How chaos reflects and impacts our lives
September 14–December 8, 2024
/m (Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Art Museum), Mellon Hall, St. John's College
60 College Ave
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
United States
New at the Mitchell Art Museum at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Theatre of Turmoil.
The history of art is filled with images of chaos and turmoil. Some—of famous battles or revolutions—commemorate transformative, if violent, moments or episodes. Others depict mythic stories by Homer and others handed down through the centuries. Still others visualize the more troubling aspects of daily life, such as fatal accidents or domestic violence.
This exhibition of black-and-white reproductions from antiquity to the present—featuring Gentileschi, Géricault, Goya, and many others—is intended to stimulate conversation on the role of such images in art, how these artworks reflect the anxieties of life, and the psycho-emotional impacts both have on us.
About the Mitchell Art Museum
The only nationally accredited art museum in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, the Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Art Museum at St. John’s College presents changing art exhibitions to the ever-curious. Our mission is to pose persistent and timely questions about the human experience through art and with extraordinary artists.
About St. John‘s College
St. John’s College is the most distinctive liberal arts college in the country due to our interdisciplinary program, in which 200 of the most revolutionary great books from across 3,000 years of human thought are explored in student-driven, discussion-based classes. By probing world-changing ideas in literature, philosophy, mathematics, science, music, history, and more, students leave St. John’s with a foundation for success in such fields as law, government, research, STEM, media, and education. Located on two campuses in two historic state capitals—Annapolis, Maryland, and Santa Fe, New Mexico—St. John’s is the third-oldest college in the United States and has been hailed as the “most forward-thinking, future-proof college in America” by Quartz and as a “high-achieving angel hovering over the landscape of American higher education” by the Los Angeles Times. Learn more at sjc.edu.
