Introduction

Welcome to the Cornell Fine Arts Museum.
Has anyone visited here before?

Great! Well let me tell you a little bit about the museum.
This is a teaching museum, which means our mission is to educate the community. We give tours from k-12 and adults. We have free admission for all, so you are always welcome to come back!

We currently have 5,000 objects. We are the only museum in central Florida to hold antiquities and American art.

For this exhibition, we have selected works from our permanent collection and that’s what we will focus on today.

Before we go into the gallery, I want to state the museum etiquette that is important to follow.

Please do not get too close to the artwork so you don’t accidently touch them. And also, you may take photos, but please no flash!

Now follow me into the Clive gallery so we can get started! The Clive gallery is divided into 4 sections:
Religion Redefined, Gesture and Pose, A Sense of Place, and History and Myth.
We decided to call this collection Conversations. I want to encourage you to think of what these four sections what they mean. We can do this by comparing and contrasting between works within each section and outside of each section.

In each section, I will focus on 2 to 3 pieces

Gesture and Pose

Lets start at the gesture and pose section:

Here we can learn a lot about what a pose or style of clothing says about the time period the suitor lived or who they were.

Gustave Brion
Crossing the Rhine
1855
Oil

* Realist painter active in Paris, but originally from Alsace region * He exhibited his works regularly at the salon in Paris * Influenced by realist artists, such as Gustave Courbet * During 1850s, he produced landscape and historical genre subjects, such as peasants working in their natural environments * During the late 1850s, he