People of Color in Renaissance Art

The Walters Museum in Baltimore, MD presents 75 works with the intent to “explore the wealth of European art picturing the hidden presence of Africans in Renaissance society and the many roles they played.”

Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe invites visitors to explore the roles of Africans and their descendants in Renaissance Europe as revealed in compelling paintings, drawings, sculpture and printed books of the period. Vivid portraits from life both encourage face-to-face encounters with the individuals themselves and pose questions about the challenges of color, class, and stereotypes that this new diversity brought to Europe.”

 

Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe

Until, January 21, 2013

Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland

 

(Image: Portrait of a Wealthy African”, ca. 1540 – Flemish or German)

 

Warhol at the MET

The Met is featuring the work of legendary “pop artist” Andy Warhol. 

“Through approximately forty-five works by Warhol alongside one hundred works by some sixty other artists, Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years juxtaposes prime examples of Warhol’s paintings, sculpture, and films with those by other artists who in key ways reinterpret, respond, or react to his groundbreaking work. What emerges is a fascinating dialogue between works of art and artists across generations.”

“Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years”

until December 31, 2012


The Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Ave and 86 Street, NYC

FYI: “Pop art employs aspects of mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects. It is widely interpreted as a reaction to the then-dominant ideas of abstract expressionism, as well as an expansion upon them.“ (per Wikipedia)

Art: African * European

“In the early 20th century, African art had a profound influence on the development of European abstract art… Artists were avid collectors of African art objects—Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso had studios packed with African statuettes and textiles—and also carefully studied these works, mimicked them, and even openly copied their forms. European artists had more than just a stylistic affinity for African art; these artists, on the cusp of abstraction, found African abstraction to be the perfect aid to their pursuit of new modes of representation.”

 “This installation brings together works from the Dallas Museum of Art’s collection by Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, and Paul Klee, presented alongside objects from the Museum’s internationally acclaimed collection of African art.”

 

African Influences on Modern Art

Dallas Museum of Art until October 28, 2012
1717 North Harwood, Dallas, Texas

(Images: Pablo Picasso, Bust, 1907-08 and Helmet mask (kifwebe), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Songye or Luba peoples, late 19th-early 20th century)

Cuban Artist Jose Bedia at MAM

“A major career retrospective of the work of José Bedia at Miami Art Museum (MAM) explores the influence of indigenous cultures and religions from Cuba, North and South America, and Africa on the artist’s work over the last three decades…featuring 35 artworks including large-scale figurative paintings, installations and drawings, highlights the layering of spiritual, social and historical constructs in Bedia’s body of work—all of which are retold through a highly personal lens.”

 

Transcultural Pilgrim: Three Decades of Work by José Bedia

Until September 2, 2012

Miami Art Museum, 101 West Flagler Street, Miami, FL

(Image: “Utenu Kazaye”, 2007(acrylic on canvas)

MoAD: Abstract Artists

MoAD: Abstract Artists

“Choose Paint! Choose Abstraction!” is the current presentation at the Museum of African Diaspora / MoAD in San Francisco, CA. It features “nine influential Bay Area artists who over several decades, starting in the 1970’s, consistently chose abstraction over figuration as their preferred approach to art making. “

“Over thirty five paintings by Robert Colescott, Mary Lovelace O’Neal, Mike Henderson, Joan Brown, Dewey Crumpler, Jay DeFeo, Arthur Monroe, and Squeak Carnwath” are included.

 

Choose Paint! Choose Abstraction!  

Until September 23, 2012

MoAD – The Museum of the African Diaspora

685 Mission Street San Francisco, CA

 

 

Image: “Gone”, Squeak Carnwath

“Manet in Black” at MFA Boston

Using some 50 prints and drawings from their collection, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston  presents, Manet in Black”

 

“Manet was a master in the use of black, asserting his bold and subtle imprint on a range of subjects, from exotic Spanish dancers to the horses and spectators at a thrilling Paris racetrack. This exhibition celebrates Manet’s brilliant achievements as a graphic artist. Known as the painter of modern life and the father of Impressionism, Manet was also an exceptionally gifted printmaker and draftsman, among the most daring and innovative of the nineteenth century.”

Manet in BlackUntil October 28, 2012

Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Avenue of the Arts
465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts