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Still life is is anything but still. The diversity of subject, style and affect highlighted by Impressionist Still Life at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) explores a broader definition of still life, questioning how the genre ever acquired its historical reputation for being boring, inexpressive and insignificant...
Impressionist still life painting is “based on traditional prototypes, but taken to a more innovative level,” says Alexandra A. Lawrence ’93, Research Fellow in the Art of Europe Department at the MFA, and part of the curatorial team behind Impressionist Still Life. As Impressionism took root in Paris in the 1860s, artists became less concerned with faithfully representing their subject and more concerned with individual composition...
...long overlooked—of the artists’ fascination with the power of still life as a tool of individual expression,” said George T. M. Shackelford, the show’s curator and Chair of the Art of Europe Department at the MFA. “I think that even those who have studied Impressionism in depth will be surprised and delighted by what this exhibition reveals...
...hundred years later, in the mid-1990s, Charmaine Craig ’94 came across Lizier’s testimony while studying medieval history at Harvard. When she entered the creative writing MFA program at the University of California, Berkeley, the document stayed with...
...word that conjures up images of a bygone era, a word that sends chills of fond nostalgia down the backs of wizened old ladies. It is a world that we have difficulty recreating simply because today, we confuse glamour with glitter. The Museum of Fine Arts’ (MFA) new exhibit The Look; Images of Glamour and Style transports the viewer back to a time when elegance was tantamount to perfection and subtlety was more important than show. The exhibit, which features the photography of George Hoynigen-Huene and Horst P. Horst, two of the most famous fashion photographers...