Norton Simon Museum of Art (Venue Partner)
411 West Colorado Blvd
626-449-6840
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Portrait of Leila Claude Anet, 1930, Pierre Bonnard, Norton Simon Art Foundation, © 2009 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
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Saturday Mar 13, 2010
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Directions: Located on the corner of Orange Grove and Colorado at the intersection of the 210 and 134 freeways
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In 1867, the year of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s immense memorial exhibition, portraiture reached its apogee in France. At this same moment, however, the genre was making its most significant and lasting shift away from its traditions. Taken up by the Impressionists and continued by masters such as Matisse, Picasso, Duchamp and Warhol, the conventions of portraiture were undermined, challenged, subverted and silenced—and yet simultaneously reinforced by these avant-garde artists. In this lecture, Assistant Curator Leah Lehmbeck traces these changes in the genre from the mid-19th century to the present day.
