The Saint Louis Art Museum announces its schedule ofcurrent and upcoming exhibitions. Dates and details are subject to change.For more information, please visit www.slam.org.
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
"Untamed Beauty: Tigers in Japanese Art"Through September 9, 2007
Featuring 18 paintings and two woodblock prints dating from the 16th through20th centuries, this exhibition explores Japan's passion for tigers. Becausetigers are not indigenous to Japan, their absence spurred fanciful ideas abouttheir nature and physical form. Japanese artists skillfully rendered the tiger'sphysical appearance but also sought to convey each tiger's mood or spirit byplacing it in specific contexts. According to traditional Asian mythology, tigersare identified with yin, the female principle, as well as autumn, wind andwest. Organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and curated in St. Louisby Philip Hu, associate curator of Asian art, "Untamed Beauty: Tigers inJapanese Art" is on view in Cohen Gallery (313).
"Symbols of Power: Napoleon and the Art of the Empire Style, 1800?815"Through September 16, 2007
With a selection of objects including furniture, silver, porcelain, bronzes,jewelry, textiles, wallpapers and painting, this exhibition is a definitive surveyof the decorative arts of the Empire style. Named for the Napoleonic Empireat the beginning of the 19th century, the Empire style is one of the grandestand most opulent in the history of decorative arts. Designs inspired by Greco-Roman antiquity were enlivened with bold colors, costly and elaboratelyworked materials and massive scale. The exhibition examines how Napoleonappropriated emblems of power from antiquity, especially Egypt and Rome,and linked his reign with those of the great civilizations of the past. "Symbolsof Power: Napoleon and the Art of the Empire Style, 1800?815" is organizedby the American Federation of Arts, New York, and Les Arts D嶰oratifs, Paris.The national tour is made possible, in part, by the Joseph and Sylvia SlifkaFoundation, Inc. and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. The exhibition is alsosupported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and theHumanities. Curated in St. Louis by David Conradsen, assistant curator ofdecorative arts and design, the exhibition is on view in the Museum's MainExhibition Galleries. |
