Unveiling Treasures: Q&A with Elizabeth Kathleen Mitchell in Antiques And The Arts Weekly
...#McNayArtMuseum #CuratorLife #PrintsAndDrawings #ArtCurator #ElizabethKathleenMitchell #SanAntonioArt #ArtExhibitions #PrintFair #ArtHistory #ModernArt #ContemporaryArt #ArtAcquisitions #ArtEducation #TexasArtScene #ArtMuseumLife Dr. Elizabeth Kathleen Mitchell has recently been appointed as the curator of prints and drawings at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas,…
Even the ancients recycled their architecture. The Porta Maggiore was originally built as a decorated segment of two aqueducts (structures for channeling water) built in 52 CE. The aqueducts brought Romans fresh water from sources miles away. The loss of adjacent segments of stonework has revealed two openings on the left side of the upper section, showing where water passed through the Porta Maggiore. In addition, two major roads ran through its larger arches. Later planners filled in the arches to incorporate this structure into the walled fortification surrounding Rome, and it became the main gate on the city’s east side.
Emil Nolde found inspiration in the decadent pleasures of urban nightlife, showing a preference for entertainers who performed in lurid artificial light. He frequented theaters, dance halls, and cabarets, recording his impressions in quick sketches that provided the basis for oil paintings and watercolors produced in his studio. The seemingly primitive treatment of this woman’s features belies the sophistication of Nolde’s watercolor technique. A marvelous balancing act of freedom, control, and chance, his handling of the brush allowed the liquid color to flow across and soak into the Japanese paper. Combining and overlapping, his wet-in-wet colors give a vivid sense of the harsh light entering from the left and casting varied shadows on the woman’s green dress. Nolde held it all together with his deft application of opaque black contours, from narrow in full light to thick in the shadows. The single stroke that separates the figure’s arm from her chest, articulating the shape and volume of both, delivers a concise statement of Nolde’s brilliance.
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Robert Rauschenberg
Max Beckmann
Otto Dix
Winslow Homer
Andy Warhol
Oskar Kokoschka
Emil Nolde
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