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November 7, 2009 |
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La Roldana's Saint Ginés: The Making of a Polychrome Sculpture
Daily
South Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Luisa Roldán (Spanish, 1650–1704), affectionately known as La Roldana, was one of the most celebrated and prolific sculptors of the Baroque period. This intimate exhibition introduces visitors to La Roldana, whose artistic superiority catapulted her to fame at the royal court in an otherwise male-dominated profession. She ran a workshop, worked for the king, raised a family, and was a celebrity in her own day. With her polychrome sculpture of Saint Ginés de la Jara from the Getty Museum's collection as a focal point, this exhibition explores the artist's life, artistic achievement, and the multifaceted process used to create masterfully lifelike polychrome sculpture.
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Foundry to Finish: The Making of a Bronze Sculpture
Daily
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Get a rare look at how bronze sculpture is born in Foundry to Finish. Visitors explore a process called direct lost-wax casting—a method that yields a single, unique bronze cast of an artist's original clay-and-wax model. Thirteen step-by-step models illustrate the sculpting and casting process. Through X-radiographs, visitors can even get a glimpse inside an original sculpture to see firsthand evidence of how the bronze was cast. The installation complements Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution, an international touring exhibition also on view.
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Out-of-Bounds: Images in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts
Daily through November 8, 2009
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Part of the genius of medieval art lies in its unique ability to combine serious and profound images with playful and witty ones. In illuminated manuscripts, a primary artistic medium of the Middle Ages, scenes in the margins of a page often comment on the paintings illustrating the text in the center. As often as they expand on the narrative, they poke fun at the lofty themes and, more broadly, at human foibles. Out-of-Bounds: Images in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts explores the margins of medieval books and explains its wealth of subject matter: children playing games, romantic pursuits, men battling fantastic creatures, and composite figures—half-human, half-beast—that wend their ways through the sinuous foliage of the painted borders.
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Irving Penn: Small Trades
Daily through January 10, 2010
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
Working in Paris, London, and New York in the early 1950s, photographer Irving Penn (American, born 1917) created masterful representations of skilled tradespeople dressed in work clothes and carrying the tools of their trade. A neutral backdrop and natural light provided a stage on which his subjects could present themselves with dignity and pride. Penn revisited his Small Trades series over many decades, producing evermore-exacting prints, including platinum enlargements. In 2008 the Getty acquired the most comprehensive group of these images, carefully selected by the photographer—155 gelatin silver prints and 97 platinum prints—which will be exhibited in their entirety for the first time.
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In Focus: The Worker
Daily through March 21, 2010
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
The invention of photography was announced in 1839, when the Industrial Revolution was transforming patterns of daily life in the Western world. Workers of all types were central to these changes and the camera was used—more than any other artistic medium—to depict them. Drawn exclusively from the Museum's collection, this exhibition brings together more than 40 photographs that demonstrate shifting attitudes towards the worker over much of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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November 17, 2009 |
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Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Daily, November 17, 2009 - April 18, 2010
Research Institute Exhibition Gallery, Getty Center
Highlights from this extraordinary collection of illustrated manuscripts on the history of science and ideas—exhibited together publicly for the first time—demonstrate the circulation of knowledge around the world and across cultures during the medieval and early modern periods. Medieval Muslim and Christian medicine, Chinese acupuncture, secret experiments in alchemical laboratories, codebooks for keeping secrets secret, and French and Persian visions of the cosmos that blend science with spirituality are among the treasures on display. These manuscripts were produced for caliphs, popes, merchants, and scientists. Copied and illustrated by hand, their contents—their ideas and visions—illustrate the human urge for knowledge and creative invention.
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November 24, 2009 |
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Drawing Life: The Dutch Visual Tradition
Tuesday November 24, 2009November 24, 2009 - February 28, 2010
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
During the 1600s, citizens of the Netherlands witnessed increasing political freedom, religious tolerance, and economic prosperity that resulted in a boom of artistic patronage and art production. Dutch artists began to portray their native land with its bustling cities, rustic countryside, and placid waterways. These landscapes were complemented by scenes of everyday life in which peasants frolicked, merchants ice skated, and cows rested in fields. This exhibition of Dutch drawings from the Getty's collection traces the invention of these new genres and examines the persistence of these genres in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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December 8, 2009 |
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Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference
Daily, December 8, 2009 - February 28, 2010
Exhibitions Pavilion, Getty Center
Distilling over 30 years of scholarly research, this major international loan exhibition presents a singular opportunity to explore the differences between Rembrandt's drawings and those of more than 14 pupils and followers. In carefully selected pairings of celebrated drawings by Rembrandt and his pupils, the exhibition outlines these artistic differences and sheds light on the art of drawing in Rembrandt's circle and the vibrant creative life within the master's studio.
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February 2, 2010 |
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A Record of Emotion: The Photographs of Frederick H. Evans
Daily, February 2 - June 6, 2010
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
Frederick H. Evans (English, 1853–1943) began pursuing photography in the late 1880s. Focusing on architecture, he paid particular attention to medieval cathedrals in England and France. His images of York Minster and Ely Cathedral are among the most renowned architectural renderings in the history of photography. He attempted to capture what he called "a record of emotion," by invoking the potent symbolism of these awe-inspiring spaces. These photographs and other cathedral subjects are displayed alongside rarely seen landscapes of the English countryside and intimate portraits of the artist's family and friends, including writer George Bernard Shaw and artist Aubrey Beardsley.
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Urban Panoramas: Opie, Liao, Kim
Daily, February 2 - June 6, 2010
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
Highlighting images by three living photographers—each of whom implements a panoramic viewpoint to examine a specific urban environment—this exhibition explores the essential rhythms of three cities while showing the range of technologies used by photographic artists today. Catherine Opie (American, born 1961) created inkjet prints from scans of 7x17-inch negatives of the mini-malls that characterize Los Angeles's automobile culture. Jeff Liao (Taiwanese, born 1977) digitally combined color film negatives into seamless digital prints for his Habitat 7 project, which traces the route of the New York subway from Queens to Manhattan. By layering hand-cut chromogenic prints made in Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland, during the summer solstice, Soo Kim (Korean, born 1969) achieved the three-dimensional effect of a semitransparent city.
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March 2, 2010 |
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Building the Medieval World: Architecture in Illuminated Manuscripts
Daily, March 2 - May 16, 2010
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Among the lasting achievements of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance are the architectural wonders of soaring cathedrals and grand palaces. The daily presence of these towering and monumental architectural forms in both cities and in the countryside fascinated medieval viewers and crept into the fictional world of the painted page. This focused exhibition explores representations of medieval architecture in manuscript illumination. Artists incorporated examples of medieval church and domestic architecture into scenes depicting stories drawn from scripture, literature, and history. They also employed impressive architectural settings to symbolically convey the importance of individuals and events, and they frequently used architectural elements as decorative motifs to frame texts and images.
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March 23, 2010 |
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Leonardo da Vinci and the Art of Sculpture: Inspiration and Invention
Daily, March 23 - June 20, 2010
Exhibitions Pavilion, Getty Center
The first display of works by Leonardo da Vinci in Los Angeles in decades, this major international loan exhibition celebrates his achievements and involvement in the art of sculpture. Through original drawings, the exhibition explores his ambitious designs for huge equestrian sculpture projects that were never completed. Important sculpture by artists who inspired Leonardo—and were inspired by him—are also on view, including Donatello's newly restored Bearded Prophet and three larger-than-life-size bronze figures by Leonardo's collaborator Giovanni Francesco Rustici that have never been seen outside Italy. The exhibition is organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, in association with the J. Paul Getty Museum.
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April 6, 2010 |
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In Focus: Tasteful Pictures
Daily, April 6 - August 22, 2010
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
Photographers have been enticed by the subject of food since the earliest years of the medium. Drawn exclusively from the Museum's collection, this selection of more than twenty works highlights important technological and aesthetic developments, including bountiful still life compositions, innovative close-ups and photograms, and documentary studies. Among the photographers featured are Roger Fenton, Adolphe Braun, Edward Weston, Bill Owens, Martin Parr, and Taryn Simon.
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November 7, 2009 |
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The Chimaera of Arezzo
Daily through February 8, 2010
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
Inaugurating a partnership with the National Archaeological Museum in Florence, this exhibition traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera over five centuries of classical art. Featured is a masterpiece of Etruscan sculpture known as the Chimaera of Arezzo: a large-scale bronze of the triple-headed, fire-breathing monster that was slain by the virtuous hero. From its ancient dedication to the supreme Etruscan deity in a sanctuary at Arezzo to its Renaissance display in the Medici collection, the Chimaera has endured as an emblem of the triumph of right over might.
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Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Daily
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
In 2003, the J. Paul Getty Museum acquired a collection of over 350 pieces of ancient glass, formerly owned by Erwin Oppenländer. The works on view in Molten Color are remarkable for their high quality, their chronological breadth, and the glassmaking techniques illustrated by their manufacture. The vessels are accompanied by text and videos illustrating ancient glassmaking techniques.
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Roman Ephebe from Naples
Daily
Getty Villa
Youth as a Lamp Bearer, a long-term loan from the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples, is on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa.
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November 19, 2009 |
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Reconstructing Identity: A Statue of a God from Dresden
Daily November 19, 2009 - February 8, 2010
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
This exhibition examines the restoration history of a Roman statue from the Skulpturensammlung, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Since its discovery in the 1600s, the figure has been restored as Alexander the Great, Bacchus, and Antinous in the guise of the wine god. Damaged in World War II, the sculpture was recently reassembled by Getty and Dresden conservators.
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Collector's Choice: J. Paul Getty and His Antiquities
Daily November 19, 2009 - February 8, 2010
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
With his first antiquities purchase in 1939, J. Paul Getty embarked on a lifelong pursuit of "true and lasting beauty." Celebrating seventy years of collecting, this exhibition presents seldom-seen works of art that captured the founder's eye and inspired the creation of a museum modeled on an ancient Roman villa. Favored objects and personal memorabilia illuminate Getty's taste, his engagement with noted connoisseurs, and his profound love of the classical Mediterranean world.
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March 24, 2010 |
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The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire
Daily March 24 - July 5, 2010
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
Organized to celebrate the bicentennial of Mexican independence, this exhibition explores the role of art under imperial rule. In the sixteenth century, Europeans interpreted their first encounters with Mexican cultures through the lens of classical history, drawing analogies between the Aztec and the Roman empires. Masterworks of Aztec sculpture—largely from the collections of the National Museum of Anthropology and recent excavations at Templo Mayor in Mexico City—are the point of departure for considering Old World myths with New World realities.
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