IMPRESSIONS OF PARIS 19TH CENTURY ART COMES ALIVE.Byline: ALEX DOBUZINSKIS Staff Writer Children fashioned colorful hats and watched aerialists twist and turn Sunday at the Getty Center Getty Center, art museum complex in Brentwood, Calif. operated by the J. Paul Getty Trust. It consists of six buildings on 124 acres (50 hectares) located on a spectacular promontory overlooking Los Angeles. in a family event tied to a Degas Degas To release and vent gases. New building materials often give off gases and odors and the air should be well circulated to remove them. Mentioned in: Multiple Chemical Sensitivity exhibit. The aerialist show was inspired by ``Miss Lala at the Fernando Circus,'' Edgar Degas' pastel of a woman, suspended from a rope clenched clench tr.v. clenched, clench·ing, clench·es 1. To close tightly: clench one's teeth; clenched my fists in anger. 2. in her teeth, that is one of the works in the exhibit. The hat-making workshop was inspired by another work in the exhibit, ``The Milliners,'' Degas' painting of a pair of women making hats at a work table. In the workshop, children used pastels and rubbed a paper towel over the colors to create the same kind of blended effect Degas himself used. Such exercises are at the heart of the Getty's Family Festival, held four times a year and tied to whatever is on exhibit at the museum. ``It helps for kids to get their hands dirty a little bit and to understand what's going on What's Going On is a record by American soul singer Marvin Gaye. Released on May 21, 1971 (see 1971 in music), What's Going On reflected the beginning of a new trend in soul music. with the art,'' said Sarah McCarthy, a senior project coordinator with the Getty. About 8,000 people attended Sunday's Family Festival. Matthew Thibodeaux- Lynch, 11, was one of the children at the hat-making workshop. Hats aren't allowed at his school, so he expected to wear the decorated paper bag at home or at parties. Annie Manii, who works in rehabilitation, was enjoying her Sunday as she sat back watching a band play the kind of ragtime ragtime: see jazz. ragtime U.S. popular music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries distinguished by its heavily syncopated rhythm. Ragtime found its characteristic expression in formally structured piano compositions, the accented left-hand music that was popular in Paris when Degas was alive. ``The best part about this is it's a beautiful day, there's good music, you're here with family spending time "Spending Time" is the first single released by Christian artist Stellar Kart. The lyrics describe the band members desire to spend "more time with God". "Sometimes it’s a real struggle to spend time with God. with your kids,'' Manii said. She planned to see the museum's exhibit of 14 Degas works later in the day -- ``saving the best for last,'' she said. alex.dobuzinskis(at)dailynews.com (818) 546-3304 The Getty Center will hold its next Family Festival on Aug. 5, tied to an exhibit called ``Rubens and Brueghel: A Working Friendship.'' CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) Performing the cancan cancan (kăn`kăn), a lively French dance marked chiefly by high kicking. It was developed in Paris in the 1830s and became a popular social dance there. By the mid-19th cent. it was incorporated into dance revues and stage productions. Sunday, dancers help create the atmosphere of Paris in the late 19th century at the Getty Center for a family celebration surrounding an exhibit of works by Edgar Degas, master of the human form in motion. (2) David Lopez, 6, watches his father, Jose, make a paper hat for him Sunday in a workshop linked to the Degas exhibit at the Getty Center. Joel Lugavere/Special to the Daily News |
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