Norton Simon Museum of Art (Venue Partner)
411 West Colorado Blvd
626-449-6840
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Lucie Hessel, c. 1905, Édouard Vuillard, Norton Simon Art Foundation, © 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
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Saturday Mar 27, 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 terms of portraits, no modern painter depicted a larger or more diverse group of people than Édouard Vuillard. The diversity of age, sexual orientation, religion, and national origin is extraordinary, in spite of the fact that all his sitters or “standers” were in some way or another “Parisian.” In this lecture, Richard Brettell, Margaret McDermott Distinguished Chair of Art and Aesthetics, the University of Texas at Dallas, and the American Director of FRAME (French Regional and American Museum Exchange) considers Vuillard’s pictorial project in the tradition of his only real source, Edgar Degas, as well as in relationship to the “portrait of an age” represented by writers and playwrights. Brettell looks at commissioned portraits, of which Vuillard, unlike Degas, painted hundreds. He also considers intimate interiors and landscapes populated by friends and friends-of-friends and discusses the most extraordinary aspects of Vuillard’s portrait project, the representation of assimilated Jews, which remains unsurpassed in the history of art before the Holocaust.
