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From Manet to Miro
7/12/1997 - 11/9/1997
European prints, drawings, watercolors and gouaches are united
in the exhibition "From Manet to Miro," on display at the Norton
Museum of Art this summer. The graphic arts featured in this
exhibition span a hundred years, from 1850 to 1950. This period
represents many of the greatest achievements of European
Impressionists and Modernists.
Artists in the exhibition include Honore Daumier, Edouard Manet,
Edgar Degas, Auguste Renoir, Pablo Picasso, Georges Rouault, Henri
Matisse and Raoul Dufy.
During the period of 1850 to 1950, artists used the graphic graphic
arts to experiment with and develop their styles, and to make their
art accessible to a broader public. Prints, including etchings,
lithographs, aquatints and woodcuts, evidence this throughout the
exhibition. The subject of Manet's etching Le Guitarero, 1861-62,
also known as Le Chanteur Espagnol, likes the piece to Manet's large
Le Chanteur Espagnol, his first piece to be accepted to the Paris
Salon in 1861. Other print examples include Matisse's Danseuse and
Picasso's Frugal Repast.
Other media allowed artists to develop their use of color. A
delightful watercolor by Raoul Dufy, Normandie, ca. 1924, features
Dufy's strong staccato brushstrokes, and the influence of the Fauves
sin his use of a single color for both drawing and local values. And
Miro's Femmes, Oiseaux, Etoiles, 1942, is characteristic in its use
of primordial forms, cosmic symbols and women.
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