[Watch] Virtual Members Reception: Toulouse Lautrec & THe Belle Époque

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[Watch] Virtual Members Reception: Toulouse Lautrec & THe Belle Époque

Thank you for watching our Virtual Members Reception! We were thrilled to welcome Paul Firos, Toulouse-Lautrec Collection Owner & President of PAN Art Connection, Inc. as he chatted with Dr. Alex Rich about the collection and how the exhibition came to life in the Museum galleries.

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[Watch] Music & Dance In Painting Of The Dutch Golden Age

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[Watch] Music & Dance In Painting Of The Dutch Golden Age

This exhibition, custom-curated for the Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College by the Hoogsteder Museum Foundation of The Netherlands, showcases 27 Dutch and Flemish paintings from the 17th century, selected and organized around the unifying visual theme of music and dance. All the Masterworks in the exhibition come to the Museum from private European Collections and have not been seen by the wide public before.

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[Watch] A Brush with Herstory: Gabriela Gonzalez Dellosso discusses her paintings

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[Watch] A Brush with Herstory: Gabriela Gonzalez Dellosso discusses her paintings

Gabriela Gonzalez Dellosso is a premier portrait artist whose art historical knowledge is surpassed only by the skill of her brushwork. This exhibition features Dellosso’s tribute paintings to great but often-overlooked female masters of the past.

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[Watch] Ritual and Ceremonial African and Oceanic Art & Global Art of the 1970s

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[Watch] Ritual and Ceremonial African and Oceanic Art & Global Art of the 1970s

In this combined lecture, Dr. Alex Rich explains the source of two concurrent exhibits at the Polk Museum of Art. Spirits: Ritual and Ceremonial African and Oceanic Art from the Dr. Alan and Linda Rich Collection in one gallery and Global Art of the 1970s: From the SC Johnson Collection in another gallery.

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[Watch] Across the Atlantic: American Impressionism through the French Lens

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[Watch] Across the Atlantic: American Impressionism through the French Lens

This extraordinary exhibition, drawn entirely from the collection of the Reading Public Museum, explores the path to Impressionism through the nineteenth century, and the complex relationship between French Impressionism of the 1870s and 80s, and the American interpretation of the style in the decades that followed.

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[Watch] Double Vision: Photocentric Paintings by Richard Heipp

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[Watch] Double Vision: Photocentric Paintings by Richard Heipp

Works by artist and University of Florida professor Richard Heipp occupy the gray area between the manually produced painting and the digitally reproduced image. They therefore position the viewer at the crossroads of looking and seeing. Heipp describes his paintings as photocentric; they are not intended to be merely based on mechanically produced images, but are instead air-brushed simulations of photographs and scanned objects. At first, these hyperrealistic paintings appear mechanically reproduced, but transform upon closer inspection. They perpetuate that deception between art and audience, pierce the veneer of first impressions, and force us to pause for a new and unexpected interpretation.

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[Watch] Goya, Picasso, and The Heritage of Spain

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[Watch] Goya, Picasso, and The Heritage of Spain

The Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College hosted a panel discussion entitled Goya, Picasso & the Heritage of Spain: Exploring Spanish Culture in Florida from 1513 to Today. A distinguished panel of presenters from four institutions collaboratively developed this humanities-focused program to coincide with the Museum's Masters of Spain: Goya & Picasso exhibition on view from March 17-June 17, 2018.

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