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Some Major Art Exhibits to Experience The New Season includes Matisse, Modigliani, Cubism, Ruscha, Hopper and more • The Philadelphia Museum of Art does Matisse The Philadelphia Museum of Art, in collaboration with the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris and the Musée Matisse Nice, will present the first exhibition ever dedicated to the pivotal decade of the 1930s in the art of Henri Matisse (1869–1954). Opening first in Philadelphia, the only U.S. venue, the exhibition Matisse in the 1930s has more than 100 works, ranging from both renowned and rarely seen paintings and sculptures, to drawings and prints, to illustrated books. It also features documentary photographs and films. Because this transformative decade in Matisse’s career has never been treated in a standalone exhibition before, visitors have a rare opportunity to immerse themselves in the very process through which Matisse generated a new creative approach and outlook in the later part of his career, while also witnessing the dramatically revitalized production that followed from his eventful visit to Philadelphia in 1930. Between works on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and complementary holdings down the street at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia is an exciting city in which to experience Matisse’s art. Matisse spent most of his life in Nice, and Mediterranean splendor permeates his work. He came back from the U.S. to France with a broadened vision of the world that had long-lasting effects, as the ’30s were rejuvenating for this pioneer of modernity. The Musée Matisse in Nice, whose collection is rich in art linked to this period of creation, has collaborated with the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Musée de l’Orangerie to demonstrate the renewal in the artist’s work during this period. The Dance (1931–33), Matisse’s decoration for the Barnes Foundation, is closely linked to the artist’s return to a modernist style in the 1930s. In 1930, Matisse had achieved significant international renown, and yet he found himself in a deep creative slump. A dozen years before, he had switched his base of operations from Paris to Nice. There he had focused on the theme of female models in elaborately decorated studio setups bathed in the crystalline light of the Mediterranean. Some critics wondered whether Matisse, who had been such a radical force in modern painting, had lost his experimental edge. By the later 1920s, Matisse himself had developed second thoughts, and for a couple years he produced nearly no new paintings. The turning point came in the fall of 1930, when the artist visited the Barnes Foundation in the suburbs of Philadelphia, and received the commission for a three-part mural, The Dance. Matisse used this commission to turn his work around. Afterward, he returned to easel painting with new procedures and a new approach. He started using photography systematically to document the cumulative process of building his motifs and to test his own reactions as he went along. He also began using pre-colored cut papers to plan his compositions; this procedure led him away from the illusion of modeling and deep space and toward a style of flat tones and bold shapes that gave his compositions of the 1930s a new impact. Matisse in the 1930s has an array of works from public and private collections in the U.S. and Europe. It explores the changes in style that followed as Matisse discovered different ways of working across the mediums of easel and decorative painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, and the illustrated book. The exhibition will demonstrate that what he achieved during the 1930s represented a total revitalization of his artistic vision. In 1941, Matisse underwent a risky operation for abdominal cancer; after this brush with death, he spoke of embarking on a second artistic life. At first, he painted little, but instead focused on a major effort in drawing: a corpus of 158 drawings of models in the studio and fruit and floral still lifes known as Themes and Variations. ITINERARY • Philadelphia Museum of Art, through January 29, 2023 • Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, February 27, 2023–May 29, 2023 • Musée Matisse Nice, June 23, 2023– September 24, 2023 The Philadelphia Museum of Art: philamuseum.org • The Barnes Foundation Presents Modigliani Up Close The first exhibition to spotlight conservation research exploring Modigliani’s working methods and materials runs to January 29, 2023 at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia (a short distance from the Philadelphia Art Museum). The Barnes Foundation has Modigliani Up Close, that offers new insights into his working methods and materials that’s on view through January 29, 2023. Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920) is among the most celebrated artists of the 20th century. While many exhibitions have endeavored to reunite his paintings, sculptures, and drawings, Modigliani Up Close offers an opportunity to examine their production and explore how Modigliani constructed and composed his signature works. Featuring new scholarship that builds on research that began in 2017 with the major Modigliani retrospective at Tate Modern, this single-venue exhibition is the culmination of years of research by conservators and curators across Europe and the Americas. Modigliani Up Close furthers understanding of Modigliani’s approach to his art, refines a chronology of his paintings and sculptures, and helps to establish the locations and circumstances of where he worked. Featuring nearly 50 works from major collections, and organized into thematic sections, the exhibition presents paintings and sculptures alongside new findings that have resulted from the technical research of collaborating conservators, conservation scientists, and curators. Using analytical techniques, including X-radiography, infrared reflectography, and X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF), conservators and conservation scientists reveal previously unknown aspects of Modigliani’s work. Visitors will feel closer to Modigliani as an artist, seeing his work through the eyes of the experts, catching glimpses of the artist’s hand hidden beneath the surfaces of his work. This exhibition holds a special significance at the Barnes, as Dr. Albert C. Barnes was one of Modigliani’s earliest collectors in the U.S. and helped shape the artist’s critical reception in this country. In addition to works on paper, there are 12 paintings and one carved stone sculpture by Modigliani in the Barnes collection. With 12 paintings each, the Barnes and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, have the largest collections of Modigliani paintings in the world. Visitors can use Barnes Focus, a mobile guide that works on any smartphone with a web browser. This is the first occasion Barnes Focus can be used to explore loaned works in an exhibition. Visitors simply open the guide by navigating to barnesfoc.us on a mobile browser and focus on a work of art; the guide recognizes the work and delivers information about it. Barnes Focus also leverages the Google Translate API, so you can automatically translate the guide into a variety of languages. The Barnes Foundation: barnesfoundation.org. continued on page 28 26 WEST COAST WOMAN DECEMBER 2022
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