Jax Stumpes: North Carolina Museum of Art (2/9/2022)

Wednesday, February 9, 2022

North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, NC was another Tyler Arboretum reciprocal museum that is already free.

Half the West Building of the North Carolina Museum of Art
(2000, by Thomas Phifer)

Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge
(1961, by Henry Moore, cast 1976) (KSS)

Three Elements (1965-1967, by Ronald Bladen)

First, the East Building:

Lines that Link Humanity (2008, by El Anatsui from Ghana),
the only piece in The People's Collection,
which was being renovated

One of the three Doors of Jerusalem (2006, by
Jaume Plensa) with excerpts from the Songs of Solomon

Talent Within: The NCMA Staff Art Exhibition:

Medication Artifact (2020, by Julia Caston,
Outreach and Audience Engagement)

Medication Artifact detail showing
the medications were for mental illnesses

waving flag (2019, by Eric Gray, Security) (KSS)

waving flag detail (KSS)

La Viperessa (2019, by Angela Lombardi,
Outreach and Audience Engagement)

NC Artist Connections:

We are Beside Ourselves (2018, by
Hồng-Ân Trương, an Associate Professor
at the University of North Carolina)

A bust from Voices of Future's Past (2017) and 5 lbs.
(2020-2021) by Stephen Hayes from Durham, NC

5 lbs. detail

5 lbs. close-up to show the use of brass shell casings

Participate: Activate the Senses:

A computer monitor allowed you to complete a painting,
Market Scene on a Quay (by Frans Snyders and Workshop)

Your work was projected on a screen (I added the
hanging deer carcass on the right...)

Naked Muse, without Arms (1905-1906,
by Auguste Rodin, cast 1991)

Now the West Building:

Café:

Out of the Box (2009, by Patrick Dougherty,
using red maple saplings)

Modern & Contemporary Gallery:

ilekun/Palace Door (early 20C,
by Olowe of Ise from Nigeria)

Corrugated (2019, by Simone Leigh)

Three Graces: Les Trois Femmes Noires (2011,
by Mickalene Thomas)

Tar Baby vs St Sebastian (1999,
by Michael Richards); the artist died in
his studio in The World Trade Center
Tower One on 9/11/2001 (KSS)

Judith and Holofernes (2012, by
Kehinde Wiley, based on a 17C painting
by Giovanni Baglione, Judith and the
head of Holofernes) (KSS)

Kehinde Wiley painted the offical portrait of President Barack Obama, but is known for taking every day people (Blacks) and having them assume poses as seen in paintings from art history books.

Fragile 7 from the series Fragile Responsibility
(2018, by Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga from the
Democratic Republic of the Congo) (KSS)

Bride (2010, by Beth Lipman) in front of
Market Scene on a Quay (c 1635-1640,
by Frans Snyders and Workshop)

The above two art works were paired due to the density of objects, showing both order and chaos.

Woman of Venice IX (1956, by Alberto
Giacometti, cast 1958) is an especially
skinny Giacometti piece

Weather Side (1965, by Andrew Wyeth)

Cebolla Church (1945, by Georgia O'Keeffe)

Light of Life (2018, by Yayoi Kusama) (KSS)

The lights are condstantly changing in a small mirrored "room"

The Checkered Skirt (Young Girl)
(1947, by Robert Motherwell)

Girl (2002, by Bob Trotman)

Classical Gallery:

Roman Mosaic (2C)

Krater/mixing bowl for wine and water
(c 470-460 BCE, attributed to a Syriskos
painter, Greece) showing an attack by satyrs

Ancient Egyptian Gallery:

Gilded Mummy Covering (c 300 BCE)

Portrait Gallery:

Saul under the Influence of the Evil Spirit
(1864-1865, by William Wetmore Story)

American Gallery:

Toy Pieta (2018, by Tony Avett) (KSS)

Forward (1967, by Jacob Lawrence)

Mrs Hale as "Euphrosyne" (2005, by
Kehinde Wiley)

American Landscape with Revolutionary Heroes (1983, by
Roger Brown) with Alexander Hamilton,
Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington,
James Madison, and John Marshall (KSS)

Rodin Court:

With 30 pieces, the North Carolina Museum of Art
has the largest collection of Auguste Rodin works in the
southeastern United States

Bust (1888-1892, by Camille Claudel)
of Auguste Rodin

Judaic Gallery:

Both modern and older Sabbath and festival
candlesticks and spice conatiners

An unusual Torah Shield (2013-2014,
by Sari Srulovich)

European Gallery:

The Seine at Giverny, Morning Mists (1897, by Claude Monet)

Capriccio: The Rialto Bridge and the Church
of San Giorgio Maggiore (c 1750, by
Canaletto/Giovanni Antonio Canal)

Venice without Water, June 12, 1990 (1990,
by Donald Sultan) was paired with the Canaletto, both
showing the Rialto Bridge, but one is idealized
and the other is not!