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Premiere: Kings of Pastry
Directed by Chris Hegedus and D A Pennebaker
Fri, Oct 29 5:00 PM Fri, Oct 29 7:00 PM Sat, Oct 30 1:00 PM Sat, Oct 30 7:00 PM Sun, Oct 31 1:00 PM
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EXPERIENCE ART AS A FAMILY
Kids and adults can discover art together, FREE with museum admission. Creation Stations, Family Tours, Sketching in the Galleries, and Storytime Tours are offered throughout the week. Check www.mfah.org/calendar for schedules.
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Courbet and the Modern Landscape
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On view Sunday, June 18 - Sunday, September 10, 2006 at the Audrey Jones Beck Building
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Gustave Courbet , Sunset on Lake Léman (Coucher de soleil sur le lac Léman), 1874
Musée Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland, P 66
Photograph by Claude Cornand, Lausanne
While the large-scale figurative works of Gustave Courbet´s early to mid-career—textbook pictures such as The Burial at Ornans, The Stonebreakers, and Studio of the Artist—are of signal significance to the history of western art, it is in the genre of landscape that the artist laid the groundwork for a vital strain of modernist painting.
The exhibition brings together approximately 50 landscape paintings by Courbet. He is shown to be a radical innovator in both the motifs he chose to paint and, more significantly, in his performative style of painting. Courbet created within the genre of landscape painting a site for improvisation and the display of technical virtuosity, making the act of painting a highly individualistic form of self-expression.
The exhibition is presented in six themed categories, according to subjects in Courbet´s landscape oeuvre: Cliffs and Valleys; Forests and Streams; Rocks and Grottoes; Snowscapes; Seascapes; and scenes in Switzerland.
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This exhibition was organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Walters Art Museum.
Generous funding in Houston is provided by:
Continental Airlines
The Hamill Foundation
The Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation
Cynthia and Tony Petrello
The Scaler Foundation
The Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Duncan Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Wise
Related Events:
Daytime Preview for All MFAH Members
At the Audrey Jones Beck Building
Saturday, June 17, 2006 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Explore the MFAH: Courbet and the Modern Landscape
At the Audrey Jones Beck Building
Saturday, July 1, 2006 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Saturday, July 8, 2006 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Saturday, July 15, 2006 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Saturday, July 22, 2006 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Saturday, July 29, 2006 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Friday Afternoon Lecture
At the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Friday, July 21, 2006 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Lunchtime Tours at the MFAH: Courbet and the Modern Landscape
At the Audrey Jones Beck Building
Wednesday, July 5, 2006 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Wednesday, July 12, 2006 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Wednesday, July 19, 2006 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Wednesday, July 26, 2006 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Members Preview Lecture
At the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Friday, June 16, 2006 6:00 PM
Preview Party for Patron-Plus Members
At the Audrey Jones Beck Building
Friday, June 16, 2006 6:00 PM
Special Exhibition Lecture
At the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Tuesday, September 5, 2006 6:30 PM
Spotlight Tour: Courbet and the Modern Landscape
At the Audrey Jones Beck Building
Thursday, July 6, 2006 7:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Thursday, July 13, 2006 7:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Thursday, July 20, 2006 7:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Thursday, July 27, 2006 7:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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