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University of Richmond

Fine Arts

1989

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Francis Cunningham: Painting And Drawing, University Of Richmond Museums Jan 1989

Francis Cunningham: Painting And Drawing, University Of Richmond Museums

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Francis Cunningham: Painting and Drawing

March 14 to April 5, 1989

Marsh Art Gallery

Introduction

Realism is an attitude toward life that affirms the beauty and significance of the visible world. Realism starts outside with the surfaces of things and travels inward to their meaning. Everything in this process has to do with selection. What has the object told a particular artist about itself, about its relationship to other objects and to the surrounding space?

In life one takes in things at a glance, but the artist looks at an object for hours, weeks, months, even years. Premier coup painting …