Seen/Unseen: A Closer Look at Odilon Redon Drawings
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The exhibition Odilon Redon: Otherworldly Visions highlights Getty’s collection of the artist’s moody charcoal drawings and vibrant pastels. By focusing on Redon’s materials and techniques, it builds upon important research on 19th-century drawing media developed over the past decade by Getty paper conservators, conservation scientists, and curators. Join curator Danielle Canter and conservator Michelle Sullivan to […]
Virtue and Vice: Allegory in European Drawing
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This rotation from Getty’s collection explores how European artists from the 16th to 19th centuries made drawings to criticize bad behavior as well as praise virtuous deeds. Drawings of proper and improper conduct range from straightforward examples (charity, lust, and greed) to complex allegories (virtue, decadence, and friendship). Whether warning against sinful ways or celebrating […]
Learning to Draw
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Drawing is a skill, gained like any other through study and practice. Combining the movement of the hand with the dedication of the mind, drawing was considered the foundation of the arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture since the Renaissance. Proficiency in drawing was critical for exploring, inventing, and communicating ideas visually, but how was […]
Lines of Connection: Drawing and Printmaking
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The first exhibition ever to focus on the multiple connections between drawing and printmaking, this presentation brings together around 90 works on paper by some of the greatest artists in the Western tradition to uncover the inner workings of their creative process and offer new ways to think about the links between the two mediums. […]
A Brush with Nature: Romantic Landscape Drawings
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Artists in the Romantic period found endless inspiration in the beauty and power of nature. This exhibition highlights how these artists depicted the landscape, from detailed botanical studies to vast vistas. Important Romantic motifs are explored, including the melancholic appeal of ruins and the threat of destructive natural forces. Drawing upon the strengths of the […]
Paper and Light
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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 […]
The Decorated Page: The Arts of the Book in the Persian World
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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.
Drawing on Blue
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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.