On display is “Fan, Salt Box, Melon” a 1909 painting by Piccaso that is on loan from the Cleveland Museum of Art. It, along with Georges Braque’s “Guitar and Bottle of Marc on a Table” a 1930 painting.
The pair are the featured works in “Path to Abstraction: Picasso, Braque, and Cubism’s Impact on Modern Art.
It will remain on display through April 14, 2024.
Picasso and Braque are, according to art historians, developed “Cubism” and “Synthetic Cubism” as styles adopted by other artists.
“Cubism was a prismatic mirror that so much of 20th-century art needed to pass through in order to question space, illusion, and even more broadly, the true purpose of painting,” said Dr. Catherine Walworth, the Jackye and Curtis Finch, Jr., Curator of Drawings at the museum.
The pieces are in Little Rock because the museum loaned to Cleveland, Odilon Redon’s Andromeda and Diego Rivera’s Dos Mujeres, while the museum here was being renovated. Those pieces have since made their way back home and are back on view here.
There’s a total of 25 works that make up the museum’s collection.
Coming later this month, Dec. 19 to be specific, Risa Hricovsky, an artist based in Knoxville, Tennessee, will go display with “Then Is Now.”
Hopes of Harmony / Risa Hricovksy / Risa Hricovsky (Toledo, Ohio, 1985 - ), Hopes of Harmony, 2023, pigmented porcelain, 33 x 33 x 3 in., Courtesy of the artist.
It runs through April 28, 2024 and features new work produced for the museum and includes a “site-specific painting and sculpture installation.”
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Path to Abstraction to open at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts on Saturday
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As artists go, Picasso is among the most famous of the 20th century.
And, luckily enough, Picasso will be on display starting this Saturday at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock.
On display is “Fan, Salt Box, Melon” a 1909 painting by Piccaso that is on loan from the Cleveland Museum of Art. It, along with Georges Braque’s “Guitar and Bottle of Marc on a Table” a 1930 painting.
The pair are the featured works in “Path to Abstraction: Picasso, Braque, and Cubism’s Impact on Modern Art.
It will remain on display through April 14, 2024.
Picasso and Braque are, according to art historians, developed “Cubism” and “Synthetic Cubism” as styles adopted by other artists.
“Cubism was a prismatic mirror that so much of 20th-century art needed to pass through in order to question space, illusion, and even more broadly, the true purpose of painting,” said Dr. Catherine Walworth, the Jackye and Curtis Finch, Jr., Curator of Drawings at the museum.
The pieces are in Little Rock because the museum loaned to Cleveland, Odilon Redon’s Andromeda and Diego Rivera’s Dos Mujeres, while the museum here was being renovated. Those pieces have since made their way back home and are back on view here.
There’s a total of 25 works that make up the museum’s collection.
Coming later this month, Dec. 19 to be specific, Risa Hricovsky, an artist based in Knoxville, Tennessee, will go display with “Then Is Now.”
It runs through April 28, 2024 and features new work produced for the museum and includes a “site-specific painting and sculpture installation.”
Admission to the museum is always free.