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Published! Living, Building, Thinking: Art & Expressionism

Mathew Sandford — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 16:13:00 +0000

The book Living, Building, Thinking: art & expressionism, published as a complement to the McMaster Museum of Art’s touring exhibition of the same name, is here - and it’s beautiful!

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Expressionist Art Featured in Video Shorts

Mathew Sandford — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 18:55:07 +0000

The McMaster Museum of Art boasts the most comprehensive German and European expressionist collection in Canada. Our current exhibition, Living Building Thinking: art & expressionism is an opportunity to share works from this collection.

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Video: Dr. Belton on Expressionism’s Paralanguage

Mathew Sandford — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 18:00:30 +0000

Last week, we welcomed Art Historian Dr. Robert J. Belton to the Museum where he delivered a public talk on Paralanguage - what it is, how visual artists use it, and how it imparts meaning in specific works of expressionist art now on display in the Museum.

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Art Historian’s Talk on Expressionism: Nov 10

Mathew Sandford — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 20:04:47 +0000

Dr. Robert Belton will speak about devices that visual artists use similarly, to capture feelings, emotions, and meanings that are simply too difficult to depict directly.

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McMaster’s Collection on Tour – Living Building Thinking: Art and Expressionism

Mathew Sandford — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 13:28:09 +0000

Curated by McMaster’s Senior Curator Dr. Ihor Holubizky, this exhibition loan is the largest in the Museum’s history and highlights McMaster’s specialist collection of German Expressionist Art.

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Museum’s 1920 Novel in Woodcuts Conserved for Exhibition

Mathew Sandford — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 17:12:03 +0000

On the heels of your wonderful talk on Saturday, thank you Audrie Schell at McMaster Libraries for restoring yet another Book of Hours.

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