Jacques Louis David to Lucian Freud: Contemplating Character
Apr 22, 2018 - Jun 24, 2018
This exhibition features works from two and a half centuries and includes over one hundred and fifty portraits resulting from the collaboration between the individual who contemplates (the artist), and the subject who exhibits character (the sitter). The featured works display a wide variety of expression ranging from beauty and dignity to wit and satire, profound sadness, and even the macabre. Contemplating Character attempts to broadly answer the question鈥攚hat exactly constitutes a portrait?
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This exhibition features works from two and a half centuries and includes over one hundred and fifty portraits resulting from the collaboration between the individual who contemplates (the artist), and the subject who exhibits character (the sitter). The featured works display a wide variety of expression ranging from beauty and dignity to wit and satire, profound sadness, and even the macabre. Contemplating Character attempts to broadly answer the question鈥攚hat exactly constitutes a portrait?
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Contact details
Sunday
1:00 - 5:00 PM
Tuesday - Friday
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Saturday
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
4339 Park Avenue Memphis, TN, USA 38117
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