“Gérôme forged narrative practices that would take the cinema decades to invent,” art historian Marc Gotlieb told a packed auditorium recently in a discussion of The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme, which closes this Sunday. Really? How could a 19th-century academic painter like Gérôme—a man adamantly opposed to modernism—have contributed to cinema, the quintessential modern [...]
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Tags: cinema, Gladiator, Jean-Léon Gérôme, lectures, The Matrix
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It’s been 27 years since art historian Linda Nochlin published her essay “The Imaginary Orient,” a critique of sexist and racist depictions of “brown and black folk” by Western artists such as Jean-Léon Gérôme. Back then, “I was put off to the depths of my being,” Nochlin said of Gérôme’s paintings at a recent panel [...]
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Tags: art history, colonialism, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Lalla Essaydi, Linda Nochlin, Mary Roberts, Orientalism
Visitors are captivated by The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme. I met a couple from Miami who were so intrigued by a review of the exhibition in The Art Newspaper that they decided to fly to L.A. to see it. They quipped that the trip was far cheaper than flying to Paris, the second venue [...]
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Tags: Film/Video, French art, gallery programs, gallery teachers, gallery tours, Jean-Léon Gérôme
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You might have a hard time answering that question as you first stroll through the galleries of the exhibition The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme. But as you exit the hall featuring Gérôme’s later works, the answer lies before you in the exhibit’s final piece. The painting is a clear departure from the work that [...]
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During a tour of the new exhibition The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme, curator Mary Morton stopped in front of Gérôme’s Snake Charmer and asked the audience, “What do you see?” Murmurs spread through the crowd. One brave little girl raised her hand and said, “There’s a boy, and he’s naked.” This statement might not [...]
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Tags: 19th century painting, gallery tours, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Paintings, polychrome sculpture
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The films we screen at the Getty go hand in hand with the art on view. Curating film series related to exhibitions is exciting, but it can also be challenging. How, for example, do you plan a movie event around a Japanese lacquer box? By connecting with a story—scenes from The Tale of Genji—that adorn [...]
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Tags: Jean-Léon Gérôme, movies, Orientalism, silent films
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