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Pissarro-Cézanne exhibit at LACMA

January 8 2006.

LACMA: Pisarro-Cezanne and Other Exhibits. We viewed the Pissarro-Cézanne exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). These 2 artists worked together and painted almost the exact same subjects and in very similar impressionistic styles. The exhibit displayed similar paintings by each artist side-by-side, and at first I had a difficult time guessing which was done by whom, but my DH cracked the code and by the end it was much easier to discern a Pissarro from a Cézanne (Pissarro employed more realism than Cézanne). The exhibit is very crowded right now so I suggest waiting until it dies down or going on a weekday.

We took a quick stroll through the modern art, and I discovered a new artist: Gajin Fujita, a youngster from Los Angeles, who has a small exhibit at the museum right now. Fujita was a tagger and mixes traditional Japanese forms/subjects (geisha, samurai) with modern techniques (graffiti and anime). His work is fun, bright and colorful. We ended the day by visiting two of my favorite landscapes, which are by a California artist named William Wendt.

Is the photo on the left a Cézanne or Pissarro? What about the right? Answer after the link.

http://www.lacma.org

(L-Pissarro; R-Cézanne)

posted by Fatty @ 10:56 AM