As part of their courses on modern and contemporary art history, students in the MBA in Arts and Cultural Management at IESA arts&culture visited the Edward Hopper exhibition at the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais.
With their professor Katia Raymondaud, art advisor in contemporary art, they particularly studied the influences running through this painter’s work, notably following his trips to Paris, and how his style and subjects became “Americanized” and gave increasing importance to the representation of people’s psychology.
They were also able to look at how the paintings were displayed and juxtaposed to convey a real discourse on Hopper’s work, as well as the various tools and products offered to audiences. Designing the exhibition and producing the related mediation and communication tools is indeed at the heart of the studies in this MBA, in which students choose to specialize either in performing arts and cultural industries, or in exhibition curation and the management of collections and galleries.
This visit was also an opportunity for them to prepare for the two study days that IESA arts&culture is organizing on January 11 and 12, 2013, on American painting around the two great figures of Edward Hopper and Jackson Pollock.
The MBA in Arts and Cultural Management is a one-year program taught in English by IESA arts&culture and Paris School of Business.
> Learn more about the symposium: American Painting. Hopper, Pollock and Their Legacy