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Jim Collins, William Bernstein, Kim Irwin, and Clarence Morgan were all recently awarded a fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council. Their work is also featured in a new exhibit in the North Carolina Gallery. A short biography and description of their artistic style is provided along with a description of the selection process for the applicants by the North Carolina Arts Council.
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29242
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110 pieces were selected by Howard N. Fox to be displayed as part of the forty-third North Carolina Artists Exhibition. Fox is a guest curator and his biography is included along with his process for selecting the winners. The open competition allows the community to see the diversity of contemporary art.
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29243
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A selection of Jugtown pottery from the Museum’s permanent collection will be on display in the North Carolina Gallery this summer. Jugtown Pottery was established in the 1920s by Jacques and Juliana Royster Busbee in an attempt to revive the dying folk craft. Under the Busbees’ direction, potters of Moore County refined the traditional shapes and glazes of the pottery. As a result, the art form flourished and a major market was created for the pottery in New York.
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29244
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Paul DiPasquale’s work will be featured in the Contemporary Gallery this spring. DiPasquale’s sculpts seven to nine foot human figures and the sculptures are typically display in public locations. DiPasquale’s figures often defy cultural norms or conceptions and contain an element of humor.
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Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros was one of the most talented European painters working in Mexico in the early nineteenth century while he served as a French diplomat. The Museum recently acquired Gros’ Crater of Popocatepetl given as a gift in memory of Harlan Craig Brown. The oil painting depicts the crater of the famous volcano of Popocatepetl and was painted in 1833.
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29247
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The first major exhibition organized by the North Carolina Museum of Art in its new building will feature Baroque Paintings from the Bob Jones University Collection. The paintings all depict religious subjects and were collected by the university for moral instruction and as inspirational resources for students. These purposes serve many of the same purposes as they would have during the seventeenth century when they were painted. The history and characteristics of the Baroque Period in art and of life in seventeenth century Europe are also detailed.
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29248
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The new exhibit Howard Pyle and The Wyeths: Four Generations of American Imagination places the art of artists, Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, and Jamie Wyeth. The exhibition explores the impact Pyle had on three generations of Wyeth’s as N.C. Wyeth’s teacher. From the Brandywine School, the four artists are connected by the narrative quality of their work. A description of the four artists’ work and their impact on each other and viewers is discussed in a preview to the exhibition.
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In celebration of the 400th anniversary of British settlement in North Carolina, the Museum is presenting works by three of the most influential British artists working today. The work of the duo Gilbert & George and Richard Long will be on display in the Contemporary Gallery. Long’s work concerns the world of nature and how man interacts and affects it. Gilbert & George’s work explores the mind and the struggles people undergo to answer questions about good, evil, hope, and desire.
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29271
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The Museum has recently acquired the paintings Girl with Cat; Franzi by Ernest Ludwig Kirchner, German, 1880-1938 and The Martyrdom of St. Januarius by Mattia Preti, Italian, 1613-1699. The German Expressionist Kirchner’s painting is a major one by the artist and depicts an adolescent girl in the nude with a cat. The Italian Baroque painter Preti is considered a masterpiece and depicts Saint Januarius, a bishop of Benevenuto who was martyred around 305 during the persecution by the Roman emperor Diocletian.
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29272
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The Museum will be exhibiting paintings, sculptures, and drawings from the Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art this fall. The forty0five works will highlight the most significant artists and trends in American during the past fourteen years. Some of the more notable artists and works are previewed.
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29273
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Selected paintings of Roger Brown will be exhibited this fall and winter. The exhibition presents twelve paintings that show Brown’s role as a commentator on contemporary life. His work combines humor, satire, and political comment in a style that reminds the viewer of decorative patterning or popular cartoons.
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The photographs of John Menapace of Durham will be exhibited this fall in the Museum’s North Carolina Gallery. The series of black and white photographs show public places in urban areas which are in a state of decay or disrepair. Despite the situations and the lack of humans, the photographs seem to capture the beauty and elegance and show the passage of time. Menapace has been the design and production manager for Duke University Press in Durham for nearly 30 years.
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29275
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This exhibition of nine works by seven twentieth-century artists has been organized as part of the celebration of the 400th anniversary of British settlement in North Carolina. This group of works by important modern British artists acknowledges the impact British art has made on U.S. culture and the exchange between the arts among the two nations. Artists featured include Henry Moore, Duncan Grant, David Hockney, Graham Sutherland, Stanley William Hayter, Ben Nicholson, and Clare Leighton.
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The Museum has recently acquired American Landscape with Revolutionary Heroes, 1983, by Roger Brown, American, 1941- and Study for the “Race of the Riderless Horses,” circa 1820, by Emile-Jean-Horace Vernet, French, 1789-1863. Brown’s painting was purchased with funds from the Madeleine Johnson Heidrick bequest and depicts Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and other revolutionary war heroes in shadow. Vernet’s painting was purchased with funds given by MR. and Mrs. Warner L. Atkins and is a study for another work, depicting a popular horse race held during the Roman carnival season in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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The still life paintings by Spanish artist Luis Melendez (1716-80) are the subject of an upcoming exhibition. The exhibition will be the most comprehensive one to date of the Spanish master’s still-lifes. Thirty-five works will be shown at a time of renewed interest in Spanish art in the U.S. A biography of the artist, a description of his style, and commentary on his impact on the art world are also detailed.
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