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August 1, 2006 |
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Courses and Demonstrations |
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The Printed Image (Studio Course)
Tuesday August 1, 2006
1 pm - 5 pm
Museum Studios, Getty Center
Join artist Jennifer Anderson and artist and Getty Museum educator Jaime Ursic for this two-part printmaking workshop. Participants will learn basic techniques for intaglio printing, including plate preparation, line- and mark-making, and inking techniques, and will pull their own print. Complements the exhibitions Ensor's Graphic Modernism and Rubens and His Printmakers. Course fee $65; $50 students. Open to 25 participants.
Part One: July 25, 1:00–5:00 p.m.
Part Two: August 1, 1:00–5:00 p.m.
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Family Activities |
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Family Art Stops
Tuesdays - Fridays through September 1, 2006
2 pm, 2:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Get up close and personal with a single work of art at this half-hour, hands-on gallery experience geared for families with children ages 5 and up. The 2:30 p.m. session is also offered in Spanish. Sign up at the Museum Information Desk beginning 30 minutes prior to the start of the program.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Architecture Tour
Tuesdays - Thursdays through August 31, 2006
10:15 am, 11 am, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm
Museum Entrance Hall, Getty Center
This is a 45-minute tour of the architecture and Richard Meier's design of the Getty Center. Meet the docent outside at the bench under the sycamore trees near the front entrance of the Museum.
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Collection Highlights Tour
Tuesdays - Thursdays through August 31, 2006
11 am
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
This one-hour tour provides an overview of major works from the Museum's collection. Also offered in Spanish at 11:00 a.m. on the weekends. Meet at the Information Desk in the Museum Entrance Hall.
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Garden Tour
Daily through June 30, 2007
11:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm, 3:30 pm
Central Garden, Getty Center
This is a 45-minute tour of the Getty gardens, including Robert Irwin's Central Garden. Meet the docent outside at the bench under the sycamore trees near the front entrance of the Museum.
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Rubens and Brueghel Exhibition Tour
Daily through September 24, 2006
1:30 pm
Exhibitions Pavilion, Getty Center
A special one-hour exhibition overview of Rubens and Brueghel: A Working Friendship. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Focus Tour: Baroque Art
Tuesdays through June 26, 2007
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Enjoy a one-hour tour exploring the drama and splendor of Baroque art and furniture made in the 1600s and early 1700s for the royalty as well as the business class and the Catholic church of Europe. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Exhibitions |
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Eliot Porter: In the Realm of Nature
Daily through September 17, 2006
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Eliot Porter (American, 1901–1990) is known for his detailed and exquisite photographs of birds and landscapes. Porter promoted the use of color materials at a time when most serious photographers worked in black-and-white. An artist of uncommon perception, his artistic and technical contributions to bird and landscape photography transformed these genres. This exhibition includes a selection of Porter's early black-and-white landscape photographs, later color landscapes, and bird photographs made over the course of his career.
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Rubens and Brueghel: A Working Friendship
Daily through September 24, 2006
Exhibitions Pavilion, Getty Center
Between about 1598 and 1625, Antwerp's most eminent painters, Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder, jointly produced sophisticated, beautiful works that transformed the Flemish tradition of painting. Exploring their long, close friendship and fruitful partnership, this exhibition assembles—for the first time—more than a dozen of their collaborations together with important coproductions made with their Flemish contemporaries. The exhibition draws on the expertise of paintings conservators whose technical examination of the Getty Museum's painting Return from War: Mars Disarmed by Venus, among other works, has unearthed new information regarding this illustrious artistic partnership. Co-organized by the Getty Museum and the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague, the exhibition travels to the Mauritshuis after its showing at the Getty.
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Rubens and His Printmakers
Daily through September 24, 2006
East Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Peter Paul Rubens employed a small army of artists to make prints after his most successful paintings, drawings, and tapestry designs, thus increasing his fame throughout Europe. This exhibition explores the close working relationship between Rubens and his printmakers, elucidating a fascinating aspect of artistic collaboration. Not satisfied with making mere reproductions of his pictures, Rubens encouraged his artists to modify his compositions, which he also often reworked. In attempting to meet Rubens' strict demands, his printmakers contributed significantly to the development of Western printmaking techniques. The display's key theme of collaboration offers a supporting dialogue to the exhibition Rubens and Brueghel: A Working Friendship.
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A Renaissance Cabinet Rediscovered
Daily through December 28, 2008
South Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
This exhibition traces the study of one Getty object to determine its date and place of manufacture. The cabinet, acquired in 1971, had since the 1980s been believed to be a pastiche if not an outright fake. However, documentary research and technical analysis undertaken by experts at the Getty revealed that the cabinet, rather than being a compromised object, is one of the most important pieces of French Renaissance furniture in the United States. This case study of the research into the authenticity of the cabinet presents the results of scientific and visual analyses of the object, studies of related materials, archival research, and other evidence. It is a story of how new information, careful research, and evolving analytic processes can alter our understanding of the art of the past.
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Classical Connections: The Enduring Influence of Greek and Roman Art
Daily through December 31, 2008
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
This installation of antiquities demonstrates the relationship of ancient art to later work, showing some of the themes, techniques, and motifs borrowed by later artists—from mythology to decorative design—and the approach to the human figure known today as the classical ideal. This permanent collection installation is on view in the North Pavilion.
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Casting Nature: François-Thomas Germain's Machine d'Argent
Daily through March 25, 2007
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
This exhibition highlights the recent acquisition of a unique silver sculpture, La Machine d'Argent (1754), made by the French royal silversmith François-Thomas Germain (1726–1791). In the tradition of trophies of the hunt, the piece represents an assemblage of two game birds, a rabbit, and vegetables. The exhibition places the significance, beauty, and naturalistic virtuosity of La Machine d'Argent within the context of French mid-18th-century art, as illustrated through select loans of paintings and prints along with other works in silver and gilt bronze in the Getty Museum's collection.
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Landscape in the Renaissance
Daily through October 15, 2006
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
The Renaissance witnessed a renewed awareness of the visible world and a pressing need to describe natural phenomena—rain, atmosphere, and the play of light—faithfully and with conviction. This exhibition explores the rapid and exciting development of landscape settings in art of the Renaissance, especially through examples in the Getty Museum's collection of illuminated manuscripts.
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A Tumultuous Assembly: Visual Poems of the Italian Futurists
Daily through January 7, 2007
Research Institute Exhibition Gallery, Getty Center
In a manifesto of 1912, the Italian Futurists advocated the destruction of poetic convention and linguistic logic in the creation of a new literary genre that was both visual and verbal: the parole in libertà (words-in-freedom). These visual poems deployed explosive language, inventive typography, and unorthodox design to evoke the modern experience of speeding trains, airplanes, factories, bombs, and the urban cafe. This exhibition of manuscripts, drawings, rare books, and journals from the special collections of the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute features various experiments in the genre, including BIF&ZF+18 by Ardengno Soffici, "Fabbrica + Treno" by Angelo Rognoni, and Zang Tumb Tumb by F.T. Marinetti, leader of the Italian Futurist movement. The poems range in theme from the battlefields of World War I to the everyday life of the Futurist artist-poet and are analyzed in terms of their political context and technical characteristics.
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August 1, 2006 |
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The Getty Villa is closed to the general public on this date.
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