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Docent Information Session Slides 8 Modernism and Contemporary Docent Information Session Slides 8 Modernism and Contemporary ZMA Collection Diverse Culture Gallery TIP: Works from the ZMA collection are markeD Etruscan Votive Foot, circa 400-200 BCE like this… Earthenware, terra cotta TIP• Etruscan: Printculture 800 BCE slides-200 CE; https://www.ancient.eu/timeline/etruscan/ like these anD • Mold-made • Detail indicates this piece was an early casting from the mold create• Offering in gratitude a binDer for healing or plea filleD to heal an infirmity with At Ponte di Nona, e.g., a rural complex some 15 kilometers to the east of Rome, the workscollections are dominatedfrom by feetthe and hands ZMA– precisely thecollection. parts of the body which are likely to suffer damage in the course of agricultural work. More Information: http://exhibits.hsl.virginia.edu/antiqua/healercults/ ZMA Collection Shirley Gorsuch Gallery Romanticism Eugène Delacroix, French 1798–1863, Waterfall, circa 1840, Oil on board, 10458. Purchase, Friends of Art More Information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6skizQlC-uU ZMA Collection Ayers Gallery Neoclassicism Hiram Powers (1805–1873), Psyche,1849, marble ZMA Collection Shirley Gorsuch Gallery Realism/Naturalism/Idealism Thomas Hill (1829-1908), Indian Encampment, Yosemite Valley, 1863, Oil on canvas,1965.11262. Purchase, Friends of Art • Majesty of America, scenes towering mountains • Manifest Destiny-celebrating America’s westward expansion More Information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUlH2PAMwWc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id6CbCjfD-4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWE0NSpcttk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8l0L-Sw_5w ZMA Collection Shirley Gorsuch Gallery Realism Hudson River School Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902), Old Faithful, 1881-86, Oil on Canvas, 15032 Gift of Mrs. Vin- cent L. Syllaasen and Mr. and Mrs. Willis B. Bailey •Westward in 1859. During that first trip, as part of the Frederick Lander survey party, he had spent weeks travelling by horseback to Colorado and Wyoming. • Twelve years later he and his wife set off by train, accompanied by a servant, and reached their destination of San Francisco in six days • Albert Bierstadt did not make the trip to Yellowstone until July of 1881, again travelling by train. Three month stay "This is not the first season I have spent about the Rocky Mountains, but it is my first introduction to the geysers of Yellowstone....We encamped near the geysers, and hence the heat of the boiling water warmed the atmosphere about us. The scene when looking from our tents out into the cool moonlight air, with the silvery spray of the geysers spreading out over the landscape, and the cascades falling from the cliffs in the distance, was very beautiful. I have several sketches here which I intend as jogs to my memory..." (The New York Express, October 28, 1881). Not in the Collection Monet (1840-1926), Impression, Sunrise, 1874 • "Exhibition of the Impressionists" in April 1874 • Radical technique • Bright colors of Impressionist canvases were shocKing for eyes accustomed to the more sober colors of Academic painting • Many of the independent artists chose not to apply the thicK golden varnish ZMA Collection 2nd Floor Hallway Gallery Impressionism Theodore Robinson (1852-1896), Giverny Landscape, circa 1884-1892?, Oil on canvas, 1940.1004. Purchase, Friends of Art • Giverny from 1884 to 1892 • Place, light, and color, airy panorama • Died at age of 43, asthma More Information: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.6708.html http://www.phillipscollection.org/research/american_art/bios/robinson-bio.htm https://americanart.si.edu/artist/theodore-robinson-4086 ZMA Collection 2nd Floor Hallway Gallery William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), Shinnecock Hills, after 1891, Oil on canvas, 1940.10041a. Purchase, Friends of Art • Born Indiana • Studied briefly in NY, then to MO •1872-1878 Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Munich • Met and befriended Frank Duveneck • 1887 Bierstadt’s old studio in NY • 1891 Chase opened the Shinnecock Hills Summer School on eastern Long Island, New York • For several months, Chase taught Zanesville artist Karl Kappes ZMA Collection 1st Floor Hallway Gallery Realism Karl Kappes (1861-1943), Self Portrait with Hat, circa 1930, Oil on Canvas,10058. Gift of the Artist Biography • Born May 1861-1943 • 1879 Louis T. Ribisco’s Sculpture Class at the School of Design, Hamilton, Ohio • 1883 William Merritt Chase, Art Students League, NY • Fall 1883-1885 Munich, Spring 1890 Paris • Kappes was brother-in-laW to ZMA founder Mr. EdWard Ayers • Admiration for the Dutch old masters • Looser in style, subjects rendered With thickly brushed paint against dark backgrounds • Dramatic chiaroscuro • Alla prima (Italian, meaning first attempt), Wet on Wet, is a painting technique, used mostly in oil painting, in Which layers of Wet paint are applied to previously administered layers of Wet paint. ZMA Collection 1st Floor Hallway Gallery Realism Karl Kappes, circa 1884, Portrait Study of an Old Man, Munich Graphite on paper, 2011.036.00 1 , Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Mcllwain Portrait of a Woman with a Hood • Draughtsmanship • Tonal variations • Drama • Expressive quality of the sitter ZMA Collection 1st Floor Hallway Gallery American Impressionism Karl Kappes, .
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