The Guggenheim Hermitage Museum
has opened its new exhibition, Art Through the Ages: Masterpieces of Painting
from Titian to Picasso.
The Guggenheim Hermitage Museum will be managed and operated
by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. The two institutions
are partners in an international alliance in which joint initiatives
are undertaken and resources are shared to facilitate each
institution's long-term goals. The Guggenheim Hermitage Museum
is under the patronage of the Minister of Culture of the Russian
Federation, Dr. Mikhail E. Shwydkoi.
The Guggenheim Hermitage Museum was conceived as a venue for the presentation
of exhibitions based on the collections of the Guggenheim and Hermitage
museums. All programming will be generated by the directors and curatorial
staffs of the Guggenheim and Hermitage museums. Exhibitions will change
approximately twice a year.
Art Through the Ages: Art Through the Ages presents
key moments in the development of Western painting with masterpieces
from classical Renaissance to twentieth-century Modernism.
The exhibition begins with fifteenth-century Northern Renaissance
portraits by Jan van Eyck, (Portrait of Jan de Leeuw [1436])
and Albrecht Dürer (Portrait of Johannes Kleberger [1526]),
and continues with sixteenth-century Venetian Renaissance
paintings by Titian, Tintoretto, Francesco Bassano and Lorenzo
Lotto. The selection of seventeenth-century Baroque period
works are particularly diverse: French Classicism is represented
by Nicolas Poussin’s The Victory of Joshua Over the
Amelekites (1625) and Claude Lorraine’s Morning in the
Harbor (late 1630’s). Works by Francisco de Zurbarán,
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and Diego Velázquez
reflect the "Golden Age" of Spanish painting. Dutch
and Flemish painting is represented by richly detailed work
by Jan Steen and David Teniers the Younger. Portraits by Peter
Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck further highlight this rich
period of European painting. Eighteenth and nineteenth-century
French paintings by Antoine Watteau, Eugène Delacroix,
and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot lead into Impressionist and
Post-Impressionist paintings by Claude Monet, Vincent van
Gogh, and Paul Cézanne. Twentieth century Modern masterworks
by Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Vasily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, and Joan Miró
illustrate the artistic innovations of the first part of the
century – many of which influenced American Abstract
Expressionism. This movement is highlighted in the exhibition
by Jackson Pollock’s Ocean Greyness (1953) and paintings
by Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko. The exhibition ends
with Grrrrrrrrrrr!! (1965), by American Pop artist, Roy Lichtenstein.
In addition to the cultural and historical significance of
its individual works, Art Through the Ages is the first exhibition
of Old Master paintings in the greater Las Vegas region and
is therefore an unprecedented opportunity to bring the wealth
of Western painting to a new audience.
Museum Hours: 9:30 AM - 8:30 PM, daily
Admission: $15 adults, $11 students, $7 children 6–12,
free for members and children under 6, $12 Nevada Residents
with State ID, $12 Seniors
Public Information: Telephone: (702) 414-2440
Telefax: (702) 414-2442
Public Information:
Tel: (702) 414-2440
Fax: (702 414-2442
Website: www.guggenheimlasvegas.org
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