{"id":845,"date":"2008-10-03T15:52:56","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T19:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.berkshirelinks.com\/berkshires-news\/?p=845"},"modified":"2008-10-03T15:52:56","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T19:52:56","slug":"clark-art-symposium-concludes-exhibition-like-breath-on-glass-whistler-inness-and-the-art-of-painting-softly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/clark-art-symposium-concludes-exhibition-like-breath-on-glass-whistler-inness-and-the-art-of-painting-softly\/","title":{"rendered":"Clark Art symposium concludes exhibition Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness, and the Art of Painting Softly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Williamstown, MA &#8211;  The exhibition <strong>Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness, and the Art of Painting Softly<\/strong>, on view at the <strong>Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute<\/strong>, explores a painting sensibility found in select works by <strong>James McNeill Whistler, George Inness<\/strong>, and other important American artists active around 1900. The paintings in the exhibition share a relative lack of virtuosic brushwork, favor indistinct forms, and suggest a palpable atmosphere. <\/p>\n<p>A daylong public symposium, Painting Softly, on <strong>Saturday, October 18<\/strong>, will bring together leading scholars, conservators, and artists to assess this notion of painting that can appear &#8220;like breath on glass.&#8221; This symposium is free and open to the public; advance registration is recommended. Visit www.clarkart.edu for more information and to register.<\/p>\n<p>The Painting Softly symposium will begin with coffee and an introduction at 9 am. Twenty-minute talks followed by short, moderated discussions will begin at 9:30 am. Serving as moderators will be Michael Leja, University of Pennsylvania; Kenneth J. Myers, Detroit Institute of Arts; Marc Simpson, Williams College and the Clark; Alan Wallach, College of William and Mary; and Margaret Werth, University of Delaware. A reception will follow and gallery hours will be extended until 7 pm. Like Breath on Glass closes on Sunday, October 19.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers and topics include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Joyce Hill Stoner, University of Delaware and Winterthur Museum, &#8220;Whistler&#8217;s Labor-Intensive Evanescence&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Anna Gruetzner Robins, University of Reading, &#8220;Whistler&#8217;s British Followers: Painting in the Industrial Age&#8221;<\/li>\n<li> Fronia E. Wissman, independent scholar, &#8220;Corot and the Softness of Nostalgia&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Rachael Z. DeLue, Princeton University, &#8220;George Inness and Paintings that Whisper&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Veerle Thielemans, Mus\u00e9e d&#8217;Art Am\u00e9ricain Giverny, &#8220;Le milieu int\u00e9rieur de l&#8217;homme: Artistic Agency and Memory in the 1860s&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Sarah Burns, Indiana University, &#8220;Mist or Miasma? Purity, Danger, and Decoration in the Art of Thomas Wilmer Dewing&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Kathleen Pyne, University of Notre Dame, &#8220;On Silence and Surfaces in Steichen&#8217;s Painting and Photography&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Marc Gotlieb, Williams College, &#8220;Redon, Carri\u00e8re, and the Limits of Experience&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Rainer Judd, independent filmmaker and photographer, &#8220;Real Breath on Glass: Softness in My Photography&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Stephen Hannock, independent painter, &#8220;Like Breath on Polished Canvas&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Clark is located at 225 South Street in Williamstown, Massachusetts. The galleries are open Tuesday through Sunday, 10 am to 5 pm (daily in July and August). Admission June 1 through October 31 is $12.50 for adults, free for children 18 and younger, members, and students with valid ID. Admission is free November through May. For more information, call 413-458-2303 or visit www.clarkart.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day-long symposium at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA on the exhibition &#8220;Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness, and the Art of Painting Softly,&#8221; will be held Oct. 18, 2008, featuring a panel of leading scholars, conservators, and artists who will assess the notion of painting that can appear &#8220;like breath on glass.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-outdated","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}