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Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947),

Adolf Arthur Dehn (1895-1968),

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849),

Albrecht Altdorfer (1480-1538),

Anonymous-Spanish Colonial,

On Friday, September 30, a new contemporary exhibition opens at the BYU Museum of Art. Entitled

Masanobu,

T. Saito,

F. E. Weberg,

Guest Post by Alisse Frandsen, MOA Marketing Intern Maybe you are looking to impress a date. Maybe you want to instill some sort of cultural curiosity into your child. Perhaps you just wish you knew what you were looking at every time you go into an art museum. Whatever the reason, learning how to appreciate art is just one of those good life skills. It

Robert Brackman (1898-1980),

Antoine Barye (1796-1875),

Beatrice Lewis,

Guest post by Kevin Twitchell, MOA Marketing intern The MOA is beginning a new series of blog posts which will act as a brief introduction to different eras of art history (in case your memory from your CIV classes is a little bit fuzzy). We will explore how these eras developed, who was involved, what was created, and the impact each had on the world. The first era we will explore is the Romantic Era. Isaiah Berlin, a social and political theorist, once described Romanticism as 'a new and restless spirit, seeking violently to burst through old and cramping forms, a nervous preoccupation with perpetually changing inner states of consciousness, a longing for the unbounded and the indefinable, for perpetual movement and change, an effort to return to the forgotten sources of life, a passionate effort at self-assertion both individual and collective, a search after means of expressing an unappeasable yearning for unattainable goals.'

Chase Shepard (b.1945),

McRay Magleby (b.1941), Peace Wave, 1985, 1985, silk screen print, 33 5/8 x 19 1/2 inches. Brigham Young University Museum of Art, 2012. Today, September 21, is International Day of Peace. The day is dedicated to world peace, and specifically the absence of war and violence. The International Day of Peace was first celebrated in 1982.

Jenni Christensen (b.1949), Morning Glory, 1986, etching, 5 13/16 x 5 5/8 inches. Brigham Young University Museum of Art. The morning glory flower is the flower for the month of September.