Art lovers attending The Farjam Collection’s popular First Wednesdays series can view 41 artworks, including some never before displayed to the public. A talk led by Emilie Faure, Collection and Exhibitions Manager at The Farjam Collection, will shed light on these works by modern masters, highlighting the process from conceptualization to final masterpiece.
Visitors have the opportunity to view works by some of the greatest Western artists of the 20th century, including Dali, Picasso and Chagall at The Farjam Collection’s latest exhibition, From Matisse to Warhol: Works on Paper by Modern Masters.
From Matisse to Warhol: Works on Paper by Modern Masters was inaugurated by HH Sheikh Majid Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) on 27 January 2010, and features 20 artists, spanning a timeframe of 60 years to showcase not only the changing role of paper in the 20th century, but also the more traditional role of paper as a preparatory medium.
“Amongst what remains of these artists’ drawings today, the most educational pieces are perhaps the sketches and preparatory drawings that manifest the artists’ creative processes. At times more eloquent than polished pieces, sketches and preparatory drawings offer a rich insight into the flow of ideas that inform the stages between concept and finished art work. This exhibition is designed to allow visitors to study and analyze these works from the various stages of development,” explains Emilie Faure, Collections and Exhibitions Manager, The Farjam Collection.
Exemplifying the relationship between paper and other media are several works in the exhibition by Pablo Picasso. Picasso was prolific in his later life, developing many of his most spontaneous ideas on paper. The juxtaposition of Tête d’homme, 1969 with a plate, Tête en forme d’horloge, produced by Picasso in 1956, reveals how the artist experimented with the depiction of the human form on paper and silver.
“The drawings of the artists presented here, are either works in their own right or preparatory studies for other projects. Yet, in each case we see how, despite the difference in style, each artist ‘draws well’, enjoying the many advantages of a medium which, it has been suggested, is the closest to pure thought,” writes Anna Moszynska, author and expert in modern art.
First Wednesdays are held from 1:00 – 1:30 p.m. on the first Wednesday of each month when an exhibition is on view at The Farjam Collection @ DIFC. Complimentary educational materials in English and Arabic and refreshments courtesy of Florian are offered to all visitors.
The Farjam Collection is generously supported by the Hafiz Foundation.
