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September 2008

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Beginning September 9, 2008, the Getty Center will have new hours. View the new schedule on our Web site. The parking at both the Getty Center and the Getty Villa will increase to $10.

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Teachers' Open Workshop
Portraits & Faces
Saturday, September 27, 2008
9:30 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
The Getty Center

Professional Development

Artists have represented people in portraits for thousands of years, capturing historical figures as well as individuals from everyday life. Discover ways to engage your students in the investigation and creation of portraits in this free one-day workshop for K–12 teachers.

Explore ideas about portraiture in three exhibitions, hear presentations in the galleries, engage with hands-on activities, and learn strategies for teaching with portraits and characters in your classroom. Attendees will receive curricular materials, including lesson plans and reproductions of works of art.

Teachers working in the galleries.
Learn how to teach with original works of art at the Getty Center.

Call (310) 440-7300 to register. Space is limited, so sign up now!

Learn about the exhibition Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture, on view at the Getty Center through October 26, 2008.

Learn about the exhibition Faces of Power and Piety:Medieval Portraiture, on view at the Getty Center through October 26, 2008.

The exhibition A Light Touch:Exploring Humor in Drawing will be on view at the Getty Center September 23 through December 7, 2008.

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Video: Stone Sculpting with Traditional Tools

Video Gallery

Before power tools were available, sculptors carved stone using hand-held tools powered by their own strength. For hundreds of years, these tools remained unchanged. In this video, watch a contemporary sculptor demonstrate the use of traditional tools—the tooth chisel, the point chisel, the drill, and the rasp—as he creates a finished figure of a woman from a block of marble.

Use the video to introduce students to the stone-sculpting methods used by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian, 1598–1680). Then, explore the exhibition Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture online or on a visit to the Museum.

Watch the video Carving Marble with Traditional Tools.

Learn more about the exhibition Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture, on view at the Getty Center through October 26, 2008.

Video: Introduce students to stone stone-sculpting methods.
Video: Introduce students to stone-sculpting methods.

C U R R I C U L A R  C O N N E C T I O N S

Making Medieval Portraits

Current Exhibitions

Explore medieval portraits with your students in the exhibition Faces of Power and Piety: Medieval Portraiture. The exhibition presents portraits of individuals painted in medieval books. The goal of medieval portraiture was to present a person not at a particular moment in time, but as he or she wished to be remembered through the ages.

Explore the exhibition with students in grades 3–8 by adapting the lesson "Funky Illuminated Fairy Tales" to have each student create an illuminated portrait of a powerful person. In class students should create a painted portrait, depicting clothing and objects related to that persons role, in order to communicate how that person would want to be remembered through the ages.

View the lesson "Funky Illuminated Fairy Tales."

Learn about the exhibition Faces of Power and Piety: Medieval Portraiture, on view at the Getty Center through October 26, 2008.

Simon de Varie Kneeling in Prayer / Fouquet
Let this medieval portrait inspire your students to create an original work of art.

Simon de Varie Kneeling in Prayer, Jean Fouquet, 1455

S C H O O L  V I S I T S

Changes in the Galleries

Getty Bookmarks

Did you know that works of art at the Getty Museum are often moved to new locations? Before you bring your class to the Getty, make sure all the artworks you want to visit are on view. Here is one recent change:

The Convalescent / Edgar Degas

Moved
The Convalescent, by Edgar Degas was on loan for an exhibition and has returned to the West Pavilion.

Find the location of a work of art by using Getty Bookmarks. Register for an account and you'll always know the most current location of your bookmarked artworks. For the most up-to-date information, be sure to check Getty Bookmarks on the day of, or the night before, your visit.

Register for Getty Bookmarks now!

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