Visit - The Art Institute of Chicago
WEBWhen does the Art Institute offer free admission? Admission is currently free for Illinois residents on Thursday evenings, 5:00–8:00, through September 26, 2024. Our next free hours for Illinois residents will be 11:00–5:00 on the following days: -Monday, October 21. -Monday, October 28.
Vincent van Gogh - The Art Institute of Chicago
WEBHere, he continued drawing and painting the town and those around him, capturing people, landscapes, houses, and flowers in his work until his untimely death. The Art Institute of Chicago has celebrated van Gogh’s path-breaking work in the exhibitions Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South (2001–2002) and Van Gogh’s Bedrooms (2016).
René Magritte - The Art Institute of Chicago
WEBRené François Ghislain Magritte, 勒内·马格利特. Date of birth. 1898. Date of death. 1967. A major figure of the Surrealist movement, the Belgian artist René Magritte created some of the most extraordinary and iconic images of the 20th century. Seeking to “make the most everyday objects shriek aloud,” Magritte transformed familiar ...
Georges Seurat - The Art Institute of Chicago
WEBGeorges Seurat. Also known as. Georges Pierre Seurat, Georges-Pierre Seurat, 乔治·修拉. Date of birth. 1859. Date of death. 1891. Inspired by recently published research in optical and color theory, Georges Seurat distinguished his art from what the Impressionists considered a more intuitive painting approach by developing his own ...
Claude Monet - The Art Institute of Chicago
WEBInstitutional Archives, Art Institute of Chicago. Also known as. Claude Oscar Monet, Klod Mone, 克劳德·莫奈. Date of birth. 1840. Date of death. 1926. Claude Monet was a pioneer of the French artistic movement known as Impressionism. Throughout his long career, Monet portrayed the people closest to him and the places he knew best.
The Great Wave by Hokusai | The Art Institute of Chicago
WEBUnder the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)”. 1830/33. Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾 北斎. Japanese, 1760-1849. Katsushika Hokusai’s much celebrated series, Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjûrokkei), was begun in 1830 ...
Utagawa Hiroshige - The Art Institute of Chicago
WEB1797. Date of death. 1858. Utagawa Hiroshige is recognized as a master of the ukiyo-e woodblock printing tradition, having created 8,000 prints of everyday life and landscape in Edo-period Japan with a splendid, saturated ambience. Orphaned at 12, Hiroshige began painting shortly thereafter under the tutelage of Toyohiro of the Utagawa school.
Katsushika Hokusai - The Art Institute of Chicago
WEBKatsushika Hokusai’s woodblock print The Great Wave is one of the most famous and recognizable works of art in the world. This work is from Hokusai’s much-celebrated series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjûrokkei), a tour-de-force that established the popularity of landscape prints, which continues to this day.Hokusai spent the majority of his life in the capital of Edo, now ...
FAQs - The Art Institute of Chicago
WEBYes, the museum has two on-site stores, the Museum Shop, just inside the Michigan Avenue entrance, and the Modern Shop, just inside the Modern Wing entrance. Both shops are open during all member and public hours: Monday 10 a.m.–5 p.m., Thursday 10 a.m.–8 p.m., and Friday–Sunday 10 a.m.–5 p.m. There is also an online store.
Georgia O’Keeffe: - The Art Institute of Chicago
WEBO’Keeffe’s “New Yorks” are essential to understanding how she became the artist we know today. Georgia O’Keeffe: “My New Yorks” is curated by the Art Institute’s Sarah Kelly Oehler, Field-McCormick Chair and Curator, Arts of the Americas, and vice president, Curatorial Strategy, and Annelise K. Madsen, Gilda and Henry Buchbinder ...
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