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WHEN MADRID MUSEUMS EMBRACE NEW ARTISTIC FORMS

THYSSEM MUSEUM NEW TIES WITH FASHION


(Source: THYSSEM Museum)
(Source: THYSSEM Museum)
USPA NEWS - Madrid's Museums are moving more away from traditional to embrace new artistic forms. Thyssem Museum being one of the latest, bringuing a touch of Haute Couture with its New Exhibition "Vogue Like A Painting" from June 30 to October 12, 2015...
Created in 1988, the Thyssem-Bornemisza Foundation pioneered a new formula for the private Management of public assets in SPAIN. The Museum opened its doors in October 1992. Throughout its history, the Musem tried to give particular attention on its goal of disseminating the collection with programmes and activities designed to evolve every kind of audience in its cultural project.
Regarding "Vogue Like a Painting", it explores the relationship between Fashion photography and Painting through a selection of images from archives of Vogue Magazine. Taken by leading names in classical Fashion photography and the most prominent photographers of the past decade, these pictures display characteristics that are traditionally attributed to painting.
All of them, in one way or another, reflect devices commonly used by painters : theatrical settings, devised compositional schemes, special emphasis on the beauty of the figures, their poses and the decor... There are sixty-one images selected from the archives of Vogue Magazine, with names such as Camille Akrans, Cecil Beaton, Erwin Blumenfeld, Clifford Coffin, Grant Cornett, Patrick Demarchelier, Steven Klein, Annie Leibovitz, Peter Linbergh, Irvin Penn, Mario Testino, Michael Thompson...
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