December 2005

The Art of War Otto Dix’s Der Krieg [War] cycle 1924

National Gallery of Australia: 17 December 2005 – 30 April 2006

Otto Dix 'Zerfallender Kampfgraben [Collapsed trenches]' 1924 etching, aquatint, Collection of the National Gallery of Australia, The Poynton Bequest 2003 © Otto Dix, Licensed by VISCOPY, Australia

Otto Dix was born in 1891 in Untermhausen, Thuringia the son of an ironworker. He initially trained in Gera and at the Dresden School of Arts and Crafts as a painter of wall decorations and later taught himself how to paint on canvas. He volunteered as a machine-gunner during World War I and in the autumn of 1915 he was sent to the Western Front. He was at the Somme during the major allied offensive of 1916. ...

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A Natural Attraction: Dutch and Flemish Landscape Prints from Bruegel to Rembrandt

Philadelphia Museum of Art: December 17, 2005 - February 12, 2006

The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds 1634 Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, active Leiden and Amsterdam, 1606-1669) Etching, engraving, and drypoint Sheet: 10 1/4 x 8 11/16 inches Philadelphia Museum of Art: The Charles M. Lea Collection, 1928

Over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in the Netherlands, landscape began to emerge as an independent subject in painting and printmaking. Before this time, landscape had been employed by European artists primarily as a backdrop in religious, mythological, and allegorical scenes. Although landscapes continued to furnish settings for these and other narrative subjects, leading artists of the day gradually shifted their attention from human-centered activities to the wonders of the natural world around them. This exhibition of some sixty prints from the Museum’s extensive collection of Dutch and Flemish prints traces the growth of landscape as a hallmark of Netherlandish printmaking. ...

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Tracking and Tracing: Contemporary Acquisitions 2000-2005

San Diego Museum of Art: December 17, 2005 - July 9, 2006

Fernanda Brunet Eruption oil on fiberglass panel, 2000. Gift of the Suzanne Figi Latin American and Contemporary Art Fund

A new exhibition opening in late fall tracks the evolution of SDMA's growing contemporary collection and acquisition strategies since the establishment of the Museum's curator of contemporary art position in 2000. Tracking and Tracing brings together approximately 90 works in a wide range of media, which date from the 1960s to the present and represent a variety of artistic approaches. ...

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Richard Tuttle: It’s a Room for 3 People

Aspen Art Museum: December 9, 2005 - February 5, 2006

Since the mid-1960s, Richard Tuttle has been creating lyrical, purposeful, and inspiring work that is radical in its insistence on defying convention and resisting categorization. Creating sculpture and drawing with diverse and unexpected materials, Tuttle’s pieces combine both traditional drawing media with more humble elements like plywood, string, cardboard, cloth, sawdust, glitter, and Styrofoam. ...

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Tom Hunter: Living in Hell and Other Stories

The National Gallery: 7 December 2005 - 12 March 2006

Tom Hunter, 'Living in Hell', 2004. Courtesy the artist and Jay Jopling/White Cube, London.

Tom Hunter's new work for this exhibition takes as its subject the lives of the ordinary residents of Hackney, as reported in local newspapers. These often startling stories are told in carefully staged photographs derived from Renaissance paintings. Hunter's reputation has been established with a series of engaging, puzzling and provocative photographic reworkings of paintings from the past. ...

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Facets of Cubism

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Wednesday, December 7, 2005 - Sunday, April 16, 2006

Juan Gris’ mastery of collage informs his drawing style. In the spiraling arrangement of his Still Life (1915-16), snippets of reality appear to be layered one upon the other.

“This is an art that plays with difficulties and conquers them." —Guillaume Apollinaire

Cubism was the watershed moment of twentieth-century art. In about 1907 Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque broke sharply with traditions in western painting. They discarded pictorial illusionism and linear perspective to create images that reflected a new experience of everyday reality. As Picasso mused, “I wonder whether it isn’t more important to paint the things that we know rather than those that we see." Other artists working in France—among them Juan Gris, Fernand Léger, Henri Laurens, and Jacques Lipchitz—soon joined the revolution. Cubism, by no means restricted to painting, also radically transformed the arts of sculpture, printmaking, drawing, watercolor, and typography. ...

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Traditions Unbound: Groundbreaking Painters of 18th-Century Kyoto

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco: December 3, 2005–February 26, 2006

Eighteenth-century Kyoto was a city of immense cultural richness and diversity in which artworks of the highest quality were produced. This exhibition celebrates the individuality and originality hidden in the minds of eight extraordinary artists living in Kyoto during this period. View over 60 of their most impressive and beautiful paintings–ranging from enormous folding screens to exquisite hand scrolls. ...

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