Zoom Program: What Is Art?

Nestled on the western shore of Otsego Lake, housed in an elegant 1930s neo-Georgian mansion, the Fenimore Art Museum presents a perspective on the heritage and history of America through art.The beauty of the museum setting is matched by the quality of the collections it houses, including some of the nation’s finest examples of American landscape, history and genre paintings, American folk art, photography and American Indian art.William Sidney Mount, Thomas Cole, Gilbert Stuart, Benjamin West, E.L. Henry, Eastman Johnson, Thomas Waterman, John Wesley Jarvis, Grandma Moses and Ralph Fasanella are all represented in the museum’s holdings.The Fenimore Art Museum is dedicated to integrating history with art history and including under-appreciated genres, primarily American folk art and American Indian art, in a broad and progressive American canon. The Fenimore Art Museum seeks to honor the extraordinary ability of ordinary people to shape American culture.

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This program aims to deepen the public’s understanding of art. Art uses its own language to convey a direct experience to the viewer: a language that includes color, shape, rhythm, scale, and more. During, What is Art? (April 2), Michelle Bosma, Youth Programs Manager, provides an introduction to the cultural practices that shaped how art developed in the Western canon and how we might begin to think of art today.Registration is required. There is no charge, but if you value this type of program, please consider a donation of $10 or above in order to assist us in continuing to provide you content in the future. Thank you.This is a live Zoom lecture. Zoom is required to view the lecture. A link and passcode will be provided to all registrants 24 hours before the lecture. You will be sent the link via the e-mail used here to sign up for the program.

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