SOLD OUT – OVERFLOW IN WELLS FARGO ROOM Matthew Welch & Andreas Marks | Opening Weekend Lectures: Mary Griggs Burke Collection & Wells Collection
These talks celebrate the openings of two exhibitions: “Gifts of Japanese and Korean Art from the Mary Griggs Burke Collection” and “Seven Masters: 20th-Century Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Wells Collection.”
Beyond Measure: Gifts from Mary Griggs Burke
2:00 P.M.
From the 1950s until her death in 2012, Saint Paul native Mary Griggs Burke amassed of the most important private collections of Japanese art in the West. Renowned for its remarkable quality and breadth, the collection encompasses artworks from ancient times to the present day, including Buddhist and Shinto art, calligraphy, ceramics, lacquer, metalwork, and paintings by masters of every school active in pre-modern Japan. A substantial portion of the Burke Collection has been given to the Minneapolis Institute of Art by the Burke Foundation and will debut in the galleries this weekend. Here’s your chance to discover the genius of Japanese aesthetic expression vis-à-vis of the Burke Collection.
Matthew Welch, PhD, is Deputy Director and Chief Curator at Mia. His specialty is Japanese and Korean art with particular emphasis on Edo period and Zen painting.
Changed Times: Sources & Methods behind 20th-century Japanese Woodblock Prints
3:00 P.M.
Shin hanga, the “new print,” developed 100 years ago as an art movement aiming to revive the ideal world of seductive women, the magic of the kabuki theater, and the thrilling pulse of urban life that characterized traditional woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e. Produced by time-honored methods, the new prints spoke to a nostalgia for a long past milieu. Yet the artists who designed shin hanga inhabited a world radically different from that of ukiyo-e artists and had distinctly different processes for creating imagery. Andreas Marks will discuss the sources and methods used in making these new prints, celebrated in “Seven Masters: 20th-century Japanese Woodblock Print from the Wells Collection,” which opens September 26.
Andreas Marks, PhD, is Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese and Korean Art, Japanese and Korean Art Department Head, and Director of the Clark Center at Mia. He is the author of the exhibition publication Seven Masters: 20th-Century Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Wells Collection.
$10; $5 Mia members, free for Asian Art Affinity Group. To register, call (612) 870-6323 or reserve online.