Refreshments will be served. All events are free and open to the public. The College of Wooster Art Museum is located in the Ebert Art Center on Beall Avenue between Wayne Avenue and University Street. Whether the artists depict the intricacy of a Gothic cathedral, the crumbling walls of Venice, the exotic arches and columns of Byzantine and Islamic monuments, or the mystery of fallen Neolithic dolmens, they use architecture with the Romantic intention of transporting the viewer to another place and time. Landscape with Ruined Monuments , c.
Printmaking has a longstanding affinity for architecture.
His Prisons series depicts structures that are not only imaginative but also unfathomable and unbuildable. In the early nineteenth century, topographical prints such as the lithographs in Baron Taylor's immense publication, Picturesque and Romantic Voyages through Old France , begun in 1820 and continuing for over fifty years, recorded European monuments from the days before political revolution and modern urbanization and industrialization. With such publications, the veduta tradition was revitalized to continue well into the twentieth century. Inspired by the Barbizon landscapists and by Charles Meryon's brooding views of Paris, and above all by Rembrandt's landscape prints, etching-revival artists prized the scratchiness of the etched or dypointed line, tonal richness, and atmospheric effects. The profound influence of the expatriate American artist, James Abbot McNeill Whistler, pervaded the revival and lingers on in many examples in the show.