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1. POW2C_210730_001.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2021_DC_SIFG_Power2C DC -- Freer Gallery of Art -- Exhibit: The Power to See Beauty: Charles Lang Freer (29 photos from 2021)
  Charles Lang Freer The Power to See Beauty Who has "the power to see beauty"? How much do you need to know to appreciate a work of art from another culture or historical era? Our museum founder Charles Lang Freer (1854–1919) asked himself these fundamental questions as he prepared to transfer his personal collection of Asian antiquities and American tonalist paintings to a new public museum on the National Mall. Even though Freer left school after the eighth grade, he became a wealthy industrialist and world traveler. He had easy access to scholars, critics, and sophisticated advisors and appreciated "expert opinions." Though he was never concerned with specific social, economic, and political circumstances affecting artistic production, he was keenly interested in how chronology, authenticity, quality, and cross-cultural interchange affected stylistic developments over the centuries. Yet, Freer never renounced his conviction that a direct, emotional response was the highest form of aesthetic pleasure -- and the most democratic, available to anyone willing to take the time to look closely. He believed quiet contemplation and intelligent (though often ahistorical and unexpected) comparisons of works of art would "induce concentration" and give all visitors "the power to see beauty."
2. POW2C_210730_005.JPG: Charles Lang Freer "All Works of Art Go Together"
3. POW2C_210730_057.JPG: Looking Like a Connoisseur
4. POW2C_210730_103.JPG: Keynote
5. POW2C_210730_106.JPG: Variations in Blue and Green, ca 1868 James McNeill Whistler
6. POW2C_210730_119.JPG: Portrait of Charles Lang Freer, 1902-1903 James McNeill Whistler
7. POW2CV_200307_001.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2020_DC_SIFG_Power2CV DC -- Freer Gallery of Art -- Exhibit: The Power to See Beauty: Let Us Now Open Wide Our Eyes Video (75 photos from 2020)
  Let Us Now Open Wide Our Eyes Freer and the Power to See Beauty You can see the slideshow on http://www.douglasfiliak.com/
8. POW2CV_200307_011.JPG: I. Seeking
9. POW2CV_200307_015.JPG: So far as business goes, I am worn out, noise and confusion wear heavily upon me.
10. POW2CV_200307_046.JPG: Spiritual meaning... is entirely beyond my understanding I should have to live many lives to grasp it.
11. POW2CV_200307_048.JPG: Nature sustains and leads us on.
12. POW2CV_200307_064.JPG: II. Gathering
13. POW2CV_200307_067.JPG: From Egypt to the temples of Ceylon and Java and thence to the treasure houses of China and Japan
14. POW2CV_200307_069.JPG: ... an experience of indescribable delight
15. POW2CV_200307_110.JPG: Its grip upon me constantly increases, it makes me almost feverish -- an influence from the souls of these stone saints
16. POW2CV_200307_111.JPG: The fascination of being alone is ever present -- the spirit of asceticism everywhere
17. POW2CV_200307_113.JPG: III. Seeing
18. POW2CV_200307_116.JPG: Shadowy recollections of unknown places, glimpses of faraway coasts and strange horizons leave a mysterious something... the basis of what we call the imagination
19. POW2CV_200307_119.JPG: For those who have the power to see beauty, all works of art go together
20. POW2CV_200307_156.JPG: IV. Giving
21. POW2CV_200307_162.JPG: Observers in general should be given ample opportunity to enjoy their emotional reactions without expert opinions
22. POW2CV_200307_164.JPG: Let light in some places come from above and some low down, as in Japanese houses
23. POW2CV_200307_211.JPG: Let us now open wide our eyes
24. POW2CV_200307_220.JPG: Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919 All quotations are taken from letters and journals found in the Charles Lang Freer Papers, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.
25. POW2C_171019_01.JPG: Charles Lang Freer The Power to See Beauty Who has "the power to see beauty"? How much do you need to know to appreciate a work of art from another culture or historical era? Our museum founder Charles Lang Freer (1854–1919) asked himself these fundamental questions as he prepared to transfer his personal collection of Asian antiquities and American tonalist paintings to a new public museum on the National Mall. Even though Freer left school after the eighth grade, he became a wealthy industrialist and world traveler. He had easy access to scholars, critics, and sophisticated advisors and appreciated "expert opinions." Though he was never concerned with specific social, economic, and political circumstances affecting artistic production, he was keenly interested in how chronology, authenticity, quality, and cross-cultural interchange affected stylistic developments over the centuries. Yet, Freer never renounced his conviction that a direct, emotional response was the highest form of aesthetic pleasure -- and the most democratic, available to anyone willing to take the time to look closely. He believed quiet contemplation and intelligent (though often ahistorical and unexpected) comparisons of works of art would "induce concentration" and give all visitors "the power to see beauty."
26. POW2C_171019_08.JPG: Portrait of Charles Lang Freer, 1902-1903 James McNeill Whistler
27. POW2C_171019_14.JPG: "All Works of Art Go Together"
28. POW2C_171019_21.JPG: A Story of the Beautiful
29. POW2C_171019_26.JPG: Surface Beauty
30. POW2C_171019_32.JPG: "Articles of Beauty and Sympathy"
31. POW2C_171019_35.JPG: Looking Like a Connoisseur
32. POW2C_171019_54.JPG: Careful, Unusual Comparisons
33. POW2C_171019_71.JPG: Keynote
34. POW2C_171019_74.JPG: Variations in Blue and Green, ca 1868 James McNeill Whistler
35. POW2CV_171011_01.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2017_DC_SIFG_Power2CV DC -- Freer Gallery of Art -- Exhibit: The Power to See Beauty: Let Us Now Open Wide Our Eyes Video (5 photos from 2017)
36. POW2CV_171011_09.JPG: Let Us Now Open Wide Our Eyes Freer and the Power to See Beauty
37. POW2C_171011_01.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2017_DC_SIFG_Power2C DC -- Freer Gallery of Art -- Exhibit: The Power to See Beauty: Charles Lang Freer (33 photos from 2017)
38. POW2C_171011_04.JPG: Charles Lang Freer "All Works of Art Go Together"
39. POW2C_171011_12.JPG: A Story of the Beautiful
40. POW2C_171011_17.JPG: Looking Like a Connoisseur
41. POW2C_171011_30.JPG: Charles Lang Freer The Power to See Beauty Who has "the power to see beauty"? How much do you need to know to appreciate a work of art from another culture or historical era? Our museum founder Charles Lang Freer (1854–1919) asked himself these fundamental questions as he prepared to transfer his personal collection of Asian antiquities and American tonalist paintings to a new public museum on the National Mall. Even though Freer left school after the eighth grade, he became a wealthy industrialist and world traveler. He had easy access to scholars, critics, and sophisticated advisors and appreciated "expert opinions." Though he was never concerned with specific social, economic, and political circumstances affecting artistic production, he was keenly interested in how chronology, authenticity, quality, and cross-cultural interchange affected stylistic developments over the centuries. Yet, Freer never renounced his conviction that a direct, emotional response was the highest form of aesthetic pleasure -- and the most democratic, available to anyone willing to take the time to look closely. He believed quiet contemplation and intelligent (though often ahistorical and unexpected) comparisons of works of art would "induce concentration" and give all visitors "the power to see beauty."
42. POW2C_171011_33.JPG: Portrait of Charles Lang Freer, 1902-1903 James McNeill Whistler
43. POW2C_171011_38.JPG: Keynote
44. POW2C_171011_40.JPG: Variations in Blue and Green, ca 1868 James McNeill Whistler
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Description of Subject Matter: The Power to See Beauty: Charles Lang Freer
October 14, 2017 – Indefinitely
Who has “the power to see beauty”? How much do you need to know to appreciate a work of art from another culture or historical era? Our museum founder Charles Lang Freer (1854–1919) asked himself these fundamental questions as he prepared to transfer his personal collection of Asian antiquities and American tonalist paintings to a new public museum on the National Mall.
Even though Freer left school after the eighth grade, he became a wealthy industrialist and world traveler. He had easy access to scholars, critics, and sophisticated advisors and appreciated “expert opinions.” Though he was never concerned with specific social, economic, and political circumstances affecting artistic production, he was keenly interested in how chronology, authenticity, quality, and cross-cultural interchange affected stylistic developments over the centuries.
Yet, Freer never renounced his conviction that a direct, emotional response was the highest form of aesthetic pleasure—and the most democratic, available to anyone willing to take the time to look closely. He believed quiet contemplation and intelligent (though often ahistorical and unexpected) comparisons of works of art would “induce concentration” and give all visitors “the power to see beauty.”
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