Grateful for Gifts - Curator's Gallery Talk -Landscapes & Still-Lifes
Sat, Nov 24
|Cape Cod Museum of Art
Exhibitions Curator, Michael A. Giaquinto, has mined gifts from CCMoA’s permanent collection with an eye to the images, compositions and perspective of the works. Learn why he has chosen these paintings to show the importance of composition to both. Free with Museum admission.
Time & Location
Nov 24, 2018, 2:00 PM
Cape Cod Museum of Art, 60 Hope Ln, Dennis, MA 02638, USA
About
CCMoA is grateful to all the artists and collectors who have donated gifts of their artwork to the Museum. With more than 2000 works in our Permanent Collection, CCMoA is preserving the artistic identity of the Cape & region for future generations.
Exhibitions Curator, Michael A. Giaquinto, has mined gifts from CCMoA’s collection with an eye to the images, compositions and perspective of the works. In his Gallery Talk he will explain why He has chosen landscapes and still –lifes from renowned Cape Cod Artists to show how important an artist’s sense of composition is to both pictorial concepts.
“For example,” Giaquinto says, “When you view these paintings, keep in mind the composition. The first thing an artist does is compose the subject matter, arranging objects of different sizes against each other to form a single composition. This same approach is applied to setting up a still life as well…