Gustav Klimt: Modernism in the Making.NATIONAL GALLERY National Gallery, London, one of the permanent national art collections of Great Britain. Its building, in Greek style, stands in Trafalgar Square. It was designed and erected (1832–38) by William Wilkins and was shared for 30 years with the Royal Academy of Arts. In 1876 a new wing was added, designed by E. M. Barry. The nucleus of the collection was formed in 1824 with 38 pictures from J. J. Angerstein's collection. OF CANADA All that glitters will be gold in North America's first full-scale Klimt retrospective (thirty-six paintings and ninty-five drawings). Organized by Frick Collection chief curator Colin Bailey, formerly of the National Gallery of Canada, the show should relocate this favorite '60s poster artist back in the murky world of Freud's Vienna, with sumptuous offerings of both superego and id. Portraits of the rich and glamorous alternate with ruminations 1. the casting up of the food to be chewed thoroughly a second time, as in cattle. 2. in humans, the regurgitation of food after almost every meal, part of it being vomited and the rest swallowed: a condition sometimes seen in infants (rumination disorder) or in mentally retarded individuals. 3. meditation. on the mysteries of love, sex, and death. Mixing decorative motifs from Mycenae Mycenae (mīsē`nē), ancient city of Greece, in Argolis. In historical times it had little importance and was usually dependent on Argos. Its significance is in its remote past as a center of Mycenaean civilization. to Byzantium Byzantium (bīzăn`shēəm, –shəm, –tēəm), ancient city of Thrace, on the site of the present-day Istanbul, Turkey. Founded by Greeks from Megara in 667 B.C., it early rose to importance because of its position on the Bosporus., Klimt makes his imperious female sitters look like reincarnations reincarnation (rē'ĭnkärnā`shən) [Lat.,=taking on flesh again], occupation by the soul of a new body after the death of the former body. Beliefs vary as to whether the soul assumes the new body immediately or only after an interval of disembodiment. of the Empress EMPRESS - Electromagnetic Performance Evaluation SystemEMPRESS - Embedded Premise Switch System EMPRESS - Environmental Pulse Radiation Environment Simulator for Ships Theodora Theodora (thēədôr`ə), d. 548, Byzantine empress. Information about her early career comes from the often-questionable source, the Secret History of Procopius. and, in a work like Hope, 1903, can even transform a nine-months-pregnant teen into a femme fatale. June 15-Sept. 16. |
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