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Art Of The Scholar-Poets: Traditional Chinese Painting And Calligraphy, University Of Richmond Museums
Art Of The Scholar-Poets: Traditional Chinese Painting And Calligraphy, University Of Richmond Museums
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Art of the Scholar-Poets: Traditional Chinese Painting and Calligraphy
April 01 to May 09, 1998
Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond Museums
Introduction
Chinese culture developed one of the world's most enduring artistic traditions, literati painting, based upon a unique idea about the purposes of art. The art of the scholar-poets is centered in calligraphy and poetry, which the literati learned at an early age as part of their basic education. Painting was done with the same tools as poetry and calligraphy - brush, ink, and paper - and it was an easy step to express poetic sensibilities in visual …
Anthony Panzera: The Big Picture, Life-Size Scrolls And Drawings, University Of Richmond Museums
Anthony Panzera: The Big Picture, Life-Size Scrolls And Drawings, University Of Richmond Museums
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Anthony Panzera: The Big Picture, Life-Size Scrolls and Drawings
January 28 to March 6, 1998
Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond Museums
Introduction
Anthony Panzera's remarkable series of monumental scrolls and drawings of the nude is impressive in its scale and startling in its immediacy. Large and beautiful, the life-size drawings present a contemporary perspective that carries forward a genre of drawing with a long and rich tradition.
The nude figure is an aesthetic theme of endless variation and can be traced to the very beginnings of art. The desire to depict the human form has been the source of …
Interiors: Recent Paintings By Duane Keiser, University Of Richmond Museums
Interiors: Recent Paintings By Duane Keiser, University Of Richmond Museums
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Interiors: Recent Paintings by Duane Keiser
February 26 to April 04, 1998
Marsh Art Gallery
Introduction
Duane Keiser's exhibition features his recent oil paintings dealing with interiors. Evoking the psychological intensity we often feel when we find ourselves alone inside silent architectural spaces, whether domestic or public, his paintings investigate this "intimacy of the room." Although devoid of people, his interiors are very much about the people who inhabit these seemingly ordinary spaces, about the haunting presence of humanity that remains, even as we catch tantalizing glimpses of the world outside. His paintings elicit our own experiences of such spaces, …