Art and the Camera: The Photographs of F. Holland Day.MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, chartered and incorporated (1870) after a decision by the Boston Athenaeum, Harvard, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to pool their collections of art objects and house them in adequate public galleries. F. Holland Day (1864-1933), monied Boston aesthete and eccentric, took up Pictorialist photography in his twenties and became one of its most artful and popular proponents. Working in an allegorical style that recalled Julia Margaret Cameron Julia Margaret Cameron (June 11 1815 – January 26 1879) was a British photographer. She became known for her portraits of celebrities of the time, and for Arthurian and similar legendary themed pictures. , he turned out moody portraits and vaguely homoerotic male nudes, most in rich, warm-toned platinum prints. For his most famous and controversial Series, Day starved himself for weeks, grew his hair long, and posed on the cross in little but a crown of thorns crown of thorns Christ thus ridiculed as king of Jews. [N.T.: Matthew 27:29; Mark 15:17; John 19:2–5] See : Mockery . Nearly all of Day's work was lost in a 1904 fire, but what survives retains a heady perfume of ecstatic abandon. Dec. 6, 2000-Mar. 25, 2001; Van Gogh Museum The Van Gogh Museum is a museum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, featuring the works of the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries. It has the largest collection of Van Gogh's paintings and drawings in the world. , Amsterdam, Apr. 21-June 24, 2001; Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, July 18-Sept. 30, 2001. |
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