yet rebelled against its idealized forms, introducing innovative practices that paved the way for modern sculpture. He believed that art should be true to nature, a philosophy that shaped his attitudes to models and materials. Many know Rodin for the controversies surrounding certain of his works, such as the scandals around The Age of Bronze or the Monument to Honoré de Balzac, and for his unfinished projects, most famously The Gates of Hell. But few who recognize Rodin's sculptures have failed to be moved by them. His genius was to express inner truths of the human psyche, and his gaze penetrated beneath the external appearance of the world. Exploring this realm beneath the surface, Rodin developed an agile technique for rendering the extreme physical states that correspond to expressions of inner turmoil or overwhelming joy. He sculpted a universe of great passion and tragedy, a world of imagination that exceeded the mundane reality of everyday existence.
■ Background of the Art work
The torso of the woman in this group is recognizable as that of a model named Adèle Abruzzezzi. Rodin used it repeatedly, and it appears, for example, in a very different context in The Gates of Hell.Eternal Spring is in a lighter vein, however, full of awakening sensuality and implying neither guilt nor punishment to come. The sculpture was extremely popular, and Rodin repeated it often both in marble and in bronze. In 1898, he sold his plaster foundry models with the reproduction rights for this sculpture and its spiritual twin, The Kiss, to the firm of Ferdinand Barbedienne, the commercial foundry. This marble, commissioned from Rodin in 1906 and finished in March 1907, displays the sensuous, veiled quality of carving that creates an impressionistic play of light and shade on the surface of the medium characteristic of the marbles of Rodin's later career.
■ Connection Between the Art and the Theme
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