{"id":4618,"date":"2013-04-12T20:24:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T20:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artcorner.com\/?p=4618"},"modified":"2013-04-12T20:24:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T20:24:59","slug":"the-met-is-a-billion-dollars-richer-in-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/the-met-is-a-billion-dollars-richer-in-art\/","title":{"rendered":"The Met is a Billion Dollars Richer in Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philanthropist and cosmetics tycoon Leonard A. Lauder has promised seventy-eight individual Cubist works of paintings,\u00a0sculpture, and photography to the Met. It is cited as one of the most substantial gifts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art&#8217;s history, which was approved at a board meeting this past Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4633\" alt=\"Metropolitan Museum of Art gets $1B Leonard Lauder Cubist collection\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/TheMet-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/TheMet-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/TheMet.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The gift will fill a hole in the Metropolitan Museum of Art&#8217;s timeline of early twentieth century art, which lacks a Cubist collection comparable to other recognized art museums, such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York or the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.overstockart.net\/search\/search.php?vwcatalog=overstockart&amp;query=cubism&amp;x=-612&amp;y=-213\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Cubism<\/a> incorporates multiple approaches in perspective and technique, including multimedia: newspaper clippings, typography, cardboard, stencils, leaves, twigs, and more. What defines Cubism is the abstracted, broken-up rendering of an object or objects, like arranging a puzzle.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/cezannegallery1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Cezanne<\/a> is often noted as the Father of Cubism among painters, though Picasso and the Cezanne-influenced Brague are recognized as the pioneers of Cubism.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the works in Mr. Lauder\u2019s collection have historical significance. Two landscapes are from the 1908 Kahnweiler exhibition: Braque\u2019s \u201cTerrace at the Hotel Mistral,\u201d from 1907, and his \u201cTrees at L\u2019Estaque,\u201d from 1908. Even the Met notes that \u201cThe Trees at L\u2019Estaque\u2019 is considered one of the very first Cubist pictures that recognizes a new type of perspective in the landscape, which Braque arrived at upon analysis of Cezanne&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Rabinow, a curator in the Metropolitan Museum\u2019s department of Modern and contemporary art, noted other firsts in the gift: \u201cPicasso\u2019s \u201cOil Mill,\u201d from 1909, was the first Cubist painting seen in Italy, which influenced the Italian Futurists. Another of his works, \u201cThe Fan (L\u2019Independent),\u201dfrom 1911, is one of the first works in which Picasso experimented with typography, in this case the gothic type masthead from a local French newspaper. Braque\u2019s \u201cFruit Dish and Glass,\u201d from 1912, is the first Cubist paper collage ever created,\u201d as cited in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/10\/arts\/design\/leonard-lauder-is-giving-his-cubist-collection-to-the-met.html?WT.mc_id=AR-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M300C-ROS-0413-HDR&amp;WT.mc_ev=click&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;WT.mc_c=213638&amp;adxnnlx=1365794339-DfAhOQ+vsqAOcXMn+vqAVw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/hoofhamanata.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4631\" alt=\"The House of the Hanged Man - Paul Cezanne\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/The-House-of-the-Hanged-Man-300x250.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/The-House-of-the-Hanged-Man-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/The-House-of-the-Hanged-Man-768x640.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/The-House-of-the-Hanged-Man-1024x853.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/The-House-of-the-Hanged-Man.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Some criticism is discussed among \u00a0the public that this is merely a tax write-off for the tycoon. While Lauder may benefit in this way, the opportunity for individuals to view the artwork is to not be ignored as exciting in and of itself as is the re-allocation of the works into a public arena where true artistic and cultural conversation can be encouraged and nurtured within the community. The \u201cArt\/Tax issue\u201d is a valid discussion. Some argue that \u201cart ownership\u201d is reserved for the extraordinarily privileged rich and recognized. However well we know know the names of Cezanne and Picasso, we also know that these artists, among others, took quite a while to be recognized as aesthetically valued or to be labeled as \u201ctrue art.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Lauder spent the past forty of his eighty-year life slowly building this valuable collection where other notable collectors have been seduced by art fads and need for any \u201chot\u201d name of a master artist. The value Mr. Lauder and his researchers placed into the collection can be seen in the historical significance traced throughout its time line. The collection&#8217;s gift to future generations has no price tag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philanthropist and cosmetics tycoon Leonard A. Lauder has promised seventy-eight individual Cubist works of paintings,\u00a0sculpture, and photography to the Met. It is cited as one of the most substantial gifts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art&#8217;s history, which was approved at a board meeting this past Tuesday. 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