Egypt
Urban art and Antiquities
Thanks to Lin Wang for sending this to me. The exhibition closes at the end of the month.
- Exhibition: 19th Century Photographs Of Egypt, Florida
Art Daily With a magnificent sepia photograph of the Sphinx, Great Pyramid and an unlikely group of visitors to the area on camel-back - check out the beard of the chap on the left. Oh to be in Florida right now! Egypt was an exotic land to nineteenth-century...
- Exhibition: De Delacroix à Kandinsky, L'orientalism En Europe
Al Ahram Weekly (David Tresilian) Following recent exhibitions of British orientalist painting in London and of the work of French orientalist painter Jean- Léon Gérôme in Paris, the Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in Brussels has had the...
- Behind Orientalism's Veil
Saudi Aramco World (Juliet Highet) it just growing nostalgia for a vanished, pre-industrial past that made 2008 a year of record prices for Orientalist art? Or is there more to it? The sophisticated buyers—now located mostly in the lands depicted in...
- Tacoma Art Museum Presents Oasis: Western Dreams Of The Ottoman Empire
artdaily.org Tacoma Art Museum’s exhibition Oasis: Western Dreams of the Ottoman Empire from the Dahesh Museum of Art features a survey of nineteenth-century Western artists’ responses to the diverse cultures of the former Ottoman Empire. The exhibition...
- Paris: Capital Of Islamic Design
Al Ahram Weekly (David Tresilian) The magnificent setting of the Musée des arts décoratifs in Paris is presently the backdrop for Purs décors? Arts de l'Islam, regards du XIX me si cle, a survey exhibition on the influence of Islamic art on late...
Egypt
Exhibition review: In pursuit of the exotic
Urban art and Antiquities
Thanks to Lin Wang for sending this to me. The exhibition closes at the end of the month.
19th Century Orientalism paintings have seldom caught my eyes. There is a great painting of Cairo streets by Louis Comfort Tiffany in the Brooklyn Museum. Several other painters, such as Samuel Coleman and Frederich Edwin Church, have visited Egypt or near East. But American painters tended to treat the subject as an alternative choice of landscape with some exotic settings. In the current exhibition “In Pursuit of the Exotic: Artists Abroad in 19th Century Egypt and the Holy Land” at Lubin House, the archeological and architectural merits of Egypt play an important role in the paintings by European artists like Charles Théodore Frère.
- Exhibition: 19th Century Photographs Of Egypt, Florida
Art Daily With a magnificent sepia photograph of the Sphinx, Great Pyramid and an unlikely group of visitors to the area on camel-back - check out the beard of the chap on the left. Oh to be in Florida right now! Egypt was an exotic land to nineteenth-century...
- Exhibition: De Delacroix à Kandinsky, L'orientalism En Europe
Al Ahram Weekly (David Tresilian) Following recent exhibitions of British orientalist painting in London and of the work of French orientalist painter Jean- Léon Gérôme in Paris, the Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in Brussels has had the...
- Behind Orientalism's Veil
Saudi Aramco World (Juliet Highet) it just growing nostalgia for a vanished, pre-industrial past that made 2008 a year of record prices for Orientalist art? Or is there more to it? The sophisticated buyers—now located mostly in the lands depicted in...
- Tacoma Art Museum Presents Oasis: Western Dreams Of The Ottoman Empire
artdaily.org Tacoma Art Museum’s exhibition Oasis: Western Dreams of the Ottoman Empire from the Dahesh Museum of Art features a survey of nineteenth-century Western artists’ responses to the diverse cultures of the former Ottoman Empire. The exhibition...
- Paris: Capital Of Islamic Design
Al Ahram Weekly (David Tresilian) The magnificent setting of the Musée des arts décoratifs in Paris is presently the backdrop for Purs décors? Arts de l'Islam, regards du XIX me si cle, a survey exhibition on the influence of Islamic art on late...