Passion and Precision in the Age of Revolution is a new exhibition hosted by the Museum of Fine Arts of Boston (USA), which features about forty-five works by artists including Ingres, Delacroix, Desprez, Prud'hon, Turner, Blake, Gericault, Girodet, Flaxman, and Schinkel.
The show presents European art of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, which was dominated by two powerful artistic movements: Neo-classicism and Romanticism. Neo-Classicism is marked by purity, austerity, clarity, and an almost abstract obsession with the linear.
The style was stimulated by the recent archaeological discoveries at Pompeii and Herculaneum and by pageants and festivals of the French Revolution that referred back to Republican Rome.
By contrast, Romanticism was an art of extremes, of melodrama: the dramatic interplay of light and shadow rather than linear purity. Romantic artists believed in nature—whether wild landscape, wild beasts, or the animal impulses of humankind—as an uncontrollable force, inspiring awe and terror.
Date: until May 13, 2012.
Place: Museum of Fine Arts Boston (MFA). Gallery 144. Boston Avenue of the Arts, 465, Huntington Avenue. Boston. USA.
Hours: Monday and Tuesday from 10am to 4.45pm. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 10am to 9.45pm. Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 4.45pm.
CAC de Málaga hosts the largest exhibition of Vik Muniz' work ever held in Europe
through December 2
Van Gogh to Kandinsky: Symbolist Landscape in Europe 1880-1910
from July 14 to October 14.
