In conjunction with the exhibition Nikolai Astrup: Visions of Norway, Patricia Berman, Theodora L. and Stanley H. Feldberg Professor of Art at Wellesley College, discusses Nikolai Astrup’s work within the context of the identity of land and its representation in the Nordic countries from the 1890s to the 1920s.
Caroline Fowler, Starr Director of the Research and Academic Program, discusses Dürer's relationship to the Italian printmaker and artist Andrea Mantegna, who was a central influence for Dürer throughout his career. At the end of his life, Dürer turned to Mantegna to meditate on the procession of images, the ephemerality of art, and the necessary role of community among artists across time to create meaning.
This lecture presents an overview of Japanese-Brazilian, or Nikkei artists, in three sections. First, Michiko Okano discusses the brief history of Japanese immigration to Brazil. Second, Okano shares some places where one can appreciate Japanese traditional architecture and culture, and finally, Okano goes more in depth in an exploration of Japanese Brazilian artists. This last section aims to present the panoramic view of art relating to Japanese tradition in Brazil, its uniqueness, and diversity beginning from the first immigrants until the third-generation descendants.
In this illustrated conversation, arborist/writer William Bryant Logan and painter/horticulturist Rebecca Allan discuss the intertwined labors of Nikolai Astrup’s life—farming and painting—as a model for re-establishing an intimate connection between people and the land.
In conjunction with the opening of Dürer & After, exhibition curator Anne Leonard, Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, examines the inspiration that artists of Albrecht Dürer’s time—and continuing long afterwards—found in his incomparable print corpus. Running the gamut from meticulous copying to free interpretation and from respectful tribute to outright piracy, the methods and motivations of Dürer’s imitators offer a distinctive lens through which to view his remarkable artistic legacy.
