"Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage" Exhibition
Closes in 54 days
At The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Media: Painting, Photography, Prints
Sixty years before the embrace of collage techniques by avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century, aristocratic Victorian women were already experimenting with photocollage. The compositions they made with photographs and watercolors are whimsical and fantastical, combining human heads and animal bodies, placing people into imaginary landscapes, and morphing faces into common household objects. Such images, often made for albums, reveal the educated minds as well as the accomplished hands of their makers. With sharp wit and dramatic shifts of scale akin to those Alice experienced in Wonderland, these images stand the rather serious conventions of early photography on their heads.
[Image: Maria Harriet Elizabeth Cator "Untitled page from the Cator Album" (late 1860s/70s) collage of watercolor and albumen silver prints 11 x 8.5 in. Courtesy Hans P. Kraus, Jr., New York]
Schedule
From 2010-02-02 To 2010-05-09
Artist(s)
Marie-Blanche-Hennelle Fournier, Kate Edith Gough, Frances Elizabeth, Victoria Alexandrina Anderson-Pelham, Georgina Berkeley, Maria Harriet Elizabeth Cato, Mary Georgiana Caroline, Elizabeth Pleydell-Bouverie, Jane Pleydell-Bouverie, Constance Sackville-West, Alexandra Princess of Wales et al.
Fee
Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free
Venue Hours
From 9:30 To 17:30
fridays closing at 21:00, saturdays closing at 21:00
Closed on Mondays, Holidays
Note:Open on some holiday Mondays.
Maps
Access
Corner of 82nd St. Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street
Address
1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028
Phone: 212-570-3951 Fax: 212-472-2764
When you visit, why not mention you found this event on New York Art Beat?
Blog it!
Paste this code into your blog to share this event.
If you reviewed the event on your blog, tell us in the comments above!
Embed:
Within Walking Distance
Same venue - The Metropolitan Museum of Art:
"Surface Tension: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection" Exhibition (Painting, Photography) closes in 61 days.Same venue - The Metropolitan Museum of Art:
Reopening of The Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts (Furniture, Ceramics) Permanent eventSame venue - The Metropolitan Museum of Art:
Xie Zhiliu "Mastering the Art of Chinese Painting (1910–1997)" (Painting) closes in 131 days.Same venue - The Metropolitan Museum of Art:
"The Drawings of Bronzino" Exhibition (Drawing) closes in 33 days.Same venue - The Metropolitan Museum of Art:
"Classic/Fantastic: Selections from the Modern Design Collection" Exhibition (Drawing, Furniture, Ceramics) Permanent eventSame venue - The Metropolitan Museum of Art:
"Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44" Exhibition (Ceramics) closes in 5 days.
This event on your mobile
Send the address to your phone or use the QR-code on the left.
Win a t-shirt or guidebook!
Get free Ny art & design news and a chance to win.
