With over forty paintings, sculptures, and prints, The Tragic Muse combines works from the Smart’s collection—both long-held treasures and new acquisitions—with important loans from the Art Institute of Chicago, Milwaukee Art Museum, National Gallery of Art, and Tate.
Together with an accompanying catalogue, the exhibition draws on the scholarship of University of Chicago faculty to offer fresh insight into the visual representation of tragedy and art’s power to express and elicit intense emotions.
Publication
An accompanying catalogue documents and expands upon the exhibition in new essays exploring the theme of tragic emotion and its expression in visual art.
Related programs
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February 9, 2011
Opening Reception and Lecture
February 10, 2011
Family Day: Express Yourself!
February 20, 2011
Concert: Emotion, Tragedy, and Catharsis
February 27, 2011
Teacher Workshop: Capturing Emotion
March 17, 2011
Workshop: Emotion and Abstraction
April 9, 2011
Lecture: “Art and Emotion: The Brain and Aesthetic Experience”
April 14, 2011
The Tragic Bard: Dramatic Readings from Shakespeare
April 17, 2011
Lunch-hour Talk: “Tragedy or Melodrama? Art and the Death of a Child”
May 6, 2011
Sketching at the Smart
May 19, 2011
Lecture: “Moving Beyond the Human: Paul Gauguin”
May 26, 2011
Closing-day Tour
June 5, 2011
