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Artist Buky Schwartz’s new Videospiral piece combines painting, drawing, sculpture, video in a work which demands the involvement of the viewer. Viewers encounter black and white forms on a wall to the left and free standing sculptures as they walk through the exhibit space. On the right of the exhibit, video monitors show viewers interactions with the piece from another angle which adds depth and motion to the static artwork. The work changes as the viewers move down the exhibition space and the perspective shown on each subsequent video monitor show these changes over time.
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29388
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The Museum recently acquired three sculptures and an African headdress. The Dead Christ by Italian Giuseppe Mazzuoli (1655-1725) is a bronze sculpture of Christ after his death and is considered one of the best examples of late Roman baroque sculpture in the United States. The wood carvings with beads of a Pair of Ibeji (Twin Figures) are from Nigeria’s Yoruba tribe and the figures were used in a ritual after the death of twins in child birth. The Sawfish Headdress is from Nigeria’s Ibo tribe and is made of wood with paint and mirror glass. The headdress is in the form of a sawfish, is 7 feet in length, and was worn at festivals or masquerades to gain favor with the water spirits.
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29389
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The process for how the North Carolina Museum of Art deaccessions works of art and uses the funds raised from deaccessioning to build their collection is explored. The Museum deaccessions, or gets rid of, works of art from its collection for a variety of reasons. The Museum may remove works that are of: inferior quality; outside the collecting scope at the present or foreseeable future; duplicates, works similar to others, or possessing insufficient educational value; works in such poor condition that they are not fit to display; and fakes. Many of the 1,000-1,200 works recently deaccessioned were accepted as gifts around 1956 when the Museum was first opening and accepted anything that was given to them regardless of quality or value.
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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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The wooden sculptures of Victor Faccinto will be exhibited this summer in the North Carolina Gallery. Faccinto’s sculptures are also painted by the artist. The sculptures often take the form of snakes or forks and the tiny images scattered over them depict love duels or battles between good and evil. Faccinto is the Director of Fine Arts Gallery at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
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The work of American artist Philip Guston will be exhibited in the Contemporary Gallery this summer. Guston is considered one of the most important painters from the 1970s. 16 paintings from that period will be on display. Guston’s work helped to reinvigorate the tradition of oil painting and the use of symbolism to comment on mankind’s philosophical concerns.
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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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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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The Museum recently acquired a Greek bronze furniture attachment in the form of a roundel with a bust of Silenus from the late Hellenistic period. The Greek character Silenus was the tutor of the god of wine Dionysus. The attachment would have been found on a couch used by diners and partygoers as a symbol of wine and good times.
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Ad Reinhardt’s (1913-1967) Abstract Painting is on loan to the Museum from Edgar Thorne of Warrenton. The painting from 1949 is an example of abstract expressionism. A brief biography of Reinhardt, his impact on the world of art, and the story behind the acquisition of the painting by Thorne are detailed.
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29415
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The Museum Board of Trustees recently approved a resolution that the museum should remain a public institution and sent their decision to Governor James G. Martin. The Museum was recently recommended by the Governor’s Efficiency Study to become a privately endowed and operated facility. Details of the decision and the political process are described.
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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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North Carolina artists Ron Rozzelle and Richard Stenhouse will have their drawings exhibited in the North Carolina Gallery this summer and fall. Both artists draw in a very technical, realistic style and incorporate hallucinatory images in their work. Both artists push the boundary of perception and consciousness to portray different versions of reality. The style, technique, tone, and biographies of each Charlotte native are explored.
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This exhibition of public art by forty individuals from across North America and Europe will be on display in the Contemporary Gallery this summer and fall. The artistic media includes video, photography, posters, placards, type, logos, diagrams, and other forms. The purpose of theism works is to critique the way that traditional art functions in our society and to reveal the myths, ideals, and realities that form our opinions and control us as individuals. The exhibit, its artworks, and art theory are all discussed.
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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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