Gallery Talk with Deborah Forman on "Go Figure - Exploring the Human Form"
Thu, Sep 20
|Cape Cod Museum of Art
Curator Deborah Forman explores the historical context and the wide-ranging view of work by past and present Cape Cod artists to interpret the human figure in realistic and imaginative ways.
Time & Location
Sep 20, 2018, 1:30 PM
Cape Cod Museum of Art, 60 Hope Ln, Dennis, MA 02638, USA
About
For centuries, art has revered the human form. Within the historical perspective, Go Figure: Exploring the Human Form takes a wide-ranging view of work by artists associated with Cape Cod who interpret the human figure in realistic and imaginative ways. The show opens on September 13 with a public reception from 5:30 – 7 pm and will be on view through February 3, 2019.
In her introduction to this insightful show, Curator Deborah Forman, author of several books on Cape Cod art and its artists, discusses the many ways the figure has been depicted throughout history. She notes the idealized figures of the Greeks and Romans, realistic portraits of royalty and nobility, and the Impressionists’ images celebrating ordinary people. Also noted are Vincent van Gogh’s depictions of the laborer in the fields, Pablo Picasso’s cubist portraits, and Willem de Kooning’s distortions of the female form in abstracted paintings.
Forman chose…