{"id":4707,"date":"2017-09-13T12:36:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T17:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/?p=4707"},"modified":"2017-09-27T15:54:57","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T20:54:57","slug":"works-by-masters-of-modern-art-including-manet-degas-van-gogh-matisse-and-picasso-come-to-the-milwaukee-art-museum-november-4-2017-through-january-28-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/2017\/09\/works-by-masters-of-modern-art-including-manet-degas-van-gogh-matisse-and-picasso-come-to-the-milwaukee-art-museum-november-4-2017-through-january-28-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Works by masters of modern art including Manet, Degas, Van Gogh, Matisse, and Picasso come to the Museum November 4, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Degas to Picasso: Creating Modernism in France<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Milwaukee, Wis. \u2013 September 13, 2017 \u2013 This November, the Milwaukee Art Museum will tell the story of modern art\u2019s development through 150 works by influential artists working in Paris during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures in the exhibition will lead Museum visitors chronologically through this dynamic transformation in the history of art. Degas to Picasso: Creating Modernism in France<\/em> will be on view from November 4, 2017 to January 28, 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"42Paris became the epicenter of modern art in the nineteenth century. Artists from around the world, including Eug\u00e8ne Delacroix, \u00c9douard Manet, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, Camille Pissarro, Paul C\u00e9zanne, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Fernand L\u00e9ger, and Marc Chagall, gathered in its studios, galleries, salons, and museums. They moved away from traditional subjects and styles and, through experimentation and abstraction, charted a new course for art making.\u00a0Degas to Picasso: Creating Modernism in France\u00a0<\/em>presents this evolution, including transformative movements such as Impressionism and Cubism. The exhibition focuses especially on works on paper, highlighting the different ways that modern artists used drawings and prints, and the important role played by these media in their artistic practices. Materials such as pastel, graphite, and ink, along with techniques including lithography and etching, provided artists with ways to think through and reinterpret themes that fascinated them. Visitors will be able to see the arc of modernism develop through these intimate and experimental works.<\/p>\n

Degas to Picasso <\/em>begins around 1800, with a group of masterpieces by artists such as Manet and C\u00e9zanne who challenged and reinterpreted the traditions of the French Academy during the nineteenth century. The art of Degas is represented in particular depth, revealing the important connections that existed between his experimentation in various media\u2014including drawings, sculptures, and various printmaking techniques. The exhibition culminates with works by twentieth-century practitioners including Matisse, L\u00e9ger, and especially Picasso. It features a substantial group of works spanning the entirety of Picasso\u2019s career, from some of his earliest sketches to powerful drawings dating from the last years of his life, showcasing the artist\u2019s revolutionary perspective and his reduction of recognizable subjects to geometric forms. Picasso\u2019s cubist works in particular influenced a generation of artists, including Juan Gris, Jacques Villon, and Albert Gleizes, whose abstract paintings, prints, and drawings will lead visitors through a key moment in the history of modern art.<\/p>\n

\u201cDegas to Picasso <\/em>will give Museum visitors the opportunity to experience modernism in the way that artists themselves did: not as a single style or an organized movement, but as a process of exploration that began in Paris and connected generations, from Delacroix to Degas and C\u00e9zanne to Picasso,\u201d commented Britany Salsbury<\/strong>, the Museum\u2019s associate curator of prints and drawings. \u201cBoth first-time and experienced Museum visitors will be impressed by the energy of the works and the artists\u2019 creative negotiation of the limits of what art could be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Expands upon an exhibition by the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Presenting Sponsor: Milwaukee Art Museum\u2019s Friends of Art<\/strong><\/p>\n

Supporting Sponsor:\u00a0<\/em>Katharine and Sanford Mallin<\/strong><\/p>\n

Supporting Events<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Gallery Talks
\n<\/strong>Tues, 1:30 p.m.
\nNov 14 with Nikki Otten, research assistant, prints and drawings
\nDec 12 and Jan 23 with Britany Salsbury, associate curator of prints and drawings<\/p>\n

30-Min. Express Talks
\n<\/strong>Meijer Free First Thursdays
\nThurs, noon
\nDec 7 and Jan 4<\/p>\n

Member Drink & Think
\n<\/strong>Thurs, Nov 9, 5:30\u20137:30 p.m.
\nEnjoy refreshments and socialize with other Members before getting an insider\u2019s look at the exhibition with the curator. Included is one glass of wine or beer from the cash bar. This event is a benefit for Members at the Art Advocate level and above. RSVP at 414-224-3284 or membership@mam.org<\/a>. Presenting sponsor: PNC<\/p>\n

Lecture: \u201cTraditional Painting Violated\u201d: Picasso and the Art of Emulation
\n<\/strong>Thurs, Nov 16, 6:15 p.m.
\nExplore the work of Pablo Picasso and his relationship to traditions in European art, with Katie Hanson, PhD, assistant curator for European paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and curator of that institution\u2019s exhibition Pairing Picasso. <\/em><\/p>\n

Out of the Vault: Works on Paper from Degas to Picasso
\n<\/strong>Thurs, Dec 14, 1:30 p.m.
\nSign up for this special viewing of prints and drawings from the Museum\u2019s collection related to\u00a0Degas to Picasso<\/em>, with Amanda Brown, collection manager of works on paper. Herzfeld Study Center. Space is limited. RSVP to\u00a0studycenter@mam.org<\/a>\u00a0or call\u00a0414-224-3817<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kohl\u2019s Art Generation Open Studio: Follow the Line
\n<\/strong>Throughout November
\nExplore the rise of modernism. Inspired by the drawings in the exhibition Degas to Picasso: Creating Modernism in France<\/em>, sketch a figure using gestural mark making, illustrate the many sides of an object on a single page, and express emotion with a single line. Transform your drawing into a print using an etching press. And, experiment with rich chalk pastels, rough charcoal, and transparent washes of watercolor.<\/p>\n

An audio guide and free family guide accompany this exhibition.<\/p>\n

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Media Contact:
\n<\/strong>Cindy Moran, 414-224-3282
\ncindy.moran@mam.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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Image: Edgar Degas (1834\u20131917), After the Bath, Woman Drying Her Leg, 1900-1905. Charcoal, white chalk, and pastel on\u00a0 paper, 24 5\/8 \u00d7 20 1\/4 inches (62.5 \u00d7 51.5 cm).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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