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sojusucks
Joined: 31 May 2008
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 Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 6:00 am Post subject: New Seoul art exhibit features Picasso and others |
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http://www.koreaherald.com/entertainment/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20101027000757
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Tumultuous time gave birth to Picasso
2010-10-27 17:51
It is hard not to be intimidated by the penetrating blue eyes of the lady in Kees van Dongen�s painting �Woman with Blue Eyes,� which seem to be ready to glare at anyone that comes within sight.
Depicting a close-up of a face of a femme fatale wearing over the top makeup with excessive green and blue eye shadows, bloody red lipstick and a thick layer of peach-colored blusher, the color bonanza piece is exemplary of a 20th century Fauvist painting.
Including the work, over 120 paintings, drawings and sculptures by 39 European artists from the late 19th and early 20th century are on display at the exhibition �Passion and Solitude: Picasso and Modern Art� which is currently underway at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Deoksugung, in central Seoul.
The exhibits were brought to Asia for the first time from the Albertina in Vienna, Austria, an art museum internationally renowned for its graphic art collections. It accommodates more than a million works of art which span sixth centuries of art history from the late middle ages to present.
The exhibition divides into four sections �Passion for the Inner World,� �The Anxiety of the Times,� �In Search of the Pure� and �The Agony and the Passion.�
Wandering around four exhibition rooms packed with colorful and passionate works, visitors would often come across familiar paintings or at least familiar names as the artist list includes well-known masters in Korea like Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Marc Chagall and Amedeo Modigliani.
Living in such a tumultuous time and suffering through industrialization, expansion of colonization and wars, the artists created bold, experimental works that used excessive colors and distorted the real figure of the subjects.
�With uncertainty of the future and existential angst, they continued to seek creative potential by rediscovering the meaning of life; the art expressing the inner truth of human became their utmost task. It is through this artistic struggle that paintings ceased to be a mere representation of object reality and a subordinate means to other media,� said Park Soo-jin, curator of the exhibition.
Picasso is set up in the title of the show because he is, without doubt, the most representative artist of the period, added Park.
The exhibition may not showcase Picasso�s most famous pieces, but selected works appropriate enough to offer a brief understanding of the artist�s style which changed over time.
Starting from his 1904 piece �The Frugal Meal,� a work etched on zinc which depicts a young emaciated couple sitting in front of a very humble meal in despair, the collection showcases six more of his lithographs and oil paintings and ends with the 1941 painting �Woman in A Green Hat� which displays the artist�s significant cubist style which he had settled with by then.
Notably, around 30 pieces of Die Brucke painters and Der Blaue Reiter artist�s drawings are revealed to the world�s public for the first time through this exhibition. They were innovative artist groups in early 20th century Germany who strived to find new ways to embody the inner emotions of the artist in their works.
�We knew that such works existed but did not know who, at where, had the original works. But we accidentally came across the works a few months ago and decided to include them in our museum�s collection. The works will be showcased in Europe for the first time in about six months, after this show,� said Klaus Albrecht Schroder, director of The Albertina.
Other exhibits such as Emil Nolde�s �Moonlit Night,� in which the magical scenery of the ocean seems to soothe the stressed-out mind, or Giacometti�s bronze sculpture �Four Women on A Plinth,� in which skinny, vulnerable-looking bronze frames are formed like four women prostitutes who are making desperate efforts to survive, are impressive as well.
The exhibition runs through March 1 at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Deoksugung, in central Seoul. Tickets are 3,000 won for children, 7,000 won for adolescents and 9,000 won for adults. For details, call (02) 752-3002 or visit www.moca.go.kr.
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Directions in English
http://www.moca.go.kr/eng/engVisit.do?_method=vHere
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sojusucks
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| Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 1:40 am Post subject: |
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| I'm guessing the art crowd is going to want to see this. Not much else going on in the Seoul art world, right now. |
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nathanrutledge
Joined: 01 May 2008
Location: Marakesh
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| Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Reading the article, this seems really reminiscent of the show they had at the museum (Seoul Art Center?) by Express Bus Terminal last fall, lots of Picasso and his contemporaries. |
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mmstyle
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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| I was wondering the same. I love going to exhibits, but if I have to suffer through the crowds and generally unpleasant atmosphere that I have experienced while looking at art here, I don't want to go see the same stuff. That exhibit was nice, but I HATE the crowds, and having people pushing me while I try to appreciate a wonderful work of art. |
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nathanrutledge
Joined: 01 May 2008
Location: Marakesh
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| Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Posted directions are WRONG. The exhibit is at the Deoksugong gallery, not the gwacheon gallery. City Hall station lines 1 & 2. |
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sojusucks
Joined: 31 May 2008
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| Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2010 12:59 am Post subject: |
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| nathanrutledge wrote: |
| Posted directions are WRONG. The exhibit is at the Deoksugong gallery, not the gwacheon gallery. City Hall station lines 1 & 2. |
Thanks for bringing it up. The link I posted for directions is for any of the galleries or branches. There's no way to link it directly to the directions for the Deoksugong gallery. Everyone has to click on it after clicking on the link. |
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sojusucks
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| Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2927856
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A Picasso exhibit for fans of the Expressionists
Exhibit traces artist�s influence.
The title of the exhibition at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea at Deoksu Palace in central Seoul is �Picasso and Modern Art.� But only eight of the 121 artworks on display are by the Spanish master.
That might disappoint fans of Pablo Picasso who have been enticed by the title.
Still, the show is a pleasure for those who are interested in the Expressionists of the early 20th century; artists who vented their emotions through the use of strong colors and threatening distortions.
Despite only having a few Picasso pieces, the Korean museum may have titled the exhibition as it did because Picasso is the most popular artist of our time and he does have a relationship to the Expressionists.
In addition, the Korean museum said that Picasso expressed the world of human consciousness through distorted figures and made paintings that contain the figures of lonely spirits.
In particular, local art fans who have seen the work of German and Austrian Expressionists - such as Emil Nolde, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Oskar Kokoschka - in art history books, but have had few chances to see the paintings in person, will be delighted with the show.
The exhibition mostly focuses on Expressionist groups based in German cities including the Dresden-based Die Brucke (The Bridge) group led by Kirchner and Munich-based Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) group led by the famous Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc.
Kirchner�s nude paintings look nervous rather than erotic with their sharply angular bodies.
And Kokoschka�s landscapes and still-life paintings, which look as though they are caught in a tempest, give off an air of uneasiness rather than peace.
That edginess is typical of paintings in this genre.
�The early 20th century was a disastrous and tumultuous period with world wars,� Klaus Albrecht Schroder, head of the Albertina Museum in Vienna, told reporters in Seoul.
The works in the exhibition are part of the Albertina�s collection.
According to the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, the Austrian museum is famous for keeping one of the world�s most extensive collections of graphic art - more than a million Western prints, drawings and paintings from medieval to modern times.
�The artists felt a sense of crisis and expressed their inner conflicts and emotions through their paintings,� Schroder said. �Their works were totally different from the Western art tradition - which had been kept since the Renaissance - based on representations of nature.�
Viewers will have a chance to compare Russian artist Kandinsky�s Expressionist landscapes, which have unrealistic colors but are still in line with the utterly abstract paintings that he would make in later years and for which he is most well known.
The exhibit also contains early work by Russian-French painter Marc Chagall, when he was living in Paris and was influenced by Expressionists and Cubist artists. Some Chagall connoisseurs still feel that these paintings constitute his best work.
Also on display are works by artists who traded influences with the Expressionists, including Fauvists such as the French painter Henri Matisse and Orphism artists such as the French painter Robert Delaunay.
Works by the most popular modern artists of our time, including Picasso, and French artist Amedeo Clemente Modigliani and the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti also have their work featured in this exhibit.
*The exhibit runs through March 1. Admission is 11,000 won ($9.90) for adults. The museum is open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday to Thursday and until 8:30 p.m. Friday to Sunday. It is closed on Mondays. Go to City Hall Station, line No. 1 or 2, exit 1. Call (02) 757-3002 or visit http://pam.chosun.com.
By Moon So-young [[email protected]]
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orosee
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Location: Hannam-dong, Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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Can't be too long before someone will complain here about the lack of English signs and labels on the exhibits  |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Has anyone seen it? |
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sublunari
Joined: 11 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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Is this why the kids in my classes start shouting "Picasso!" if I show them a painting or ask them to try to name the composer to a classical music piece...?
(for the haters, I've only done this once or twice, but still...) |
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eslwriter
Joined: 15 Sep 2010
Location: A dot on the planet with an exaggerated sense of importance.
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| Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 12:23 am Post subject: |
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Saw a Picasso (or Monet - can't remember) exhibit in Seoul a few years ago.
What I do remember clearly was the large number of elementary school kids yelling and running around like wild animals. That was when I learned in Korea there is no distinction between an art gallery and playground (with the exception of the Samsung gallery near Itaewon).
Really killed the atmosphere and ability to enjoy art. Probably won't even try again. It just ain't worth the hassle and aggravation. |
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balzor
Joined: 14 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 4:29 am Post subject: |
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| sojusucks wrote: |
| I'm guessing the art crowd is going to want to see this. Not much else going on in the Seoul art world, right now. |
My god, the lines. I love going to see the art, but it is always packed |
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