The Baker Museum (formerly the Naples Museum of Art ) is part of Artis–Naples, a multidisciplinary organization that also is the home of the Naples Philharmonic, located at 5833 Pelican Bay Boulevard, Naples , Florida . The museum, opened in 2000, houses a diverse collection of art in a three-story, 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m) facility. The permanent collection includes works of American modernism , 20th-century Mexican art , sculpture and 3-dimensional art. In addition to the permanent collection, the museum hosts traveling exhibits throughout the year. The Baker Museum also houses the Sisters Reading Room, which contains the Saldukas Family Foundation library collection.
12-633: The museum's permanent collection is made up of over 3,500 objects of 20th - and 21st-century art , particularly American and Mexican modern art . The collection continues to grow through donations and museum purchases. The museum acquired the Ahmet Ertegun collection in 1999, which contains about 300 works of Modernist art from the 1910s through the 1960s. The collection has works by artists A. E. Gallatin , Morgan Russell , Marsden Hartley , Stanton Macdonald-Wright , Thomas Hart Benton , Helen Torr , and Stuart Davis . The museum acquired
24-435: A black canvas. The Jack of Diamonds group with Mikhail Larionov was expressionist in nature. Dadaism preceded Surrealism , where the theories of Freudian psychology led to the depiction of the dream and the unconscious in art in work by Salvador Dalí . Kandinsky's introduction of non-representational art preceded the 1950s American Abstract Expressionist school, including Jackson Pollock , who dripped paint onto
36-461: A means of political activism, fighting against the stigma surrounding gay men and drug addicts during the 1980 AIDS epidemic. This marked a change from Modernism to Post-Modernism . Photorealism evolved from Pop Art and as a counter to Abstract Expressionists. Subsequent initiatives towards the end of the century involved a paring down of the material of art through Minimalism , and a shift toward non-visual components with Conceptual art , where
48-497: A two-dimensional image. Futurism incorporated the depiction of movement and machine age imagery. Dadaism , with its most notable exponents, Marcel Duchamp , who rejected conventional art styles altogether by exhibiting found objects , notably a urinal , and too Francis Picabia , with his Portraits Mécaniques . Parallel movements in Russia were Suprematism , where Kasimir Malevich also created non-representational work, notably
60-539: Is undergoing an expansion project set to be complete in Summer 2020 to add an additional 18,000 square feet, which will house objects from its collection, host events, and create social gathering spaces. The expansion project was designed by Weiss/Manfredi . 26°12′57″N 81°48′16″W / 26.2158°N 81.8044°W / 26.2158; -81.8044 20th-century art Twentieth-century art —and what it became as modern art —began with modernism in
72-533: The Harry Pollak collection in 2002, which contains works of modern Mexican art dated from 1900 to 1980. Artists include Leonora Carrington , Diego Rivera , José Clemente Orozco , Rufino Tamayo , and David Alfaro Siqueiros . The museum was gifted the Bryna Prensky collection in 2007, which contains Mexican art from artists like Mario Rangel and Felipe Saúl Peña. The Olga Hirshhorn collection
84-641: The canvas, and Mark Rothko , who created large areas of flat colour. Detachment from the world of imagery was reversed in the 1960s by the Pop Art movement, notably Andy Warhol , where brash commercial imagery became a Fine Art staple. The majority of his art served as a critique of American consumer culture and its obsession with celebrity and wealth. Warhol also minimised the role of the artist, often employing assistants to make his work and using mechanical means of production, such as silkscreen printing . Another pop artist, Keith Haring, used cartoons and graffiti as
96-555: The idea, not necessarily the made object, was seen as the art. The last decade of the century saw a fusion of earlier ideas in work by Jeff Koons , who made large sculptures from kitsch subjects, and in the UK , the Young British Artists , where Conceptual Art, Dada and Pop Art ideas led to Damien Hirst 's exhibition of a shark in formaldehyde in a vitrine . Les Nabis Too Many Requests If you report this error to
108-574: The late nineteenth century. Nineteenth-century movements of Post-Impressionism ( Les Nabis ), Art Nouveau and Symbolism led to the first twentieth-century art movements of Fauvism in France and Die Brücke ("The Bridge") in Germany. Fauvism in Paris introduced heightened non-representational colour into figurative painting. Die Brücke strove for emotional Expressionism . Another German group
120-545: The visual arts and lifelong learning. Every last Wednesday of the month from 6pm to 9pm, visitors to the museum for Art After Hours get free admission. [1] The Baker Museum was designed by Florida architect Eugene Aubry and opened to the public in 2000. It closed for repairs in September 2017 due to water damage caused by Hurricane Irma . The museum reopened in December 2019 after two years of building repairs. The museum
132-558: Was Der Blaue Reiter ("The Blue Rider"), led by Kandinsky in Munich , who associated the blue rider image with a spiritual non-figurative mystical art of the future. Kandinsky, Kupka , R. Delaunay and Picabia were pioneers of abstract (or non-representational) art. Cubism , generated by Picasso , Braque , Metzinger , Gleizes and others rejected the plastic norms of the Renaissance by introducing multiple perspectives into
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#1732782845489144-739: Was acquired in 2013 and 2016, and contains a diverse collection of modern and contemporary art by artists such as Josef Albers , Alexander Calder , Georgia O'Keeffe , Man Ray , Willem de Kooning , Pablo Picasso , and Ed Ruscha . The Paul and Charlotte Corddry collection was donated to the museum in 2016, and contains modern and contemporary art from American artists , including Robert Motherwell , Roy Lichtenstein , Marilyn Minter , Larry Rivers , Ed Moses , Viola Frey , James Rosenquist , Pat Steir , Frank Stella , John Wesley , Ellsworth Kelly , and Robert Rauschenberg . The Baker Museum hosts events including exhibition lectures, workshops, Art After Hours, and Artists' Studio Tour to celebrate
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