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Sublime and the Grotesque: Ribera and the Art of Drawing
Meadows Museum
A prolific draftsman, outstanding painter, and influential printmaker, Jusepe de Ribera was one of the leading artists of the Spanish Golden Age. This lecture will provide an introduction to Ribera’s drawings by exploring some of the leitmotifs in his graphic oeuvre: grotesque heads, martyrdom scenes, tortured figures, and bound saints. It will demonstrate how these works reveal an underlying tension between the beauty and sophistication of the drawing medium and the ugliness and violence of the subject matter, arguing that this tension is a defining characteristic of Ribera’s artistic practice.
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Carlotta Corpron: Stretching Reality
Meadows Museum
Carlotta Corpron (1901-1988) took up the quintessential tool for describing the world - the camera - and used it instead to construct new worlds. This lecture will explore how she internalized the artistic ideals of her day and caught the admiration of leading artists by innovatively reimagining photographic conceptions of space and time.
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Meadows Museum Celebrating 50 Years Panel Discussion
Meadows Museum
A conversation moderated by Lee Cullum, host of KERA's "CEO," about the history of the Meadows Museum, featuring important figures instrumental to the formation and growth of the institution over its fifty-year history. Panelists include William B. Jordan, Founding Director from 1967-1981; Irene Martín, Director ad interim from 1981-1984; Pamela Patton, Adjunct Curator from 1994-2000; John Lunsford, Director from 1996-2001; Mark Roglán, former Senior Curator and currently the Linda P. and William A. Custard Director since 2006; and Robert Meadows, sone of the Museum's founder, Algur H. Meadows.
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Portraits in Conversation: Francisco de Goya and Vicente López y Portaña
Meadows Museum
This two-part lecture celebrates the arrival of the Musée du Louvre's full-length "Portrait of Ferdinand Guillemardet" by Francisco de Goya paired with the Meadows' "Portrait of Richard Worsam Meade" by Vicente López y Portaña. Olivier Meslay, former Louvre chief curator, will address the visiting Goya portrait while Nicole Atzbach will address López's painting, acquired by the Meadows Museum in 2011. The program addresses the development of the informal portrait and the influence of French art in Spain in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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Human/nature. The Ridiculous and Sublime: Recent Works by John Alexander
John Alexander
Artist John Alexander talks about his artistic production over the past decade. An SMU alumnus who studied under Roger Winter, John's early work was rooted in experiences from his native environment around Beaumont, Texas. While a graduate student at SMU in the early 1970s, John worked as a preparator at the Meadows Museum, where he spent a good deal of time hanging and rehanging the works of Francisco de Goya. The satirical prints of Goya have remained for Alexander a source of inspiration throughout his career and can be seen most clearly in his images of people who assume animal characteristics and in the tension that hides just beneath the surface of his landscape paintings.
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International Symposium: Curating Goya
Meadows Museum
In the words of one recent author, Francisco Goya (1746-1828) is enjoying a “pop-culture moment.” Two large-scale exhibitions devoted to him opened this fall at the Meadows Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and three more will open in Europe next year. With an oeuvre encompassing some 1,800 works, from commissioned portraits to dreamlike fantasies, Goya never ceases to intrigue and surprise viewers. At the same time, his vast and varied output presents particular challenges for its interpretation and display. In a public symposium, curators of recent and upcoming shows on Goya will discuss how different approaches to exhibiting Goya’s work invite new paths for understanding his art.
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Sorolla and America Symposium: Part One
Meadows Museum
Joaquín Sorolla first came to the notice of North American collectors in the early 1890s, and his work must surely have been known to Archer Milton Huntington, founder of The Hispanic Society of America, from at least 1900, when Huntington attended the Exposition Universelle at Paris where Sorolla won a Grand Prix. However, it was not until his visit to Sorolla’s 1908 exhibition in London that Huntington began acquiring works by the artist. The initial encounter led to preparations for an exhibition of Sorolla’s works at The Hispanic Society in New York in February 1909 – an astonishing success with nearly 160,000 visitors in four weeks – and a subsequent itinerant exhibition in 1911. With sales from the exhibitions, portrait commissions, and Huntington’s 1911 commission for the series of large mural canvases called Vision of Spain (1912-19), Sorolla not only became a wealthy man, but arguably the best-known Spanish artist of his time internationally. This lecture will outline the history of Sorolla’s connections with the The Hispanic Society and attempt to answer a series of questions: What was the secret of Sorolla’s success in America? What attracted Archer Huntington and many American critics and collectors to Sorolla’s art? What was Sorolla’s impact on American art, on Huntington, and on The Hispanic Society itself?
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