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\"EducationalThe Barnes Foundation<\/a> houses one of the finest collections of nineteenth and twentieth-century French painting in the world. An extraordinary number of masterpieces by Renoir<\/a>, C\u00e9zanne<\/a> and Matisse<\/a> provide a depth of work by these artists unavailable elsewhere. <\/p>\n

Established as an educational institution the Barnes carries out its mission teaching classes in its galleries and Arboretum.<\/p>\n

People ask, \u201cWhat\u2019s wrong with moving the Barnes art collection<\/a> to Philadelphia? It will stay intact and remain in the region.\u201d<\/em> This line of thinking ignores the fact that the Barnes is much more than an art collection.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>Albert Barnes sought to understand art and was a visionary collector with innovative tastes. The art gallery building was designed specifically for his art collection by renowned architect, Paul Philippe Cret. With John Dewey, America\u2019s foremost educational philosopher, Barnes developed an educational program for the study of art with based on the unity of aesthetic expression, throughout time and across cultures. The art gallery is installed according to those educational principles and is the reason for the wall ensembles with their unusual, even staggering, display of art and artifacts.<\/p>\n

The gallery is situated in the midst of an extensive arboretum and sited in relation to trees that were planted long before Barnes purchased the property. The Arboretum and its educational program were developed by Laura Barnes, based on the same principles as the art program. Trees and plants were chosen to relate to specific works of art inside the gallery and to the materials and design of the gallery building. The Cousa dogwood trees in front of the gallery were selected because their exfoliating bark mirrors the colors of the limestone fa\u00e7ade and the ceramic roof tiles.<\/p>\n

The gallery building is a work of art unto itself, with Jacques Lipchitz bas reliefs punctuating the limestone fa\u00e7ade. The entryway is of Enfield ceramic tiles, commissioned in an African mask motif, and this theme continues through the exterior ironwork and on the friezes inside the gallery. This recurrent African theme reflects Albert Barnes\u2019 profound respect for African American culture and prefigures his relationship with Lincoln University.<\/p>\n

\"Famous<\/a>Rising above the main gallery is the monumental mural, La Danse, by Henri Matisse<\/a>, which was commissioned, designed, and painted for this specific location– over the three arched windows that look out to the Arboretum beyond. (Two museums in France devote gallery and exhibition space to the history of this mural, which had to be painted twice, and became a seminal work in Matisse\u2019s career.) The shape of Matisse\u2019s arched mural is echoed in the stone well in the front of the gallery and again in the shape of the wisteria arbor behind the gallery.<\/p>\n

The Barnes Foundation in its totality is an artistic masterpiece, thoughtfully planned and executed by Albert and Laura Barnes. To remove the art collection to Philadelphia is to destroy the incomparable experience they wanted to pass on in perpetuity to future generations. In fact, this will eviscerate the Barnes Foundation. Moving the art collection to “save” the Barnes is the cultural equivalent of the “successful” surgery that leaves the patient dead. This will be the tragic case of tourism destroying the very thing it is seeking to promote. <\/p>\n

The Barnes is a magnificent gift, a visionary achievement, and an important part of our cultural patrimony. Let us support, celebrate, and honor an intact Barnes Foundation in Merion<\/a>. <\/p>\n

See the controversial story of the Barnes Foundation Move in the new documentary: The Art of the Steal<\/a>…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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