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4/14/2012 - 7/8/2012
Organizing institution: Weatherspoon Art Museum
Attracted to bold patterning throughout his career, Henri Matisse explored in both prints and paintings the decorative possibilities of simplified forms and areas of flat surface design mixed with volumetric representation. Matisse's proliferation of patterning served to unify his compositions and also inspired a succeeding generation of artists. Following the French master's precedent, the artists featured in this exhibition likewise examine the possibilities of robust design and the restorative contemplation of beauty.
Related program:
Noon @ the 'Spoon -Tue May 8 @ 12pm
Organizing institution: Weatherspoon Art Museum
This Exhibition includes the following Venues:
- Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro 4/14/2012 - 7/8/2012
Attracted to bold patterning throughout his career, Henri Matisse explored in both prints and paintings the decorative possibilities of simplified forms and areas of flat surface design mixed with volumetric representation. Matisse's proliferation of patterning served to unify his compositions and also inspired a succeeding generation of artists. Following the French master's precedent, the artists featured in this exhibition likewise examine the possibilities of robust design and the restorative contemplation of beauty.
Related program:
Noon @ the 'Spoon -Tue May 8 @ 12pm
Exhibition Objects (25)
Artists (16)
- Allen Tucker (1866 - 1939)
- Aristide Maillol (1861 - 1944)
- Arthur Dove (Canandaigua, NY, 1880 - 1946, Centerport, NY)
- B. J. O. Nordfeldt (Tullstorp, Sweden, 1878 - 1955, Henderson, TX)
- Fairfield Porter (Winnetka, IL, 1907 - 1975, Southampton, NY)
- Gertraud Brausewetter (Vienna, Austria, 1903 - 1992, Hinterbruhl, Austria)
- Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954)
- Hide Kawanishi (Kobe, Japan, 1894 - 1965)
- Jack Beal (Richmond, VA, 1931 - 2013, Oneonta, NY)
- Louise August (1931 - )
- Marguerite Stix (Vienna, Austria, 1907 - 1975)
- Philip Taaffe (Elizabeth, NJ, 1955 - )
- Raoul Dufy (Le Havre, France, 1877 - 1953, Forcalquier, France)
- Robert De Niro (Syracuse, NY, 1922 - 1993)
- Stephen Pace (Deventer, MO, 1918 - 2010, New Harmony, IN)
- Unidentified artist