My favorite factoid about the Barnes is that it has more Cezannes on display than all the Cezannes combined in the museums of the city of Paris. You can have an unparalleled, transcendent experience viewing Cezannes on Benjamin Franklin Parkway in the City of Brotherly Love, then you can running museum to museum in all of the City of Light! We are so very, very fortunate he chose to share his gift with us. I also like the fact that this new museum building replaced the juvenile detention center that was on that parcel of land, situated right next to the Philadelphia Free Public Library. I don’t know if I missed you mentioning it or not, but in between them, right at the entrance gate to the Barnes is a used bookstore.
Such an interesting and thought-provoking video, Hannah! I absolutely loved this way of exhibiting art! This is how you would exhibit things in your own home, with a combination of paintings, photographs, and art objects. In your own home you don't necessarily think of having the paintings by the same painter, or from the same period together, unless you are incredibly rich and own several works of art by the same artist or from the same art movement. You try to put things together, which create a pleasing ensemble and which complement each other. It struck me as well, that the way the art was displayed, helped the viewer to look at each object with fresh eyes. If you just have a whole wall of paintings, or a whole case of pottery for example, certain pieces disappear and just one or two stand out.
Ooh-I like that idea of it being a style similar to our homes! Barnes in fact lived onsite and apparently visited the art very regularly, even popping in in the middle of the night.
I went to the Gardner while I was in Boston-and hope to talk about the visit later in the month, paired with a couple of books about Gardner. What a fascinating place!
Great video Hannah! The Barnes Foundation has been on my bucket list for a long time. I have not been to Philadelphia in about 30 years. Perhaps it is time to to plan a long weekend. It is not a long drive, just about 6 hours. Thank you for sharing.
What a lovely video. Barnes' ensembles are like nothing else on earth. Your video does justice to their subtlety, beauty, and power and sometimes humor. My own favorite is the gorgeous Seurat Les Poseuses hanging directly above some of the greatest Cezannes. I had no idea about the Matisse commission. Beautifully done.
@@art.and.lit.matters You’re so kind. It is just an incredible place. My husband and I visited a few years ago after he got sick. David really loved the impressionists and I the post-impressionists. The Barnes was perfect for us both.
Fascinating! I have only seen paintings exhibited salon style at a few museums-including here in Victoria-and never have I seen them displayed together with ornamental metalwork.
@@HannahsBooks It was at a museum in Toulouse (Musée des Augustins) where I first saw, and then subsequently read about, salon style exhibition of paintings. The museum was opened in the late 18th century and there are rooms with paintings still displayed the way they were originally placed. You have to crane your neck to see some of them in those rooms with immense ceilings.
Thank you! I have read about the paintings by Matisse for the arched areas in the museum, but it is wonderful to see them through the camera.Terrific visit. I'm not convinced by the metalwork around the pictures - the shape and lines in a picture should be immediately visible where it has been done well. The picture of the swan with the girl is possibly the legend of Leyda and the Swan. This guide was a real treat for Framed! in September. So good.
@@heathergregg9975 Yes! I am sure you must be right about Leda and the Swan! I kind of agree about the metalwork. Sometimes it seems to work well, but not always. My memory of the old location was that the art was not hung up so high. Perhaps I’m wrong. But I felt like the height of the ensembles sometimes made them seem almost distorted.
@@HannahsBooks ah, height of hanging is very important - my personal bias is that art should be displayed slightly lower than hitherto wherever possible, to help people in wheelchairs, kids and even just shorter adults to get a chance to enjoy art. That is the difference between art displayed in the home to suit those living there - and the galleries/museums who have to try and suit a wide range of viewers. It's great to benefit from your feedback as you saw the artworks in both locations.
Thank you so much for highlighting this fascinating collection hannah! The way the pieces are displayed really help you to compare and get an overall sense of similar syles and shapes. I wonder if there is somewhere in britain that has done a similar thing?
Sometimes, at special exhibitions, different types of art are put together on display, for example, clothes and paintings. I recently went to an exhibition at Tate Britain of paintings by the painter John Singer Sargent. There were a lot of the dresses worn by the sitters on display next to the paintings.
Good one. I would love to see Philly and the Barnes museum. (Know what post-impressionist art themed novel I enjoy? Vonnegut's _Bluebeard,_ ever read it?) Interesting ensembles! Accompanying metalwork! 😮
Great video, Hannah. Very excited to participate in the Framed event. When my sister (an artist who also follows your channel) and I discovered that we were both planning on reading one of your suggestions, Patrick Bingley's memoir: All the Beauty in the World, we decided to rope our other sister in and have a discussion during our upcoming annual "sisters only" getaway week in Maine. (I also plan on reading Percival Everett's So Much Blue, which will be my first Everett. He is also an artist, and I really connected with what I've seen online so far.) We also plan to visit a museum and some galleries, and take in a play. Basically, you are responsible for this year's entertainment. If you have any restaurant recommendations in southern Maine, lemme know! 😂
@@Nina_DP Now that is amazing! Here’s a place I haven’t been to yet, but an online friend runs: Five Islands Lobster Co in Georgetown! (If you go, tell Gina that Hannah from the widows group says hello!) I hope you have a wonderful time with lots of happy reading!
Really enjoyed this video. Not knowing much about art, I learned something about how to view the pieces you showed of the Barnes collections and the significance of how they were displayed. I must say though I saw buttocks in the metal work instead of raised arms. 😁 I guess I sometimes channel the mind of a 12 year old boy. LOL. I think I might try to go see Glass Flowers: The Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. I find this #FramedinSeptember inspiring and a bit of a nudge to read, view and do something different. Thank you Hannah.
@@marciajohansson769 I love the buttocks comment! I can imagine that Barnes himself might have seen it tgat way! The glass flowers are so fascinating. I saw them before the pandemic, and I would love to go visit them next time I am in Boston. Hope you enjoy them!
What fascinating ensembles. This approach to arrnahing art more thematically and rwapjnsively seems like a more modern way if organising a gallery rather than dogmatically sticking to an artist or period. I have just started my Framed book (A Brief History of Black British Art) and if i have time one day when I'm in town will try to visit my local sculpture gallery, the Henry Moore Institute, though I'm not sure I'll make it.
@@tillysshelf The Black British Art book sounds fascinating! There was a Henry Moore sculpture on the campus of my university that we used to think looked like a woman getting out of bed to turn off her alarm. We passed it each morning on our way to breakfast. I have loved Moore ever since-but when I saw that particular piece more recently, I couldn’t imagine how we came up with that idea!
Fascinating! I didn’t know about Barnes’s collection. Thank you for taking us on a tour. I think my mind is on women’s reproductive rights, because some of the metal works on the wall of naked women looked to me like a uterus with ovaries. 🤔
What a wonderful way to curate art! Fantastic start to Framed! In September by framing the month with a visit to the Barnes Foundation.
Thank you so much! I love your idea about “framing” the month!
My favorite factoid about the Barnes is that it has more Cezannes on display than all the Cezannes combined in the museums of the city of Paris. You can have an unparalleled, transcendent experience viewing Cezannes on Benjamin Franklin Parkway in the City of Brotherly Love, then you can running museum to museum in all of the City of Light!
We are so very, very fortunate he chose to share his gift with us.
I also like the fact that this new museum building replaced the juvenile detention center that was on that parcel of land, situated right next to the Philadelphia Free Public Library. I don’t know if I missed you mentioning it or not, but in between them, right at the entrance gate to the Barnes is a used bookstore.
@@bookofdust I haven’t mentioned it-but I had a great time in the bookstore! And more Cezannes than Paris? Oh my!
Such an interesting and thought-provoking video, Hannah!
I absolutely loved this way of exhibiting art! This is how you would exhibit things in your own home, with a combination of paintings, photographs, and art objects. In your own home you don't necessarily think of having the paintings by the same painter, or from the same period together, unless you are incredibly rich and own several works of art by the same artist or from the same art movement. You try to put things together, which create a pleasing ensemble and which complement each other.
It struck me as well, that the way the art was displayed, helped the viewer to look at each object with fresh eyes. If you just have a whole wall of paintings, or a whole case of pottery for example, certain pieces disappear and just one or two stand out.
Ooh-I like that idea of it being a style similar to our homes! Barnes in fact lived onsite and apparently visited the art very regularly, even popping in in the middle of the night.
What an interesting video, Hannah! Thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much, Hannah!
I'd never heard of Barnes. Thank you for sharing.
It is such an interesting museum!
This was great thanks.
@@BookishTexan Thanks, Brian!
Wow. This is an interesting, entertaining, and educational video. Thank you Ms. Hannah for sharing it with us. -James
Thank you so much, James!
Great video Hannah. Sounds like the Gardner museum. I'm envious of the museums available to you in DC.
I went to the Gardner while I was in Boston-and hope to talk about the visit later in the month, paired with a couple of books about Gardner. What a fascinating place!
This is such an exciting read-a-thon, really enjoying discovering what BookTubers have done with this, very stimulating - thanks for this.
Thank you so much! I have a related video or two of yours on my watch list as I try to catch up this week!
@@HannahsBooks:awesome, hope you enjoy them.
Great video Hannah! The Barnes Foundation has been on my bucket list for a long time. I have not been to Philadelphia in about 30 years. Perhaps it is time to to plan a long weekend. It is not a long drive, just about 6 hours. Thank you for sharing.
@@jorgem71962 I highly recommend it! There are other wonderful museums there, too-including the Phila Museum of Art and the Rodin Museum.
Very informative, thank you.
Thanks, Michael!
What a lovely video. Barnes' ensembles are like nothing else on earth. Your video does justice to their subtlety, beauty, and power and sometimes humor. My own favorite is the gorgeous Seurat Les Poseuses hanging directly above some of the greatest Cezannes. I had no idea about the Matisse commission. Beautifully done.
@@art.and.lit.matters You’re so kind. It is just an incredible place. My husband and I visited a few years ago after he got sick. David really loved the impressionists and I the post-impressionists. The Barnes was perfect for us both.
Fascinating! I have only seen paintings exhibited salon style at a few museums-including here in Victoria-and never have I seen them displayed together with ornamental metalwork.
I loved seeing the salon-style arrangements, but I was overwhelmed by how high it made some of the paintings!
@@HannahsBooks It was at a museum in Toulouse (Musée des Augustins) where I first saw, and then subsequently read about, salon style exhibition of paintings. The museum was opened in the late 18th century and there are rooms with paintings still displayed the way they were originally placed. You have to crane your neck to see some of them in those rooms with immense ceilings.
@@lindysmagpiereads wow-18th century!
@@HannahsBooks The building is the best part of that museum in Toulouse. It’s an old convent with a stunning courtyard.
Thank you! I have read about the paintings by Matisse for the arched areas in the museum, but it is wonderful to see them through the camera.Terrific visit. I'm not convinced by the metalwork around the pictures - the shape and lines in a picture should be immediately visible where it has been done well. The picture of the swan with the girl is possibly the legend of Leyda and the Swan. This guide was a real treat for Framed! in September. So good.
@@heathergregg9975 Yes! I am sure you must be right about Leda and the Swan! I kind of agree about the metalwork. Sometimes it seems to work well, but not always. My memory of the old location was that the art was not hung up so high. Perhaps I’m wrong. But I felt like the height of the ensembles sometimes made them seem almost distorted.
@@HannahsBooks ah, height of hanging is very important - my personal bias is that art should be displayed slightly lower than hitherto wherever possible, to help people in wheelchairs, kids and even just shorter adults to get a chance to enjoy art. That is the difference between art displayed in the home to suit those living there - and the galleries/museums who have to try and suit a wide range of viewers. It's great to benefit from your feedback as you saw the artworks in both locations.
@@heathergregg9975 You are very kind. Your recent gallery discussion is on my watch list!
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Thank you so much for highlighting this fascinating collection hannah! The way the pieces are displayed really help you to compare and get an overall sense of similar syles and shapes. I wonder if there is somewhere in britain that has done a similar thing?
@@TortugaLuv I’d love to hear!
Sometimes, at special exhibitions, different types of art are put together on display, for example, clothes and paintings. I recently went to an exhibition at Tate Britain of paintings by the painter John Singer Sargent. There were a lot of the dresses worn by the sitters on display next to the paintings.
@@sm-k5513 Very cool!
Good one. I would love to see Philly and the Barnes museum. (Know what post-impressionist art themed novel I enjoy? Vonnegut's _Bluebeard,_ ever read it?) Interesting ensembles! Accompanying metalwork! 😮
I thought of you while I was there! No-I have not read Bluebeard. Do you recommend it?
@@HannahsBooks Thanks, Hannah! Yes, I enjoyed _Bluebeard,_ a lot (we especially the ending) 📚
Great video, Hannah.
Very excited to participate in the Framed event. When my sister (an artist who also follows your channel) and I discovered that we were both planning on reading one of your suggestions, Patrick Bingley's memoir: All the Beauty in the World, we decided to rope our other sister in and have a discussion during our upcoming annual "sisters only" getaway week in Maine. (I also plan on reading Percival Everett's So Much Blue, which will be my first Everett. He is also an artist, and I really connected with what I've seen online so far.) We also plan to visit a museum and some galleries, and take in a play.
Basically, you are responsible for this year's entertainment. If you have any restaurant recommendations in southern Maine, lemme know! 😂
@@Nina_DP Now that is amazing! Here’s a place I haven’t been to yet, but an online friend runs: Five Islands Lobster Co in Georgetown! (If you go, tell Gina that Hannah from the widows group says hello!)
I hope you have a wonderful time with lots of happy reading!
@@HannahsBooks Thank you! If we get there I will report back.
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Really enjoyed this video. Not knowing much about art, I learned something about how to view the pieces you showed of the Barnes collections and the significance of how they were displayed. I must say though I saw buttocks in the metal work instead of raised arms. 😁 I guess I sometimes channel the mind of a 12 year old boy. LOL. I think I might try to go see Glass Flowers: The Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. I find this #FramedinSeptember inspiring and a bit of a nudge to read, view and do something different. Thank you Hannah.
@@marciajohansson769 I love the buttocks comment! I can imagine that Barnes himself might have seen it tgat way! The glass flowers are so fascinating. I saw them before the pandemic, and I would love to go visit them next time I am in Boston. Hope you enjoy them!
What fascinating ensembles. This approach to arrnahing art more thematically and rwapjnsively seems like a more modern way if organising a gallery rather than dogmatically sticking to an artist or period. I have just started my Framed book (A Brief History of Black British Art) and if i have time one day when I'm in town will try to visit my local sculpture gallery, the Henry Moore Institute, though I'm not sure I'll make it.
@@tillysshelf The Black British Art book sounds fascinating! There was a Henry Moore sculpture on the campus of my university that we used to think looked like a woman getting out of bed to turn off her alarm. We passed it each morning on our way to breakfast. I have loved Moore ever since-but when I saw that particular piece more recently, I couldn’t imagine how we came up with that idea!
@@HannahsBooks How funny - maybe it was the association of always seeing it just before breakfast after turning off your own alarms?
@@tillysshelf I think so!
Fascinating! I didn’t know about Barnes’s collection. Thank you for taking us on a tour. I think my mind is on women’s reproductive rights, because some of the metal works on the wall of naked women looked to me like a uterus with ovaries. 🤔
@@bouquinsbooks Yes!!! Although I suspect that did not occur to Barnes himself…
Haha, no shortage of museums there in DC for you. Here’s hoping you find the time.
@@davidnovakreadspoetry Me too! And I want to head up your way to the museums sometime possibly in the spring!
@@HannahsBooks Maybe I will meet you at the Art Institute! 🤔
@@davidnovakreadspoetry I would absolutely love that! If I can come up, I’ll be staying with friends who I think are close to you. We’ll chat!