New Accession Highlight: Paysage au ciel clair
Throughout his career, Dubuffet’s work changed dramatically from period to period, as he experimented with atypical materials and techniques.
September 16, 2020
News and Articles
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September 12, 2020New Accession Highlight: John Hughes Sculptures
Here we're highlighting two works by UW–Madison alumnus John Hughes who earned an MFA at UW–Madison in 1992.
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September 9, 2020New Accession Highlight: Two Men (Study for The Funding Bill)
Today we're featuring Two Men (Study for The Funding Bill), a preliminary study for a much larger painting entitled The Funding Bill—Portrait of Two Men that artist Eastman Johnson completed in 1881.
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September 1, 2020New Accession Highlight: Dogo the Kidnapper
Dogo the Kidnapper is an early work by Twins Seven-Seven, the father of Yorùbá modernism.
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August 28, 2020New Accession Highlight: Venus of Urbino Revived
Ceramic artist Mara Superior’s porcelain sculpture reflects the artist’s engagement with the history of Western art. This piece is inspired by the Venus of Urbino, an iconic work by the Italian Renaissance painter Titian.
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August 27, 2020New Accession Highlight: The Bees and the Ants #1
Artist Dean Byington creates intricate landscapes based on the graphic language of nineteenth-century illustrated books.
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August 20, 2020New Accession Highlight: Teapot
This work was fired in an anagama kiln—an ancient type of kiln that originated in China. The anagama kiln uses wood as a heat source, rather than the typical electric or gas kilns that contemporary ceramicists often use.
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August 13, 2020New Accession Highlight: Kenji Nakahashi Pieces
Today we’re taking a peek at three pieces by Japanese Conceptual artist Kenji Nakahashi. In both Difference in Time and Time (B), the artist arranged and photographed clocks to make a statement on the subjective experience of time.
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August 5, 2020New Accession Highlight: Cobalt Blues
Rudy Autio is considered a pillar of contemporary ceramics. The way that he constructs and shapes his vessels is distinctive and a hallmark of his production. After building up a hollow ceramic cylinder, he adds rounded projections that extend the vessel’s curvilinear surface.
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July 31, 2020New Accessions On View at the Chazen
These paintings show three different styles of depicting landscape during a period of great artistic transition from realism to abstraction in the decades around the turn of the twentieth century. The earliest is a composition by Scottish painter John Williamson, who immigrated to the United States as a child.