In the next few days promise to be an unusually euphoric for the capital of the country, even by the standards of the last presidential inauguration. If you arrive in the city at this historic event and some extra time, you can always duck at the National Gallery of art without clouding your delight. Due to the excellent painting Museum euphoria, perhaps in its walls can easily match the mood outside. He also may strike you as similar to living with a sense of human possibilities.National Gallery, founded in 1937, as a gift to the nation from the financier Andrew Mellon, opened its doors in the year 1941. This is the jewel in the Crown of many great museums in Washington. It's open, with free admission 363 days a year, but this year that number will drop to 362. Like many agencies along the Mall will be closed on inauguration day.Although the Gallery has an impressive holdings in prints, drawings, photographs, decorative arts, especially sculpture, this is not an encyclopedic Museum, Metropolitan Museum of art, and others across the country. His art almost entirely European and American, and his long suit so far is painting.The bulk of National Gallery paintings are lined up on the vast ground floor, where a wonderfully intimate Warrens of galleries feed in two long halls, which are found in the dome of the Rotunda. It's as if the arcades of the Palais Royal in Paris were attached to either side of the Pantheon in Rome.Galleries are numbered, and the first 25 or so offer an amazing font Overview of Western painting in Italy 13-16 century, especially if you have particularly abundant renderings of Madonna and child. The starting point is the "Madonna and child enthroned" Margaritone d ' Arezzo in Gallery 1. From around 1270, it encapsulates the gold ground, frozen poses and a flat space of Byzantine art.One possible end point is the "Alba Madonna" Raphael glorious Tondo from circa 1510 in Gallery 20. Here's Madonna was leaning towards baby Jesus as mother (although very worthy mother) on a picnic; elegant, fully rounded figures occupy the huge dome Crystal, was skiing the blue space, which stretches behind them.Between these two pictures almost every Italian artist of that time seemed to weigh in on this issue, as well as how to display figure prominently in the space. The progression of the work gives unusual force of idealism and realism of the High Renaissance. Of course the portraits of the Renaissance, these rooms are not minor changes, since Leonardo da Vinci the ineffable "Ginevra de ' Benci" (Gallery 6).Across the Hall, Northern Renaissance and its aftermath unfold almost as compelling visit with dozens of galleries, including two (48 and 51), dedicated to Rembrandt and his school. One of the choicest places to pause is 39 Gallery where you will find the three vertices of a startling realism, favored in Germany and the Netherlands.First was Jan van Eyck meticulous "Annunciation", from around 1434-6, in which the Angel Gabriel finds Mary in Gothic church, standing on a carpet, thin lines depict scenes from the old testament. Secondly, Petrus Christus Grand "Christmas," from about the year 1450. Develop the Manger includes arches decorated with statues of Adam and Eve and gabled roofs with green leaves sprouting from the horizontal beam directly over the baby. However, this sign of growth and hope is framed by a triangle of spindly wood that subtly evokes painfully stretched arms, on the cross. The third is by Rogier van der Weyden luxuriously austere portrait of a lady "around 1460, her thin face, framed by a white veil, in form resembling a sphinx.Quick stop in Gallery 50 c not much bigger than a large closet, bring you face to face with dewy Vermeer's "girl with a Red Hat (1665-66), turning around to peer out of the picture so quickly that you can almost hear the rustle of her blue silk dress. The space behind the muted yellow and green tapestry in soft focus.On the other side of the Rotunda of the French impressionism and several galleries of American art are waiting. (More are in the process of reinstalling after temporary exhibitions, as well as British art gallery). Among the Impressionists keep an eye out for Cézanne gross coating, all fingers portrait of father domineering in Gallery 83. He dressed as a manual worker, notwithstanding that the banker (he thought should have been Cezanne) and depicts a seated under one of his son still lives with a newspaper, which positively reviewed the work of his son.Another standout in this section is the Gauguin "still life with peonies" (Gallery 84), relatively unfamiliar work, painted in quasi-Impressionistic manner, but with deep red, green and yellow Gauguin's mature style. Early work, he shows his elders bowing, Gauguin probably presenting art that he owned: displays the part of the picture, the wall was Degas, along with village scenes, which can be a Pissarro.More articles in arts» a version of this article appeared in print on January 16, 2009, on page C32 of the New York Edition.
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