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Tuesday, January 19, 1993
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Art museum to showcase artwork by 19th-century radical Belgians
By James Reece Kansan staff writer
When most people think of Belgium, they think of waffles not art.
But KU art lovers soon will feast on the radical progressive art of Les XX, a 19th-century socialist Belgian art group.
The Spencer Museum of Art will be the first museum in the United States to showcase the work of the little-known graphics art group that worked from 1883 to 1894. The group blended visual art with socialism and social reform, using the styles of various European art movements.
"Tropon Eiweiss Nahrung," Flemish for Tropon, nourishment from eggwhites, by henry van de Velde, is featured in the exhibit, Les XX and the Belgian Avant-Garde: Prints, Drawings and Books. The exhibit is from Jan. 24 to March 21.
The exhibit is called "Les XX and the Belgian Avante-Garde: Prints, Drawings and Books ca. 1800" and will be shown at the Kress Gallery in the museum from Jan. 24 to March 21.
It will feature more than 150 prints, drawings and illustrations by the group and its associates. The works are from private art collections and museums throughout Europe and the United States, said Sally Hayden, managing editor of museum publications.
"The works we are displaying, from the last two decades of the 19th century, are among their most important works," said Stephen Goddard, curator of prints and drawings at the Spencer Museum of Art, who organized the exhibit.
Goddard, who is also an associate professor of art history, said Les XX, or Les Vingt, French for "The Twenty," had more than 100 members during its 10 years but limited itself to 20 artists at any one time.
The works include posters, book and catalogue designs, portraits and landscapes. Goddard has divided the exhibits into sections to show how the group worked with different themes.
One section will show three works of one group member who dedicated his life to painting the lives of coal miners. The works show dark scenes: one of miners preparing to descend into a mine and another of a hospital scene in the aftermath of a cave-in.
"They were to some extent radicals." Goddard said. "Some of them were very outspoken in their views about the government."
One work showed a skeleton figure standing in a doorway holding a scythe. Goddard said the work was done as a representation of syphilis.
"Their exhibition area was in the Palace of Fine Art, a civic arena in Brussels," Goddard said. "They had to teach us how to use it so they had to be careful."
A subtle socialistic theme can be seen in the works, he said. One drawing shows a factory strike by showing a woman standing by a wall. Behind her are smoke stacks and a clear sky, which show the effects of the strike.
in the exhibit, Goddard hopes to show the variety of styles used by members of Les XX. Those styles
include impressionism, neo-impressionism, symbolism, art nouveau and arts and crafts.
The display will feature prints and drawings by Les XX as well as books and periodicals they illustrated. The books feature short stories, plays or poems written by influential Belgian writers of the era.
Hayden used Goddard had been planning the show for four years, and that the show was not just for art history majors.
"I am real excited about it," she said. "I think there is something in the show for everybody, no matter what their level of art is."
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