Marks of Genius: 100 Extraordinary Drawings from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Marks of Genius is an exemplary selection of rarely seen drawings, watercolors, and pastels from the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, featuring some of the world鈥檚 most renowned artists, spanning the past six centuries.
Marks of Genius brings to life the immediacy and vitality of drawings, and presents to viewers a direct connection with an artist鈥檚 style and imagination, the media they utilize, and the material on which they draw.
The exhibition explores the multiple roles of drawing as a means of study, observation, problem solving, and a medium for creating finished works of art. Thematic aspects of the exhibition include portrait drawings, the study of human form and expression, storytelling, inventions, and 鈥渇irst draft鈥� sketches.
Featuring both European and American artists, the exhibition includes such celebrated masters as Tiepolo, Watteau, Fragonard, Gainsborough, Delacroix, Degas, Homer, Kollwitz, Matisse, Mondrian, Lichtenstein, Ruscha, and Warhol, as well as the foremost figures of German and Austrian Expressionism, including Beckmann, Kirchner, Klimt, Nolde, and Schiele.
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Marks of Genius is an exemplary selection of rarely seen drawings, watercolors, and pastels from the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, featuring some of the world鈥檚 most renowned artists, spanning the past six centuries.
Marks of Genius brings to life the immediacy and vitality of drawings, and presents to viewers a direct connection with an artist鈥檚 style and imagination, the media they utilize, and the material on which they draw.
The exhibition explores the multiple roles of drawing as a means of study, observation, problem solving, and a medium for creating finished works of art. Thematic aspects of the exhibition include portrait drawings, the study of human form and expression, storytelling, inventions, and 鈥渇irst draft鈥� sketches.
Featuring both European and American artists, the exhibition includes such celebrated masters as Tiepolo, Watteau, Fragonard, Gainsborough, Delacroix, Degas, Homer, Kollwitz, Matisse, Mondrian, Lichtenstein, Ruscha, and Warhol, as well as the foremost figures of German and Austrian Expressionism, including Beckmann, Kirchner, Klimt, Nolde, and Schiele.
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