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Fugato PMA(3)

Week 2 Hugs & Kisses (2) ( 906 – 910)

Id 909

Otto Friedrich Hungarian 1862-1937

Fugato , 1913

Tempera on canvas

Friedrich …made five paintings, each named after a style of music, to decorate the entrance to a music room. When exhibited in Vienna in 1913, they caught the attention of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky ( 1879-1940), who wrote: “ It is difficult to state the ‘content’ of [the] pictures in general…where paint and lines are meant to serve as the embodiment, not of painted, but of musical images…nobly passionate women’s bodies, and strong intense men’s bodies… speak in a language of clear and pure harmony.”

On Loan from the Hearn Family Trust

From the Placard The Philadelphia Museum of Art

 

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