"Degas to Picasso: Painters, Sculptors, and the Camera".MUSEUM OF MODERN ART modern art, art created from the 19th cent. to the mid-20th cent. by artists who veered away from the traditional concepts and techniques of painting, sculpture, and other fine arts that had been practiced since the Renaissance (see Renaissance art and architecture). Nearly every phase of modern art was initially greeted by the public with ridicule, but as the shock wore off, the various movements settled into history, influencing and inspiring new generations of Now that photography and its video and digital offspring have usurped painting as the "postmodern" media of choice, the question of photography's status as a fine art (worried over since its invention in 1839) is largely obviated; but at the turn of the last century, the debate raged furious. Organized by Dorothy Kosinski of the Dallas Museum of Art and Douglas R. Nickel of SF MoMA, this selection of 364 paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photographs by artists from Degas to Picasso focuses on that period of vivid interface (1885-1915), when the still-new technology locked horns with "the ancient craft of the beautiful." Oct. 2, 1999-Jan. 2, 2000; travels to Dallas Museum of Art and Guggenheim Bilbao, dates to be announced. |
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