ON
VIEW TILL JANUARY 8, 2012:
A Sense of Place: Landscapes
from Monet to Hockney
Currently on view through
January 8, 2012
Through a juxtaposition of
images, A Sense of Place
showcases more than 30
artworks ranging from
paintings, photographs and
video installation that
contrast and compare both
approach and expressionism
in landscape art.
From Claude Monet's
impressionistic haystacks
painted in 1885 to Vik
Muniz's carefully rendered
pigment prints created in
2006, precise
representational paintings
are placed alongside austere
abstract works in order to
reveal how landscape has
been portrayed by artists
throughout history.
Organized in partnership
with the Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston (MFA), and
featuring works from the
Museum of Contemporary Art
San Diego (MCASD) and MGM
Resorts International Fine
Art Collection, this
engaging exhibition features
works by such artists as
Claude Monet, Marc Chagall,
Helen Frankenthaler, David
Hockney, Sylvia Plimack
Mangold, Robert Rauchenberg,
Christo, Vik Muniz and many
others.
PAST EXHIBITS:
Figuratively Speaking: A
Survey of the Human Form
This engaging survey
features more than 40
paintings, photographs and
sculpture along with video
installations by 29 artists
whose traditional and
contemporary perspectives on
figurative art helped to
define the genre in the late
19th, 20th and early 21st
centuries.
Featuring works of art from
MGM Resorts International's
own Fine Art Collection,
including some by Pierre-Auguste
Renoir, Pablo Picasso, Edgar
Degas and Fernand Leger,
Figuratively Speaking also
presents some of the best
figurative works from the
permanent collections of the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
and the Museum of
Contemporary Art San Diego.
"Many of these important
works on loan from MCASD are
shown together for the first
time, and all demonstrate
the breadth and depth of the
museum's collection," says
Hugh M. Davies, The David C.
Copley Director of the
Museum of Contemporary Art
San Diego. "Spanning more
than three decades of
figurative expression, these
selected works - by such
notable artists as Roy
Lichtenstein, Bill Viola,
Keith Haring, Cindy Sherman,
Tony Oursler and Barbara
Kruger - use the figure in
innovative ways, provoking
the most varied of
interpretations."
Different schools of modern
and contemporary art fall
under the heading of
figurative art, from
Renoir's romantic
Impressionistic portraits
The Sweeper and Picasso's
distorted Cubist figures
Woman with Beret to Keith
Haring's Pop art drawings
Elvis Presley and Chuck
Close's contemporary,
grid-like paintings Paul IV.
Figurative works of art not
only depict a real subject,
but also reflect the
religious, social, political
and mythical beliefs of the
times.
"The human figure is one of
the most frequently depicted
subject in art," says MFA
Deputy Director Katie
Getchell, "and through the
expressive images
highlighted in this survey,
we see how modern and
contemporary artists
celebrate the vitality and
individuality of their
subjects." |
