Simon Kelly: Matisse and the Sea
- Event Type
- Lecture
- Sponsor
- Sponsored in part by the School of Art & Design Visitors Series, Center for Advanced Study, Krannert Art Museum, and the Ziff Fund. Supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
- Location
- Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Drive, Champaign | On the lower level, KAM Auditorium
- Date
- Nov 16, 2023 5:30 pm
- Speaker
- Simon Kelly, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, St. Louis Art Museum
- Contact
- Julia Nucci Kelly
- kam-info@illinois.edu
- Phone
- 217-244-0320
- Views
- 200
- Originating Calendar
- Krannert Art Museum Events
This lecture discusses the forthcoming exhibition (winter 2024) at the Saint Louis Museum of Art of the same title. The exhibition is the first ever to examine the influence of the sea across modernist artist Henri Matisse’s career, which included painting in coastal locations on the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, and the Pacific.
The lecture will explore the importance of Matisse’s marine imagery across a wide range of media from paintings to ceramics to textiles and paper cut-outs. It will offer a particular focus on the iconic coastal picture, Bathers with a Turtle (1908, Saint Louis Art Museum), exploring the genesis and afterlife of this painting.