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1, 2001 Delta National Small Prints Exhibition juror to present public lecture at ASU Daniel Piersol, The Doris Zemurray Stone Curator of Prints and Drawings at the New Orleans Museum of Art, will present a public lecture in conjunction with the Delta National Small Prints Exhibition at Arkansas State University. Piersol, this year’s juror for the DNSPE, will talk about one of his previous exhibitions titled, Of Vision and Visage: Portraits on Paper. The lecture will be in the Fine Arts Recital Hall on Thursday, Oct. 11, at 7:30 p.m. Piersol, a graduate of Bowling Green University, has been with the New Orleans Museum of Art since 1980. He has made numerous professional presentations at universities and conferences across the South as well as at various museums such as The Huntsville Museum of Art. Piersol also is a widely published writer and a frequent contributor to Arts Quarterly. "Portraiture in various forms was a vital creative avenue in 19th century art," explains Piersol. Widely divergent aspects of the era are evident in the works of the era’s two most celebrated artists, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Vincent van Gogh. Of special note are the extraordinary Portrait of Madame Albert Magimel (1857) by Ingres and the only etching that van Gogh produced during his lifetime. "In the numerous stylistic and theoretical developments of the 20th century, portraiture has remained a viable element," said Piersol. The turbulent works of Ernst Barlach or Karl Schrag demonstrate van Gogh’s lasting influence on the development of expressionistic tendencies. In contrast, the modern cult of celebrity reverberate through Michael Rothensteins’s portrait of Marilyn Monroe and Andy Warhol’s undated Mick Jagger. "These impressions impel us toward a close-up confrontation with an art and also remind us that new print technologies remain viable as we enter the new millennium," said Piersol. The Delta National Small Prints Exhibition will open at The Bradbury Gallery in The Fowler Center on Friday, Oct. 26 at 7:30 p.m. The exhibition and the lecture are free and open to the public. # # # |
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