The Critique of Reason Exhibition

The Critique of Reason: Romantic Art, 1760-1860, the first major collaborative exhibition between the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art. The exhibition's eight thematic sections juxtapose arresting works that reveal the Romantics as attentive explorers of their natural and cultural worlds. The exhibition suggests that the Romantic movement in art was not solely an exploration of introversion and fantasy. In many ways, the Romantics were "attentive explorers of their natural and cultural worlds."

After documenting daycare centers throughout Milwaukee for a number of years,  and encouraged by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, we have begun thinking about the "bigger picture."  From this perspective we were inspired to view this cultural landscape as a collision of well intentioned legislation,  economic reality and unintended consequences creating an opportunities for visual metaphor.

Henry Fuseli, Danaë and Perseus on Seriphos(?),
 ca. 1785–90. Oil on canvas. Yale University Art Gallery,
University Purchase, Associates in Fine Arts Fund

To learn more, visit the exhibition website.

George Stubbs, A Lion Attacking a Horse, 1762. Oil on canvas. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection