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Pleasure Principle
The Guggenheim Hermitage Museum's new exhibit, which spans five centuries, is dedicated to leisure
By KEN WHITE
REVIEW-JOURNAL

Max Beckmann's painting "Paris Society" is part of the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum's exhibit "The Pursuit of Pleasure."

"Romeo and Juliet," a marble sculpture by Auguste Rodin, is also part of the exhibit.

The Guggenheim Hermitage Museum's new exhibit, "The Pursuit of Pleasure," is an exploration of the art of leisure from the 16th century to the early 20th century.

The exhibit, which runs through Jan. 16, is organized into four themes: "Music and Dance," "Celebration and Café Society," "Gaming and Sport," and "Flirtation and Romance."

Robert Rosenblum, an art professor at New York University, says the exhibit's "abiding theme ... is given in the title, `The Pursuit of Pleasure.' That, of course, covers a multitude of blessings and sins and an equal variety of ways to have a good time. ... As all of these painters and sculptors show us, there are as many ways to pursue pleasure as there are to look at art."

Among the artists on display are Max Beckmann, Edgar Degas, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin, Peter Paul Rubens, Jan Steen, Titian and Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velazquez.

Beckmann's "Paris Society," from 1931, shows society swells packed together.

Picasso is represented by two paintings, "The Fourteenth of July," a pre-cubist work from 1901, and "Mandolin and Guitar" from 1924, which is definitely cubist in style.

Degas was known mostly for his paintings, but the show features one of his bronze sculptures, "Spanish Dance," circa 1896-1911.

Sculptor Rodin's 1905 marble work "Romeo and Juliet" shows his trademark sensuous style to good effect, with Shakespeare's partly-clothed characters locked in a tight embrace.

Fragonard's work is represented by the late 1700s painting "The Captured Kiss," and Rubens, known for his paintings of plus-size women, is instead represented by the "Landscape with Rainbow," a rural scene without a nude in sight.

Meanwhile, Steen's painting "In Luxury Beware" from 1663 shows music and revelry along with a pig and a dog, and Titian's 1550 painting "The Small Tambourine Player" is of a nude boy playing an instrument.

Velazquez' "Luncheon," 1617-18, takes on a food theme with a man and two boys enjoying a meal.

Drawn from the collections of three museums, "The Pursuit of Pleasure" was co-organized by Susan Davidson, curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York; Arkady Ippolitov, curator of Italian prints at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia; and Karl Sch焧z, director of paintings gallery at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria.

The Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, which is under the patronage of the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation, Dr. Mikhail E. Shwydkoi, is managed and operated by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.

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