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Participated Artists:
Michael
Brennan,
Willie
Mae Brown,
Gabriele
Evertz,
Karen
Fitzgerald,
Marilu
Datoli Hartnett,
Leon
Nicholas Kalas,
Patricia
Kelly, JoAnne McFarland,
Paula Overbay,
Linda Shere,
Louise P. Slone,
Ellie Winberg.
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With
this exhibition, I have invited the participating artists
not to represent appearances in their work, but to express
'the idea' in an abstract way. The imaginary therefore
plays an important part in this exhibition. It was in
France and Belgium, the cradles of literary Symbolism,
that Symbolist painting was born. It plunged headlong
into the cultural space opened up by the poetry of Baudelaire
and Mallarme and by the operas of Wagner.
The
main principal of Symbolism, that of "correspondence"
is to attain harmony between all the different arts,
or even to realize the total work of art that Wagner
had dreamt of creating. What we discover today, after
a period of neglect, is this; Symbolist painting is essential
to our understanding of modern art, not only because
it spread across the world like wildfire, creating disciples
from Russia to the United States, from Northern Europe
to the Mediterranean, but because it was the source of
a series of mutations without which modern art would
not be what it is today.
The
evolution from Symbolism to Abstraction is particularly
notable, given that it occurred under the aegis of painters
of Symbolist extraction whose names are now at the heart
of modern any movements in the 20th century art whose
roots do not lie in Symbolism, while a rediscovery of
Symbolist works makes it clear how many contemporary
artists are in direct line of descent from the Symbolist
movement.
This
exhibition appeared on:
24/7, May 16, 2005 issue. Download
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INBROOKLYN, May 12, 2005 issue. Download
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