“This was only possible by limiting the number of visitors.” We wanted the visitors to enjoy it to the fullest,” museum general director Taco Dibbits said. “Vermeer is the artist of peacefulness and intimacy. The large number of visitors - including French President Emmanuel Macron, movie director Steven Spielberg and Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis - came despite the museum limiting numbers to ensure everybody got a good view of masterpieces such as “Girl with a Pearl Earring” and “The Milkmaid.” The Rijksmuseum said the exhibition that drew on collections around the world to bring together 28 of the 37 paintings generally ascribed to Vermeer attracted 650,000 visitors from 113 countries during its 16-week run that started in early February. This exhibition is organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio.AMSTERDAM (AP) - The blockbuster exhibition of paintings by Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer closed its doors for the final time on Sunday, with the art and history national museum of the Netherlands hailing the show as its most successful ever. The exhibition is drawn almost entirely from the collections of the two organizing museums, with prints by Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros, and Tamayo being joined by an especially broad range of work by artists affiliated with the Taller de Gráfica Popular, the celebrated print workshop founded in Mexico City in 1937.ĭownload the Teacher Resource > Post-Revolution Art The inclusion in this exhibition of works created by foreigners working in Mexico underscores the powerful attraction exerted by Mexican art and culture over several generations of artists and printmakers worldwide. They were works of art of the people, for the people.
These works of art emerged in post-Revolution Mexico as the ideal means for disseminating political and social as well as artistic ideas. This exhibition examines these vital contributions with 125 prints and posters by 50 Mexican and foreign-born artists. Major modern Mexican artists such as José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Rufino Tamayo continue to win broad acclaim for their murals and paintings, however, less attention has been paid to the wide-ranging impact these artists and their contemporaries had on the world of printmaking.
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