login   password  artist portfolio  gallery portfolio  MYabsolutearts 
absolutearts.com
 
help   |  media kit   |  about us   |  services   |  contact  
  NEWEST TRENDS                .   SEARCH   .   BUY   .   JOIN   .   COLLECT   .   RESEARCH   .   READ  .   DISCUSS  
Indepth Arts News:

"Last Week! Milestones of Modernism 1880-1940: Selections from the Norwest Collection"
1999-07-07 until 1999-09-12
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Minneapolis, MN, USA United States of America

With Milestones of Modernism, the Institute marks the debut of the celebrated Norwest Collection, the world’s most significant collection of Modernism. Donated to the museum in February 1999, it includes works by Gerrit Rietveld, Marcel Breuer, Alvar Aalto, Georg Jensen, Emilé Galle, Russell Wright, William Morris, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Comfort Tiffany and many others.

More than 200 objects are included in the exhibition—furniture, metalwork, ceramics, glass and works on paper. Created between 1880 and 1940, they represent a survey of the major movements of the period: Arts and Crafts (1875-1915), Art Nouveau (1880-1910), Wiener Werkstätte (1903-1933), De Stijl (1917-1928), Bauhaus (1919-1933) and Art Deco (1920-1940).

Exhibition highlights include Josef Hoffman’s reclining armchair (about 1905); an Egyptian onion flower-form vase made of favrile blown glass (about 1900) by Louis Comfort Tiffany; Mies van der Rohe’s MR 20 armchair (about 1931), an icon of 20th-century design; and Ilonka Karasz’s Desk (about 1928), a unique work designed for the artist’s studio.

The works on paper will highlight the simplicity, immediacy and experimentation that characterized the period. Among the posters being exhibited are Josef Sattler’s 1895 poster, Pan; William H. Bradley’s woodcut, The Kiss, 1896; Berthold Loffler’s 1908 poster, Kunstschau Wien; Robert Bonfil’s 1925 poster, Paris; and M.A. Miles’ 1933 poster, For the Zoo. >

More than 200 objects are included in the exhibition—furniture, metalwork, ceramics, glass and works on paper. Created between 1880 and 1940, they represent a survey of the major movements of the period: Arts and Crafts (1875-1915), Art Nouveau (1880-1910), Wiener Werkstätte (1903-1933), De Stijl (1917-1928), Bauhaus (1919-1933) and Art Deco (1920-1940).

Exhibition highlights include Josef Hoffman’s reclining armchair (about 1905); an Egyptian onion flower-form vase made of favrile blown glass (about 1900) by Louis Comfort Tiffany; Mies van der Rohe’s MR 20 armchair (about 1931), an icon of 20th-century design; and Ilonka Karasz’s Desk (about 1928), a unique work designed for the artist’s studio.

The works on paper will highlight the simplicity, immediacy and experimentation that characterized the period. Among the posters being exhibited are Josef Sattler’s 1895 poster, Pan; William H. Bradley’s woodcut, The Kiss, 1896; Berthold Loffler’s 1908 poster, Kunstschau Wien; Robert Bonfil’s 1925 poster, Paris; and M.A. Miles’ 1933 poster, For the Zoo.


Related Links:


 
Call for Curators : 2010 EMILY HALL TREMAINE EXHIBITION AWARD - Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation


MINE : Works by 9 Artists - KZNSA - KwaZulu Natal Society of Arts


Davide Tranchina : Big Bang - Nicoletta Rusconi


First Annual Best of The Best Artisan Sale and Show - Low Country Artisan Collective


Walter King : Argentina Remembered - Reprised Watercolors from Cordoba and Salta Provinces - Columbus College of Art and Design


Indo-American Arts Council's Erasing Borders 2009 - Gallery at Penn College


Sean Kennedy : A New Body of Work - Jancar Jones Gallery


Call for Artists : John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize 2010 - National Museums Liverpool


Thrice Upon A Time : A Century of Story in the Art of the Philippines - Singapore Art Museum


ALIAS MAN RAY : THE ART OF REINVENTION - Jewish Museum


Leopold Rabus - GEM, Museum of Contemporary Art


 

indepth arts search:     
 
Free Arts News Subscription | Browse the Arts | Artist Portfolios | International Arts News | Arts News Archive | Privacy Policy