Artist David Schutter has intently studied an Art Institute work by Jean Antoine Watteau, and is making a new painting from memory, evoking, rather than copying, the 18th century image. He is, as noted by curator Anthony Elms, "painting the action of looking." Learn more from the artist here.

Artists Connect is a regularly scheduled series of lectures given by Chicago-area artists. In these illustrated talks, artists describe their own work in relation to one or several works in the permanent collection of the Art Institute.

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