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Spring evokes new life, change, and transformation. With the arrival of the new season, the literal and abstract conceptions of rebirth come to fruition in dynamic applications of color, line, and form across media. Curated by the BAMPFA Student Committee, this month’s Five Tables offers the opportunity to view Wassily Kandinsky’s abstract compositions from his series Little Worlds, Ando Hiroshige’s Japanese woodblock prints of blooming sakura flowers, Rembrandt’s etchings, and other vibrant works.
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Wassily Kandinsky: Composition No. 3, from Little Worlds, 1922; color lithograph; BAMPFA collection, transferred from the Graphic Arts Loan Collection, the General Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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During this unusual year when we have all moved online, the Student Committee has compiled a virtual presentation of a selection of works. The assortment presented here, centered around the concept of the floor plan, illustrate diverse and varying understandings of space with reflections informed by the shelter-in-place order due to COVID-19. Looking at layouts, architectural plans, depictions of interiors, and other representations of residences, these works examine our current at-home situations through the eyes of artists. The artworks are organized into four themes: Interiors as Portraits, Time-Based, Utopias, and the Contrast of East and West.
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What is with the human obsession with flight? First it was Icarus, next it was Amelia Earhart, and now Elon Musk. Curated by the BAMPFA Student Committee, this selection of works from the museum’s collection explores the nature of flight and what it means to soar. How does it feel to be on top of the world? Works on view include one of Eadweard Muybridge’s locomotion studies of flying; abstract depictions of birds in flight by L. Alcopley and Zao Wou-ki; Andy Warhol’s photograph Hot Air Balloon in Colorado; Vija Celmins’s multi-process print Concentric Bearings, A; and depictions of aircraft in multiple mediums across cultures. Read the artwork descriptions here. |
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Curated by the BAMPFA Student Committee, this edition of Five Tables explores representations of the female figure in art across media and cultures, putting into question the viewer’s gaze, the creator’s power, and the autonomy of a woman’s body. On view this session: Elisabeth Sunday’s striking photographs from her series of Tuareg women; Arnold Genthe’s intimate portraits of the dancer Irma Duncan; Eadweard Muybridge’s study of a nude woman fanning herself, from his Animal Locomotion series; Japanese woodblock prints depicting courtesans and beautiful women; and more! Read the artwork descriptions here. |
Arnold Genthe: Untitled (Irma Duncan), c. 1915–19; gelatin silver print; 9 15/16 x 8 in.; BAMPFA, gift of Jan Leonard and Jerrold A. Peil.
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Explore cities across the globe through a new lens. On view this session, Garry Winogrand and Bruce Coburn’s photographs of New York City; David Lance Goines’s poster for the film Metropolis; Wayne Thiebaud’s Apartment on a Hill; Ant Farm’s Convention City materials; woodblock prints from Ando Hiroshige’s series Fifty-Three Stations on the Tōkaidō; and images of cities from San Francisco to Shanghai, Cape Town, and more. Read the artwork descriptions here. |
James Lee Byars: untitled photograph (Balloon), 1968; black-and-white photograph; 10 x 8 in.; BAMPFA, bequest of James Elliott; The Estate of James Lee Byars; Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, New York and London.
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