The Brooklyn Museum is proud to share news of the Diversity Mentorship Initiative (DMI), a partnersh

The Brooklyn Museum is proud to share news of the Diversity Mentorship Initiative (DMI), a partnership with the Center for Curatorial Leadership. Under the guidance of European art curator Rich Aste, teens in the program selected works from the collection to join the Nudes wall in the European Collection. We spoke to our teens about their process of choosing artworks, and the impact the program has had on them.In our last post, we introduced you to three gifted teens at the Brooklyn Museum. You read a bit about their first forays in curating at a major U.S. museum, including their selection of artworks for exhibition. Now that we’ve installed new works to the Nudes wall to include the artworks chosen by our DMI Teens. we now proudly share those selections and the chat labels they crafted to accompany them. Enjoy!William Blake (British, 1757-1827). The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun (Rev. 12: 1-4), ca. 1803-1805. William Blake was a visionary printmaker, painter, and poet influenced by the Bible as well as the art of Michelangelo. Inspired by the Book of Revelations, he transformed a classical male nude into a seven-headed dragon, identified with Satan. Here, the Great Red Dragon attempts to snatch a woman’s soon-to-be-born son. The frightened woman, praying for divine intervention, has been interpreted as the Virgin Mary, Israel, and the Church. —Max LambertHenri Matisse (French, 1869-1954). L'Odalisque, 1924.In a rented apartment in Nice, France, Henri Matisse physically distanced himself from Paris and its associations with World War I, the avant-garde style of Cubism, and even his family. There, he focused on Mediterranean light, captured here with fine, parallel hatchings throughout the model’s body. She is a confident nude with an open posture and confrontational gaze, perhaps suggesting Matisse’s interrogation of the traditional role of women in art history as objects of desire. —Alice ZhengAage Sikker-Hansen (Danish, 1897-1955). Mother and Child, 1937The Danish artist Aage Sikker Hansen depicted a woman breast-feeding her child. In this black and white lithograph he skillfully uses the uninked paper to define both the baby’s swaddling cloth and light falling on the mother’s hair, neck, right shoulder, breasts, and left hand. A lithograph is a print made from a wax­ crayon drawings on limestone. The ink is applied directly on the stone and print the image onto paper, here hand­ woven. —Lena-Marie EvansPosted by Rich Aste -- source link

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