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Clark Art Institute

Visual Arts Review: The Twin Towers of British Landscape Painting — Compare and Contrast

One sees how the keen observation and “truth to nature” that critic John Ruskin espoused was put into action by John Constable and J.M. W. Turner.

By: Charles Giuliano Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Charles Giuliano, Clark Art Institute, John Constable, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Turner and Constable: The Inhabited Landscape

Visual Arts Review: “Women Artists in Paris 1850-1900” — A Fabulous Surprise

Who knew that there were dozens of first-rate female American, Scandinavian, German, Swiss, French and Russian painters in Paris in the second half of the 19th century?

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Clark Art Institute, Culture Vulture, Ellen Thesleff, Hannah (Hirsch) Pauli, Helen Epstein, Mary Cassatt, Women Artists in Paris 1850-1900

Visual Arts Review: An Impressive Selection of Picasso Prints at The Clark

This is a relatively small but stunning selection of Picasso’s finest prints, a collection that reflects the artist’s range of inspiration.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Charles Giuliano, Clark Art Institute, Picasso Prints, Picasso:Encounters, The Clark Art Institute

Visual Arts Review: “Whistler’s Mother” — Up Close and Personal

With invention that suggests the work of Malevich and Mondrian, the composition is a play of rectangles.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (Portrait of the Artist’s Mother), Charles Giuliano, Clark Art Institute, James McNeill Whistler, Whistler's Mother, Whistler’s Mother: Gray Black and White

Visual Arts: Ambergris and Alchemy — A Pilgrimage to John Singer Sargent’s “Fumée d’Ambre Gris”

At times I leave off my avid samplings of one entrancement after another in a great museum. Instead, I make a pilgrimage dedicated to a single work, such as John Singer Sargent’s intoxicating woman in white in “Fumée d’Ambre Gris” at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

By: Grace Dane Mazur Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Clark Art Institute, Fumée d’Ambre Gris, John Singer Sargent

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