{"id":187,"date":"2014-10-15T19:34:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T23:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/framemuseums.org\/?p=187"},"modified":"2021-05-18T15:57:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T19:57:53","slug":"working-among-flowers-floral-still-life-painting-in-nineteen-century-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/framemuseums.org\/fr\/working-among-flowers-floral-still-life-painting-in-nineteen-century-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Among Flowers: Floral Still Life Painting in Nineteen-Century France"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"mceTemp\">Dallas Museum of Art,\u00a0 October 26, 2014 &#8211; February 8, 2015.\u00a0<em>Bouquets: French Still-Life Painting from Chardin to Matisse<\/em><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"mceTemp\">Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, March 22, 2015 &#8211; June 21, 2015,\u00a0<em>Van Gogh, Manet and Matisse: The Art of the Flower<\/em><\/h5>\n<h5>Denver Art Museum, July 19, 2015 &#8211; October 11, 2015,\u00a0<em>In Bloom: Painting Flowers in the Age of Impressionism<\/em><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This exhibition is the first major American exhibition to consider the French floral still life across the 19th century.\u00a0Developed from the strong partnerships fostered by the French Regional American Museum Exchange (FRAME), the exhibition is co-organized by Heather MacDonald, the\u00a0Lillian and James H. Clark Associate Curator of European Art at the Dallas Museum of Art\u00a0and Mitchell Merling,\u00a0Paul Mellon Curator and head of the Department of European Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.\u00a0\u00a0The exhibition explores\u00a0the infusion of new spirit and meaning into the traditional genre of floral still-life painting in 19th-century France, even as the advent of modernism was radically transforming the art world.\u00a0It\u00a0features approximately 70 flower paintings by more than 30 artists, including well-known painters such as Jean-Sim\u00e9on Chardin,\u00a0Eug\u00e8ne Delacroix, Gustave Courbet, Henri Fantin-Latour, \u00c9douard Manet,\u00a0Vincent van Gogh, and Henri Matisse, as well as less familiar figures such as Antoine Berjon and Simon Saint-Jean. \u00a0These artists, whose careers collectively span the long nineteenth century, engaged in a sophisticated reworking of traditional imagery, bringing the floral still life into dialogue with emerging models of science and commerce, and ultimately transforming the genre into a meditation on the nature of artistic representation itself.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition was co-organized by the Dallas Museum of Art and the\u00a0Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_188\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-188\" style=\"width: 328px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-188 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.framemuseums.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Flowers.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"386\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flowers. Caillebotte, Gustave; Yellow Roses in a Vase; Oil on canvas, 1882; Dallas Museum of Art, The Eugene and Margaret McDermott Art Fund, Inc., in honor of Janet Kendall Forsythe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas Museum of Art,\u00a0 October 26, 2014 &#8211; February 8, 2015.\u00a0Bouquets: French Still-Life Painting from Chardin to Matisse Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, March 22, 2015 &#8211; June 21, 2015,\u00a0Van Gogh, Manet and Matisse: The Art of the Flower Denver Art Museum, July 19, 2015 &#8211; October 11, 2015,\u00a0In Bloom: Painting Flowers in the Age [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":691,"featured_media":2676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-past-exhibitions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/framemuseums.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/framemuseums.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/framemuseums.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/framemuseums.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/framemuseums.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/framemuseums.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4147,"href":"https:\/\/framemuseums.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/4147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/framemuseums.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/framemuseums.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/framemuseums.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/framemuseums.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}