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The Gallery's collection of American art includes some 154 works by African American artists, from Romare Bearden, Willie Cole, Sam Gilliam, Barkley Leonnard Hendricks, Joshua Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, Edward L. Loper, Joseph Norman, Horace Pippin, Martin Thematic tours utilize the Gallery's collections and establish connections to national and local curriculum standards. Inquiry-based tours examine a range of artists, subjects, styles, and techniques. The school tours target specific grade levels. Among the paintings are several key works from each phase of the artist's career, together with some less well-known paintings, providing an opportunity to rediscover the artist's creative range beyond his most familiar images. In a brief moment of equilibrium, artists achieved the harmonious balance and elevated conception that is the High Renaissance. In Rome this was shortly replaced by the self-conscious artifice of the style we call mannerism. Venice, on the other hand, pro The 15th and 16th centuries saw the rise of capitalism and a burgeoning middle class, the creation of modern nation states, and the upheaval of the Protestant Reformation. For artists, an innovation of equally far-reaching importance was the perfection of As the century began, the academic style favored by the official Salon still dictated the success of artists and public taste. But soon that began to change. Realists turned convention on its head to give heroic character to everyday subjects. Manet scand Sunny north light streams into the small wooden studio built high on New England's rocky landscape. Paintbrushes, canvases, and sketchbooks still clutter the artist's work space. The acrid smell of oil paint pervades the atmosphere and brings to mind a ti This exhibition illustrates the playful and intellectual nature of trompe l'oeil--the artistic ability to depict an object so exactly as to make it appear real. William Morris was a man of enormous talent and industry who is remembered as a poet, an artist, a designer, a businessman and a socialist reformer. While at Oxford University he met a circle of artists which became known (and famous) as the Pre-Raphaelit At the dawn of the sixteenth century, the republic of Venice reigned as one of the wealthiest and most powerful city-states in Europe. With the decline of the High Renaissance and mannerist artists in central Italy, by 1540 Venetian painters assumed a pos |
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