Getty to Show Asian Works from LACMA
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| Maruyama Okyo, Cranes (one of a pair), 1772. LACMA, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost in honor of Robert T. Singer |
LACMA is lending five Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean artworks to the Getty. The loans will be on view from Feb. 7 to May 1, 2023, alongside related European works in the Getty Center's permanent collection. The latter is also showing some of LACMA's European paintings on longer-term loan, motivated by the construction of LACMA's Wilshire-straddling permanent collection building.
Maybe the most spectacular Asian loan is Maruyama Okyo's paired screens of Cranes. Created in 1772, it will be shown next to Tissot's Portrait of Marquise de Miramon, which depicts a similar screen of cranes at lower left. Tissot's portrait was made 8 years after the reopening (at gunpoint) of Japanese trade with the West. This sparked the "Japonisme" movement that embraced not only Tissot but Whistler, Manet, and the Impressionists.
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| Jacques Joseph Tissot, Portrait of Marquise de Miramon, 1866. J. Paul Getty Museum |
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Something had to be done to the Pereira-Holzman-Hardy buildings, of course. But the judgment, honesty and integrity of the current bunch in charge of LACMA does give me pause.
Seems to me that the current bunch in charge of LACMA has better cultural bonafides than the previous bunch. The previous bunch selected Pereira over van der Rohe. The previous bunch rejected the Arensberg Collection. The previous bunch chased away Norton Simon and his collection. The previous bunch wasn't influential enough to land the Annenberg Collection. The previous bunch selected the now defunct HHPA to design an addition.
When Howard Ahmanson, the primary donor/trustee behind the Pereira buildings died, he did NOT give a significant portion of his wealth to endow LACMA. He left the majority to his son. His son used the money to fund initiatives against same-sex marriage. As a result, in some sense, the name Ahmanson is synonymous with homophobia.
Hence, there's a certain poetic justice in the fact that the "flashy" guy (Geffen) donated $150 million to expunge the memory of the bad judgment, honesty, and integrity of the previous bunch.
--- J. Garcin
Scroll through all the detail pics:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/44523
> he has more money than Frost? Or is "flashy" a euphemism
> for "gay"?
Geffen is a part of the entertainment industry, so he's familiar with lots of flash and cash. Although he isn't as egotistical as he could be, he's also not exactly into "anonymous donor"-type of philanthropy either.
You don't by chance happen to be the "Save the LACMA mob" poster? If you aren't, you sure do tap into his way of expressing himself. I know there's another poster to this blog who's into Maoist-type leftism, which is sort of sickening. Speaking of which, Andy Warhol's portraits of Mao was a homage to the psychopathic nature of the human mind.
See this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzcPhMBkCk8&t=185s
... Dude, not sure how you found this blog. But politically and ideologically, people like you don't have much influence in CA or Los Angeles. Perhaps, you would be better served by finding the AMFA-On-Fire blog and attacking the expansions plans of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts. People might listen to your anti-socialist rhetoric there. Here you stand out like a redneck, hillbilly with one tooth.