Drawing on Blue
Getty Center 1200 Getty Center Drive, LOS ANGELES, CA, United StatesGetty Center
Through new technical examination of drawings in the Getty’s collection, this exhibition offers fresh insight into the physical properties of blue paper, and its unique contribution to artistic practice from the 15th through 18th centuries.
The Decorated Page: The Arts of the Book in the Persian World
Getty Center 1200 Getty Center Drive, LOS ANGELES, CA, United StatesGetty Center
Focusing on the 15th and 16th centuries, this presentation by Massumeh Farhad, curator of Persian, Arab, and Turkish art at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, examines the careful preparation and application of pigments as well as their role and function within the context of Persian manuscripts.
Call for Papers: Drawn to Blue
Online (Zoom Webinar)Online (Zoom Webinar)
This call seeks proposals for 20-minute papers that address the history of European blue paper from the fourteenth century until 1800. Open to art historians, curators, conservators, conservation scientists, paper historians, papermakers, and dyers, successful proposals will demonstrate original archival research and/or object-based approach to their discussion of works on blue paper.
Drawn to Blue: Artists’ use of blue paper
The Courtauld Gallery The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London, United KingdomThe Courtauld Gallery
This display will present a selection of drawings on blue paper from The Courtauld’s collection, ranging from works by the Venetian Renaissance artist Jacopo Tintoretto to a watercolor by famed English Artist Joseph Mallord William Turner. Made from fibers derived from blue rags, blue paper first appeared in Northern Italy in the 14th century. It became a popular drawing […]
Paper and Light
Getty Center 1200 Getty Center Drive, LOS ANGELES, CA, United StatesGetty Center
Artists have for centuries explored the interaction of paper and light. This exhibition of drawings charts some of the innovative ways in which the two media were creatively used together. Works include the Museum’s extraordinary 12-foot-long transparency by Carmontelle—essentially an 18th-century motion picture—which will be shown lit from behind as originally intended. Drawings by more […]
Drawn to Blue: A Digital Symposium
Online (Zoom Webinar)Online (Zoom Webinar)
This two-day online symposium, co-organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the University of Amsterdam, brings together art historians and paper and textile conservators to share their new research on the history of early modern blue paper. Made from discarded blue rags, early modern blue paper was a humble material. However, producing it required […]