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Menil Collection: Yves Tanguy Retrospective
Tanguy succeeded,
more than any other Surrealist painter, in creating a
tangible but inexplicable reality of the unreal atmospher...
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag: The Time of Degas
The display revolves around Edgar Degas, the odd-man-out of the Impressionist movement. The breadth of his taste is demonstrated by his appreciation both of the Classicism of Ingres and of the free handling of paint and use of colour in Delacroix'...
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu: 51Degrees South
Gallery Director Tony Preston commented that the Tait Electronics Gallery is dedicated to Antarctic themes and the unique connection between the region and the city of Christchurch, long a starting point for Antarctic exploration and adventure.
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Museum of Modern Art: The Dream of Utopia/Utopia of the Dream
One extreme was defined by the pure abstractions of painters such as Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich, who sought the
systematic restructuring of reality through emphasis on the logic of form. For example, the spare black and white
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National Academy: Surrealism USA: Between 1930 and 1950
One of the most revolutionary artistic and intellectual movements of the twentieth century, Surrealism still exerts a strong appeal today, more than fifty years after its heyday. The profound influence that this world of fantasy and dream had on a...
Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona: Paris and The Surrealists
The Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona presents the exhibition PARIS AND THE SURREALISTS, curated by the art historian and critic Victoria Combalía, which will run in Gallery 2 of the CCCB from 17 February to 22 May 2005. The exhibition ...
Leslie Sacks Fine Art: Shane Guffogg: Communion
Guffogg’s imagery exists within the classical Western illusion of three dimensional space as opposed to being presented primarily on the surface of the painting which the critic and champion of abstract expressionism, Clement Greenberg, referred t...
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum: Jimmy Ernst: Transcending the Surreal
This retrospective exhibition features over 35 major paintings. It covers five decades of his art and looks at how he absorbed and transcended Surrealism to create his own unique mode of abstract painting.
Jimmy Ernst’s paintings were influenced...
Art Gallery of New South Wales: Belle-Ile: Monet, Russell and Matisse in Brittany
Today, its population of 4,000
predominantly survive on tourism and fishing. The natural
...
Art Institute of Chicago: Pioneer of the 'Decisive Moment' Henri Cartier-Bresson Celebrated
From a young age, Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) was fully immersed in the active cultural life of Paris. Originally trained as a painter by his uncle and then apprenticed with the artist André Lhote, he was also an avid reader who found his wa...
Queens Museum of Art: Joan Jonas: Five Works
Joan Jonas (b. 1936) is one of the most important women artists to emerge from the late 1960s and 1970s. Working in New York as a sculptor, by 1968 she moved into what was then considered new territory – mixing performance with props and mediated ...
M + B: Les Jeunes Talents: Nine Southern California Art Students Return from France
“This invitation to France is an opportunity to promote emerging young American talents and to strengthen our partnership with universities,” says Alain Belais, Cultural Attaché at the Consulate General of France in Los Angeles. “Thanks to the par...
Jewish Museum: ALIAS MAN RAY : THE ART OF REINVENTION
The Jewish Museum will present Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention from November 15, 2009 through March 14, 2010, a major exhibition considering how the artist‚s life and career were shaped by his turn-of-the-century American Jewish immigrant ex...
Bergen Art Museum: Anxiety and Desire. Surrealism in Scandinavia 1930-1950
The Scandinavian Surrealists were eccentric and individualistic, their art received criticism and alienation in their home countries. They personally knew, exhibited internationally with and were inspired by S.Dali, P.Klee, V.Kandinsky, M.Ernst as...
Christie's Auction House: The Indestructible, Unfathomable and Timeless World of Latin American Art
The London sale will consist of eight dramatic paintings featuring the history of the Mexican Conquest, which are to be auctioned as part of Christie’s Old Master Pictures sale on December 17. Considered to be the most important Colonial paintings ev...
Riflemaker: Voodoo - Hoochie-Coochie and the Creative Spirit
Throughout the exhibition, the idea of Voodoo practise – initiation and possession particularly - is used as a metaphor for the spiritual heights considered essential to the creative process - a need to fire up the spirit, get your Mojo working, g...
Fruitmarket Gallery: After Image: Simryn Gill, Ana Mendieta, Cindy Sherman and Francesca Woodman
After Image features UK premieres of work from Cindy Sherman’s Masks series,
1996, and Simryn Gill’s Dalam, 2001 and Vegetation, 1999, alongside the most
substantial showing to date of the defining works of Ana Mendieta and
Francesca Woodman (b...
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