Journey in their footsteps through Sugimoto's new monumental photographs of the sites they visited, and navigate the germination of cultural exchange between East and West
with classical masterpieces of visually hybrid (nanban) art from Japanese and American collections.
Not exact matches
In Inherent Vice — a wily fifth - generation Los Angeles noir that riffs
with equal dexterity on the genre's
classical high - points (The Big Sleep, Double Indemnity), its radical Fifties
masterpieces (In a Lonely Place, Kiss Me Deadly), its New Hollywood re-stagings (Chinatown, The Long Goodbye), and its Nineties postmodern updates (L.A. Confidential, The Big Lebowski)-- he finds it in another familiar character type: the reckless, sharp - witted professional snoop caught up in a case beyond his pay scale.
Presenting rediscovered and rarely seen works by Old Masters including Luca Giordano, El Greco and Pedro de Mena, the exhibition will show
classical works together
with modern
masterpieces by two artists strongly influenced by texture, religion and historic art: Antoni Tàpies and Miquel Barceló.
With their Ray Ban sunglasses, distressed denim and rolled up chinos, these
classical masterpieces are given a new lease of life thanks to French photographer Léo Caillard.
Experiments
with Truth explores, for the first time, the resonance of Mahatma Gandhi's ethics of nonviolence in the visual arts through both works of the late twentieth and twenty - first centuries and
masterpieces of
classical religious art of the past.
Among the works on display are David Hockney's season cycle, an international collection of sculptures by artists from Eduardo Chillida to Henry Moore,
masterpieces of
classical modernism from artists such as Pablo Picasso and Edvard Munch, breathtaking works of decorative art, and a selection of the Würth Collection's Old Masters, including one of the most significant paintings of the 16th century, Hans Holbein the Younger's «The Madonna
With the Family of Mayor Meyer».
Depicting ancient, medieval and contemporary warriors, as well as dinosaurs, bears and mythical beasts, along
with nudes lifted from
classical masterpieces, glossy magazines and salacious websites, Kuksi's Baroque confections treat history as primordial soup — a burbling stew of thrilling highlights and epic tragedies that not only resonate in the mind's eye but also inspire all sorts of emotions — good, bad and otherwise.