Organized by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900, will be on view at the Hammer Museum from April 5 to June 28, 2009.
For much of today’s public, the art of the late nineteenth century means impressionism, an art of the open air and the cafe-concert, evoking the pleasure of the landscape and the city with its many entertainments.
There is another side to the story, a discreet world of individual collecting in which prints, drawings and small sculpture were kept aside in portfolios or stored away in cabinets.
Here the experience of art was a private affair, where prints in particular were valued for their aesthetic spontaneity, probing social observation, and intimate psychological suggestion.
Drawn primarily from the collection of the National Gallery, the exhibition will include small cabinet piece sculptures, illustrated books, and portfolios in addition to prints, and will be accompanied by a catalogue with four illustrated essays. -- hammer.ucla.edu
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