ADG Perspective

March-April 2019

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3 6 P E R S P E C T I V E | M A R C H / A P R I L 2 0 1 9 R E S O U R C E S C O N T I N U E D F R O M P A G E 3 4 M O N T R E A L M U S E U M O F F I N E A R T S , C A N A D A Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor Through February 24, 2019 A giant of modern art. As Sartre wrote, "These movements that intend only to please, to enchant our eyes, have nonetheless a profound and, as it were, metaphysical meaning." The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is presenting the first major Canadian retrospective of Alexander Calder (1898-1976) to highlight all the many facets of the career of the American "who made sculpture move." Developed, organized and circulated by the MMFA, the exhibition Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor presents 150 works and archival documents to portray the full scope of this artist's extraordinarily innovative multidisciplinary practice. Impressionism in the Age of Industry: Monet, Pissarro and More February 16–May 5, 2019 Pulsing with life, Paris in the 1870s was transforming—thanks to wider streets, increased traffic, an explosion of factories in the suburbs and faster, more frequent steam-powered trains. No one in France was immune to the rapid pace of change, least of all artists. Impressionism in the Age of Industry: Monet, Pissarro and More explores how French Impressionist artists and their contemporaries, famous for their lush landscapes and sea vistas, were equally obsessed with capturing the spirit of the Industrial Age. The groundbreaking exhibition features over 120 artworks, including paintings, photographs, prints, drawings, sculptures and period films. With masterpieces by beloved artists like Monet, Pissarro, Degas, Van Gogh, Cassatt and Seurat. A R T G A L L E R Y O F O N TA R I O , T O R O N T O , C A N A D A French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850-1950 February 16–May 20, 2019 French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850-1950 presents sixty paintings and sculptures from the Brooklyn Museum's renowned European permanent and long-term loan collections. Identifying France as the artistic centre of international modernism from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, these works—which are diverse in subject matter, style and scale—were created by leading artists of the period, intended both for private collections and public display. The works in French Moderns exemplify the avant-garde movements that defined modern art from the late-nineteenth to early-twentieth centuries, tracing a formal and conceptual shift from depicting the pictorial to evoking the idea, from a focus on naturalism to the ascendance of abstraction. The exhibition includes examples of the key movements of the period—Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, Fauvism, Cubism and Surrealism—that emerged in and around Paris between 1850 and 1950 and quickly became part of the dominant Western canon. V A N C O U V E R A R T G A L L E R Y, C A N A D A

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