Curators Gallery Talk: Grateful for Gifts: Landscapes & Still Lifes from the Collection

Curator’s Gallery Talk:

Grateful for Gifts:  Landscapes & Still-Lifes

Saturday November 24^th – 2pm – Free with Museum Admission

The Cape Cod Museum of Art is deeply grateful to all the artists and collectors who have donated gifts of their artwork to the Museum. With more than 2000 works in the Permanent Collection, CCMoA is preserving the artistic identity of the Cape Cod region for future generations.

Exhibitions Curator, Michael A. Giaquinto, has mined gifts from CCMoA’s collection with an eye to the images, compositions and perspective of the works.  In his Gallery Talk he will explain why he has chosen landscapes and still –lifes from renowned Cape Cod Artists to show how important an artist’s sense of composition is to both pictorial concepts.

“For example,” Giaquinto says, “When you view these paintings, keep in mind the composition. The first thing an artist does is compose the subject matter, arranging objects of different sizes against each other to form a single composition. This same approach is applied to setting up a still life as well as viewing a landscape.”

Giaquinto will direct the viewer to notice how an artist plays with different shapes. “The shapes may be trees, mountains, and water or copper pots, potted plants and flower arrangements. But in both cases, strong, well-arranged elements can equal a fine composition in a painting”.

Some of the renowned Cape Cod Artists represented in this exhibition are Alan Banks, Betsy Bennett, Arthur Cohen, Marguerite E. Falconer, Henry Hensche, Megan Hinton, Robert Douglas Hunter, Alice Mongeau, and Carol Odell.

Artist’s Still Life, Gift of the artist.

About Cape Cod Museum of Art

Founded by artists in 1981, CCMoA is the home of Cape Cod art.  The Museum preserves more than 2000 works of the Cape’s finest artists and celebrates the distinctive artistic identity of the Cape & Islands region.  CCMoA is a major hub of cultural creativity.  It educates, inspires and excites the imagination through its outstanding art collection and diverse programming while connecting its many communities.  The Museum is situated in a beautiful setting surrounded by a Sculpture Garden at the Cape Cod Center for the Arts. CCMoA has seven galleries, a Museum Shop and an auditorium. It is supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod.

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