Art Question
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You are the curator of modern European art at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
The Director and Trustees of the Museum have tasked you with purchasing a significant painting of modern European art for the permanent collection. Your budget is $50 million, and you can purchase any painting artwork that is ollection of Symbolist, Viennese Expressionist, Abstract, or Surrealist art, even if the work is currently in
another museum or private collection.
You cannot, however, choose an image from Study Guide #2, though you can use an artist from the guide.
The work that you purchase will not only become part of MoMAænbsp;permanent collection, but the Director will also use the work you purchase as the basis for a forthcoming exhibition on that artist
Please research the scholarly literature on the artwork you seek to purchase for MoMA, and then write a 4-page, double-spaced useum Purchase Justification Report®bsp;paper* using the following
subheadings:
1. Background: Provide an image of the artwork. Then begin by writing a brief historical/biographical background on the artist & artwork, remembering to include tombstone information. Then describe the style of the art and identify similar artworks.
2. Significance: Why is this artist a significant/important European modern artist worthy of the MoMAænbsp;permanent collection?
3. Scholarship: Discuss what leading art historians/scholars have said about this artist/artwork in the current literature.
4. Collection: What other artworks in MoMAænbsp;collection (either by this artist, or other artists) would compliment this piece?
5. Budget: Please justify why this work will be strong enough to serve as the basis of a forthcoming exhibition, and is worth spending $50 million.
Using subheadings may help you better organize the different sections of your
MPJR paper.
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Oil on canvas.
Pablo Picasso. Ma Jolie, 1911-12. Oil on
canvas.
Georges Braque. The Portuguese Emigrant,
1911-12. Oil on canvas.
Pablo Picasso. Glass and Bottle of Suze, 1912.
Pasted paper (wallpaper and newspaper),
gouache and charcoal.
Gustave Moreau. Oedipus and the Sphinx,
1864. Oil on canvas.
Gustave Moreau. The Apparition, 1874-76.
Watercolor and graphite on paper.
Odilon Redon. Flower Clouds, 1903. Pastel on paper.
Odilon Redon. The Crying Spider, 1881.
Charcoal on paper.
douard Vuillard. Mother and Sister of the Artist. c. 1893.
Oil on canvas.
douard Vuillard. Woman in a Striped Dress.
1895. Oil on canvas.
Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1893. Tempera
and casein on cardboard.
Edvard Munch, Madonna, c. 1895. Tempera
and casein on cardboard.
Gustav Klimt. Judith I, 1901.
Oil and gold leaf on canvas.
Gustav Klimt. The Kiss, 1907. Oil on canvas.
Egon Schiele, Two Girls, 1915. Gouache and pencil on paper.
Egon Schiele, Nude Self-Portrait, 1910.
Gouache, watercolor and pencil on paper.
Oskar Kokoschka, Double Portrait of Hans Tietze and Erica
Tietze-Conrat, 1909. Oil on canvas.
Oskar Kokoschka, Portrait of Lotte Franzos,
1909. Oil on canvas.
Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VII, 1913. Oil on canvas.
Wassily Kandinsky, Almanac of the Blue
Rider,1911. Print.
Franz Marc. The Large Blue Horses, 1911. Oil on canvas.
Franz Marc. The Yellow Cow, 1911. Oil on canvas.
Kazimir Malevich. Suprematist Painting: Eight Red
Rectangles, 1915. Oil on canvas.
Kazimir Malevich. Black Square, 1915. Oil on canvas.
Marcel Duchamp. Fountain, 1917. Painted porcelain toilet.
Marcel Duchamp. L.H.O.O.Q., c. 1917.
Ink on mass produced postcard.
Ren
agritte. The Treason of the Image (This is not
a pipe), c. 1926. Oil on canvas.
Ren
agritte. Interpretation of Dreams, 1930.
Oil on canvas.
Salvador Dali. The Persistence of memory, 1931.
Oil on canvas.
Max Ernst. The Virgin Mary Chastising the
Baby Jesus before Three Witnesses: Andrreton, Paul luard and the Artist, 1926.
Oil on canvas.
Max Ernst. The Robing of the Bride, 1939.
Oil on canvas.
Hans Bellmer. The Doll, c. 1935-36. Silver gelatin
photographic print.
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