‘DRAWING: A BROADER DEFINITION’ ON VIEW AT MFA, BOSTON

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BOSTON, MASS. — The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, presents the exhibition “Drawing: A Broader Definition,” on view through May 4.

This unconventional exhibition includes 66 drawings on a variety of surfaces (paper, ceramic, metal, cloth) produced by artists from diverse world cultures and ranging in date from 4000 BCE to the 1950s.

The exhibition originated in speculation about how a brush drawing by the great Spanish artist Goya would look next to a brush drawing by the great Japanese artist Hokusai, and resulted in a number of comparisons between objects such as ancient Maya and Greek ceramics, Chinese monochrome paintings on silk and African loincloths, as well as drawings by Delacroix.

The focus of the exhibition is a comparison of how artists in different times and places have inventively rendered the same subjects: the human figure, landscape, birds and animals, fish and flowers.

The museum is at 465 Huntington Avenue. For information, www.mfa.org or 617-267-9300.