BGuthrie Photos: DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019E Late Fall Exhibit: ARCADIA: The Clyde’s Murals by William Woodward

DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019E Late Fall Exhibit: ARCADIA: The Clyde’s Murals by William Woodward:

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Description of Pictures: ARCADIA: The Clyde’s Murals by William Woodward
November 9-December 15, 2019
William Woodward’s vibrant, 72-foot mural, Arcadia (1980), evokes a landscape of pure painterly invention, a lost world that has inspired poets, artists, and musicians since antiquity.
These 11 impressive panels—with scenes influenced by artists from Poussin to N.C. Wyeth and Howard Pyle—these magical forests, naked nymphs and frolicking fauns, satyrs, centaurs, and mystical seashores with mermaids, pirates, and treasure ships—became a success de scandale when they were first unveiled at the now legendary Clyde’s Restaurant of Tyson’s Corner, Virginia.

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1. KATARC_191109_005.JPG: "...in countries where painting and sculpture were practised and valued as they should be, the naked human body was the central subject of art. For this belief there is a quantity of evidence. In the greatest age of painting the nude inspired the greatest works; and even in periods when it ceased to be a compulsive subject it has held its position as an academic exercise and a demonstration of mastery." Kenneth Clark, The Nude, 1956 The 1953 Mellon Lectures, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC William Woodward is a classically-trained artist who received his degrees from American University and studied under a two-year fellowship throughout Europe, including the Villa I Tatti and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy. Arcadia: The Clyde's Murals (1978-1980) was Woodward's first complex, ambitious public mural commission, although from his youth, the artist had assisted his father and grandfather, both sign painters, in providing "wall art" for department stores, Chinese restaurants, private residences and yachts, vaudeville houses and circuses. As such, from an early age and throughout his career, Woodward has acquired and commanded a variety of both flexible modern, and masterly classical techniques, a combination of skills unusual in an artist of his generation-a generation of new movements that included Action Painting, Op Art, Pop Art, and Color School. For 37 years, Woodward directed the Fine Arts graduate program at The George Washington University, passing on to students a firm foundation in Materials and Methods of the Masters, techniques from fresco on walls, egg tempera on panel, through oils, the collapsible tube and post-impressionism. In Arcadia: The Clyde's Murals, Woodward uses the classical late oil technique employed by Peter Paul Rubens: a grisaille (monochrome) underpainting, combined with overpainting in rich, transparent colored oil glazes, and opaque impasto brushwork. Here, the poses of the figures-the anatomy and movement of the nude human body, the play of light and shadow on its musculature-are used to create a fluid interplay of curves and counter curves. In the Arcadia murals, Woodward has designed the visual equivalent of the concerto form: adagio-allegro-adagio. A masterful celebration of the enduring artistic value of the human body.
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