South Asian Temple Art
Sun, 06/02/2013 - Sun, 01/05/2014
The mystical Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist religions highlight compassion, wisdom, and internal reflection. These attributes have been personified by artists in sculptures of metal, terra cotta, wood, and stone. Meditational deities, temple dancers, and enlightened beings will be on exhibition in Fowler Gallery beginning June 2. The works range in date from 200 AD up to and including the 1900s and were produced in India, Tibet, and Nepal.
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Toulouse-Lautrec and His World
Sun, 06/02/2013 - Sun, 09/01/2013
The Allentown Art Museum of the Lehigh Valley is thrilled to be one of the first venues outside of Europe—and the closest to Philadelphia and New York—to host Toulouse-Lautrec and His World. This popular exhibition is on loan from the collection of the Herakleidon Museum in Athens, Greece, and focuses on the art and life of one of the most fascinating artists and personalities of the Belle Époque (Beautiful Era) in France, which dates from the late nineteenth century through World War I.
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American Wildlife Art
Sun, 09/29/2013 - Sun, 12/29/2013
An exceptional exhibition of animal-themed works by American artists will fill Scheller and Rodale galleries this fall. American Wildlife Art will include sensitive studies of individual subjects as well as dramatic scenes of life-and-death struggle played out before the backdrop of the great outdoors. Like the encyclopedic hardcover book of the same title, which serves as a catalog to the exhibition, the carefully selected works on display trace the history of an artistic genre shaped over five centuries, from its beginnings in colonial times to recent works of abstraction.
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Paul Harryn: Essence of Nature
Sun, 01/19/2014 - Sun, 05/18/2014
For the past decade, artist Paul Harryn has lived and created at “Arcadia,” his rural studio near the Delaware River between Upper Bucks County and the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. Here, surrounded by nature, he has been able to focus on the development of his art: paintings, drawings, writings, films, and original music scores. His interests are wide ranging and regularly lead him across disciplinary divisions to parallel territories in philosophy, psychology, history, politics, chemistry, and theology.
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