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The Getty is art, architecture, and gardens at two locations: the Getty Center in Los Angeles and the Getty Villa in Malibu.
Greatly influenced by Surrealism, Kansuke Yamamoto made innovative photographs, collages, and poems and was a key figure in the Japanese avant-garde.
His work is featured in Japan’s Modern Divide: The Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto.
Stapled Flesh, 1949, Kansuke Yamamoto. From the Collection of Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck. © Toshio Yamamoto
Married at 14, Marie d’Albert de Luynes was rejected by her husband and condemned to lifelong virginity.
She dressed only in white.
The Duchess of Chaulnes as a Gardener in an Allée, 1771, Louis de Carmontelle. The J. Paul Getty Museum
Nearly 100,000 sunsets ago.
Mediterranean Harbor Scene (detail), about 1763, Pierre-Jacques Volaire. The J. Paul Getty Museum
The naturalism of Northern Renaissance portraits stunned Italian artists, who are said to have remarked that these paintings had “everything but actual breathing.”
“You’ll shortly make the acquaintance of Mr. Patience Escalier,” wrote Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo from Arles, in the south of France, on August 18, 1888, “a sort of man with a hoe, an old Camargue oxherd, who’s now a gardener at a farmstead in the Crau.”
This Saturday, May 4th at 4pm, Devi Ormond, Associate Paintings Conservator, and Lauren Bradley, Assistant Conservator, from the J. Paul Getty Museum, focus on their recent technical examination carried out at the Getty on the Portrait of a Peasant, revealing it to be a work of art created through careful thought and deliberate choices, qualities not often associated with Van Gogh.
Van Gogh’s spontaneity is so enticing, it’s easy to forget that he was deeply deliberative. That combination is his magic.
Another inspiring installation shot from the Blanton’s current exhibition, Through the Eyes of Texas: Masterworks from Alumni Collections. Looking closely, what connections do you see between the works in this space?
Photo courtesy Mary Myers.
May we add a few more images to this group and call it a mini-digital exhibition? (No paperwork needed.)
L: Portrait of Madame Brunet, Edouard Manet, French, about 1860-1863. The J. Paul Getty Museum. R: An Oak Tree in Winter, William Henry Fox Talbot, English, probably 1842-1843. The J. Paul Getty Museum.
Two approaches to conserving a collection of vase fragments:
1. Fill in the gaps with simple black. This makes the loss more present.
2. Add terracotta silhouettes. This makes the scene more coherent, bringing it to life from the sparse available clues.
A labor of love by Getty antiquities conservator Jeff Maish.
Restored Mixing Vessel with Greeks Battling Amazons, attributed to the Syleus Painter, Greek, made in Athens, 480–470 B.C. Terracotta, 25 3/8 in. high. The J. Paul Getty Museum
Sam Durant’s Getty artist project #isamuseum was installed this past Monday and now you can question and be questioned both online and onsite.
Bill Brandt (British, b. Germany, 1904-1983)
Stonehenge in the Snow, c. 1947.
© Bill Brandt Archive Ltd./Courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York.
British Heritage is taking resumes for Stonehenge manager through May 5. Just saying.
A bunch of small composition studies I did for my online class with The Art Department. All from some of the old masters.
Sargent. Manet. _______.
Vocab of the Day: Levigation. It means refining clay to make it smooth and able to accept tiny painted details (made with brushes as thin as a single hair!) The microscopic image depicts the end of a single brushstroke.
More from Marc Walton, scientist at the Getty Conservation Institute, on this week’s Getty Voices.
Water Jar with Herakles Wrestling the Nemean Lion, about 470 B.C., attributed to the Aegisthus Painter, Greek, terracotta. The J. Paul Getty Museum
The Last Evening - James Tissot 1873 Guildhall Art Gallery, London
Tissot’s study for this painting reveals his tender attention to texture, pattern, and gesture. Her gaze and hands seem to be caught in a moment of quiet thought. What is she thinking about as the sailor she loves is about to depart out to sea? Is she fearing the months to come? Perhaps the two just shared a knowing glance.
Young Woman in a Rocking Chair, about 1873, Jacques Joseph Tissot, brush with gouache and watercolor, over graphite on brown wove laid paper. The J. Paul Getty Museum
Ancient Greek black figure pottery-inspired nails, featuring Theseus facing the Minotaur on one hand, and Oedipus pondering the riddle of the Sphinx on the other. Matte finish for an extra pottery-ish look!
Nail iconography! A creative twist on what Getty Voices looks at this week: ancient pottery production. How were red- and black-figure vases made in ancient times?
From art historian to rocket scientist, this project has experts from all fields in collaboration. (None with nails this stylish.)
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