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All Evenings for Educators sessions take place on Tuesday evenings during the school year, from 4:30 to 8:30 pm.
2009–2010 Schedule
Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples
September 22 | Agenda
Discover the cultural and artistic life in Pompeii and other towns around the Bay of Naples in the centuries leading up to the eruption of Vesuvius. Explore sculpture, paintings, and frescoes; examine daily life in the region and consider its rise as an artistic center. Works of art from the collections of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples, and from museums at Pompeii, Boscoreale, Oplontis, and Baiae will be highlighted.
Defining Decorative, Examining Design
November 17 | Agenda
What is the impact of design on daily life? How is design defined across cultures and time periods? From a seventeenth-century Korean box with a traditional pictorial design to furniture and drawings from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, explore a cross-section of LACMA's permanent collection and consider the artistic process in relation to decorative arts and design.
Renoir after Impressionism
February 16
Explore Pierre-Auguste Renoir's career in the decades after impressionism, when he developed an artistic style informed by his personal aesthetic. Works of art by artists including Picasso, Matisse, and Bonnard will also be considered, to illustrate Renoir's influence on a younger generation of artists.
American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life
April 20
Consider the ways the genre of narrative painting has been used to create many of America's most enduring images and national myths. How can works of art help to document personal and national stories? What is the role of personal and national narratives in contemporary society?
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educate@
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