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Museum Minute
by WTJU 91.1 FM, The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Museum & The Fralin Museum of A
Is radio a visual medium? Henry Skerritt, Margo Smith and Matthew McLendon say "Yes!" Every week these Charlottesville-based curators take us on a quick audio tour of one of the works in their museum. Henry Skerritt is the Curator of the Indigenous Arts of Australia at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Museum and Margo Smith is the Director. Matthew McLendon is the Director and Chief Curator at the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia.
Episodes
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Black Figure Column Krater
This krater is highly decorated with both designs and figural groupings in the Black Figure technique. It is a complicated process, but put simply, the main decorative elements and figures are painted with a slip that turns black in the firing process. On one side, a wedding scene is painted with...
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My Country by Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Emily Kame Kngwarreye was one of the first celebrated female Aboriginal Australian Desert Painters. Entering the national art market well into her seventies, Kngwarreye paved the way for female Aboriginal artists to express women's specific cultural relationship to the Dreaming and their…
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Nullius in Verba III by Steaphan Paton
Standing at six feet tall, the sculpture “Nullius in Verba III” is intentionally the same height and weight as its sculptor, Steaphan Paton. The metal, diamond-shaped shield, mounted on a long pole, confronts the viewer. The shield’s surface is scratched, evoking the centuries of violence and...
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Portrait of Miss Rhoda Cranston by John Singleton Copley
Miss Rhoda Cranston looks out of her portrait and slightly to her left. Painted by John Singleton Copley around 1756, we see the artist relying on current English traditions of portraiture to establish the status of his subject. Copley studied contemporary portraits in England and Europe…
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Awely by Emily Kame Kngwarreye
In deep reds, pinks, and yellows, Emily Kame Kngwarreye's "Awely" is an embodiment of her connection with her Country. Kngwarreye began painting late in her life, when she was already an elder in her community, Utopia, in Australia’s Northern Territory. The artwork’s title refers to women’s...
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Hell Hole by John Sloan
John Sloan American, 1871-1951 Hell Hole, 1917 Etching and aquatint, 10/10 9 7/16 x 12 3/8 inches Museum Purchase, 1977.5 © Estate of John Sloan/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Hell Hole is a 1917 etching by the American Artist, John Sloan. We see the cramped, claustrophobic interior of...
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Lady Bartender At Home with Souvenir Dog by Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus American, 1923-1971 Lady Bartender At Home with Souvenir Dog, New Orleans, 1964 Gelatin silver print, 7 7/8 x 7 1/8 in. (20 x 18.1 cm) Museum purchase with the Curriculum Support Fund, 1988.7 © Estate of Diane Arbus | Fraenkel Gallery (San Francisco, CA) A woman wearing a leopard…
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Untitled (Hedda Hopper, Distortion) by Weegee
Episode Notes This photograph of gossip columnist Hedda Hopper by Weegee is an example of what he called his distortions. After working as a photojournalist in the gritty Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1930s and ‘40s, he moved to Hollywood where he began photographing celebrities and...
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Cypriot Base Ring II Bull Rhyton
Episode Notes Though small, this Cypriot rhyton in the form of a bull has a lot of personality. He’s a favorite with many visitors to The Fralin Museum of Art, particularly our UVA students. A rhyton is a vessel, usually with an animal head or, in this case, a depiction of a whole animal, that is...
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Self-Portrait with an Album by Émilie Charmy
Episode Notes This powerful self-portrait in The Fralin Museum of Art’s collection is by the French artist, Émilie Charmy. She was influenced by Post-Impressionism and acquainted with the Fauves, both clearly evidenced in her compositional structure, passages of loose brushwork, and choice of...
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Unwritten by Vernon Ah Kee
Episode Notes A solitary figure emerges from an urgent flurry of charcoal lines. Vernon Ah Kee’s “Unwritten” is a potent metaphor for the struggle of indigenous artists to control their identities amid the continuing pressures of racism and colonial oppression. In 2004, Ah Kee began a series of...
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Reading Aloud (Beim Vorlesen) by Erich Heckel
Matthew McLendon is looking at one of his favorite prints in The Fralin Museum of Art’s collection. It’s a woodcut by the German Expressionist artist, Erich Heckel. The title of the print is Reading Aloud (Beim Vorlesen) and it was made in 1914. We know who the figures are. The woman, right hand...
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Rukmini Adorning Herself Preparing to go to the Temple
The Fralin Museum of Art has a strong collection of Indian Painting due to the efforts and long dedication to the museum of Prof. Dan Ehnbom, who is one of the leading specialists in South Asian Painting. Matthew McLendon discusses one of his favorite works from this part of the collection, a…
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Yellow Rushes Fish Basket by Jenni Kemarre Martiniello
Freshwater Saltwater Weave is a series of glass works by contemporary urban-based Arrernte artist Jenni Kemarre Martiniello. Her works in hot blown glass, coldworked glass and canes are inspired by the aesthetics of Aboriginal woven forms. The works in this exhibition span the last five years and...
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Shakyamuni in Bronze from the Xuande Period
Do you need a little tranquility and peace in your life? Join Matthew McLendon as he looks at a beautiful bronze in The Fralin Museum of Art’s collection depicting Shakyamuni, the historical Buddha. Though only 11 inches tall, this work from Ming Dynasty China is exquisitely detailed with a...
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The Natural Bridge by Frederic Edwin Church
Perhaps the most famous and well-traveled painting in the museum’s collection, The Natural Bridge by Frederic Edwin Church, is for any Virginian an immediately recognizable scene. Church painted this picture in 1852 based on sketches he made on a trip to Natural Bridge the previous summer with...
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Venus and Adonis by Angelica Kauffmann
Angelica Kauffmann (Swiss, 1741-1807) was famed throughout England and Europe as a portraitist and painter of Neoclassical scenes. She came to notice in her teens, having traveled and trained with her father, the painter Johann Joseph Kauffman. After moving from Rome to London, she was one of…
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Jack Kelly's Rockhole by Queenie McKenzie
Jack Kelly's Rockhole 1997 90 x 120 cm Queenie McKenzie, indigenous Australian, b. 1915 Natural pigments on canvas Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia. Gift of Richard Klingler and Jane Slatter, 2019.
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Dancing by Marcel Vertès
Marcel Vertès (1895-1961) moved to Paris during World War I. While living in the Latin Quarter, he distinguished himself as a printmaker, illustrator, and painter, depicting the café culture that surrounded him. Following World War II, he immigrated to the United States where he worked on the…
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The Secretary by August Sander
The German photographer, August Sander (1876-1964), was best known for creating what the Museum of Modern Art, New York has called, “the most ambitious and influential portrait of the people of the 20th century.” His sweeping photographic project, People of the 20th Century (Menschen des 20....
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Ngarralja Tommy May
Ngarralja Tommy May has been making art for over 30 years and this year his painting, Wirrkanja, won the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Henry Skerritt introduces us to the artist and reminisces about his 2016 visit to the Kluge-Ruhe.
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Nganampa Ngura, Our Country By Tjala Arts
Nganampa Ngura, Our Country (2013) is a work of grand ambition and stunning color, it shows the ways in which these senior women see the world, connected by kin and country. From the tiny flowers of the bush plum to an epic painting on canvas, all actions are interrelated. In our globally…
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Kaa by Cara Romero
See the photograph on the Fralin's website. Cara Romero (Chemehuevi) is an award-winning artist who utilizes techniques learned in film, digital, fine art, and commercial photography to produce powerful visual imagery that serves both as social commentary and to bring focus on Indigenous female...
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Milniyawuy - River of Stars by Naminapu Maymuru-White
Naminapu Maymuru-White is a Mangalili artist who paints the Milky Way and its earthly mirror, the Milniyawuy River.
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Brothers Moving Targets by Tony Albert
Tony Albert’s Brothers Moving Targets engages with issues of race, police violence, discrimination and identity. This single installation features twenty-six portraits of young Aboriginal men with targets painted onto their chests, as well as designs and symbols that Albert associates with…
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Is radio a visual medium? Henry Skerritt, Margo Smith and Matthew McLendon say "Yes!" Every week these Charlottesville-based curators take us on a quick audio tour of one of the works in their museum. Henry Skerritt is the Curator of the Indigenous Arts of Australia at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Museum and Margo Smith is the Director. Matthew McLendon is the Director and Chief Curator at the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia.
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