Paseo gallery to begin Art and Culture Series Sunday
Victor Koshkin-Youritzin
University of Oklahoma art history professor Victor Koshkin-Youritzin Sunday will give a gallery talk at 3 p.m. Sunday at JRB Art at The Elms, 2810 N Walker in the Paseo Arts District.
His talk will launch the gallery’s Art and Culture Series, an ongoing, salon-style series of presentations, discussions and performances that will often focus on work on view at The Elms. The series is designed to foster understanding and appreciation of art and the culture in which it was created, according to a news release.
Youritzin will give a dynamic, slide-illustrated lecture titled, “How to Judge Art: Exercises in Art Criticism and Appreciation. He will present detailed critical analyses of famous paintings by Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Picass”o, Matisse and many other renowned artists.
Professor Youritzin will discuss what constitutes successful art and will help viewers gain access points to the magic and power of great art. Widely known as a charismatic speaker, Youritzin will, after offering numerous critical principles, conclude by examining two drawings: one a real Van Gogh, the other a forgery. Which is which and why?
He was educated at Williams College, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, and New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. Professor Youritzin was a Ford Foundation Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and taught at Vanderbilt and Tulane universities before joining the OU faculty in 1972. He is also co-author of “American Watercolors from The Metropolitan Museum of Art “(Abrams, 1991, a Book-of-the-Month-Club Selection).
Youritzin’s scholarly and critical articles have appeared in such internationally important publications as ARTnews, ARTS, Art Journal, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, and the Sunday Los Angeles Times. He has not only lectured at museums and universities across the United States – including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Students League of New York, and New York Studio School – but has also lectured in England, France, Africa, and the Caribbean. He has served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Program for Art on Film (MMA/Getty Trust). He has curated numerous art exhibitions and has served on many museum committees and boards.
For more information, call 528-6336 or go to www.jrbartgallery.com.
-BAM
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