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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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Thanks to colleagues at the North Carolina Museum of Art, a large collection of one of the world's most famous artists, Rembrandt, in on display at the Museum.
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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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The inaugural exhibition in the Museum’s new North Carolina Gallery is titled Inverted Utopias and features 20 key works by Bob Trotman. North Carolina artist Trotman began his career as a furniture maker before transitioning to a full-time sculpture artist in 1997. Trotman’s painted and carved-wood portraits depict people at dramatic transitional moments on the brink of change. His works are often both humorous and unsettling and in unusual positions.
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The Museum will display the work of Norman Rockwell in an upcoming exhibition. 40 original paintings and 323 Saturday Evening Post covers will be on display. Rockwell was influential in shaping the nation’s self-image during the twentieth-century through his illustrations in media publications. Rockwell’s art is noted for its humor and portrayal of everyday life. Rockwell’s style and criticism of his work are discussed in this preview of the exhibition.
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Jaume Plensa’s Doors of Jerusalem I, II, & III greet visitors as they enter the Museum’s West Building. The three larger figures are mounted high on the wall, are translucent, and are lit from within with words covering their bodies. The words are from the Song of Solomon found in the Bible and the names of the eight gates of the walled city of Jerusalem cover the figures mouths. The figures are described as contemporary gargoyles or celestial beings and their composition and the artist’s style are detailed here.
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Fannie and Alan Leslie bequeathed 30 paintings to the Museum and 13 paintings from their collection are currently on display. The Leslie Collection paintings are examples of modern American art and include major works by leading Southern California modernists. In a preview of the exhibition, the works and styles of artists Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Hans Burkhardt, and Lee Mullican are detailed.
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The exhibition Far from Home features work by artists of diverse national, cultural, and spiritual backgrounds. The exhibit also includes works of art that address the displacement of people and populations in the global community as they relocate for economic, political, education, or familial reasons. All of the artists featured have relocated and their art often reflects this event and the distance they feel from their homes. The exhibit explores how being displaced affects creativity and one’s identity.
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In the new exhibit Far From Home, the idea of disorientation and opportunity play a large role. The exhibition features works of modern art which focus on the idea of home. This idea of home could center on a family dwelling, geographic location, or culture and the complicated sense of origin and belonging our modern world has created.
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29695
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The first installation of community art projects that will be visible upon entering the Museum is detailed. Local artists Mathew Curran, Bart Cusick, and Vic Knight created a mural inspired by 19th century landscapes from the Impressionism movement. Their mural includes stencils of Renoir, Sargent, and Monet with swirling colors and images from Hawthorne’s Highland Light (about 1925) and Spencer’s The White Tenement (1913) included. Several times a year the space will feature new community art installations by local artists.
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29698
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In the new exhibit Far From Home, the idea of disorientation and opportunity play a large role. The exhibition features works of modern art which focus on the idea of home. This idea of home could center on a family dwelling, geographic location, or culture and the complicated sense of origin and belonging our modern world has created.
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A special exhibition titled Temples and Tombs: Treasures of Egyptian Art from The British Museum will bring 85 objects from Egyptian history to the North Carolina Museum of Art. The works in stone, wood, precious metals, and papyrus will illuminate the Egyptian view of life, death, and the afterlife. The exhibition will be split into four sections which focus on the influence of the pharaoh or king, objects of artists and nobles, statures of Egyptians, and objects found in Egyptian tombs.
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The Egyptian collection at the Museum was recently reorganized and updated after over 20 years on display. This reinstallation has allowed for updated educational material to be produced, a rearrangement of the objects into a thematic display, and for new items to be added to the display. The gallery’s reorganized display cases now introduce three important themes: The Afterlife and Funerary Practices, Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt, and Artisan Craft and Technology.
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The Prudhoe Lion, its symbolism, and its creation are detailed. The Prudhoe Lion was commissioned by Pharaoh Amenhotep III to decorate the processional avenue of his jubilee temple at Soleb, downstream from the Third Cataract in Upper Nubia, Sudan. The lion and several other monumental sculptures from Egypt are currently on display as part of a new exhibition on loan from the British Museum. The Prudhoe Lion, a statue of King Tutankhamun, and a statue of Amenhotep III all have the history of their creation, their importance, and their acquisition described.
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