Arab Musicians
1864
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1864
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Arab Musicians is a 1864 by Ludovico Wolfgang Hart, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a group of musicians from the Middle East in this painting. The artist took this photo as part of a series to show people's traditional clothes. He wanted to preserve what was disappearing due to modernization, which is an interesting reason for creating this work. Check out the museum where this is kept, The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Taken to catalogue and document cultural practices, both of these photographs were intended as portraits of professions or ethnographic types rather than portraits of individuals. Hart’s image was part of his subscription series Universal Gallery of Peoples, which sought “to reproduce through photography the national costumes that are disappearing rapidly before the advance of civilization, to preserve for people the flavor, and for artists the memory of what once was beautiful and picturesque.” An unidentified photographer captured the picturesque pifferari, country musicians who wandered…
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Ludovico Wolfgang Hart was a British artist.
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