Norton Simon Museum - Events

Adult Drawing: Drawing Portrait Paintings

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:30:00 -0800

Date : Friday, November 13, 2009
Time : 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Instructor : Alfred Young
Type : Adult Education

Drawing Portrait Paintings
Join artist Alfred Young as you hone your ability to use drawing as a tool to discover how artists compose portrait paintings. Each class focuses on a specific artwork and the artist's unique creative process.

Each class is $20 and is limited to 18 participants. Materials are provided. Advance registration is required. For further information and registration, contact the Education Department at (626) 844-6980. All levels of experience are welcome.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's Comtesse d'Haussonville, 1845
Hailed as the premier portraitist of the 19th century, Ingres considered his painting of the comtesse to be one of his finest compositions. In this first of four classes, examine the development of the painting from the initial statement of the pose to the completed image through mark-making and annotation.

Classes continue on November 20 and December 11, 18

Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:30:00 -0800

Date : Saturday, November 14, 2009
Time : 1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Host : Staff Educator
Type : Spotlight Talk

Join a Museum educator on Saturdays at 1:30 p.m. or 2:30 p.m. for a focused 20-minute discussion of artwork and exhibitions. Today's talk is on the exhibition Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres.

Space is limited; register at the Information Desk upon arrival.

The Fashion for Ingres

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:00:00 -0800

Date : Saturday, November 14, 2009
Time : 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Type : Lecture

Aileen Ribeiro examines the often-complex views Ingres had with regard to fashion during his long career; though he had a traditional bias toward history painting and allegory, he nevertheless became one of the supreme artists of clothing during the rise of haute couture and the cult of the designer in mid-19th-century Paris. Ribeiro presents images of female fashion, ranging from the delicate neoclassical styles in vogue during Ingres's early career to the conspicuous consumption and lavish display of the middle decades of the 19th century. In both his portrait drawings and his paintings, Ingres produced a sense of heightened reality in his depictions of fashion, what the poet and critic Baudelaire described as the "indivisible unity[between] the woman and her dress."

Adult Drawing: Drawing Portrait Paintings

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:30:00 -0800

Date : Friday, November 20, 2009
Time : 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Instructor : Alfred Young
Type : Adult Education

Drawing Portrait Paintings
Join artist Alfred Young as you hone your ability to use drawing as a tool to discover how artists compose portrait paintings. Each class focuses on a specific artwork and the artist's unique creative process.

Each class is $20 and is limited to 18 participants. Materials are provided. Advance registration is required. For further information and registration, contact the Education Department at (626) 844-6980. All levels of experience are welcome.

Paul Cézanne's Portrait of Uncle Dominique, c. 1865-67
Cézanne made a number of portraits by vigorously applying oil paint to the canvas with a palette knife. Drawing with pastels, explore Cézanne's technique of deriving the structure of a picture and the plasticity of form from brush strokes of paint. Classes continue on December 11, 18

Edgar Degas' Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, 1878-81

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:30:00 -0800

Date : Saturday, November 21, 2009
Time : 1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Host : Staff Educator
Type : Spotlight Talk

Join a Museum educator on Saturdays at 1:30 p.m. or 2:30 p.m. for a focused 20-minute discussion of artwork and exhibitions. Today's talk is on Edgar Degas' Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, 1878-81.

Space is limited; register at the Information Desk upon arrival.

Edgar Degas' Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, 1878-81

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:30:00 -0800

Date : Saturday, November 21, 2009
Time : 2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Host : Staff Educator
Type : Spotlight Talk

Family Festival: Art in Motion

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:00:00 -0800

Date : Saturday, November 21, 2009
Time : 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Teacher : Colburn School's Trudl Zipper Dance Institute
Type : Family Program

Join students from the Colburn School's Trudl Zipper Dance Institute along with former Joffrey Ballet and Netherlands Dance Theater dancers Leslie Carothers-Aromaa and Glen Eddy as they explore the relationships among dance, music and the Norton Simon Museum's collections. Enjoy performances, live musical accompaniment and discussions in a dynamic and enlightening hour of classical, modern and contemporary dance.

Adult Art History: Ingres's World of Luxury

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:30:00 -0800

Date : Sunday, November 22, 2009
Time : 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Instructor : Charlotte N. Eyerman, Ph.D., Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Saint Louis Art Museum
Type : Adult Education

Ingres's Comtesse d'Haussonville expresses the painter's technical mastery as well as his deep and abiding fascination with the visual. This portrait of an elegant aristocrat articulates salient information about the countess and her husband, Ingres's patron. Studying the painting and the context in which it was made and exhibited also sheds light on broader issues in 19th-century French art and culture. Eyerman situates Ingres's masterpiece within his artistic practice and his identity as an academic artist of the highest order. She also considers the meaning and implications of his illusionistic style, expressed so perfectly in the Comtesse d'Haussonville, in terms of the artist's predecessors and his legacy to the present day.

The fee of $15 includes admission to the galleries on the day of class. Walk-in registration begins at 10:15 a.m. For further information, call the Education Department at (626) 844-6980.