BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Freer Gallery of Art -- Exhibit: The Power to See Beauty: Let Us Now Open Wide Our Eyes Video

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1. POW2CV_200307_001.JPG: Let Us Now Open Wide Our Eyes Freer and the Power to See Beauty You can see the slideshow on http://www.douglasfiliak.com/
2. POW2CV_200307_011.JPG: I. Seeking
3. POW2CV_200307_015.JPG: So far as business goes, I am worn out, noise and confusion wear heavily upon me.
4. POW2CV_200307_046.JPG: Spiritual meaning... is entirely beyond my understanding I should have to live many lives to grasp it.
5. POW2CV_200307_048.JPG: Nature sustains and leads us on.
6. POW2CV_200307_064.JPG: II. Gathering
7. POW2CV_200307_067.JPG: From Egypt to the temples of Ceylon and Java and thence to the treasure houses of China and Japan
8. POW2CV_200307_069.JPG: ... an experience of indescribable delight
9. POW2CV_200307_110.JPG: Its grip upon me constantly increases, it makes me almost feverish -- an influence from the souls of these stone saints
10. POW2CV_200307_111.JPG: The fascination of being alone is ever present -- the spirit of asceticism everywhere
11. POW2CV_200307_113.JPG: III. Seeing
12. 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
13. POW2CV_200307_119.JPG: For those who have the power to see beauty, all works of art go together
14. POW2CV_200307_156.JPG: IV. Giving
15. POW2CV_200307_162.JPG: Observers in general should be given ample opportunity to enjoy their emotional reactions without expert opinions
16. POW2CV_200307_164.JPG: Let light in some places come from above and some low down, as in Japanese houses
17. POW2CV_200307_211.JPG: Let us now open wide our eyes
18. 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.
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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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