Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA June 8-Sept. 15, 2019;
Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero
Beach, Florida, Oct. 19, 2019-Jan. 12, 2020;
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art
Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin, March 7-May 31, 2020;
Bellevue Arts Museum,
Bellevue, Washington, June 26-Aug. 23, 2020;
June Collins Smith Museum
of Art, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, Sept. 19, 2020-Jan. 3, 2021;
Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, Utah, Sept. 3, 2021-Feb.
19, 2022;
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee, March
19-June 12, 2022.
Jules Chéret, Théâtrophone, 1890, color lithograph, photograph by John Faier, © 2015, courtesy of the Richard H. Driehaus Museum
Jules Chéret,
Eugène Grasset,
Courtesy the Driehaus Museum Alphonse Mucha, "Princess Hyacinth", 1911
Alphonse Mucha, Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
These pioneering artists reigned in Paris during an astonishing stretch of artistic creativity and developed the vivid new visual style on view in this exhibition.
Significance: The works in L’Affichomania: The Passion for French Posters represent some of the most compelling and well-known examples of French poster art such as
Steinlen’s Le Chat Noir
and Toulouse-Lautrec’s Moulin Rouge: La Goulue.
The exhibition explores the richness of the artists’ achievements in this emerging medium and the visually powerful role of the poster in French society.
Steinlen’s Le Chat Noir
and Toulouse-Lautrec’s Moulin Rouge: La Goulue.
The exhibition explores the richness of the artists’ achievements in this emerging medium and the visually powerful role of the poster in French society.
Bright,
bold and promoting everything from products and inventions to the famed
Bohemian events and performers of Montmartre, the large-scale color
lithographs were heralded as a new art form – a brilliant fusion of
craft and commerce. The popularity of posters fueled a passion for
collecting them, called affichomanie (craze for posters).
Thanks to relaxed posting guidelines, along with advances in color
printing, tens of thousands of posters were plastered along the streets
of Paris every year. Pedestrians encountered these large prints
throughout the city, making graphic art and design a part of modern
daily life.
Tour: The
exhibition premieres at the Taft Museum of Art, the first stop on a
nationwide tour of the following venues:
Organizer: L’Affichomania: The Passion for French Posters was organized
by the Richard H. Driehaus Museum in Chicago and drawn entirely from
the Museum’s collection of fine and decorative arts.
Curator: Jeannine Falino is an independent curator, museum consultant and professor specializing in decorative arts, craft and design.
