Back and Forth
Spanning six centuries and different cultures, four paintings reveal how artists engage with art history鈥攁nd become part of it.
Art history isn鈥檛 linear. Artists mix and remix references, finding inspiration across time.
When contemporary artist Rozeal. created afro.died, T. in 2011 in her studio just outside Washington, DC, she didn鈥檛 have Titian鈥檚 Venus with a Mirror in mind. Paul Cezanne wasn鈥檛 thinking about Titian鈥檚 Ranuccio Farnese when he painted Boy in a Red Waistcoat in 19th-century France. Yet these works share striking visual similarities with Titian鈥檚 16th-century paintings.
Back and Forth illuminates unexpected connections between these four works and invites us to see them in new ways.
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Spanning six centuries and different cultures, four paintings reveal how artists engage with art history鈥攁nd become part of it.
Art history isn鈥檛 linear. Artists mix and remix references, finding inspiration across time.
When contemporary artist Rozeal. created afro.died, T. in 2011 in her studio just outside Washington, DC, she didn鈥檛 have Titian鈥檚 Venus with a Mirror in mind. Paul Cezanne wasn鈥檛 thinking about Titian鈥檚 Ranuccio Farnese when he painted Boy in a Red Waistcoat in 19th-century France. Yet these works share striking visual similarities with Titian鈥檚 16th-century paintings.
Back and Forth illuminates unexpected connections between these four works and invites us to see them in new ways.
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