Cleveland Art, March/April 2011
- Member Magazine
Articles in this issue: Painted Poetry; Op Art; Acquisitions 2010; Performance; Film; Talks; Community.
The Lure of Painted Poetry
Seunghye Sun Associate Curator of Japanese and Korean Art
Just as the Roman lyric poet Horace posited “as is painting, so is poetry” in Ars Poetica, the elites of East Asia have appreciated poetry and painting as closely related arts. The original concept of the fine arts in East Asia traces back to...
Good Vibrations
Mark Cole Associate Curator of American Painting and Sculpture
Blue Bloc c. 1967. Edwin Mieczkowski (American, born 1929). Acrylic on canvas mounted to board; 121.9 x 121.9 cm. Anonymous Gift, by Exchange 2010.261
During the 1960s, Cleveland emerged as a vital center for Op Art, an eye-popping styl...
Acquisitions 2010
C. Griffith Mann Deputy Director and Chief Curator
Conceived as a resource for the entire community and committed to maintaining free admission to its permanent collections, the Cleveland Museum of Art is a place where visitors can explore both the art of their time and the cultural achievements of d...
