'A Particular Beauty' at San Antonio's McNay puts old works in new light

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This year marks the 70th anniversary of the McNay Art Museum, home to more than 22,000 works of art, which fit largely within the framework of the European “canon.” However, the show “A Particular Beauty” highlights narratives and asks questions that have often been excluded from art-historical discourse.

The exhibition uses 19th century French works of art to reflect on a broad range of topics spanning ecocriticism, race, disability studies and more.

“A Particular Beauty” is curated by Noelle Yongwei Barr, the McNay’s 2022/23 Semmes Foundation Intern in Museum Studies. Featuring 12 works, the show is divided into four sections: Exoticism, Gendered Spaces, Leisure and Labor, and Bodies of Nature. Text on the wall poses questions such as “What is Exoticism?” and “Who has Privilege?”by Ingres — pronounced sort of like “aang-gruh.” The print is a lithographic iteration of his famous painting of the same name in the Louvre.

But the image of three women prettily resting, backlit by a gorgeous sunlit field undermines the reality is that the trio is taking a break from doing seriously hard work. Millet’s more un-romanticized etchingis much more likely to resonate with us who battle the dreary morning commute on Loop 410.

 

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