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Sep 27, 2024 · Look Alive! A Still-Life Comparison. Explore the practice of slow looking through an intriguing pairing of two still-life paintings: Jacques Linard’s Still Life: The Five Senses with Flowers, 1639, and Tom Wesselmann’s Still Life #2, 1962. LEARN MORE.
Sep 27, 2024 · Look Alive! A Still-Life Comparison. September 27, 2024 – January 13, 2025. Slow looking is a practice of slowly and carefully studying a work of art. Such close observation can reveal insights into an artwork’s origins, materials and formal characteristics.
3 days ago · The Norton Simon Museum is known around the world as one of the most remarkable private art collections ever assembled. Over a 30-year period, industrialist Norton Simon (1907–1993) amassed an astonishing collection of European art from the Renaissance to the 20th century, and a stellar collection of South and Southeast Asian art spanning ...
1 day ago · Prior to coming to the Norton Simon, the masterpiece has only been on view once before in the U.S. during a 1989 retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The painting is ...
1 day ago · Later in the show, visitors meet a less familiar member of the Van Gogh dramatis personae in the 1888 Portrait of a Peasant, which reinvents an old gardener as a rural archetype. The work has never before been loaned to a UK institution by the Norton Simon Collection in Pasadena.
Sep 20, 2024 · The Norton Simon Museum is welcoming the shorter days of autumn, and much of winter, too, with a lively beam of light: The Pasadena art institution will celebrate 11 of its "brightest" works ...
2 days ago · 411 W. Colorado Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91105. Norton Simon Museum. P: 626-449-6840. Organizer Email. Admission: Free with Museum Admission. Event Website. Map. This illuminating exhibition shines a light on the ways that artists in the mid-20th century engaged with electric light in their artworks.
