Courbet and the Modern Landscape At the Getty Center, February 21 May 14, 2006

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1 Courbet and the Modern Landscape At the Getty Center, February 21 May 14, 2006 RELATED EVENTS AND PUBLICATIONS All events are free, unless otherwise noted. Seating reservations are required. For reservations and information, please call or visit Tickets are available on-site or by phone. Visit the calendar at for a complete list of the Getty s public programs. Sign up for e-getty at to receive free monthly highlights of events at the Getty Center and the Getty Villa. LECTURES The Artist's Artist: Courbet's Legacy in the Twentieth Century Thursday, March 9, 7:00 p.m., Harold M. Williams Auditorium Charlotte Eyerman, co-curator of Courbet and the Modern Landscape, traces Courbet's impact on 20 th -century artists and critics and considers how subsequent generations of artists have responded to Courbet's work and to his landscapes in particular. Courbet's Landscapes and Impressionism Sunday, March 19, 4:00 p.m., Harold M. Williams Auditorium Richard Brettell, professor of art history, University of Texas at Dallas, and noted authority on 19 th -century French painting, considers the delayed effect that Courbet s landscapes had on Impressionism delayed due both to his exile from France and the long period between his death and the 1882 posthumous exhibition in Paris devoted to his work. How Landscape Means: Courbet and His Territory Thursday, April 6, 7:00 p.m., Harold M. Williams Auditorium Linda Nochlin, Lila Acheson Wallace professor of modern art at the Institute of Fine Arts/New York University, explains how Courbet created works with multiple meanings by depicting landscape elements in an apparently neutral manner. She shows how regional history and local politics shed light on the symbolic meaning of Courbet's landscapes.

2 Page 2 Performing Nature: Courbet s Revolutionary Landscape Painting Sunday, April 23, 4:00 p.m., Harold M. Williams Auditorium Mary Morton, associate curator of paintings, the J. Paul Getty Museum, focuses on Courbet s career during the electric decade of the 1860s in Paris. Courbet s radical innovations in technique and composition encouraged the ascendance of landscape as the avant-garde genre, thus initiating a powerful strain of Modernism. PERFORMANCE Gordon Getty Concert: Paris Piano Trio Thursday, March 2, 8:00 p.m., Harold M. Williams Auditorium Three of France s greatest musicians Regis Pasquier, Roland Pidoux, and Jean-Claude Pennetier have been playing chamber music together since they were students at the Paris Conservatory. They present a distinctly French evening of 19 th -century works by Debussy, Faure and Chausson to complement the exhibition. Tickets $20; $15 seniors/students. SYMPOSIUM Looking at Courbet's Landscapes: Modernism and the Market Saturday, March 18, 9:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m., Museum Lecture Hall In this day-long symposium, a group of international art experts will gather to discuss issues raised by the exhibition. Paintings conservators, scholars, and museum curators will shed light on Courbet's landscape oeuvre and debate his contribution to the history of modern painting. Fee $25; $15 seniors/students. Open to 75 participants. STUDIO COURSE Gustave Courbet and the Landscape Tuesdays, April 4 and 11, Sundays, April 23 and 30. Tuesdays, April 25 and May 2; 1:00-5:00 p.m., Museum Studios Join instructors Richard Houston and Jaime Ursic for this two-part painting workshop focusing on Courbet's approach to landscape. Using water-soluble oil paints, participants will investigate Courbet's compositional strategies, paint application, and how his extraordinary innovations and technical virtuosity influenced future generations of French painters. Course fee $65; $50 seniors/students. Open to 25 participants. Reservations available beginning Thursday, March 23 at 9:00 a.m. GALLERY COURSE Human Nature: Courbet, Adams, and the Mystery of Modern Landscape Sundays, March 12 and 19, 1:00 3:30 p.m., Museum Lecture Hall Join Museum educators Mary Beth Carosello and Jeremy Glatstein for this two-part course exploring the mystery behind Courbet's landscapes and landscape art throughout the ages. Participants will get a first-hand look at three exhibitions: Courbet and the Modern Landscape; Robert Adams: Landscapes of Harmony and Dissonance; and Carmontelle s Transparency: An 18 th -Century Motion Picture. Course fee $20; open to 50 participants.

3 Page 3 FAMILY FESTIVAL Saturday, March 25, 10:00 a.m. 6:00 p.m., Museum Courtyard Explore folk traditions and nature at this Family Festival inspired by the exhibition. Hear music from the French provinces, dive into picturesque folktales and make your own landscape inspired by the Getty's dramatic setting. ARTIST-AT-WORK DEMONSTRATIONS Thursdays and Sundays, from March 16 April 20, 1:00-3:00 p.m., Museum Studios Artist Richard Houston demonstrates painting materials and techniques used by 19 th - century Realist painters. CURATORS' GALLERY TALKS Talks are held at 1:30 p.m. in the Exhibitions Pavilion. Meet under the stairs in the Museum Entrance Hall. Tuesday, March 7 Charlotte Eyerman, co-curator of Courbet and the Modern Landscape, leads a gallery talk on the exhibition. Thursday, April 20 Mary Morton, associate curator of paintings, the J. Paul Getty Museum, leads a gallery talk on the exhibition. POINT-OF-VIEW TALKS Talks are held at 4:30 and 6:00 p.m. in the Museum galleries. Sign up at the Museum Information Desk beginning at 3:00 p.m. Friday, March 3 Pam Posey, a Los Angeles artist whose paintings draw from and reinterpret traditional ideas of landscape, discusses Courbet's influence on contemporary artists in a tour of the exhibition. Friday, April 7 Anthony Friedkin, an internationally recognized photographer known for his photographic essays of the ocean and California surf culture, explores Courbet's landscapes, seascapes, and the burgeoning field of landscape photography of mid- 19 th -century France. EXHIBITION TOURS Daily, 1:30 p.m., beginning February 28 One-hour exhibition overviews led by gallery teachers. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.

4 Page 4 RELATED PUBLICATIONS Publications are available in the Getty Museum Store, by calling or , or online at Courbet and the Modern Landscape By Mary Morton and Charlotte Eyerman, with an essay by Dominique de Font-Réaulx While Courbet was known for his large scale, provocative figural works of the 1840s and 1850s, this book argues for the centrality of landscape in Courbet s oeuvre and that his landscape paintings of the 1860s were equally influential for later avant-garde art. (Getty Publications, Cloth: $45.00) Gustave Le Gray, By Sylvie Aubenas, with contributions by Anne Cartier-Bresson, Joachim Bonnemaison, Barthélémy Jobert, Claude Schopp, Mercedes Volait, and Henri Zerner The definitive work on the photographer Le Gray. (Getty Publications, Cloth: $100.00; paper: $50.00) GETTYGUIDE Listen to curators and artists discuss Courbet's technique, influences, and legacy on the Audio Player, available in the Museum Entrance Hall. You can also watch a video about Courbet's innovative approach to landscape painting at a GettyGuide station, located in the gallery pavilions and West Pavilion GettyGuide Room. VISIT GETTY.EDU Visit the exhibition Web site to learn more about Courbet's technique, his life, and his influence on the rise of modern art. # # # MEDIA CONTACTS: Miranda Carroll Getty Communications Department mcarroll@getty.edu or Thea M. Page Getty Communications Department tpage@getty.edu The J. Paul Getty Trust is an international cultural and philanthropic institution devoted to the visual arts that features the Getty Conservation Institute, the Getty Foundation, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Getty Research Institute. The J. Paul Getty Trust and Getty programs serve a varied audience from two locations: the Getty Center in Los Angeles and the Getty Villa in Malibu.

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