Special Programs Accompany Girodet: Romantic Rebel

Performances and lectures highlight major exhibition of French artist

January 11, 2006

MEDIA CONTACT:                 
Chai Lee
(312) 443-3625

Girodet: Romantic Rebel, the first retrospective in the United States devoted to gifted French painter Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1767-1824), assembles more than 100 seminal works (about 60 paintings and 40 drawings), demonstrating the artist’s impressive range--from mythological subjects to portraits and representations of Napoleon’s military triumphs. Accompanying this fascinating exhibition are a variety of educational programs for visitors of all ages. Highlights include a lecture series on art of the Romantic era; weekday gallery talks on the exhibition; and hands-on art activities in the Kraft Education Center for the whole family.

Programs are free with suggested museum admission unless otherwise noted. Tuesdays are free to all. Members receive free admission all year long. For program information, please contact the Department of Museum Education at (312) 443-3680.

LECTURES AND COURSES

Lecture: “Strokes of the Pen and Blows of the Brush: Girodet and the Journalistic Discourse under Napoleon I”
Andrew Shelton, Ohio State University
Thursday, February 16, 6:00 p.m.
Fullerton Hall

Exhibition Overviews
Saturday, February 18, noon
Tuesday, March 14, noon
Saturday, April 22, noon
Gallery 100

Lecture: “Girodet and France’s Empire”
Darcy Grimalso Grigsby, University of California--Berkeley
Thursday, April 13, 6:00 p.m.
Price Auditorium

Lecture Series: “The Age of Romanticism”
Fridays, January 27-February 17, 11:00 a.m.
Price Auditorium

January 27: "Tradition and Revolution: From the Enlightenment to Napoleon" [EAIL0127]

February 3: "Pilgrimage to the Past: Neoclassical and Neo-Gothic"
[EAIL0203]

February 10: "Sensual Temptation: Music and the Exotic"
[EAIL0210]

February 17: "Forces of Nature: The Picturesque and the Sublime"
[EAIL0217]

Series tickets: Members, $48; public, $64, students, $40
Individual lecture tickets: Members, $14; public, $18; students, $12

For tickets, call (312) 575-8000, go to any ticket counter in the museum, or purchase online.  When ordering please mention event code EAILAGER, or the individual event codes listed above.

Symposium: “Girodet”
Saturday, April 22, 10:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Price Auditorium
An international panel of distinguished scholars offers fresh insights into the art of Girodet and his times. The speakers will explore the reflections of political and social developments in Girodet's work, and artistic ferment at the nexus of Classical Revival and the burgeoning Romantic movement.

READINGS

“French Revelations: Painter/Poet Girodet”
Thursday, March 2, 6:00 p.m.
Fullerton Hall
Yannick Mercoyrol, cultural attache to the Consulate General of France, presents highlights of Girodet's literary work in combination with a review of his most notable paintings. Singers from the Lyric Opera Center of American Artists offer parlor songs. A viewing of the exhibition follows.

Members and students, $10; public, $15
For tickets, call (312) 575-8000, go to any ticket counter in the museum, or purchase online at  <http://www.ticketmaster.com/venue/270337>.  When ordering please mention event code: EAIJ0302

PERFORMANCES

Voices: “Eugène Delacroix”
Tuesday, February 16, noon
Fullerton Hall

Concert: “Beethoven and Girodet”
Sunday, April 30, 2:00 p.m.
For tickets, call the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at (312) 294-3000.

FAMILY PROGRAMS

Drawing in the Galleries: “Figure”
March 5 or 12, 10:30-11:30 a.m.
Ages 6–8 with an adult

March 5, 2:00-3:30 p.m.
Ages 9 and up
This program is free, but registration is required. Call (312) 857-7161 to register.

The techniques explored in this drawing class focus on the figure. Families will visit the exhibition as well as the permanent collection to study different interpretations of the figure. Participants then complete a variety of figure-drawing activities.