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Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein
Oct 30, 2011 - Mar 25, 2012
The BMA’s world-class print collection is the inspiration for an unprecedented exhibition of works spanning 500 years of printmaking. Discover more than 350 prints by Canaletto, Pablo Picasso, Ed Ruscha, and other European and American artists who created series covering a wide range of topics— places, imagination, narrative, design, appropriation, and war. Also represented are two voices for a new generation of printmakers, Daniel Heyman and Andrew Raftery, who will speak at the BMA on Saturday, December 3.
From Albrecht Dürer’s 16 woodcut illustrations for The Apocalypse (1496-1498) to Roy Lichtenstein’s seven Monet-inspired lithograph Haystacks (1969), visitors will have the rare opportunity to experience multiple images in complete sets, as the artists intended. Other examples include Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s Carceri d'invenzione, 1761 (16 etching and engravings); El Lissitzky’s Figurines: The Three-Dimensional Design of the Electro-Mechanical Show “Victory over the Sun,” 1932 (10 color lithographs); and Ed Ruscha’s News, Mews, Pews, Brews, Stews, & Dues, 1970 (6 color screenprints). More than half of the works in the exhibition have never been on view at the Museum.
The prints and themes were selected by students participating in “Paper Museums: Exhibiting Prints at The Baltimore Museum of Art,” a spring 2010 course at The Johns Hopkins University (JHU). Additionally, two students are working with the BMA over the summer to develop related educational materials for the exhibition.
From Albrecht Dürer’s 16 woodcut illustrations for The Apocalypse (1496-1498) to Roy Lichtenstein’s seven Monet-inspired lithograph Haystacks (1969), visitors will have the rare opportunity to experience multiple images in complete sets, as the artists intended. Other examples include Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s Carceri d'invenzione, 1761 (16 etching and engravings); El Lissitzky’s Figurines: The Three-Dimensional Design of the Electro-Mechanical Show “Victory over the Sun,” 1932 (10 color lithographs); and Ed Ruscha’s News, Mews, Pews, Brews, Stews, & Dues, 1970 (6 color screenprints). More than half of the works in the exhibition have never been on view at the Museum.
The prints and themes were selected by students participating in “Paper Museums: Exhibiting Prints at The Baltimore Museum of Art,” a spring 2010 course at The Johns Hopkins University (JHU). Additionally, two students are working with the BMA over the summer to develop related educational materials for the exhibition.
The BMA’s world-class print collection is the inspiration for an unprecedented exhibition of works spanning 500 years of printmaking. Discover more than 350 prints by Canaletto, Pablo Picasso, Ed Ruscha, and other European and American artists who created series covering a wide range of topics— places, imagination, narrative, design, appropriation, and war. Also represented are two voices for a new generation of printmakers, Daniel Heyman and Andrew Raftery, who will speak at the BMA on Saturday, December 3.
From Albrecht Dürer’s 16 woodcut illustrations for The Apocalypse (1496-1498) to Roy Lichtenstein’s seven Monet-inspired lithograph Haystacks (1969), visitors will have the rare opportunity to experience multiple images in complete sets, as the artists intended. Other examples include Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s Carceri d'invenzione, 1761 (16 etching and engravings); El Lissitzky’s Figurines: The Three-Dimensional Design of the Electro-Mechanical Show “Victory over the Sun,” 1932 (10 color lithographs); and Ed Ruscha’s News, Mews, Pews, Brews, Stews, & Dues, 1970 (6 color screenprints). More than half of the works in the exhibition have never been on view at the Museum.
The prints and themes were selected by students participating in “Paper Museums: Exhibiting Prints at The Baltimore Museum of Art,” a spring 2010 course at The Johns Hopkins University (JHU). Additionally, two students are working with the BMA over the summer to develop related educational materials for the exhibition.
From Albrecht Dürer’s 16 woodcut illustrations for The Apocalypse (1496-1498) to Roy Lichtenstein’s seven Monet-inspired lithograph Haystacks (1969), visitors will have the rare opportunity to experience multiple images in complete sets, as the artists intended. Other examples include Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s Carceri d'invenzione, 1761 (16 etching and engravings); El Lissitzky’s Figurines: The Three-Dimensional Design of the Electro-Mechanical Show “Victory over the Sun,” 1932 (10 color lithographs); and Ed Ruscha’s News, Mews, Pews, Brews, Stews, & Dues, 1970 (6 color screenprints). More than half of the works in the exhibition have never been on view at the Museum.
The prints and themes were selected by students participating in “Paper Museums: Exhibiting Prints at The Baltimore Museum of Art,” a spring 2010 course at The Johns Hopkins University (JHU). Additionally, two students are working with the BMA over the summer to develop related educational materials for the exhibition.
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Members Curator Talk: Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein
October 30, 2011
2:00 - 3:00 PM
10 Art Museum Drive Baltimore, MD, USA 21218
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