Edward Hopper
dal 5/5/2007 al 18/8/2007
Segnalato da
5/5/2007
Edward Hopper
Museum of Fine Arts MFA, Boston
The exhibition focuses on the period of the artist's greatest achievements (from about 1925 to mid-century), during which he produced many works now considered icons of American art. On view 50 oil paintings, 30 watercolors, and 12 prints, including the favorites Nighthawks, Chop Suey, and Lighthouse and Buildings, Portland Head, Cape Elizabeth, Maine.
Edward Hopper
The MFA will debut Edward
Hopper, an exhibition devoted to the
work of one of the most enduringly
popular American painters of the
20th century.
This comprehensive
retrospective comprises nearly 100
paintings, watercolors, and prints,
and focuses on the artist’s work from
about 1925 to 1950- the period of
Hopper’s greatest achievements.
During this time, he produced
memorable works of New York city
scenes, as well as New England
lighthouses and seascapes.
Many paintings that will be on view are considered icons of 20th-
century American art including Nighthawks (1942, The Art Institute of Chicago), Early Sunday
Morning (1930, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York), and Automat (1927, Des
Moines Art Center, Iowa).
The exhibition is organized by the MFA, the National Gallery of Art, Washington,
D.C., and the Art Institute of Chicago.
The show will be accompanied by a catalogue published by the Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston.
Tour Dates: MFA: 5/6/2007–8/19/2007; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.: 9/2007–
1/2008; Art Institute of Chicago: 2/2008–5/2008.
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War and Discontent
Untill august 5 2007
Among the masterpieces in the MFA’s collection are three exceptional works inspired by contemporary political events: Edouard Manet's extraordinary “unfinished” canvas of the Execution of the Emperor Maximilian (1867), which closely followed the posthumous publication of Francisco Goya y Lucientes' unsettling, graphic series of etchings Disasters of War (1810-20; published 1863), and, painted a century later, Pablo Picasso's Rape of the Sabine Women (1963), created at the time of the Cuban missile crisis. Each is a powerful statement confronting disturbing events during the lifetime of the artists.
“War and Discontent” highlights these timeless and universal works, shown alongside provocative and subtle recent work by artists critically engaged in the present. Some works feature instruments of war, such as Richard Artschwager’s grisaille painting of a tank or Suara Welitoff’s haunting video of World War II bombers endlessly in flight. Others share a focus on apocryphal subjects and brutal atrocities, as seen in Jack Goldstein's Burning City, Philip Guston's The Deluge, Robert Morris' untitled abstraction framed by a border of body parts, and Leon Golub's monumental and crudely rendered canvases. Still others acknowledge the triumph of the human spirit, such as Phil Collins' poignant video they shoot horses. But all serve as bold examinations of current events and challenge the viewer to contemplate issues of war and peace through the lens of art.
As part of the Millennium on View program,
the official hotel sponsor is Millennium Bostonian Hotel.
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