Previously, he directed New York's Dahesh Museum of Art, which specialized in 19th - century
European academic painting and sculpture; before that, he held senior posts at the Brooklyn Museum and Baltimore Museum of Art.
Where an early generation of artists had portrayed the romantic lure of the American Southwest during the nineteenth - century using
European Academic painting traditions to represent the environment and inhabitants of the region as exotic, Modern artists took a very different approach.
Not exact matches
Prior to the advent of distinctively Canadian modernists like Tom Thomson, members of the Group of Seven, Emily Carr and David Milne in the 20th century, Canadian
painting closely followed conventional,
academic European models and tastes.
Roberts joins recently hired Francesca Consagra, senior curator of prints and drawings, and
European painting, and Ray Williams, director of education and
academic affairs, as well as Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, now serving as Blanton curator at large, to further establish the museum nationally as a center for innovation and excellence in the arts.
Perhaps we confront the work with the stereotype that
European painting is more conceptual or more
academic; perhaps American painters are more iconoclastic and irreverent.
Reacting against an American
academic and aesthetic tradition that was subservient to
European aesthetics, the members of The Eight established their own artistic society in the bustling neighbourhoods of New York and set out to create a native American
painting.
Founded by Natalya Muzaleva, N2N Gallery presents the rich diversity of the
European Academic School of
Painting, as well as the high professionalism of the contemporary
European artists and their exc...