Walking in Paris: Viewing the City and Its Denizens in the 19th Century

Expressions in Color: Selections from the Museum's 20th Century Collection

Events

Walking in Paris: Viewing the City and Its Denizens in the 19th Century
May 22 through August 12, 2012

Curator: Robert G. LaFrance

In this installation, the museum invites viewers to visit Paris through a selection of paintings, prints and photographs that evoke the voyeuristic experience of the flâneur, an idle stroller who enjoys the urban environment in all its glory and decadence. The selection of artists include Pierre Bonnard, August-Louis Lepère, Camille Pissarro, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and several others.

Expressions in Color: Selections from the Museum's 20th Century Collection
May 22 through December 30, 2012

Curator: Kathryn Koca Polite

Expressions in Color highlights modern paintings and works on paper from the museum's permanent collection that consider the expressive language of color. This installation focuses on several stylistic movements, such as the German expressionist Der Blaue Reiter artists who believed in the spiritual qualities of color, evoking a mystical significance through brilliant hues. Other artists investigated the functions of pure color. The Color Field painters of the 1950s explored solid, flat areas of color, oftentimes absorbed directly into the unprimed canvases, and how color placement can create both dynamic and subtle movement. This selection of artists includes Karel Appel, Max Beckmann, Charles Burchfield, Helen Frankenthaler, Gabriele Münter, David Park, Mark Rothko, and many others