DECO JAPAN: Shaping Art and Culture, 1920-1945
The first exhibition held outside Tokyo dedicated to Japanese Art Deco, "DECO JAPAN" provides dramatic examples of the spectacular craftsmanship and sophisticated design long associated with Japan and conveys the complex social and cultural tensions during the Taishô and early Shôwa epochs (1912-1945). In these pre-war and war eras, artists and patrons created a Japanese modernism that signaled simultaneously the nation's unique history and cosmopolitanism. The vitality of the era is further expressed through the theme of the moga, or modern girl, the emblem of contemporary urban chic that flowered along with the Art Deco style in the 1920's and 1930's.
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Interesting Times: Pat Oliphant, A Retrospective
Pat Oliphant is America's most influential and widely admired editorial cartoonist, creating controversy and consternation with every flick and whirl of his marvelously irreverent pen. Since his arrival in the United States from Australia almost fifty years ago, Oliphant has skewered the powers-that-be in America and around the globe, using his art to expose avarice and malfeasance, incompetance and corruption wherever it appears.
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Toulouse-Lautrec and La Vie Moderne: Paris 1880-1910
"Toulouse-Lautred and La Vie Moderne, 1880-1910" celebrates the work of avant-garde artist living in Paris at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, when the city was the cetner of creative activity as well as a favorite subject for artists. The work fo the Naturalists, the Symbolists, the Incohérents, and the Nabis presented fresh visions of life and society during this important 30-year period of "Modern" French art. This is the first exhibition to present a kaleidoscopic view of the work of a generation of artists who continued the battle for artistic liberation from Academic standards fought by the Impressionists.
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Roman Baroque Paintings: Masterworks from the Palazzo Chigi, Ariccia
A collection o f important Roman Baroque paintings never before seen outside Italy is that of the Chigi family palace in Ariccia. Comprised of sixty works of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by masters such as Bernini, Salvator Rosa, Pietro da Cortona, Giovan Battista Gaulli ("Il Baciccio") and others, this exhibition will demonstrate Rome's role as a beacon of international culture over the two centuries encompassing the Baroque era.
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From Parmigianino to Fantin-Latour: Four Centuries of Old Master Drawings from the Musée de Grenoble
Art Services International is pleased to announce an exhibition presenting four centuries of Old Master drawings from the Musée du Grenoble, one of the most important French museums outside Paris. The exhibition will bring together exquisite masterworks by artists of the French, Italian, and Northern schools from the end of the fifteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century.
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RAVISHING BEAUTY: The Art of Tissot and Helleu
Jean-Jaques Tissot (1836-1902) and Paul César Helleu (1959-1927) devoted much of their lives to the pursuit of beauty, though each approached it with his own individual obsessions. Tissot was fascinated by clothing, the texture, shape and fall of fabrics and the details of settings. Helleu employed the simplest of lines to capture human sentiments: fleeting expressions from playfulness to challenge, from concentration to sleep. This exhibition explores the intimate preoccupations of these two artists through 100 superb drawings and prints selected from private collections in Europe.
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Global Modernism and the Indian Progressives
"Global Modernism and the Indian Progressives" investigates the "radical" modernist artwork produced in India between the 1940's and the 1980's. Presented for the first time in the United States, these 80 paintings are some of the crucial works of the Progressive Artist group -- a collective formed within months of India winning its freedom from colonial rule. This decisive era witnessed the demise of the British Empire and the rise of independent India, a nation that has emerged as a powerful player on the global scene in the 21st century.
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