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June 29 through July 4
Sidewalk Art, Music, Classic Cars and Much More For Six Days and Nights he 2012 MunsonWilliams-Proctor Arts Institute Arts Festival, Friday, June 29 through Wednesday, July 4, a colorful extravaganza of live music, sidewalk art, mural painting, antique autos, and much, much more, is the area's longest-running summertime celebration.
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The Festival's highlight attraction, the Sidewalk Art Show, returns with 228 fascinating works in a colorful array of
At 7 p.m. each evening, the Performing Arts Stage comes alive with exciting music: Neon Marias, Folk Rock, Friday; Al Nathan Band, Blues, Saturday; Laurie Dapice, Jazz, Sunday; Devin Garramone Band, Jazz, Monday; Double Barrel Blues Band, Tuesday; Bevel, Blues-Rock-Funk, Wednesday. media. Children will enjoy fun-filled activities including the popular Watermelon Eating Contest. Guided tours and illustrated talks give new insight into the Museum of Art collection and the exhibition, Shadow of the Sphinx.
The 2012
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The finest automobiles ever created will be exhibited in the annual Antique and Classic Car Show and The Fountain Elms Invitational 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, July 1 in the 2012 Arts Festival. The Fountain Elms Invitational, a Concours d’Elegance class event, will feature a selection of the finest cars in the Northeast displayed by invitation only in an elegant setting on the south lawn of Fountain Elms, the 1850 ancestral home of the founders of MWPAI. The Antique and Classic Car Show and the Fountain Elms Invitational are presented by MWPAI in association with the Mohawk Motorcades Automobile Club.
For a full schedule of events visit mwpai.org
Paper Visions July 21 through October 28 sibilities that could be achieved when artists strove to record their inner visions on paper for posterity.
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he idea that a work of art could be an object derived from the imagination instead of depicting something that imitated the natural world is one of the key tenets of modern art. This is not to say, however, that pictures based on an artist’s inner vision were only made during the modern era. Ancient and Medieval artists, for example, frequently envisioned in the form of paintings and sculpture the gods, fables, and myths of their respective worlds. Millenniums later, the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850) enthused about the origin and pleasure of such fanciful images when he spoke about “that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude.” The prints in this exhibition, on view in the Museum of Art’s Otto A. Meyer Galleries from July 21 through October 28, were made by a diverse group of European and American artists active from the Early Renaissance through the first half of the 20th century. Collectively, the Francisco Goya (Spanish, 1746-1828), The works they created over the course of five cenSleep of Reason Produces Monsters. Plate turies demonstrate the range of imaginative pos- 43 of the series, “Los Caprichos,” 1797-99. Etching, 7-1/8 x 4-3/4 in.
The exhibition begins with artworks by several Northern Renaissance artists who visualized passages in the Bible or the folklore of their age. Several centuries later, the Spanish artist Francisco Goya (1746-1828) made a trenchant critique of his age’s Enlightenment ideals by suggesting in the aquatint, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (1797-99), that the imagination was a fertile, poetic alternative to humankind’s rational thought processes. The English Romantic artist and poet William Blake (1757-1827) discovered an outlet for his imagination in the Hebrew Bible’s Book of Job, a figure with whom he identified personally. Blake’s countryman, John Martin (1789-1854), was attracted to the pictorial possibilities of the Bible’s Genesis narrative. His apocalyptic visions influenced the allegorical paintings of the American landscape painter Thomas Cole (1801-48), who Continued on page 2