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29505
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The new exhibit Small Treasures: Rembrandt, Vermeer, Hals and Their Contemporaries will be on display in the Meymandi Exhibition Gallery through January. This exhibition is the first ever to focus on small portraits by Dutch and Flemish painters from the seventeenth century. During the seventeenth century, portrait painting was not highly regarded, but the group of artists exhibited elevated the status of portraiture with their skill. The exhibition is previewed by describing the history of the period, describing portraits painted by Vermeer and Rembrandt , and describing the impact of masterpieces.
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29506
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Curator Dennis P. Weller of the North Carolina Museum of Art is interviewed about the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. Vermeer’s work is featured in the new exhibition Small Treasures. Vermeer’s popularity, his skill, his style, and the importance of exhibiting his work in Raleigh are all discussed.
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29517
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The painting Lady Mary Villiers, Later Duchess of Richmond and Lennox, with Charles Hamilton, Lord Arran (circa 1637) was recently restored by the Museum’s Conservation Lab. Flemish artist Anthony van Dyck’s portrait is considered a masterpiece, but suffered from discolored varnish, areas of retouching, and pentimenti. The cleaning and restoration process are described along with the quality and history of the painting.
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29519
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The exhibition Edvard Munch: Symbolism in Print is currently on display and focuses on the idea of death in sex. Munch believed that in love, individuals lost their personal identities and this idea is seen in this collection of prints. His complicated prints of relationships and feelings between men and women often convey anguish, despair, lust, and passion. Munch’s personal experiences and a preview of the exhibition are detailed.
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29606
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A new exhibit showcasing still-life paintings will be on display at the Museum on loan from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The exhibition is centered on the idea of looking and looking at objects closely, slowly, and thinking about them. To preview the exhibition, the history of the form of still-life painting is explored and some of the more famous and interesting works by Paul Cezanne, John Frederick Peto, Auguste Renoir, and Girorgio Morandi are profiled.
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The Museum will display a selection of prints by Edvard Munch which focus on the symbolism in his work. Munch was a Norwegian artist whose paintings, drawings, and prints draw the viewer into his inner world of raw emotion and anxiety. Munch explored themes such of love and jealousy, loneliness and anxiety, and sickness and death in his work through symbolism. This exhibition looks at Munch’s achievement as a printmaker and was one of the most influential and prolific printmakers of the modern era.
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29697
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Gerrit Berckheyde’s The Fish Market and the Grote Kerk at Haarlem is described in detail. Part of the Museum’s European Gallery, Berckheyde’s painting of Harlem’s main square is characteristic of cityscapes from the period. The piece was painted in the 1670s and the movement to paint cityscapes was motivated by civic self-awareness and an awakening national pride in Holland. They style of the painting, its composition, and criticism is described.
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29737
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The removal of a painting for conservation has opened the opportunity for 13 Dutch Kabinet paintings from the 17th century to be displayed. These small, finely crafted paintings would have displayed in the Dutch home in the 17thcentury. The collection includes still-lifes, history scenes, landscapes, and scenes of everyday life and are among the most important treasures at the Museum.
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\"The Age of the Marvelous,\" an exhibition planned at the North Carolina Museum of Art for January 25 - March 22, 1992, will explore the 16th- and 17th-century fascination with the \"marvelous,\" meaning the unusual, unexpected, and/or exotic.
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Andrea Bolland, a doctoral student of art, is studying an early European Renaissance artist named Andrea Mantegna. Bolland sheds new light on the fusion Mantegna provides between the classical stylists of central Italian artists and the more ornate tendancies of those in northern Italy.
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29392
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This exhibition will feature forty-five works by major figures in the German avant-garde during the early 20th century. Artists represented include Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Franz Marc, Lyonel Feininger, Emil Nolde, and most importantly, Max Beckmann. Half of the exhibition is devoted to Beckmann who has been described as the greatest German painter of the 20th century. The exhibition is previewed with particular attention given to Beckmann, his biography, his paintings, and his style.
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29405
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A selection of 9 prints by 5 German artists will be exhibited in the Twentieth Century Gallery conjunction with the Modern German Masterpieces from the Saint Louis Art Museum exhibition. Max Beckmann, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Otto Mueller, Kathe Kollwitz, and Georg Schrimpf will have their prints displayed. The graphic arts were of major importance to the Germans and helped to develop their individual styles of their paintings. The prints are known for their high emotional content and are among the group’s greatest accomplishments.
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29410
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Some of the country’s finest selections of French painting will be on display this summer in the Main Exhibition Gallery. The paintings are on loan from the Chrsyler Museum in Norfolk, Virginia. The works range from the seventieth through the twentieth century. Artists included are Chardin, Boucher, Gros, Delacroix, Rousseau, Daubigny, Manet, Renoir, Cezanne, Degas, Gauguin, and Matisse among other.
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29418
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One of the major goals of the Museum is to increase the public’s knowledge of the major art collections of the Southeastern United States through exhibitions. In attempting to accomplish that goal, the Museum will exhibit 45 paintings by French artists from the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Virginia. The paintings date from the seventieth through the twentieth centuries. Examples of the periods of realism, the French Baroque, rococo, romanticism, impressionism, and post-impressionism are all represented.
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29473
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Seven prints from Georges Rouault’s Miserere series are being exhibited in the Twentieth Century Gallery this summer. The paintings portray the sufferings and hopes of the modern man. Rouault is known for his skills as a printmaker and painter and as one of the most significant religious painters of the twentieth century. Rouault’s biography, his artistic style, and the religious symbolism in his work are detailed.
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