This annual exhibition of culminating works by eight seniors and five third-year graduate students in the Art, Art History and Design Department demonstrates a broad awareness of the themes and processes of contemporary art and is often provocative.
The artworks range from industrial and graphic design projects and complex multi-media installations to more traditional art forms such as paintings, drawings, photographs, prints, ceramics and sculpture.
On Sunday, April 1 the Art, Art History and Design Departmental awards will be announced in the Annenberg Auditorium during the 2–4 p.m. opening reception, along with the 2012 Emerging Artists Awards.
Entanglement
by Nicholas Gunty
oil on panel
Straw Dog
by Jackson S. Zorn
graphite on paper
French playwright and actor Molière (1622–73) once said, "It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh." This focus exhibition of Old Master and nineteenth-century drawings related to the theater examines the function and role of the performing arts within political and social discourse in France. The selection presented here includes figure studies and decorative designs by eighteenth-century artists Claude Gillot, Charles Antoine Coypel, and Gilles-Marie Oppenord and their post-revolutionary successors Alexandre Denis Abel de Pujol, James Pradier, and Charles Antoine Cambon.
An Ornamental Cartouche, ca. 1700,
Gilles-Marie Oppenord (French, 1672–1742)
pen and gray ink and brown wash and watercolor on laid paper
13.25 x 16.87 inches (sheet)
On extended loan from Mr. John D. Reilly '63
L2009.005.003
