![]() ![]() Nude (after Camille Claudel) and Flowers, 2010 Pastel pencil and colored pencil on paperĮtching in black ink on Somerset White Velvet Paper ![]() Sieglinde and Siegmund (Jessye Norman and Gary Lakes, Die Walkure, 1989, NYC) (one) , 2010 ![]() Wotan Kissing Away Brunhilde’s Godlike Power (Black and Blue) , 2010 Wotan Kissing Away Brunhilde’s Godlike Power (two) , 2010 To make a narrative so transcendent is a gigantic feat, and the music is so mindblowing.”Īfter Camille Claudel (Étude, Couple) (one) , 2010Ĭourtesy the artist and Gavin Brown's enterprise, NY “It’s a challenge to embrace Wagner as a human being-not as hard to embrace him as an artist. “There is a sound of human emotions that Wagner captures that is so heartbreaking,” said Peyton, who immersed herself in the Ring, Tristan und Isolde, and Tannhäuser recordings while creating the works that appear in Wagner. The exhibition’s nearly 30 works extended beyond the gallery and onto other levels of the opera house, a first in Gallery Met history. The artist created new monotypes and drawings based on the characters from the Ring and loaned two existing portraits of Wagner’s patron, King Ludwig II of Bavaria. On the occasion of the new production of Wagner’s Der Ring des NibelungenĮlizabeth Peyton’s Wagner was the second in the four-part series of exhibitions celebrating the Met’s new Ring cycle, coinciding with the premiere of Die Walküre. ![]()
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