On Saturday May 14th, you're invited to join fellow LA-based art-full women for a day full of art, exploration and brunch in Santa Barbara!
This event highlights and is organized in honor of the Through Vincent’s Eyes: Van Gogh and His Sources exhibit at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art — a show which seeks to immerse viewers in the visual imagination of one of the most beloved artists in the world. Presenting 20 works of art by Van Gogh alongside some 75 objects selected to reflect the surprisingly varied art that he most admired, the show firmly reconnects Vincent to his late 19th-century context.
We'll meet for brunch at State & Fig at 11:15am before joining the public tour of the exhibit at the museum at 1:15pm. Make a day of it and join us for a wine tasting at Jamie Slone Wines afterwards (not included in ticket price).
Lama Younes and Meredith Maggiora will be the local CA-based hosts for this event.
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Museum/tour only ticket: $30 early bird/ $35 full price
Full experience with brunch: $60 early bird:/ $65 full price
Art-full members save 20%
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Full Schedule:
11:30am | Brunch at State & Fig
1114 State Street | Santa Barbara, CA
1pm | Meet at Santa Barbara Art Museum for 1:15pm tour of the exhibit
1130 State Street | Santa Barbara, CA
3pm | Optional wine tasting at Jamie Sloane Wines
23 E de la Guerra St | Santa Barbara, CA
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More about the exhibit:
Over 60 artists are represented in the exhibition, including Jules Breton, Anton Mauve, Adolphe Monticelli, Léon-Augustin Lhermitte, Jean-François Raffaëlli and a host of other names less familiar to most American audiences, as well as the better known Romantic master Eugène Delacroix, the artists of the Barbizon school and the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, including Claude Monet and Paul Gauguin. By juxtaposing celebrated artworks by Van Gogh with works by the many artists he admired, the show seeks to foreground both Vincent's indebtedness to and radical departure from the art world of his day. The exhibition also taps into Van Gogh's literary imagination by displaying first-editions of novels by Charles Dickens, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Leo Tolstoy and Edgar Allan Poe to conjure up the fictional worlds that enflamed Vincent's inner eye.