Word: exhibit
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...expression that great prizes often come in small packages befits the exhibit of paintings from the Joseph B. Hazel Collection at the Fogg Museum of Art. The exhibit shows nearly a dozen gems all contained within one room, sandwiched between galleries of French Romanticism and American Realism. Hazel lent 16 works to the Fogg, but because of a lack of space and the paintings' sensitivity to light, not all of them are displayed. However, these few works can be viewed by appointment...
Other unexpected delights are Wassily Kandinsky's The Last Judgement (again, more women) and two Legers. Works like these are not represented in any collections in the Boston area, making their presence alone enough reason to visit the exhibit...
According to the accompanying exhibit catalog, meticulously written by Sarah Kianovsky, the point of the exhibit is to promote qualitative thinking, comparing the artists' styles and the movements in which they flourished. All of the works were done between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and at first glance, the show seems like a grab-bag from post-Impressionist schools. But after time and questioning ("Why these works?") a cohesiveness develops based on similarities and differences...
...exhibit, not all of the women are garish creatures. Toulouse-Lautrec's Absinthe Drinker may be a prostitute, but she possesses a maternal modesty conveyed by her relaxed posture, unassuming clothes and coloring in tonal browns. She's not a redhead, as are many of Toulouse-Lautrec's women, nor does she look embalmed and fluorescent as the harsh lighting of the Moulin Rouge was apt to render its drunk habituees. Absinthe Drinker is a refreshing contrast to Toulouse-Lautrec's unflattering portraits. But here again, the work is not psychologically revealing, because the woman is shown in profile...
...works not shown that might be displayed later (the exhibit will run well into the first couple of months of 1995) are two still-lifes of oranges by Picasso and the Fauvist Maurice de Vlaminck. If these works were placed side by side like the Picasso and Braque, each one would help enhance the other through their differing uses of color, texture and anthropomorphism...