Bozeman Magazine

Join us for the lecture On Using History with artist David Ligare.

In 1978 David Ligare decided that there were so many artists making pointedly contemporary works that, with full appreciation of the discoveries of modern art,  he would do something else entirely. That “something else” turned out to be his embrace of Greco-Roman Classicism. His use of narrative painting and what he calls the “literate picture” connects him to the origins of western art – an alternate form of originality. The themes that he has utilized underscore his interest in rational visual analysis, compositional geometry and humanistic philosophy. He believes in Emmanuel Kant’s prescription “Sapere Aude,” “dare to be wise.” His lecture will be about his journey.

Bio
David Ligare attended Art Center College of Design. Since 1969 he has had over forty solo exhibitions in New York, London, Los Angeles, Rome, San Francisco, and elsewhere. His work has been included in hundreds of group exhibitions around the world and his images have been used in textbooks and as book covers by Oxford University Press, Penguin, Phaidon, and others. His paintings and drawings are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Wadsworth Atheneum, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Gabinetto de Disegno e Stampe degli Uffizi in Florence, and many other institutions. In 2012 David Ligare was elected to the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, in Florence. An organization founded by Cosimo I de’ Medici in 1563.