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February 2012
For families and kids aged 3-5
Wednesdays 10-11 am
Free with Admission
Drop-in Wednesday mornings for these family fun adventures with art! Visits include art-making, story time, scavenger hunts, and more! Each Art Adventure has a different theme related to current exhibitions.
Thursdays, 3:30-5:30 pm
$10/workshop
Studio Y is a space where youth can explore art-making, self expression and meet other teen artists. Taught by experienced artist-instructors, Studio Y Workshops are designed for youth aged 13-17 and aim to offer young artists opportunities to explore their own artistic style while learning about contemporary art-making techniques.
Regular exhibition tours with our knowledgeable Interpretive Staff are offered free with admission.
2 pm: A PASSION FOR NATURE: Landscape Painting from 19th Century France
(25 min)
3 pm: REARVIEW MIRROR: New Art from Central & Eastern Europe
(25 min)
Click here for more tour information >
Regular exhibition tours with our knowledgeable Interpretive Staff are offered free with admission.
5:30 pm: REARVIEW MIRROR: New Art from Central & Eastern Europe
(25 min)
6 pm: A PASSION FOR NATURE: Landscape Painting from 19th Century France
(25 min)
Click here for more tour information >
Regular exhibition tours with our knowledgeable Interpretive Staff are offered free with admission.
1 pm: A PASSION FOR NATURE: Landscape Painting from 19th Century France
(45 min)
2 pm: REARVIEW MIRROR: New Art from Central & Eastern Europe
(25 min)
3 pm: A PASSION FOR NATURE: Landscape Painting from 19th Century France
(25 min)
Click here for more tour information >
Regular exhibition tours with our knowledgeable Interpretive Staff are offered free with admission.
1 pm: A PASSION FOR NATURE: Landscape Painting from 19th Century France
(45 min)
2 pm: REARVIEW MIRROR: New Art from Central & Eastern Europe
(25 min)
3 pm: A PASSION FOR NATURE: Landscape Painting from 19th Century France
(25 min)
Click here for more tour information >
A film by Wilhelm Sasnal
Tuesday, February 7, 7 pm
Garneau Theatre, 8712 109 Street
$10 Adults / $8 AGA & Metro Members, Students and Seniors
For families and kids aged 3-5
Wednesdays 10-11 am
Free with Admission
Drop-in Wednesday mornings for these family fun adventures with art! Visits include art-making, story time, scavenger hunts, and more! Each Art Adventure has a different theme related to current exhibitions.
Thursdays, 3:30-5:30 pm
$10/workshop
Studio Y is a space where youth can explore art-making, self expression and meet other teen artists. Taught by experienced artist-instructors, Studio Y Workshops are designed for youth aged 13-17 and aim to offer young artists opportunities to explore their own artistic style while learning about contemporary art-making techniques.
Regular exhibition tours with our knowledgeable Interpretive Staff are offered free with admission.
2 pm: A PASSION FOR NATURE: Landscape Painting from 19th Century France
(25 min)
3 pm: REARVIEW MIRROR: New Art from Central & Eastern Europe
(25 min)
Click here for more tour information >
Regular exhibition tours with our knowledgeable Interpretive Staff are offered free with admission.
5:30 pm: REARVIEW MIRROR: New Art from Central & Eastern Europe
(25 min)
6 pm: A PASSION FOR NATURE: Landscape Painting from 19th Century France
(25 min)
Click here for more tour information >
Regular exhibition tours with our knowledgeable Interpretive Staff are offered free with admission.
1 pm: A PASSION FOR NATURE: Landscape Painting from 19th Century France
(45 min)
2 pm: REARVIEW MIRROR: New Art from Central & Eastern Europe
(25 min)
3 pm: A PASSION FOR NATURE: Landscape Painting from 19th Century France
(25 min)
Click here for more tour information >
At the beginning of the 20th century, Paris, the unrivalled centre of the art world, witnessed the emergence of a new avant-garde in response to the rapid technological progress and the new realities of the mechanized age. Faster trains, airplanes and cars were quickening the pace of life. Innovations such as cinema, photography, the telegraph, and radio changed society and culture while new scientific ideas such as Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and Freud’s theories of the unconscious were radically transforming the understanding of reality.
Consequently, artists abandoned the conventional traditions of the Paris Salon and sought new forms that could express their experience of modernity. In 1905, rather than trying to represent the world naturalistically, Henri Matisse and his fellow Fauves started using intense colour as a means of expression. Soon after, the Cubists, notably Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, began actively deconstructing the world around them, to convey the vitality and complexity of life in the new century. A host of other modernist movements followed – Surrealism, Futurism, Suprematism, Constructivism and Dadaism – sweeping across Europe and shaping the history of art to the present day.
Icons of Modernism focuses on the diversity, creativity and achievements of these artists by presenting a selection of paintings, sculptures, films and photographs from the collection of the National Gallery of Canada. The exhibition includes some 15 masterpieces by artists such as: Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Francis Picabia, Ferdinand Léger and Marcel Duchamp, amongst others.
Organized by the National Gallery of Canada
National Gallery of Canada at the Art Gallery of Alberta, with the support of Capital Powered Art; an exhibition series sponsored by Capital Power Corporation.
Allen Ball
Chris Cran
Clay Ellis
John Freeman
Angela Inglis
George Littlechild
Jane Ash Poitras
Daryl Rydman
with
Jan Gurnowski & Andy Warhol
In 2012, the AGA’s Special Collections Gallery will feature three consecutive exhibitions dedicated to showcasing contemporary art from Alberta. Each exhibition will consider different aspects of regional artistic production in relation to the themes and ideas being addressed in other AGA exhibitions. All three exhibitions will be drawn from the Art Gallery of Alberta’s collection, which numbers over 6,000 works in a variety of media.
The first exhibition considers the icon versus the portrait. In the history of art, the icon was initially understood to be a sacred image of a religious figure. These icons stand in as a proxy for the personae that they represent, and can themselves be objects of veneration. Portraits, on the other hand, are representations that are intended to provide a likeness, or an image, of a specific individual.
Today, the word icon is applied to an unprecedented number of images, objects, symbols and people. It is as likely to be applied to a branded commodity like the Twinkie as it is to a movie star, such as Marilyn Monroe. Partially in response to this shifting definition, this exhibition will focus on the icon as a sacred image while setting it in contrast to the portrait. VENERATOR will feature contemporary artworks that incorporate icons or portraits while refashioning their dominant-meaning within a new context. The power of vision, the viewer’s gaze and the icon’s gaze, is frequently referenced. In both the portraits and the icons, the artists play with the potential to fully access or comprehend the subjects before us.
Regular exhibition tours with our knowledgeable Interpretive Staff are offered free with admission.
1 pm: A PASSION FOR NATURE: Landscape Painting from 19th Century France
(45 min)
2 pm: REARVIEW MIRROR: New Art from Central & Eastern Europe
(25 min)
3 pm: A PASSION FOR NATURE: Landscape Painting from 19th Century France
(25 min)
Click here for more tour information >
Regular exhibition tours with our knowledgeable Interpretive Staff are offered free with admission.
5:15 pm: A PASSION FOR NATURE: Landscape Painting from 19th Century France
Valentines Tour (25 min)
6 pm: A PASSION FOR NATURE: Landscape Painting from 19th Century France
Valentines Tour (25 min)
For families and kids aged 3-5
Wednesdays 10-11 am
Free with Admission
Drop-in Wednesday mornings for these family fun adventures with art! Visits include art-making, story time, scavenger hunts, and more! Each Art Adventure has a different theme related to current exhibitions.
The Judgment of Paris by Ross King
Thursday, February 16, 7 pm
Green Studio, Lower Level
Free; register online >
Third Thursday of every month
12:10-12:50 pm
Ledcor Theatre Foyer
Free
February 16:
Surrealism and Futurism and Cubism – Oh My! Modern “isms” in the Early 20th Century (Part 1)
More information >
Thursdays, 3:30-5:30 pm
$10/workshop
Studio Y is a space where youth can explore art-making, self expression and meet other teen artists. Taught by experienced artist-instructors, Studio Y Workshops are designed for youth aged 13-17 and aim to offer young artists opportunities to explore their own artistic style while learning about contemporary art-making techniques.
Regular exhibition tours with our knowledgeable Interpretive Staff are offered free with admission.
6 pm: A PASSION FOR NATURE: Landscape Painting from 19th Century France
(25 min)
Regular exhibition tours with our knowledgeable Interpretive Staff are offered free with admission.
1 pm: A PASSION FOR NATURE: Landscape Painting from 19th Century France
(45 min)
2 pm: REARVIEW MIRROR: New Art from Central & Eastern Europe
(25 min)
3 pm: A PASSION FOR NATURE: Landscape Painting from 19th Century France
(25 min)
BMO All Day Sundays
Art activities for all ages
Third Sunday of every month, noon-4 pm
Free with Admission
All Day Sundays at the AGA feature full afternoons of activities, story-telling and Gallery explorations for people of all ages. Activities are themed around current exhibitions so there are new exciting art opportunities each month!
Regular exhibition tours with our knowledgeable Interpretive Staff are offered free with admission.
1 pm: A PASSION FOR NATURE: Landscape Painting from 19th Century France
(45 min)
2 pm: REARVIEW MIRROR: New Art from Central & Eastern Europe
(25 min)
3 pm: A PASSION FOR NATURE: Landscape Painting from 19th Century France
(25 min)
Enter a place where geometric shapes and primary colours form the language, legends, and landscape of a new, imaginary culture. Move throughout the space to create performative compositions with sound and movement, construct mythological creatures in paper, decode cryptographic messages and develop new stories based on the immersive experience of method and madness!
Method and Madness was designed by local designer and illustrator, Gabe Wong. In this space, families are encouraged to explore ideas of abstraction, story, and theatre in art! The BMO World of Creativity is an interactive, hands-on space where children and their grown-ups can explore their creativity. BMO World of Creativity exhibitions and themes change from year-to-year.
For families and kids aged 3-5
Wednesdays 10-11 am
Free with Admission
Drop-in Wednesday mornings for these family fun adventures with art! Visits include art-making, story time, scavenger hunts, and more! Each Art Adventure has a different theme related to current exhibitions.
February 23, 2012
Enjoy free Gallery admission from 6-9 pm
Brought to you by Servus Credit Union
Thursdays, 3:30-5:30 pm
$10/workshop
Studio Y is a space where youth can explore art-making, self expression and meet other teen artists. Taught by experienced artist-instructors, Studio Y Workshops are designed for youth aged 13-17 and aim to offer young artists opportunities to explore their own artistic style while learning about contemporary art-making techniques.
Regular exhibition tours with our knowledgeable Interpretive Staff are offered free with admission.
1 pm: Icons of Modernism
(25 min)
2 pm: Icons of Modernism and REARVIEW MIRROR: New Art from Central & Eastern Europe
Connecting Tour (45 min)
3 pm: REARVIEW MIRROR: New Art from Central & Eastern Europe
(25 min)
For families and kids aged 3-5
Wednesdays 10-11 am
Free with Admission
Drop-in Wednesday mornings for these family fun adventures with art! Visits include art-making, story time, scavenger hunts, and more! Each Art Adventure has a different theme related to current exhibitions.
Tensions and Convergences in the Art of Last Century or, Peggy Guggenheim’s Earrings
Wednesday, February 29, 7 pm
Ledcor Theatre, Art Gallery of Alberta
$15/$10 AGA Members
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