Muse News February 9, 2011

Your Museum. Your Art. Your News. Muse News February 9, 2011   Life and Truth: French Landscapes from Corot to Monet Please note new dates: Saturday, February 19 - July 10, 2011   Reviewing the Paris Salon of 1868, the novelist and critic Émile Zola pronounced classical landscape painting dead, “murdered by life and truth.” This, for Zola, was not a lament but rather a celebration. In place of carefully composed traditional landscapes, Zola celebrated the rise of a new kind school of landscape painting. The key figures in this development were Camille Corot and the so-called Barbizon School, a group of painters working in the Forest of Fontainebleau. Bringing together works from the Museum’s permanent collection and a group of loans from local collectors, Life and Truth will include landscape paintings by artists such as Corot, Courbet, Théodore Rousseau, Narcisse Diaz, Charles-François Daubigny, and others, thus providing a context for the Museum’s own Haystacks at Chailly by Claude Monet, an important early work itself painted during a visit to Fontainebleau.  Learn More   Culture & Cocktails featuring Provocative Women and Provocative Paintings Thursday, February 17, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. Free for Members/$15 nonmembers The British are coming! Fancy yourself a posh hob nobber as you amble through Thomas Gainsborough and the Modern Womanand Howard Hodgkin: Time and Place 2001-2010. Get a taste for swinging London as you sip on a tipple, or peruse the haute fashions presented by Westfield UTC.    Learn More Symposium: Thomas Gainsborough Saturday, April 19 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. James S. Copley Auditorium  $10 Members, students, military, seniors/$15 nonmembers In conjunction with the exhibition Thomas Gainsborough and the Modern Woman, four scholars will discuss various aspects of the life and work of the painter Thomas Gainsborough. Presenters include Ann Bermingham, Professor of Art History at U.C. Santa Barbara, Melinda McCurdy, Associate Curator of European Art at The Huntington Art Collection, John Wilson, Director of the Timken Museum of Art, and Julia Marciari-Alexander, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs at The San Diego Museum of Art. The conversation will be moderated by John Marciari, Curator of European Art  at The San Diego Museum of Art. Learn More Top Image: Detail: Claude Monet. Haystacks at Chailly, 1865. Oil on canvas. Museum Purchase, 1982:20. Top Left: Detail: Narcisse Díaz de la Peña. Artist Painting in a Landscape, Watched by a Woman and a Girl, ca. 1850. Oil on panel. Collection of Demi and Frank Rogoziensky. Middle Left: Howard Hodgkin. Hotplate, 2008-2010. Oil on wood. Museum purchase, 2011.1. Bottom Left: Detail: Thomas Gainsborough. Giovanna Bacelli, 1782. Oil on canvas. Tate, London. Purchased with assistance from the Friends of the Tate Gallery, 1975 (T02000)  In This Edition Life and Truth: French Landscapes from Corot to Monet Culture & Cocktails Symposium: Thomas Gainsborough   save the date Art Alive 2011 Beginning with an Opening Celebration on Thursday, April 28th, followed by Flowers After Hours on Friday, April 29,  and with exhibition dates of April 29 – May 1, plan to see the works of 100 floral interpretations of famous works of art. Visit our website for a detailed list of activities and events. Connect with us Hours & Admission Calendar of Events Purchase Tickets Donate Follow us online:     Are you in?  If you like Culture & Cocktails, you’ll love the Gallery, the Museum’s group of the next generation of art enthusiasts. From private exhibition tours to exclusive behind-the-scenes events at museums, studios, and private collections, members of the Gallery get insider access to the San Diego art scene.  Look for the Gallery VIP space at this C&C, or contact Amy Britt for more information.  Unsubscribe | Update your preferences | Forward to a friend Copyright © 2011 The San Diego Museum of Art All rights reserved. Thank you for signing up to receive emails from The San Diego Museum of Art. The San Diego Museum of Art 1450 El Prado, Balboa Park P.O. Box 122107 San Diego, CA 92112 Add us to your address book