Memorable museum exhibits of 2010 (more...)

Another memorable exhibit was the Pousette-Dart show of "Predominantly White Paintings" at the Phillips Collection.

These works seem to be right at the intersection between painting and drawing with layers of white paint and graphite creating intricate patterns. I found the "White Garden" paintings especially engaging with their range of shapes and lines.

Memorable museum exhibits of 2010 (more...)

A couple of other Oscar Bluemner paintings where the tree takes on the form of the figure-"Death" and "Violet Tones."






Cezanne's "Millstone and Cistern Under Trees" and Max Weber's "The Forest" show some similarities between the two artists.

Max Weber's "Summer" shows another interpretation of the figure in the landscape.

Memorable museum exhibits of 2010

Looking back on exhibits I visited in 2010, there are a few that really made lasting impressions. Cezanne and American Modernism at the Baltimore Museum of Art showed Cezanne's paintings side by side with American artists. I especially enjoyed seeing the similarities of Oscar Bluemner and Max Weber to some of Cezanne's works. I also noticed similarity between Bluemner and Weber in that they each integrate the human figure into the landscape. In June Night, Backyard, Bluemner's tree takes the form of a female figure. In Weber's Summer, the figures appear as part of the landscape. Seeing these artists in the same exhibit gave me some new ideas about the meaning of "the figure in the landscape."