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- 23rd March
2012 - 23
- 23rd March
2012 - 23
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- 20th March
2012 - 20
Camille Claudel, Maturity, c. 1902
From the Musée d’Orsay:
After the break between Camille Claudel and Rodin, the latter tried to help Camille indirectly and obtained a state commission for her from the Director of Fine Arts. Maturity was commissioned in 1895, and exhibited in 1899, but the bronze was never ordered and Claudel did not deliver the plaster model. It was Captain Tissier who finally commissioned the first bronze in 1902.
The group evokes Rodin’s hesitation between his former mistress, who finally wins the day, and Camille who is reaching forward to stop him leaving. Beyond the details of her personal history, Camille has produced a thought-provoking symbolic work about human relationships. She included herself in the group in the figure she called The Imploring Woman, pinpointing the tragic side of her destiny.
The man in the waning years of his maturity is pulled vertiginously forward by old age while stretching an impotent hand towards youth. The nude figures are swathed in floating draperies which accentuate the speed of the movement. Paul Claudel said of it: “My sister Camille, Imploring, humiliated, on her knees, that superb, proud creature, and what is being wrenched from her, right there before your very eyes, is her soul.”
- 20th March
2012 - 20
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- 10th March
2012 - 10
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- 9th March
2012 - 09
- 7th March
2012 - 07
Visual Literacy and Art Criticism Workshop
Responding to the need to address art in an informed and rigorous
manner, the Art Studies Department of the University of the
Philippines-Diliman organizes a visual literacy and art criticism
workshop from 2nd to 5th May, 2012. The workshop aims to provide
participants with visual literacy skills, pedagogical approaches to
visual literacy, and basic skills in writing about art that is both
critical and eloquent.
The four-day workshop includes lectures by Professor Emerita Alice
Guillermo, art historians and curators Patrick Flores and Eileen
Legaspi Ramirez; and exhibition tours at the Vargas Museum and the
Ateneo Art Gallery. Writing and criticism workshops will be
facilitated by faculty from the Department of Art Studies, University
of the Philippines-Diliman.
Expressions of interest may be coursed thru
artstudiesnewdirections@gmail.com, with the submission of an
application form and a writing sample of about 500-to 800-word length
by 31 March 2012. The workshop will also accept a limited number
(first-come, first-serve) observers who will be exempted from turning
in a writing sample but who will only be allowed to participate during
the plenary sessions. Please use “Workshop application” as your email
subject heading.
Queries may be sent to:
Tessa Maria Guazon
Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez
artstudiesnewdirections@gmail.com
927.05.81 or 981.85.00 local 2115
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- 2nd March
2012 - 02
Anatomy of an Angel - Damien Hirst
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- 1st March
2012 - 01
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2012 - 23
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2012 - 15
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2012 - 12
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2012 - 11
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2012 - 08
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