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December 2011

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Holiday Activity Guide Impressionism exhibit seen only at Milwaukee Art Museum IMPRESSIONISM:Masterworks on Paper, the MilwaukeeArtMuseum's lastmajor exhibition of the year featuringmore than 100 drawings,water- colors and pastels by Impressionists and Post Impressionists,will be seen in no othermuseumin the U.S. Organized by themuseumin partnershipwith the Albertina in Vienna, the exhibition is receiving pos- itive reviews in nationalmedia. It closes out the year-long anniversary celebration of themuseum's internationally known Santiago Calatrava-designed Quadracci Pavilion. "This is a scholarly exhibition devoted almost exclusively toworks on paper andwill consider- ably extend our current knowledge of Impressionismand Post-Impressionism," said LaurieWinters, director of exhibitions at the MilwaukeeArtMuseum. "Masterworks on Paper shows that the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists chose to emphasize drawing, thereby ceasing to recognize the traditional distinction between drawing and painting. They elevated the status of drawing to the level of painting itself." Some of the greatest artists in the history of Western European art, includingManet, Degas, Renoir, Pissarro, Seurat, Gauguin, Cezanne, Van Gogh, and Toulouse-Lautrec, createdworks on paper thatmay be lesswell-known than their paintings, butwhich are just as significant. It is notwidely known that a large proportion of the artwork shown in the eight Impressionist exhi- bitions held in Paris between 1874 and 1886were works on paper.Many of these have been identi- fied are shown inMasterworks on Paper. Ms.Winters also pointed out in an interviewthat the exhibition includesmany outstanding artists who are not always in Impressionismexhibitions 36

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