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The Hammer Museum

4/1/2018

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The Hammer Museum is a small but wonderful treasure of a museum located in Los Angeles near UCLA.  The museum has free admission and hosts lunchtime art talks and other programs on a regular basis.  The Hammer Museum is operated and partially funded by UCLA.  The collection includes historical artworks that reflect the personal interests of Armand Hammer, the founder of the museum. He collected art for most of his life and his collection is one of the best collections of representative artwork from 19th Century French Art, impressionism, pointillism, etc.  
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"Boulevard Montmartre, Mardi Gras," Oil on Canvas, 1897 by Camille Pissarro
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"Grape Pickers at Lunch," 1888, Oil on Canvas, by Pierre-Auguste Renior.
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"Bonjour Monsieur Gaughin" 1889, Oil on Canvas and Panel, by Paul Gaughin.
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"Study for In the Salon on the Rue des Moulins" 1894, Oil on Canvas, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
I love this painting below by Vincent Van Gogh, not because I love the imagery, but because it really doesn't look like a typical painting by Vincent Van Gogh!  This painting, "Garden of the Rectory at Nuenen" was painted in 1885 in the Netherlands.  The browns and grays are vastly different from the vivid, bright colors we are used to seeing in his later paintings when he lived in the south of France.
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Below is one of Van Gogh's more typical painting style with all the beautiful colors and brushwork.  The painting, "Hospital at Saint-Remy" is oil on canvas and was painted in 1889.  It depicts the scenery at the institution in the south of France where Van Gogh was being treated for severe mental illness.  
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"The Sower" Oil on Canvas, 1888, by Vincent Van Gogh.
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"Boy Resting" Oil on Canvas, 1887, by Paul Cezanne.
The Hammer Museum also has other galleries dedicated to contemporary artists.  There was a really cool exhibit by the artist, Molly Lowe and another exhibit by the artist, Lawrence Abu Hamdan.  Abu Hamdan uses a series of overhead projectors that cast images that have been created with a visualization tool that architects use to map the leakages of sound throughout a structure.  The visuals are accompanied by audio that helps transform the research on a Syrian torture prison.  I enjoyed looking at the exhibit from a visual perspective, but after reading about the artwork's meaning, it really makes me question my thoughts on conceptual art. Below is a photo of the small room that housed the projectors.  
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Perhaps the most bizarre (in a  good way) exhibit was called "Stories of Almost Everyone" featured in the large exhibit hall .  It's a group exhibition of 40 artists that is about society's willingness to believe the stories that are conveyed by works of contemporary art.  It really hones in on conceptual art and how we look at material objects.  Below is a photo of the exhibit hall showing some of the artworks.   I'm including a YouTube video that was created by the Hammer Museum with Will Ferrell and Joel McHale, which is very funny and addresses the issues related to conceptual art head-on.  Art can be confusing and the fact that the Hammer Museum pokes fun at this, I think, is really bold.  "Stories of Almost Everyone" runs through May 6, 2018.  For more information about The Hammer Museum, check out their website:  https://hammer.ucla.edu/.
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