Portrait - genre eternal
ARTinvestment.RU   14 июня 2008

June 20 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston opens exhibition of portraits from the museum collection

June 20 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston opens exhibition of portraits done by European artists from the museum collection. For the exhibition, which is located on the second floor of the Evans Wing, had been selected several works of European art, reflecting the development of this genre of art from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. Will be presented paintings by Giovanni Batista Moroni, Thomas Gainsborough, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse and Max Beckman. In addition, the exhibition includes sculptures and portraits of the Renaissance, as well as works by sculptor Antonio Canova and Albert Torvalds.

No less interesting than the authors represented in the exhibition, and they are models, which were very famous people. The exposition includes portraits poet Byron, the younger sister's best friend Degas and van Gogh Augustin taxi.

Van Gogh painted Madame taxi with the help of local and saturated colors in the colorful background of flowers and leaves. In the records of Van Gogh, you can find such a statement: «I want to write of men and women, passing that eternal energy that previously meant glory and we are now trying to pass through the brightness and vibration of color».

exhibition of portraits in the Boston museum will last until January 5, 2009.

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is the center of many types of collections of the highest level. The museum project is designed as an enlightened audience, and on those for whom art is still something new experiences. For information about upcoming exhibition found at the museum .

Source : www.artknowledge.com