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The 2009-10 exhibition season will also feature an extensive selection of works from the NaplesMuseum of Art’s permanent collections of American Modernism and Modern Mexican Masters.
AMERICAN MODERNISM
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2 THROUGH WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 2010
MODERN MEXICAN MASTERS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2 THROUGH WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 2010
Catalogue available at the Museum Store Online:
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20th-Century Mexican Art: The Pollak Collection, is a fully illustrated guide to the remarkable Mexican art collected over a 30-year period by Harry and Sharley Pollak. The Pollak Collection includes significant works from the masters of 20th-century Mexican art and reflects all of the major movements and developments of the time. Among the gems in this collection are Rufino Tamayo¹s monumental White Nude, José Clemente Orozco¹s The Red Curtain, Alfredo Zalce¹s Girl Selling Ducks and two works by Diego Rivera. 20th-Century Mexican Art: The Pollak Collection features full-color reproductions of all of the paintings, drawings and sculpture in the collection along with commentaries on the art and artists. |
JUST ADDED TO OUR PERMANENT COLLECTION!
Tim Read, Apollo, 1999, painted steel plates, 104 inches high. Collection of the Naples Museum of Art.
Gift of Jonathan Green and Richard Weedman.
MASTERS OF MINIATURE
THE KUPJACK ROOMS AND KAYE COLLECTION
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Some of the world’s most remarkable miniatures will be on display this season as part of the museum’s Masters of Miniature exhibition. Featured works in this fascinating collection of miniature rooms include the majestic Roman Triclinium, the Napoleonic Anteroom and the Louis XV Petit Salon. Other rooms include a delightful American Diner, c.1941 , Art Nouveau Shop, Chinese Laundry and Artists’ Garret. Many of these miniature environments were created by the late Eugene Kupjack, widely regarded as the pioneer in the field, and his son Henry. One of the highlights of the collection is the exquisite, incomparable miniature of Louis XV’s famous Bureau du Roi, created by Denis Hillman, the leading artist of Louis-period furniture. Masters of Miniature features some of the finest examples of this magical, increasingly popular art form, offering esoteric glimpses into faraway times and places.
MASTERS OF MINIATURE
THE KUPJACK ROOMS AND KAYE COLLECTION –
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2 THROUGH WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 2010
IN THE PHILHARMONIC GALLERIES
Above: (Detail) Henry Kupjack, Roman Triclinium, 1984, Mixed media, 31 x 30 x 40 inches. Collection of the Naples Museum of Art. 2002.10.007. Gift of Carole and Barry Kaye.
Art Nouveau Shop is on loan courtesy of Mr. Henry Kupjack.
Bureau du Roi is on loan courtesy of Ede & Ravenscroft Ltd.
FRENCH PROTEST POSTERS FROM MAY 1968
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French protest posters from the Naples Museum of Art Permanent Collection will be on exhibit in the Friends of Art Gallery at the Philharmonic Center for the Arts, from October 17-November 15, 2009.
In May 1968, thousands of French university students took to the streets in nationwide demonstrations that often led to violent confrontations with the police. Workers joined the student protests, the worker strikes shutting down the economy and destabilizing the French government. What started as an expression of dissatisfaction with the university system led to a radical reassessment of almost every French institution. Nineteen sixty-eight was a year characterized by worldwide student protests against the Vietnam War, and an assortment of social and political issues. The May-June 1968 student protests in France were a significant event that mirrored the international sense of outrage with then-prevailing world conditions.
One million posters like those included in this exhibition went up all over France. They were produced quickly, with cheap materials donated to students by printers who were on strike. They were designed primarily by a group of students called the People’s Studio; most of the artists were from the Paris School of Fine Arts. The posters were initially made to be sold as a form of fund-raising for the student movement. The artists quickly saw that their art was not a product, though, but a form of political action. None of the art work is attributed to a specific individual, the artists even rejecting the idea of the posters as art to be used for decorative purposes or as an historical document. Fortunately, these 24 examples of the posters survived to remind us that art is never produced in a vacuum, but is a reflection of the environment in which it is created.
