Turner to Monet:
Masterpieces from The Walters Art Museum
October 2, 2010 - January 2, 2011
Claude Monet
Springtime, ca. 1872
Oil on canvas
30 x 37 in
Courtesy of the Walters Art Museum
Forty of the finest nineteenth-century paintings from The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, including works by Eugène Delacroix, J.A.D. Ingres, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, J.M.W. Turner and Asher B. Durand, among others, illustrate the striking range of styles, techniques, and approaches practiced during this era of artistic revolution.
Turner to Monet: Masterpieces from The Walters Art Museum is organized by the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
Chase is the Presenting Corporate Sponsor for the presentation of this exhibition at The Blanton.
Major support is provided through a generous challenge grant from Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long.
Support also is provided by Applied Materials, AT&T, Mr. and Mrs. Jack S. Blanton, Sr., Leslie and Jack Blanton, Jr., the Booth Heritage Foundation, Bruce Buckley and Mrs. Vincent Buckley, Sarah and Ernest Butler, Mary Ann and Larry Faulkner, the Elva J. Johnston Foundation, Audre and Bernard Rapoport, Samsung Austin Semiconductor, the William A. and Madeline W. Smith Foundation, Eliza and Stuart Stedman, Carolyn and John H. Young, and the many other donors who contributed to meet the Long Challenge.
Travel for the exhibition is provided by Continental Airlines.
Official Airline of The Blanton
Recovering Beauty: The 1990s in Buenos Aires
February 22, 2011 – May 22, 2011
Benito Laren
Buscando Precios, 1991
Mixed media
Gift of the Artist, 2007
In the first comprehensive presentation of art from the 1990s in Argentina, Recovering Beauty: The 1990s in Buenos Aires places the Centro Cultural Rojas (CCR) at the core of this creative period. The CCR or “el Rojas,” as it was later known, opened in 1989 under auspice of the Universidad de Buenos Aires as a gallery space that exhibited work from emerging artists. The artists of “el Rojas” distanced themselves from the traditional aesthetic and the political discourse of previous generations, instead creating introspective narratives that looked towards the ordinary as a source of inspiration. After years of oppression and violence during the dictatorship in Argentina, the 1990s were characterized by drastic and dramatic changes at all fronts. The introduction of a neo-liberal political practice was accompanied by a sense of social liberation and the need of free expression. Working under these conditions, artists such as Feliciano Centurión, Sebastián Gordin, Jorge Gumier Mier, Miguel Harte, Graciela Hasper, Benito Laren, Marcelo Pombo, Cristina Schiavi, and Omar Schiliro, began exploring concepts such as beauty, color, and fantasy, projecting their own psychology as artistic expression.
Recovering Beauty: The 1990s in Buenos Aires is organized by the Blanton Museum of Art.
Support for the exhibition is provided by Judy and Charles Tate and the Susan Vaughan Foundation. The accompanying catalogue is made possible by Michael Chesser.
