Last Friday, ALPS students saw an interesting art collection at the Frye Art Museum, explored the lovely SeattleU campus, and hung out at Stoup Brewing Capitol Hill! Here are some photos take by our student Rosa!
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Join us tomorrow to visit the Frye Art Museum, tour the Seattle University campus, and hang out at Stoup Brewing!
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An almost smiling Black woman fills the panel in a heroic, three-quarter pose, turned slightly while her gaze lifts above and beyond us. She wears a warm orange blouse that catches light in broad, velvety planes of tempera. Her skin is modeled in beautiful luminous browns. Her hands are large, strong, and carefully shaped as one grips a pitchfork and the other rests on her hip. Behind her, vertical bands suggest a door frame with slices of blue and yellow cutting through the middle ground, adding depth to the figure’s steady presence. The title “Our Land” is likely a collective claim that belonging is earned through work, care, and endurance and therefore cannot be denied. American artist Charles Wilbert White sharpened that argument in 1951, when he exhibited a group of paintings centered on Black women, insisting they be seen not as background labor but as the moral and cultural center of American life. The pitchfork deliberately reworks the visual language of American Regionalism (an echo of “American Gothic”), but here the tool is held by a Black woman whose enlarged hands and lifted gaze turn labor into authorship. Around this time White described art as a “weapon,” and his career made that conviction tangible. He actively moved between Chicago and New York’s activist art circles, learned from print and mural traditions, and built a lifelong practice of “images of dignity.” Later, in Los Angeles, his impact rippled outward through teaching by mentoring artists such as David Hammons and Kerry James Marshall. He helped reshape what American figuration could hold including history, politics, tenderness, and pride, all at once.
“Our Land” by Charles Wilbert White (American) - Tempera on panel / 1951 - Frye Art Museum (Seattle, Washington) #WomenInArt #FryeArtMuseum #CharlesWilbertWhite #CharlesWhite #SocialRealism #BlackWomanhood #art #artText #BlackArt #ArtBridges #AfricanAmericanArt #AfricanAmericanArtist #BlackArtist
Recently, some of our students visited the Frye Art Museum to see an interesting collection of art!
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So far this session, our students have taken a tour of Capitol Hill and visited the Frye Art Museum! Here are photos from each activity taken by our student, Melissa!
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Do you enjoy visiting art museums? How about for free?! Visit the amazing Frye Art Museum with ALPS tomorrow!
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Rosario Fernández Guerrero was a Spanish dancer and pantomimist with an international career. Although she was not a singer, she is most often associated with the lead role of Carmen in the four-act opera of same name by French composer Georges Bizet. After years of success on the stage, Guerrero was described in publications as a "famous beauty" in 1908 when she posed for a series of portraits by von Kaulbach -- including this one --- of which the artist later considered them among his best work. We see the young beauty in costume in a dancing position turning to her left and looking slightly behind as if we've caught her in a momentary pause or interruption of a performance. The soft colors and blurry muted background add to the serene elegance and mood of the portrait. Our focus stays on the light-complexioned Guerrero with dark and curly hair adorned with a pinkish flower balancing her dark grayish bodice decorated with small sequins and featuring a low neckline. The sheer sleeves are short patterned with ribbons of pink. Over the bodice, she wears a draped, brushed yellow skirt with a subtle pink flower pattern. The gown and attire appear fluid, like Guerrero's dance movements, thanks to soft blending of the muted colors. Friedrich August Von Kaulbach was one of the leading portrait painters of his generation. His portrayals are enchanting - expressive brushwork capturing nuanced characteristics and underlying spirit. His style was born from an advanced understanding of the Old Masters, which he expressed with confidence and prowess as well as the energy of Velázquez filtered through a sense of true modernity. Commissions were numerous with many involving society ladies abundant with lavish drapery. Dubbed the “prince of painters,” his popularity ultimately led to riches usually reserved for an artist’s paying clients. His palatial private villa, designed by Gabriel von Seidl, in Ohlstadt is now a museum with an impressive collection of antiques.
Rosario Guerrero by Friedrich August von Kaulbach (German) - Oil on canvas / c. 1908 - Frye Art Museum (Seattle, Washington) #womeninart #art #portrait #FriedrichAugustvonKaulbach #oilpainting #Malerfürsten #Frye #portraitofawoman #WomensArt #FryeArtMuseum #GermanArtist #dancer #Kaulbach #Carmen
First image: Video of installation view of "impossible monument: gilded". (2024). by Mary Ann Peters. Wood, laminated survival blankets, glycerin, keys, keyhole plates, ribbons, aramid honeycomb, oval frame.
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Now up : My recent conversation with Seattle artist Mary Ann Peters @mapseattle and @fryeartmuseum assistant curator Alexis L. Silva
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Image of a painting featuring a dark-haired, partially nude woman staring straight at the painter, with a large snake curled around her. The frame is gold, with columns on either side of the painting, and "Die Sunde" engraved in large letters at the bottom.
Ran into an old friend at #fryeartmuseum
"Die Sünde (Sin)", ca. 1908. Franz von Stuck (German, 1863-1928). Tempera on canvas. 34 7/8 x 21 5/8 in. (88.58 x 54.93 cm)
