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7/2/2014 - 10/12/2014
Organizing institution: Weatherspoon Art Museum
Given the subject of this exhibition, it may surprise some visitors to learn that the art on display was made in the twentieth century. Rather than icons, or venerations of images per se, the works focus on subjects that incorporate either Christian or Judaic references, themes, or associations. Ranging from illustrations of Biblical passages and images of religious figures to amalgams of scripture, social consciousness, and pure abstraction, the objects have larger meanings than the images themselves. For example, William Gropper's print Swing Low Sweet Chariot not only refers to a Biblical passage and beloved hymn, but also may denote the 19th-century resistance movement that transported slaves from the American South to the North. Rufino Tamayo's image of the Virgin of Guadalupe celebrates Mexico's most popular religious and cultural icon and also asserts her presence in daily contemporary life. Regardless of viewers' religious or cultural practices, the spiritual facets of these modern works of art should be readily apparent to all.
Related programs:
Performance: Malcolm Guite, "Heaven's Troubadour: An Evening of Poetry & Song"
UNCG Religious Studies Department Event
Noon @ the 'Spoon Public Tour
Organizing institution: Weatherspoon Art Museum
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- Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro 7/2/2014 - 10/12/2014
Given the subject of this exhibition, it may surprise some visitors to learn that the art on display was made in the twentieth century. Rather than icons, or venerations of images per se, the works focus on subjects that incorporate either Christian or Judaic references, themes, or associations. Ranging from illustrations of Biblical passages and images of religious figures to amalgams of scripture, social consciousness, and pure abstraction, the objects have larger meanings than the images themselves. For example, William Gropper's print Swing Low Sweet Chariot not only refers to a Biblical passage and beloved hymn, but also may denote the 19th-century resistance movement that transported slaves from the American South to the North. Rufino Tamayo's image of the Virgin of Guadalupe celebrates Mexico's most popular religious and cultural icon and also asserts her presence in daily contemporary life. Regardless of viewers' religious or cultural practices, the spiritual facets of these modern works of art should be readily apparent to all.
Related programs:
Performance: Malcolm Guite, "Heaven's Troubadour: An Evening of Poetry & Song"
UNCG Religious Studies Department Event
Noon @ the 'Spoon Public Tour
Exhibition Objects (30)
Artists (29)
- Ann Carter Pollard (WInston-Salem, NC, 1930 - 2016)
- Arthur Segal (Jassy, Romania, 1875 - 1944)
- Ben Shahn (Kovno, Lithuania, 1898 - 1969, New York, NY)
- Chaim Gross (Kolomea, Austria, 1904 - 1991)
- Dakota "Sandy" Daley (20th Century - )
- David Margolis (Russia, 1911 - 2003, New York, NY)
- George Biddle (1885 - 1973)
- Gertraud Brausewetter (Vienna, Austria, 1903 - 1992, Hinterbruhl, Austria)
- Henry Ossawa Tanner (Pittsburgh, PA, 1859 - 1937, Paris, France)
- Jerome Witkin (Brooklyn, NY, 1939 - )
- Joachim Probst (New York, NY, 1913 - 1980)
- Jonah Kinigstein (New York, NY, 1923 - )
- José Clemente Orozco (Ciudad Guzman (Jalisco), Mexico, 1883 - 1949, Mexico City, Mexico)
- Joseph Cornell (Nyack, NY, 1903 - 1972, New York, NY)
- Kenneth Hayes Miller (Oneida, NY, 1876 - 1952)
- Leonard Baskin (New Brunswick, NJ, 1922 - 2000, Northampton, MA)
- Mary Goslen (1932 - )
- Melvin "Mel" Frank Silverman (Denver, CO, 1931 - 1966, NY)
- Michael Lekakis (New York, NY, 1907 - 1987, New York, NY)
- Miguel Ibarz (Mequinenza, 1920 - 1987, Barcelona)
- Nicholas Quennell (London, UK, 1935 - )
- Paolo D'Anna (1913 - unknown)
- Robert Smithson (Passaic, NJ, 1938 - 1973, Tecovas Lake, TX)
- Roland "Sonny" Smith Watts (Philadelphia, PA, 1931 – 2012, Winston Salem, NC)
- Rufino Tamayo (Oaxaco, Mexico, 1899 - 1991, Mexico)
- Sadao Watanabe (1913 - 1996)
- Saint Clair Cemin (Cruz Alta, Brazil, 1951 - )
- Tom Otterness (Wichita, KS, 1952 - )
- William Gropper (New York, NY, 1897 - 1977, Manhasset, NY)