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| Event Date | Tuesday, September 01, 2009 |
| End Date | Sunday, January 03, 2010 |
| Name | Blocks of Color: |
| Brief Description | American Woodcuts from the 1890s to the present |
| Type | Event |
| Category | New Brunswick New Jersey Art Events |
| Description | This presentation of over 100 prints surveys the use of the woodcut medium in the United States. The exhibition begins with a remarkable moment in the late nineteenth century when American artists, inspired by the arts and crafts movement and Japanese color prints, began experimenting with new ways to print in color. Rarely seen color woodcuts by Arthur Wesley Dow, an influential educational leader who promoted the art of the color woodcut, depict alluring Massachusetts landscapes in Japanese-inspired styles. Later artists experimented with the technique to create modernist imagery. Blanche Lazzell adapted cubism to render still lifes and the hills of West Virginia in brilliant yellows, oranges, greens, and blues. By the middle of the twentieth century, artists were transforming the woodcut to display bold colors and abstract forms. Contemporary artists worked in the medium in unprecedented ways; they created large-scale color woodcuts featuring people, landscapes, geometric abstraction, or organic forms, in styles as varied as abstract expressionism and minimalism. Blocks of Color continues up to the present day with prints by 43 other artists, including Polly Apfelbaum, Richard Bosman, Francesco Clemente, Richard Diebenkorn, Jim Dine, Helen Frankenthaler, Donald Judd, Karen Kunc, Sherrie Levine, Michael Mazur, and others. Drawn primarily from the Zimmerli’s extensive print collection, this exhibition is also complemented by several key loans from regional collections. Christine Giviskos, Associate Curator of Nineteenth-Century European Art, curated the exhibition with Marilyn Symmes, Director of the Morse Research Center for Graphic Arts and Curator of Prints and Drawings. |
| Address | 71 Hamilton Street |
| CSZ | New Brusnwick, NJ 08901 |
| Cost | $3[Non-Members] Free{members, RU students/faculty |
| Hours | Tues-Fri 10am-4:30pm; Sat-Sun 12noon-5pm |
| Website | http://www.zamweb.rutgers.edu |
| Additional Information | Additional Information |
| Information Request | Request New Brunswick New Jersey Visitor Information |
| Last Updated | 9/24/2009 |
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